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#Newzbin Lawyer Struck Off For Posting Insulting Tweets During Case - & Not Declaring He Owned Company He Defended – http://bit.ly/xUgn71

Angry Birds boss: 'Piracy may not be a bad thing: it can get us more business' - http://bit.ly/wnTLM4 he gets it: piracy is often marketing

Codecademy is 1 Million Strong and Launching a Teacher Tool - http://on.mash.to/xOT9MK the world needs more coders

Submission on Changes to Irish #Copyright Law - http://bit.ly/yxg5tW excellent points; but will they listen? #ireland

I'd just like to say that #paypal is an utter waste of electrons, and its customer "service" is just as bad. That is all. #fail

Mandriva Bankruptcy Crisis Averted, For Now - http://bit.ly/wInxCg what a cliffhanger... #linux #distros

FIFA Orders #Brazil To Overturn Ban On Selling Beer At World Cup Matches - http://bit.ly/zEI3fk "Excuse me if I sound a bit arrogant"

Samsung loses bid to overturn ban on Galaxy Tab 10.1 model in Germany - http://tnw.co/wz1zFu I hope Apple enjoys its sad little "victory"

The GNU Education Project - http://bit.ly/yYCZUA sensible

Pandora's Box 2.0: Opening proprietary code - http://bit.ly/zd68MV giving stuff away is harder than you might think #opensource

Met Office in the Media: 29 January 2012 - http://bit.ly/xRUm3t interesting rebuttal of piece in Mail on Sunday #climatechange

Newt Gingrich sued for #copyright infringment - http://bit.ly/zeZj2F strange how politicians get away with it, while little people don't

PETIŢIE: România nu vrea #ACTA! SEMNAŢI AICI! - http://bit.ly/xCsSKX you know what to do (well, if you're Romanian, you do...) #ro

So who is Apple going to buy? - http://bit.ly/zm3hDZ frightening thought: it might be Amazon... (but antitrust issues, surely?)

ridiculous consequences as the works of 3 great English writers enter the global public domain - http://bit.ly/zxk6oL #copyright insanity

Will Academics' Boycott Of Elsevier Be The Tipping Point For Open Access -- Or Another Embarrassing Flop? - http://bit.ly/y81kr4 well? #oa

Thou Shalt Not Demonstrate - http://bit.ly/zXzQq7 shameful proposals for Trafalgar Square (v +Alan Cox ) #london

#Megaupload y la destrucción de la cultura a lo largo de la historia - http://bit.ly/AyzdsT great post about a real crime #culture

Chinese dissident on trial after using Skype to send poem - http://bit.ly/AjhN9d ah, the power of poetry to make governments tremble

Open Knowledge Foundations’s CKAN Software to Power new European Commission Data Portal - http://bit.ly/yCoepf good choice - suits you

Il web nella gabbia del copyright - http://bit.ly/wYDFIs ben detto #acta #copyright

With A Little Help: Digital Lysenkoism - http://bit.ly/z6TCSo lovely metaphor, nicely done #drm #publishing

Libraries, codecs, OSS - http://bit.ly/AEnvEP useful run-down #rasperrypi

Justice Department Backs RIAA Against Pirating Student - http://bit.ly/yIirUj key fact: "5 former RIAA lawyers employed by DoJ"

Microsoft and Adobe named in takedown of ex.ua, Ukraine’s version of Megaupload - http://tnw.co/wmcLPE are they indeed...

Will fossil-fuel giants be bailed out like the banks? - http://bit.ly/AD3Mx8 frightening thought

Why publishers should give away ebooks - http://bit.ly/w92OCC oh no: I almost agree with Nicholas Carr... #publishing

#Drone Diplomacy: Comply or Die - http://bit.ly/ziNecK how long before we have open source anti-drone missiles?

#Mozilla Questions Web Orthodoxies With ‘Pancake’ - http://bit.ly/wUv91Z that's where the lizard wranglers take you

Copying Is Not Theft, But #Censorship Is - http://bit.ly/vZVxF1 catch the great video...while you can #copyright

Barack Obama faces pressure over TVShack extradition case - http://bit.ly/xFz2BA UK government comes out of this looking simply pathetic

A Crowdfunded Approach To Setting E-Books Free - http://bit.ly/wq8FZV clever idea; shouldn't be necessary, of course..

Twitter’s new ‘censorship’ feature could lead to legal restrictions for UK tweeters - http://tnw.co/xU4yHM another reason to fix #libel law

RT @mathewi Neil Young: “Piracy is the new radio. That’s how music gets around.” at Dive Into Media >>great encapsulation

Tell Secretary Clinton to Protect the Bottom of the World - http://bit.ly/whu5Uo #epetition to preserve Ross Sea

How Swedes and Norwegians broke the power of the ‘1 percent’ - http://bit.ly/xn8WwW fascinating tale

The Internet Is No Lawless Land - http://bit.ly/zyzJjw an #ACTA fable

Warner Bros. Just Keeps Pushing People To Piracy; New Deal Also Delays Queuing - http://bit.ly/yTsYKj </facepalm>

Apple Is Totally Serious About That Stuff They Put At The End Of Their Emails - http://tcrn.ch/wqw8na ah, yes, Apple... #controlfreakery

Dutch Supreme Court Sees Game Objects As Goods - http://bit.ly/wgUqlR do they really want to go there?

'Hot News' Returns In Hollywood Publisher Catfight - http://bit.ly/wiGOeC not again

Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio - http://bit.ly/AaDLcp link to full post: lots of good examples