Allie Reed reports: Maine’s voter file containing the names, addresses, birth years, and voting history of 1.1 million registered voters is a public record that can be reproduced despite the state’s privacy concerns, the First Circuit said Friday. The National Voter Registration Act, which subjects records related to voter list maintenance to public inspection, overrides…
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Court Slams Brakes on DMCA Subpoena Use to Expose Alleged Movie Pirates
A district court judge in Hawaii has slammed the brakes on an attempt to unmask dozens of alleged BitTorrent pirates using a DMCA subpoena. Movie companies Voltage Holdings, Millennium Funding, and Capstone Studios, served the subpoena on Cox Communications, which in turn gave those accused an opportunity to object to the disclosure of their identities….
Trump data protection case thrown out by UK court
RTÉ reports: Donald Trump’s data protection case against a British private investigations firm over a dossier which alleged ties between Mr Trump’s campaign and Russia has been thrown out by London’s High Court. Mr Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, had sued Orbis Business Intelligence about claims in a dossier written by…
Film Companies Counter Reddit: “An IP Address is Not a Person”
Ernesto Van der Sar writes: Over the past decade and a half, hundreds of thousands of alleged BitTorrent pirates were taken to court for sharing mostly video content without permission from rightsholders. While this activity is still ongoing, at least to a degree, not all courts have welcomed this type of lawsuit. On several occasions,…