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The spam sending company e360Insight lost the court case where they filed a suit against Spamhaus, after they have been included in their block lists. On their website, they have posted the following:
“Today’s ruling is a devastating loss of personal freedom for all U.S. citizens. If the court cannot prevent Spamhaus from violating its order, [...]

For years and years big companies have accumulated vast amounts of documents and other types of information. It is of course assumed that the documents will remain readable for a long period of time, but since most companies use a proprietary document format where the Microsoft Word document is the leading standard, one can not [...]

The US has just passed a bill banning banks to approve payments to online gambling sites.
Shares in PartyGaming, which rakes in nearly $4 million a day from its 19 million customers, fell 58 percent by 0905 GMT.
Read more at ABC news.

A journalist at the Swedish news website Aftonbladet has just published an article stating that the member lists of the Swedish pirate party has been leaked. The spokesman Rickard Falkvine could not confirm or deny the accusations, but if they are true, it could lead to a fallout of members and a general distrust of [...]

Earlier today, the servers at The Pirate Bay were seized by the police.
“…The police right now is taking all of our servers, to check if there is a crime there or not (they are actually not sure),” ThePirateBay.org spokesperson “brokep” told Slyck.com.
More can be read at the following sites:

Slyck news
Digg
TV4 (Swedish)

I will post an update [...]

Google video has a program about the starving children in North Korea. Aid from the Red Cross is sold in the black market, and other horrible things are shown. Do boycott North Korea now for their idiotic behavior!

The German version of RIAA wants to ban internet radio streaming. One just has to wonder what they use for thinking. There are som more links on the Piratbyrån website.
They are really against Last.FM. It seems that they are not just afraid that you listen to free music, but that you listen to other music [...]

In the United States a new kind of driver’s license will be designed to comply with the federal antiterrorist standards. It will be a reality in 2008, and may have lot of embedded data on the card since it contains a large memory. Among the possibilities are biometric information such as fingerprints, retina scans and [...]

Digital Rights Management and Trusted Computing is something that is being lively discussed these days. The big vendors such as Microsoft and Adobe all give a positive image of it and how it will help ensure the privacy of one’s documents. There is another side to the story though, and it is far less [...]