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Priceline, Travelocity and Cingular Wireless each contracted with DirectRevenue LLC to deliver ads to consumers. To service its clients (including Priceline, Travelocity and Cingular Wireless), DR installed adware on millions of computers. The adware, which was undisclosed to users and difficult to remove, monitored the websites visited by the users and collected the information they typed into web forms. The NY AG filed a law suit alleging that DirectRevenue had violated New York consumer protection law, then pursued DirectRevenue's three major advertiser clients.

The U.S. Copyright Office has announced six new classes of works which are exempt from the Digital Millenium Copyright Act's prohibition against the circumvention of technological measures designed to control access to copyrighted works set forth in 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1).