by Erik Kain on February 10, 2012
Adam Greene was going into diabetic shock, weaving through traffic lanes early in the morning on October 29th, 2010. Police thought he was intoxicated – a reasonable suspicion given the circumstances and the fact that it was 4 AM. This is what happened next: Lawyer’s for Greene released the video this past Tuesday. On the [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 10, 2012
Adam Greene was going into diabetic shock, weaving through traffic lanes early in the morning on October 29th, 2010. Police thought he was intoxicated – a reasonable suspicion given the circumstances and the fact that it was 4 AM. This is what happened next: Lawyer’s for Greene released the video this past Tuesday. On the [...]
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Over at Techdirt, Mike Masnick has some big news for the ongoing Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) debate. Germany has announced that it won’t sign the agreement, at least not yet: Okay, things just got serious over ACTA. In our post on Latvia bailing on signing ACTA, we noted that in joining with Poland and the Czech [...]
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The company responsible for delivering people safely to more than half the world’s websites turns out to have some pretty glaring security holes itself. has been hacked repeatedly by hackers who made off with data that the internet infrastructure company has not disclosed. The company is responsible for domains ending in .com, .net, and .gov. [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 30, 2012
The War on Drugs is forty-years-old, but since Nixon launched the federal government’s attempt to crack down on illicit substances and drug users, one very important thing has changed: we now have the internet. Gawker’s Adrian Chen broke the story of the underground website Silk Road a while back, noting at the time that just [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 23, 2012
Updated below. When sites like Wikipedia and Reddit banded together for a major blackout January 18th, the impact was felt all the way to D.C. The blackout had lawmakers running from the controversial anti-piracy legislation, SOPA and PIPA, which critics said threatened freedom of speech online. Unfortunately for free-speech advocates, these pieces of legislation are [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 16, 2012
Websites for the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al, Israel’s national airline, were hit by anonymous hackers in what is being described as an escalating cyberwar Monday. A hacker who identified himself as oxOmar contacted Ynet overnight warning that a group called Nightmare planned to bring down the sites. oxOmar was responsible for posting [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 4, 2012
Belarus is already known for its censorship laws, but that isn’t stopping the Eastern European country from going much further in 2012. Last year the government arrested over 1,800 people who used social media to organize protests of the government in what was termed Revolution Internet. In 2012, the Lukashenko government is cracking down even [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 27, 2011
Freddie deBoer wants a better class of IP reform advocates. In a long response to Julian Sanchez, Freddie dismisses the current batch as “pro-piracy” and lays down a critique of the technofuturist crowd that basically writes them off as calloused advocates of artistic ruin and the decline of the artistic middle class. I think piracy [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 26, 2011
Two bills are snaking their way through congress at the moment in an attempt by the entertainment industry to clamp down on online file-sharing and piracy. The Stop Online Piracy Act (or SOPA) in the House is the more famous of the two. Its counterpart in the Senate is PIPA (or the Protect IP Act.) [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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