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Oracle v. Google is a vast, sprawling piece of litigation over the Android platform, one where the billions of dollars at stake were the least-significant possible consequence of the lawsuit.
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When it comes to music, movies, literature, paintings, and even Bikram yoga, it's pretty easy to have an opinion about whether something has been copied. Software, on the other hand, was an awkward late addition to the original Copyright Act of 1976, shoehorned into section 102(a) as a 'literary work.'
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People don't object to spying on the grounds that the secret dossier about them might be full of errors. They object to spying because it's spying.
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The effect of letting someone sue without showing harm is obvious: It makes it really easy to sue.
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Not everyone can afford to plunk down hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars on a laptop.
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Mechanisms that prevent Keurig machines from using off-label coffee pods are annoying but relatively harmless.
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In the quest for perfect protection of Sony's intellectual property, the company threw the privacy and security of their customers under the bus.
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Information is lightning-quick. It crosses cities, states, and national borders in the twinkle of an eye. It passes through many kinds of devices, flowing from phone to phone and computer to computer, rather than being sealed away in those silent marble temples we used to call banks.
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A cashless society promises a world of limitation, control, and surveillance - all of which the poorest Americans already have in abundance, of course. For the most vulnerable, the cashless society offers nothing substantively new; it only extends the reach of the existing paternal bureaucratic state.
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I was a kid when the Tamagotchi craze hit, and I was always envious of my friends and cousins who got to hand-rear their little digital babies.
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A Tamagotchi is a beep encased in a plastic shell. It exists to haunt you with ghostly notifications that signify nothing.
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The Tamagotchi, I have realized, is everything that is wrong with our smartphone era. Is this what went wrong with millennials?
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