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Its backers claimed that the 1998 Child Online Protection Act was a constitutional way to protect children from Web porn. The courts have not agreed, and the law was permanently put on ice this week.

The Recording Industry Association of America is objecting to the webcasting of pretrial arguments in an upcoming file-sharing trial.The RIAA claims that the re-runs “will be readily subject to editing and manipulation by any reasonably tech-savvy individual.”

dp619 writes “Several months after joining the Apache Foundation, Microsoft has made its first code contribution to an Apache project. The project, known as Stonehenge, is made up of companies and developers seeking to test the interoperability of Web standards implementations.”Reader Da Massive adds a link to coverage at Computer World.

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