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This week the MPA’s lawyers were in the High Court claiming that Usenet indexing site Newzbin2 costs them millions of pounds due to illegal movie downloads.

To this end they want BT to block the site but the ISP is refusing. BT says that by complying it would open the floodgates for hundreds of other site-blocking requests.

Now, for the first time this week, Newzbin2′s owners speak out.

Law.com: "Even for customers who can afford commercial e-discovery, there is no tool that fits what lawyers want.

The only one you like is the one you've never seen and don't use, because they are just all bad."

Geohot and his lawyers are of the view that Sony is intentionally misleading the courts, because they want the proceedings to continue in San Francisco, and not where Geohot lives.

Groklaw: "There is now a legal publication with the goal of explaining FOSS issues to lawyers. It's the first peer-reviewed law review entirely devoted just to the legal issues of FOSS."

The federal judge overseeing several of the major new P2P copyright cases has given the lawyers two weeks to convince her that suing 4,577 people in a single lawsuit is proper.

Why shouldn't 4,576 of them "be dismissed for misjoinder," she asked?

To ensure that this is indeed the case, last December two lawyers and an IT security expert conducted an audit at Antipiratbyrån’s offices.

Groklaw: "SCO's attorney Stuart Singer may have gotten carried away with his theatrical indignation. And when a party slips like this, what lawyers call opening the door, it can indeed have consequences.

Novell was just waiting for a moment like this."

The Register: "Is device modding a punishable offense?"

TG Daily: "Is it just me, or does it sometimes seem that the principle role of the IT industry is to act as a job creation scheme for lawyers?"