HPR1180: TGTM Newscast for 2/6/2013

Summary: Here is a news review: FBI Came to Investigate Wikileaks in Iceland Anonymous Hacks DOJ Site in Retaliation for Aaron Swartz Case Unexplained Blackout of Discussion of CIA Interrogation Centers at 9/11 Pre-Trial Hearing Stealing workers’ pay is illegal, shouldn’t be a partisan issue Report: Brennan Was Regularly Briefed on Torture Under Bush Pirate Bay Founder Could Be Prosecuted For Hacking “Within a Month” Is It Illegal To Unlock a Phone? The Situation is Better - and Worse - Than You Think Anti-Piracy Group Already Demanding That Kim Dotcom's New Mega Service Be Shut Down TechCrunch Admits That Using Facebook Comments Drove Away Most Of Their Commenters The 16th Century Religious Wars And Today’s Copyright Monopoly Wars Have More In Common Than You Think Other Headlines: With New Constitution, Post-Collapse Iceland Inches Toward Direct Democracy The Justice Department does not need to explain why it wanted Twitter information of certain WikiLeaks supporters without a warrant, the 4th Circuit ruled. Government requests for Twitter user data rise 20% in 2012 IMAGiNE BitTorrent Group Sysop Speaks Out as He Heads to Prison Mega Launches: Brilliantly Secure, But Not Anonymous Staffed and produced by the TGTM news team, Editorial Selection by DeepGeek, views of the story authors reflect their own opinions and not neccesarily those of TGTM news. News from "techdirt.com," "thestand.org," "icelandreview.com," and "allgov.com" used under arranged permission. News from "torrentfreak.com" and "eff.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution license. News from "democracynow.org" used under permission of the Creative Commons by-attribution non-commercial no-derivatives license. News Sources retain their respective copyrights.