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Submission + - Waze hit with class action suit: plaintiff requests souce code under GPL. (2jk.org)

Submitted by jonklinger on Thursday March 27, 2014 @08:58AM

jonklinger writes: A class action lawsuit was brought against Waze, claiming that their source code and map data were licensed to Waze by the community under the GPL. The plaintiff, Roey Gorodish, requests a copy of the recent source code and map data.

This is (as far as I know) the first ever GPL class action suit, too bad it will be quashed by bad facts later as I see it.

Submission + - Israel to try and block gambling and child porn websites, again. (2jk.org)

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jonklinger

on Saturday December 22, 2012 @06:46AM

jonklinger writes: "Israel is to attempt, again, to pass a bill that authorizes police officers to issue warrants to Internet service providers to block or restrict access to specific websites involved either in gambling, child pornography or copyright infringement. The bill itself proposes that such administrative procedures shall be clandestine and that court decisions shall be made ex-parte, where some of the court’s ruling will not be even dislosed to the owner of the website, and the court may hear and use inadmissible evidence."

Submission + - Court to Prisoner: No XBox 360 for you. (google.com)

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jonklinger

on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @01:44PM

jonklinger writes: "An Israeli Court rejected the appeal of a prisoner who requested to have an Playstation 3 or XBox device because there is no possibility to remove the internet connectivity apparatus from the device without harming its functionality. Therefore, prisoners cannot engage in gaming and will have to result to other kinds of violence."

Submission + - Israel's Supreme Court: Yes for Internet Anonymity (2jk.org)

Submitted by jonklinger on Saturday March 27, 2010 @05:25AM

jonklinger writes: The Israeli Supreme Court ruled this week that there is no civil procedure to reveal the identity of users behind an IP address, and that until such procedure shall be legislated, all internet postings, even torturous, may remain anonymous. The 69-page decision acknowledges the right for privacy and makes internet anonymity, de-facto, a constitutional right in Israel. Justice Rivlin noted that revealing a person behind an IP address is "an attempt to harness, prior to a legal proceeding, the justice system and a third party in order to conduct an inquiry which will lead to the revealing of a person committing a tort so that a civil suit could be filed against him".

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