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FBI Ends Request for IMC Web Logs

The FBI has abandoned attempts to subpoena the web logs of an Independent Media Center news site. Federal agents attempted to obtain the web logs of all visitors to the site in order to discover who posted secret police security plans during the Quebec free-trade protests in April.

Reporters Win Web Logs Fight, Wired, June 15, 2001.