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• Did weak copyright laws help Germany outpace the British Empire?

  

  <!--body--> There's a new thesis making the rounds that has already stimulated plenty of discussion about the benefits and costs of copyright laws. It comes from the German economic historian Eckhard Höffner, his work summarized in a Der Spiegel review titled "No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany's Industrial...

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  August 23, 2010, 4:30 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• Google WiFi lawsuits head to Silicon Valley

  

  <!--body--> Whether Google is liable for damages for secretly intercepting data on open WiFi routers across the United States is to be aired out in a Silicon Valley federal court. Eight proposed class-actions from across the country that seek unspecified monetary damages from Google were consolidated this week and transferred...

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  August 21, 2010, 3:30 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• Week in tech: FM radio, broadband speeds, and bandwidth hogs

  

  <!--body--> Radio, RIAA: mandatory FM radio in cell phones is the future: Radio stations are willing to fork over $100 million a year to music labels, but in return they want Congress to make FM receivers mandatory in portable devices. The labels think having an FM radio in every Droid...

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  August 21, 2010, 7:00 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• Argentinian court applies common sense to search defamation lawsuit

  

  <!--body--> Google and Yahoo have been cleared of defamation charges in Argentina, at least as they relate to Argentinian entertainer Virginia Da Cunha. The National Chamber of Civil Appeals in Argentina has ruled that the two search companies can't be held liable for defaming Da Cunha simply by serving up...

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  August 20, 2010, 11:03 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• Supreme Court told P2P users can be "innocent infringers"

  

  <!--body--> Two prominent lawyers in the fight against RIAA P2P lawsuits have taken their battle to the Supreme Court. Today, Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson and "Recording Industry vs. the People" blogger/lawyer Ray Beckerman joined with a few other law professors to ask the Supreme Court not to gut copyright...

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  August 20, 2010, 9:03 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• Franken goes ballistic on Verizon, Google, Comcast, and NBCU

  

  <!--body--> "I believe that net neutrality is the First Amendment issue of our time," declared Democratic Senator Al Franken at Thursday's public hearing on the Internet, held in his home state of Minnesota. "Unless it's freedom of religion," he added, "which, until last week, I thought we had kind of...

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  August 20, 2010, 7:19 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• ISP's top data hog gobbles 2.7TB of data in a month

  

  <!--body--> ISPs sometimes complain about "data hogs," often in the service of ridiculously tight-fisted data caps on Internet service. But there are users who deserve the porcine label, and Belgian ISP Telenet recently offered a rare picture of them. Can you imagine downloading 2,680GB of data in a single month?...

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  August 19, 2010, 5:30 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• Privacy groups, Facebook already facing off over "Places"

  

  <!--body--> Facebook's new "Places" have been a long time coming, and privacy groups were ready to pounce when the company finally announced the location-based feature. Several privacy advocates say that the settings are unnecessarily complex and that users could have certain personal info exposed without their consent. "There is no...

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  August 19, 2010, 1:25 pm| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

• RIAA: Google/Verizon deal needs yet another gaping loophole

  

  <!--body--> Plenty of people are worried that the Google/Verizon net neutrality proposal has too many exceptions. The recording industry is worried that it doesn't have enough. In a letter sent today to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the RIAA and other music trade groups expressed their concern that the riddled-with-gaping-loopholes policy...

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  August 19, 2010, 9:02 am| Read full article | More articles from arstechnica.com

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