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FBI ISP Letters May Have Violated Free Speech

Anti-Globalism sends in a Reuters account of an appeals court hearing in which an unnamed ISP is challenging the Patriot Act "National Security Letter" provision that allows the FBI to issue secret letters to ISPs and telecoms, demanding customer records. "A panel of federal appeals court judges pushed a US government lawyer on Wednesday to answer why FBI letters sent out to Internet service providers seeking information should remain secret... Between 2003 and 2006 nearly 200,000 national security letters were sent out. Of those about 97 percent received gag orders."

Three Little Letters

The difference between ‘can’ and ‘cannot’ is just three little letters. Letters that can change your business and your life. Winston Churchill once said, “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” How apt this is for today’s economic environment and our industry.

UK ISPs Agree To Help Tackle Music Piracy

The BPI (who represent the Britsh music industry) have agreed on a plan with six leading UK ISPs, which will lead to thousands of net users suspected of illegally sharing music receiving warning letters. The six ISPs who have agreed to co-operate are BT, Orange, Virgin, Tiscali, BSkyB and The Carphone Warehouse. Customers of those ISPs who are alleged of sharing music illegally by the BPI can expect to find warning letters coming to their doors, though there doesn't appear to be any threat of legal action attached to such letters. Consultation has also been under way, which suggests among other things, that serial file sharers could have traffic management imposed on their connections. The BPI itself has gone as far as to suggest a three strike system that would see internet connections cut off for persistent pirates.

Last week's letters and blogs in full

Here, the full text of the letters and blog pingbacks we picked the printed ones from. People were worried about Oyster.. and PAL

RIAA's letters may turn into court dates

Illegal downloading on campuses could be heard in criminal courts after a year of letters sent to students around the nation threatening lawsuits in civil courts.

100th Anniversary of Letters of Patent Celebrated at G. H.

On Monday, 21 July 2008 a celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the issuing of Letters of Patent setting up the South Atlantic British Overseas Territories was held at Government House.

Madiba views children's letters at museum

Madiba took time today to view a remarkable exhibition of letters at the Nelson Mandela National Museum's Qunu Youth Centre component just outside Mthatha. Despite countrywide celebrations of his 90th birthday, the international icon has been confined to his Qunu village home.

Illegal music downloaders sent warning letters

In a campaign run with the record industry body, the BPI, some 800 letters were sent to customers warning them not to download music illegally.

physica status solidi RRL ?€" Rapid Research Letters

WILEY-VCH has launched physica status solidi RRL – Rapid Research Letters, the latest member of the journals cluster physica status solidi. The journal’s mission is the ultra-rapid publication of new, important and peer-reviewed results in all fields of solid-state physics, materials science, and interdisciplinary areas, from basic science to applications and devices. It will focus on findings with a high degree of novelty as well as other results of immediate interest to the scientific community. Complimentary online access is available to all institutions throughout 2007.

Museum provides English translation of letters left by kamikaze pilots+

KAGOSHIMA, Japan, July 31-(Kyodo), The Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots has introduced a touch-panel display system with English translations of final letters and songs left behind by pilots who mounted suicide attacks during World War II.

Universities Realize That The RIAA Is Taking Advantage Of Them In Lawsuits On Students

We never quite understood why various universities were cooperating with RIAA demands that it send "pre-litigation" letters to students accused of file sharing. These non-binding letters are often used to pressure students into paying fines, even if they're based on weak (at best) evidence of file sharing. It certainly wasn't in any university's best interests to basically help out a private organization in a business model dispute with its students. Yet, some university officials, falsely convinced by the RIAA that this was more than a business model dispute, decided to help out. And the response? The RIAA has increased the flood of notices, and then convinced Congress to move forward on legislation that would legally obligate universities to act as the RIAA's copyright cops.

Multi-Level Marketing Company Threatens Blogger Who Writes Critical Post

Over and over and over again, we hear stories of companies that simply dislike what others are saying about them online, and send over threatening legal letters with no legal basis. These cease-and-desist letters are mostly designed to scare users into giving in, because there's no law against someone criticizing you or saying something bad about you (assuming it's not untrue). The latest, sent in by Davis Freeberg involves the Everyday Finance blog. The blogger there was approached by a company called "Shop to Earn," which offers a multi-level marketing (MLM) system. The blogger wrote a post about it, which Davis Freeberg describes as "well balanced," though the blogger explained the weaknesses of the system and why he chose not to participate.

UK ISPs agree deal on combating illegal file-sharing

UK ISPs have settled their long-running dispute with the music industry over illegal file-sharing in a new protocol agreement back by the government. The government had threatened to impose legislation on the industry if it did not reach an agreement on self-regulation. The agreement includes the ISPs Orange, BT, Virgin, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse. The deal will see the ISPs send letters to customers when their account has been identified as having been used to unlawfully share copyrighted material. The letters will point consumers to other sources of material available legally and in a variety of formats. ISPs and rights holders will also together produce a Code of Practice on how they will deal with alleged repeat infringers, and the government will consider ways to give the code legislative underpinning.

Letters and blogs: August 14

This article appeared in the Guardian on Thursday August 14 2008 on p4 of the Technology news & features section. It was last updated at 00:04 on August 14 2008.

[LETTERS] Correcting the Record on DNA Direct

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[LETTERS] Omissions in GLAST Story

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[Letters to JMG] Genome-wide linkage scan for loci of musical aptitude in Finnish families: evidence for a major locus at 4q22

Genome-wide linkage scan for loci of musical aptitude in Finnish families: evidence for a major locus at 4q22

Billy Bragg: Letters to music downloaders are a waste of time

This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Thursday July 24 2008. It was last updated at 17:30 on July 24 2008.

Bradman's 'official' letters discovered

Don Bradman felt the lbw law should be tweaked so that batsmen are given out for deliveries that pitch outside off and leg stump, provided they don't offer a shot

Domain name 'renewal' letters surface again

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Four artificial new letters for the DNA alphabet

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U. Texas: RIAA's letters may turn into court dates

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Latest: Four artificial new letters for the DNA alphabet

New World Heritage Sites include pristine lagoons and vital fossil beds: watch a slideshow of the sites

City apologizes for incorrect lawn letters

CANTON, Ohio, July 7 (UPI) -- Health officials in Canton, Ohio, have apologized to six property owners mistakenly cited for high grass and weeds.

Nanotechnology typesetting with 40 nm block letters

(Nanowerk News) The world's first nanoscale book was published as a work of fine art by Robert Chaplin at the Nano Imaging Facility of Simon Fraser University.

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