   February 06, 2005 - February 12, 2005 ArchiveFebruary 08, 2005Yin Yang Alert: Diebold Launches Voting Machine with Printer
The company that wanted to charge "out the yin yang" for voting machines with printers has finally produced a prototype of what you get for such a price.
DirecTV Fined for Violating Export Controls
Now that's what we call synergy.
Quidditch Cup 2005: Hogwarts v. US Army?
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling is gunning for the US Army after discovering familiar-sounding characters in a monthly equipment maintenance publication.
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Fox Censors Super Bowl Ad About Censorship
The racy commercial for GoDaddy.com -- an Internet domain name registrar -- featured a faux-hearing on broadcast censorship and is still widely available on the still-public Internet.
Music Industry Sues 83-Year-Old Dead Woman
That's the perfectly descriptive, totally head-shaking headline from the Boston Globe.
Patents Leave Japanese Writers at Loss for Words
A Tokyo court has taken word-processing software Ichitaro -- the only serious competitor to Microsoft Word -- off the market because of a dispute over software patents.
Of Media Savants and Cartoon Ferrets
The New York Times writes about the propaganda war between copyright extremists and pro-balance groups.
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Another View on Grokster
Public Knowledge's fearless leader Gigi Sohn with a thoughtful op-ed on the importance of Grokster, the return of Induce, and the need for copyright balance.
Calling All Artists
Larry Lessig's most recent Wired column is a stirring call for artists to fight for the future of (their) music.
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Ireland May Toss 50 Million Euros of E-voting Machines
Last year's security dust-up -- and the public's vote of no-confidence -- may mean the scrap heap for the country's planned switch to e-voting.
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