Entirely random selections of things I find interesting
In comments released by the company along with the FCC filing, Sprint said that AT&T’s purchase of T-Mobile would do nothing to relieve spectrum congestion, noting that AT&T already has the largest spectrum holdings of any wireless company in the United States, much of it still unused. Sprint also questions AT&T’s assertion that it needs T-Mobile to reach 97 percent of the U.S. population, since its current spectrum holdings already enable that reach.
— Sprint Tells FCC ATandT-T-Mobile Merger Will Harm Consumers, Competition - Mobile and Wireless - News & Reviews - eWeek.com This is how screwed we are if this merger goes through. aka bigtime.
So, as expected, the specific charges are incredibly questionable and seem to be based on a theory of copyright law that has been completely made up by Homeland Security and the Justice Department. That’s kind of scary.
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Feds Really Do Seem To Think That Linking To Infringing Content Can Be A Jailable Offense | Techdirt - yup- DOJ (DOH-J) and DHS (DOH-S) are making up their own laws and prosecuting for it. Can you believe that?
I imagine lawyers are preparing for a nuclear option against our government on this one.
U.S. Resume Controversial File-Sharing Domain Seizures | TorrentFreak
wow. the the fuck is wrong with our country. I no longer want to live here. We’re making an end run around the legal system just to pander to corporate interests? What a joke.
