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Lawsuits Over Dish Network's Ad-Skipper Reveal Networks' Hypocrisy
forbes.com 5 days, 21 hours agoAs you read this, the owners of ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox are marching off to war against the Dish Network, saying the satellite TV provider's new "Auto Hop" feature, which lets viewers skip over commercials with greater ease than ever before, is a threat to "the future of free, over-the-air television." Disney, CBS and News Corp. have all filed lawsuits, with NBC Universal and Time Warner rattling their scabbards in sympathy; Dish has filed its own, preemptive lawsuit, hoping to get a court's blessing for the
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Network Analysis Reveals Apparent (And Legally Questionable) Attack On Torrent Networks
techdirt.com 6 days, 9 hours agoLast week, we talked about a Microsoft-funded operation calling itself "Pirate Pay" and claiming to shut down torrents of pirated films by poisoning the P2P network with false data. At the time, former BitTorrent VP John Pettitt had commented that their system sounds ineffective and potentially illegal. Now, an anonymous reader points us to an analysis by Poland's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT Polska) looking at a recent surge of anomalous data on the uTP torrent protocol, which sounds somewhat sim
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