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Study Shows Growing Entertainment Choices, Industry Profits
1/30/2012

Concurrent with the MIDEM music business conference in France today, the Computer & Communications Industry Association released a study it commissioned, “The Sky is Rising,” by Mike Masnick, who writes about technology policy for Techdirt and is founder and CEO of Floor 64. The economic report on entertainment over the past decade found that the entertainment industry grew 50 percent while consumer spending on entertainment also increased.

CCIA Concerned About Size and Scope of Hawaii’s Pending Data Retention Bill
1/26/2012

Today the Hawaiian State House debated a newly introduced piece of legislation, H.B. 2288, which would create a massive requirement for Hawaiian businesses to gather dossiers about all of their customers and store them for two years. The bill, a little shorter than two pages in length, would not just mandate retention of assigned IP addresses, along with user information like name and address, but also a log of every single website across the Internet that each user visits.

Supreme Court Rules Against GPS Monitoring Without A Warrant
1/23/2012

The U.S. Supreme Court said today that installing a GPS monitoring device constitutes a search and is therefore prohibited by the 4th amendment without a warrant. The decision that such a search is illegal was unanimous, but the justices differed in their reasoning.


The majority of the court ruled 5-4 that placing the geo-tracking device on the car is trespassing on the car, while the minority wrote that was too narrow a way to decide on this form of electronic eavesdropping. Justice Sotomayor voted with the majority but also agreed with the minority’s rational. 

House, Senate Delay Action On PIPA/SOPA
1/20/2012

The House and Senate have both announced plans today to put off consideration of the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).


The announcement follows record numbers of phone calls to Capitol Hill and millions of signatures on online petitions by Internet users after more than 7,000 websites went dark for a day to protest the Internet censorship that SOPA and PIPA would bring. The Computer & Communications Industry Association participated in the SOPA/PIPA website blackout.


PIPA/SOPA Blackout
1/18/2012


Here's an excerpt from CCIA President & CEO Ed Black's CNN interview -- see above or the text of the story below: 

"You don't want companies to be absolutely liable for everything that somebody may post on their site. If you think of Facebook, if you think of Twitter, if you think of Google and Ebay, etc - people put things on to company sites and companies can control that, well they could, by censorship and that's what we want to avoid"

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