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LimeWire to Return to Sell NFTs

Plagiarism Today

Initially released in May 2000, Limewire was a peer-to-peer file sharing service that found a great deal of success and infamy following the closure of Napster in July 2001. If anything, it just further connects NFTs with piracy and lack of security/privacy. Since then, not much has been done with the name LimeWire.

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I2P: The Censorship Resistant Anonymous P2P Network is 20 Years Old

TorrentFreak

This includes September 11, 2001, when even the most passionate coders were drawn away from their CRT monitors. In that environment, a young developer named Lance James pondered the implications of increased online ‘monitoring’ on the privacy of law-abiding citizens. This would change history. September 11.

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Small Business Guide [Plain English Initiative] ? Corporations Act 2001 (Cth.)

LexBlog IP

This blog article showcases the full text of the 12 provisions of the Small Business Guide implemented as part of a ‘Plain English’ Initiative in 1995 contained within the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth.). The Small Business Guide has been an overwhelming success based on the feedback from Australian Small Business Owners.

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Protecting Culture in an IP-centred World

IPilogue

1] Erica-Irene Daes, “Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples” (2001) 95 Am Socy Intl Proc 143 at 183. [2] 2] Michael Harkin, Privacy, Ownership and the Repatriation of Cultural Properties: An Ethnographic Perspective from the Northwest Coast (2001) 5 at 306 (unpublished manuscript).

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The Battle Plan For Combating IPTV Piracy in Europe Has Arrived

TorrentFreak

” While on one hand the request might seem reasonable, VPN providers’ businesses tend to center on privacy so, by default, their subscribers’ communications are none of their business, or anyone else’s. Any VPN provider that voluntarily participated in a blocking program would likely herald its own demise.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021

SpicyIP

The suit concerned agreements dating back to 2001 between IPRS and ENIL regarding broadcasting music in certain cities. An interim order issued by a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court recognised the right to be forgotten (RTBF) as a subset of the fundamental right to privacy.

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Time for the 12 O'Clock Boyz to go: court shuts down (c)/TM lawsuit against documentary & feature film about Baltimore bikers

43(B)log

From PR newswire, apparently a still from the 2001 film registered trademark For the 2001 Documentary, Monbo “organize[d] a group of highly skilled dirt-bike riders” to participate in a scripted film “that would highlight the exploits of an ostentatious group of dirt-bike riders in Baltimore called 12 O’Clock Boyz.”