OBAMA “TROUBLED” BY DOJ’S PRESS PROBES

President Obama said on Thursday that he was “troubled” by the investigation of reporters by his own Justice Department but said that he is attempting to strike “the right balance between our security and our open society.” The president himself, in a speech on his counterterrorism policy, appeared to be balancing his own response to […]

DOJ, FBI GO TO WAR AGAINST PIRATES

Acting on a federal grand jury indictment alleging copyright infringement and other related crimes, the U.S. government on Thursday shut down the popular “cyberlocker” MegaUpload, arrested at least four people, confiscated servers, and conducted search warrants in the U.S. and eight other countries. The indictment claimed that MegaUpload’s operators, four of whom were arrested in […]

COMCAST CONCEDES DEAL WITH NBC WON’T CONCLUDE THIS YEAR

Comcast has resigned itself to the fact that it won’t be taking over control of NBC and Universal Studios anytime this year, as it had expected. The company issued a statement saying that while the FCC and the DoJ continue to make “substantial progress toward approval of our transaction,” it now realizes that “we will […]