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Sky & Virgin Kiss And Make Up: Carry Each Others Channels

Finally Sky and Virgin Media are holding hands again following their bust up dating back to Feb 2007.
The overview? Sky will carry some of Virgin’s channels on their service and Virgin will carry some of Sky’s channels - both agreements last until 2011. They’ll both drop the outstanding High Court actions against each other.
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Gary McKinnon To Be Extradited Despite Aspergers

Just had this latest update in from Gary McKinnon’s legal representative. His legal struggles have been long.
This afternoon, the Secretary of State has advised via the Treasury Solicitors, that despite Mr McKinnon’s diagnosis with Aspergers she will now be making arrangements for his extradition pursuant to her order for Extradition of 4th July 2006. […]

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Gary McKinnon: All Legal Routes Exhausted: Extradition To US Likely

We heard news from Gary McKinnon’s law firm, Kaim Todner, that the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’) has ruled against their recent application to have Gary’s extradition to the US halted.
The temporary prohibition of McKinnon’s extradition, as granted by the ECtHR on 12 August, is now effectively lifted and the authorities of the United […]

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Does Downing Street Website Take Without Credit? Details

There’s a big potential of this story being such a classic own goal by the UK Government, it’s hilarious - what’s not been clear are the facts.
Downing Street, the UK Prime Minister’s official office has launched a new Website based on Wordpress.

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MBTA: MIT Student Court Gagging Order Lifted

Three students who were carrying out academic research into the security vulnerabilities of Boston’s transit fare payment system have had a court order that forbade them to discuss the issues, reversed.
You might have thought that in the ‘land of the free,’ forbidding free speech is the kind of thing that could never happen. Thank goodness […]

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UK File-Sharer Has To Pay £16,000: Historic Background

An unnamed woman in UK has been ordered to pay £16,000 after having been found guilty of sharing a game, Dream Pinball 3D, on P2P networks.
The initial default judgement was made against her was at the London County Court on 27 May.
Subsequently the Patents County Court in London handed down damages of £6,086.56 plus costs […]

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Gary McKinnon Gets European Court Date: Newsflash

You’ll remember that UK ‘hacker’ Gary McKinnon had lost his House of Lords Appeal at the tail end of July.
He’s attempting to stop his deportation to America to be tried on hacking charges.
He and those in his defence camp, including his lawyers, Kaim Todner LLP, will be breathing a sigh of relief, for the next […]

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A Tough Week For YouTube

YouTube will be hiring more lawyers and policy wonks, we suspect, following a week of complaints and legal challenges to the content that is stored on their servers and show to people around the world.
Yesterday the House of Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport Committee published a report (PDF) with included “Risks from the Internet, particularly […]

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Gary McKinnon, ‘Hacker,’ Loses House Of Lords Appeal

Gary McKinnon, who is accused by the US government of being a ‘computer hacker,’ lost his appeal to the House of Lords yesterday.
He was appealing against being extradited to the US, but in a unanimous decision, the Lords said to find in favour of McKinnon would, “imperil the integrity of the extradition process.”

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Redlasso Gets Copyright Legal Action From Fox and NBC

NBC Universal, Fox News Network and Fox Television Stations have filed copyright infringement legal action against Redlasoo, a site that makes video content from TV available to bloggers and provides tools to embed the clips onto Web sites.

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