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Wednesday, September 24, 2003

US Federal Court says "no" to FTC Do Not Call List The Direct Marketing Association and its assorted bag of allies is "grateful" that a US Federal Court in Oklahoma has ruled that the FTC overstepped its boundaries in creating the national Do Not Call registry, about one week before it was to start rolling. The judgment (PDF) makes considerable fuss over the fact that an initiative started in the early nineties by the FCC suggested that a do not call list would be ineffectual, [Ars Technica]
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Patent holder unplugs porn network. A holding company with a stack of streaming media patents briefly shuts down a network of pornography Web sites in an ominous sign for mainstream providers of streaming Web content. [CNET News.com - Front Door]
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