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Lawyers for Repurposed Righthaven Discuss the “Spineful” Hosting Idea

January 31, 2012 -- Having acquired the domain name of the notoriously litigious Righthaven, the operators of Swiss web hosting company OrtCloud enlisted several notable US copyright and first amendment lawyers in its efforts to create a new hosting business with a “spineful” mandate to treat take-down notices and other legal threats with healthy skepticism.

What is SOPA? Possible Consequences that Could Ruin the Internet

As an act of protest against a pair of legislations - the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) - more than a dozen Web sites, including Wikipedia, Moveon.org, Craigslist, Reddit, Boing Boing and the Cheezburger network, have participated in a day-long blackout.

Life with a capital L? (Like Zimmer with a capital Z?) | The Loom

Over on Facebook, David Hillis , an evolutionary biologist at the University of Texas, took up my question as to whether anyone can define life in three words . His short answer was no, but his long answer, which I’ve stitched together here from a series of comments he wrote, was very interesting (links are mine): Like all historical entities (including other biological taxa ), it is only ...

'Mega'-Indictment Shows U.S. Already Has International Piracy Chops

The indictment reads like a shopping list for an MTV reality show: a Lamborghini, 15 Mercedes-Benzes, a Rolls-Royce Phantom, 65-inch big-screen TVs, and of course, a Jet Ski.

A Specialists' Debate on Autism Has Many Worried Observers

A debate among medical professionals over how to define autism has spilled over into the public domain, stirring anger and fear among many parents and advocates of those with the neurological disorder, even as some argue that the diagnosis has been too loosely applied.