Week in tech: senatorial censorship crusaders, copyright troll smackdown
- Saturday, 16 April 2011 09:00
Meet the senator blocking Big Content's Web censorship plan: Senator Ron Wyden is on the warpath against Web censorship. "The content industry is trying to use government as a club to beat up on one of the most promising parts but the economy of the future—the Internet," he tells me. And he vows to stop them.
Judge to copyright troll: your "business model" isn't my problem: A federal judge blasted copyright litigation firm Righthaven for using lawsuits to squeeze settlements from "Defendants cowed by the potential costs of litigation and liability." The company immediately ditched that case, but the same judge is overseeing 50 more.
