A Virginia teenager has pled guilty to one count of unlawfully recording a motion picture in violation of state law after she filmed 20 seconds of Transformers. The teen was fined $71, though faced the prospect of jail time. The prosecutor advised that the theatre chain, Regal Entertainment (the world's […]
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WHOIS Timeline
Milton Mueller and Mawaki Chango have posted a very useful timeline of WHOIS policy development dating back to 1982.

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Episode 278: Ben Waldman on Gander Social and the Challenges of Building a Sovereign Social Network
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