The Federal Communications Commission has approved new rules, which prevent your broadband ISP from blocking websites, but provides wireless providers with added clemency. Tim Conneally, a writer at betanews, has published the most clear-cut overview of what these rules are and what they mean:

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In a major setback for the RIAA and the major record labels, a federal judge today cut the $675,000 damages award against Joel Tenenbaum for downloading and sharing 30 songs by 90% to just $67,500.  Calling the fines “unconstitutionally excessive”, the judge said that Congress never intended that the Digital Theft Deterrence Act of 1999 would be used to force average people to pay huge damages.

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