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U.S. Supreme Court’s GPS Decision Avoids Real Issues

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This Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in U.S. v. Jones, both addressing and evading key concepts of privacy in relation to the Fourth Amendment and the ways in which emerging technology affects such privacy. The Fourth Amendment, which protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures “in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,” is […]

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Does Time Warner Plan to Kill The Nielsens?

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For those who are not terminally stuck in an archaic system, the Nielsen Company pride themselves on being an “online audience and consumer-generated media measurement” company. The term may seem familiar to you because here in the United States they are how companies rate television viewership also known as Nielsen ratings. This is done by […]

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The Pirate Bay Goes 3D (No Glasses Required)

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The Pirate Bay announced yesterday they’re adding a new content category called “Physibles”, enabling the swapping of data used by 3D printers to create physical objects. Three-dimensional printing is quickly coming down in price, with such products as the MakerBot Replicator available for $1,749.00. The Pirate Bay operators view this trend as a fundamental leap […]

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FileSonic Freezes File Sharing

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In the wake of law enforcement’s shutdown of file sharing site Megaupload, the competing service FileSonic decides to shut off public file sharing completely. Users can only download their own files at this time. Additionally, their rewards program was discontinued hours before the file sharing was disabled, leaving many users wondering if they’ll be compensated […]

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Anonymous Attacks Government And Other Authorities As Revenge For Megaupload’s Shutdown

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The hacker collective known as Anonymous claims “the largest attack ever” on ten government and music industry websites yesterday, in retaliation for the U.S. Justice Department’s shutdown of Megaupload. A second wave of attacks continue today, with Anonymous claiming responsibility for taking down MGM Studio’s online store and the New Zealand police’s website. Reportedly, the […]

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Justice Department Unplugs MegaUpload

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The U.S. Justice Department shut down commercial file hosting service Megaupload today, accusing them of copyright infringement in excess of one billion dollars. Founder of Megaupload, Kim Schmitz (known as “Kim Dot Com”), was taken into custody along with co-founder and CTO Mathias Ortmann, chief marketing officer Finn Batato, and programmer Bram van der Kolk. […]

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What Happened To My Internet?

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We at Techcitement stand with Wikipedia, Google, Craigslist, MoveOn, WordPress, BoingBoing, Cheezburger, and many other influential websites in protesting the proposed SOPA and PIPA bills currently before the U.S. Congress. (Leaders of The House say they’re dropping SOPA, but it’s not dead yet.) Many of these sites have gone dark today to demonstrate the danger […]

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