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[News] Another Attempt to Ban Competition & Back-up Using New Laws

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No Free Competition Allowed In Tampa Bay Taxi Business

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| Back in June, we wrote about how cab drivers in Tampa Bay were trying to get 
| the city council to outlaw new competitors in the form of free ad-supported 
| transportation from some owners of electric vehicles.   
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090813/1814005872.shtml

Backing up your data is now illegal too...

Another Court Deals Major Blow to DVD Copying

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| A California appeals court on Wednesday overturned a lower court ruling that 
| had paved the way for a $10,000 DVD copying system called Kaleidescape and 
| other products from the company with the same name.  
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/another-court-deals-major-blow-to-dvd-copying/


Recent:

The 2009 Canadian Copyright Lobby Scoreboard

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| With the Canadian mainstream media featuring prominent coverage of the
| Conference Board of Canada's decision to recall its now discredited IP
| reports (Globe and Mail, CBC, Montreal Gazette, IT Business, Vancouver Sun,
| Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, Chronicle of Higher Education) it is worth
| remembering why the copyright lobby funded the Conference Board to produce
| the report in the first place.  I believe the answer is fairly clear - the
| plan was to use it for media coverage, to support its conference (chaired by
| the Canadian Recording Industry Association's Graham Henderson) and to
| provide in the regular meetings between the lobbyists and Canada's
| politicians and policy makers.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4013/125/
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