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Breaking news

August 19, 2004 by Michael Boyle

from the US Ninth Circuit: it affirmed a lower court’s ruling in favour of Grokster in MGM v Grokster. The EFF represented Streamcast (makers of Morpheus P2P software) and Fred von Lohmann has also an analysis of what the court found. “…perhaps most important, the Court observed that, in the long run, a competive, unfettered market for innovation ends up helping copyright owners (even if it doesn’t help today’s entertainment industry oligopolists).” Good stuff all around.

Tags: Copyfight, EFF

The Iraqi soccer team

August 19, 2004 by Michael Boyle

wants Bush to quit using them as the poster-boys for the US invasion of their country.

Tags: Sports

The votemaster,

August 19, 2004 by Michael Boyle

as he’s known, is looking for donations to support electoral-vote.com. Seems like a worthy cause to me.

Tags: US Politics

They must really hate him:

August 19, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Ted Kennedy was put on the “no fly” watchlist and was actually prevented from boarding a plane. Even for a US Senator it took several weeks to have his name stricken from the list. If an activist got on the list in error I bet it would take a LOT more than that.

Tags: US Politics

Howard Dean:

August 18, 2004 by Michael Boyle

The Forgotten Crisis, Aug 17 2004.

Europeans cannot criticize the United States for waging war in Iraq if they are unwilling to exhibit the moral fiber to stop genocide by acting collectively and with decisiveness. President Bush was wrong to go into Iraq unilaterally when Iraq posed no danger to the United States, but we were right to demand accountability from Saddam. We are also right to demand accountability in Sudan. Every day that goes by without meaningful sanctions and even military intervention in Sudan by African, European and if necessary U.N. forces is a day where hundreds of innocent civilians die and thousands are displaced from their land. […] My challenge to the U.N. and Europe is simple: if you don’t like American diplomacy under George Bush, then do something to show those of us in opposition here in the U.S. that you can behave in such a way that unilateralism is not necessary.

Tags: International Affairs, US Politics

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