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Russian Company Acquitted of Digital Piracy 

"In the first test of a digital piracy law, a jury acquitted a Russian company accused of selling software that allowed users to circumvent security features in an electronic book."

The jury did not like the idea that purchasers of digital content had no rights to manipulate it.  Score one for the common sense of the jurors.

10:17:38 PM    

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Of Ghosts and Mississippi (New York Times) "Karl Rove came back to his West Wing office after yet another fruitless meeting on the topic of "How to pry the Senate gavel from Trent Lott's cold, dead hands while pretending to be mildly supportive," to find his desk occupied. Lee Atwater was spinning around in Karl's chair like a little kid."

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