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Obama Won't Divulge Drafts of Copyright Treaties

The Obama administration has taken a big step back from transparency in one area of critical importance to the FOSS movement. Just like George Bush did, the President is asserting that draft trademark and copyright agreements with Japan and the EU are "state secrets," and has refused to release them to the public -- even though the same drafts have been widely distributed among corporate lobbyists.

Welcome to Our Police State

Hi everyone, and welcome to our post-9/11 police state. I'm really troubled by two recent examples of the accepted methods of law enforcement and the way the media reports on them. Example #1: The guy at the Kerry political talk who got tazered: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvrWt_dHAT4 Example #2: The MIT student who was arrested today at Boston's Logan airport as a terrorism suspect: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070921/ap_on_re_us/fake_bomb

A John Doe Law Suit I can get behind!

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Generally I think that John Doe law suits are bad. The RIAA has used them to find out the identities of alleged illegal file sharers. I never thought I would read about one that I actually could support. But today I read about a lawsuit filed by Project Honey Pot against John Doe spammers. The class action suit seeks $1 Billion in damages.
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