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FAC, EFF and Wired win unsealing of documents in hip-hop website seizure case

BY DEBORAH FRUIN–A federal district court in Los Angeles has unsealed records related to a government shutdown of a music blog/website, Dajaz1.com, for suspicion of copyright piracy. The unsealing had been requested by FAC, Wired, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Using a forfeiture authority usually invoked to seize cars and houses in drug cases, federal authorities had seized the hip hop website, then avoided a hearing in the matter and refused to give an explanation

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Four cases in 2011 give boost to transparency

There were four cases over the Freedom of Information Act that promoted transparency in 2011 according to the Electronic Freedom Foundation. The cases were Milner v. Department of Navy, FCC v. AT&T, Islamic Shura Council of S. Cal. v. FBI and National Day Laborer Organizing Network v. ICE. From a commentary for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, December 31, 2011, by Jennifer Lynch and Mark Rumold. Full story 

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Journalists at odds over revealing chat logs between the accused Wikileaker and his accuser

The truth is out there Salon.com columnist Glenn Greenwald insists if only Wired.com would set it free.  An unexpected holiday word storm over transcripts of internet chats between accused Wikileaker PFC Bradley Manning and Adrian Lamo, the hacker who turned Manning in, has produced a  pile of column inches from Greenwald who asserts that Wired.com writer Kevin Poulson is withholding  primary source material that would allow journalists to know whether the hacker turned informant is

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WikiLeaks slams Wired in denying plans to release Iraq war documents

A Wired reporter says the publication stands by its story based on interviews with former WikiLeaks employees that WikiLeaks is preparing to release a database of nearly 40,000 Iraq military documents. -db Wired Commentary October 18, 2010 By Kevin Poulsen We interrupt our regular coverage to address a rare dispatch from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that crossed the WikiLeaks Twitter feed this morning. In it, Assange slams Wired.com, and this writer in particular, for what

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