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Pirate Bay trial draws to a close
News Prosecutors have accused the defendants of making available copyrighted material in violation of the law, and in their closing arguments on Monday, said each of the four defendants should be sentenced to a year in prison, according to news reports.
[March 4, 2009, 8:05]
Apple's spat with Real continues
Talkback The next move presumably is Real file a monopoly violation suit and checkmate. What a gem of a move. Real forced Apple to deliberately exclude them, Apple are a monopolist in the portable player area (over 90% is well and truely monopolist status).
[December 16, 2004, 20:13]
Sun to chew over IE's JDK compatibility today
News Observers expect that the conference could also mean that Sun claims Microsoft is in violation of its Java licence. Sun has called a US press conference for 6.30pm today to discuss the findings of its investigation into Internet Explorer 4.0's...
[October 7, 1997, 9:42]
Spammers face jail
News Jared Cosgrave and Mohammed Haque pleaded guilty last week in a US District Court in Southern Florida to charges of fraud and violation of the Can-Spam Act. Two spammers could go to jail after an investigation by EarthLink found they were sending...
[October 4, 2006, 9:05]
US spammer pleads guilty
News Two of the counts were related to sending millions of unsolicited spam emails, and the third was for a firearms violation. Daniel Lin, the first person prosecuted under the 2004 US federal anti-spam law, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to three felony...
[January 20, 2006, 8:50]
Mo' Vista Blues....
Blog Comment The major multimedia hardware vendors are still deciding whether or not to follow the strict specifications that will severely punish any attempt at violation of DRM. This must be the tip of the iceberg.
[June 5, 2007, 2:42]
South Korea orders Microsoft to unbundle Windows
News The move comes after a lengthy process that found that Microsoft abused its dominant market position in violation of the country's Monopoly Regulation and Fair The Korea Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has imposed a 33 billion won m) fine on Microsoft...
[December 7, 2005, 9:25]
TK Maxx owner criticised after security breach
News According to a Visa email alert sent to financial institutions, parent company TJX was storing credit card information in violation of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, a framework aimed at preventing credit card fraud, which is...
[January 30, 2007, 13:32]
FBI nabs Russian expert at DefCon
News The bureau acknowledged Tuesday that it had arrested security researcher Dmitry Sklyarov for what it said was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The FBI took a Russian encryption expert into custody Monday at his hotel in Las...
[July 18, 2001, 9:41]
2005: Apple's 1984?
Talkback He did this in violation of an NDA, and by doing so could really hurt Apple's business. People, where are you getting your information? The article is calling Apple a bully, the posters are calling the kid a criminal.
[January 19, 2005, 10:56]
Lloyd's to provide open source IP indemnity
Talkback As the chap says, there is no greater chance of IP violation in the actual code of open source software than in proprietary systems.but there is demand for insurance since the most cost-effective targets for IP laywyers might become big users if...
[August 16, 2005, 10:28]
Microsoft decision coming today
News Most trial watchers expect the judge to find the company in violation of antitrust law. Monday is D-Day for Microsoft. After a nearly two-year court battle, the company will learn its fate Monday when Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issues his...
[April 3, 2000, 16:48]
Music labels are not taking Napster's bait
News Industry experts had predicted that the offer would not come close to covering the amount that Sony, Universal, EMI, Warner and BMG believe they are owed by Napster for the copyright violation caused by its users copying songs from each other for...
[February 21, 2001, 15:34]
Documents reveal Carnivore failures
News The documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), detail at least one incident in which Carnivore inadvertently captured email from people who were not under investigation, in apparent violation of federal wiretap laws.
[May 29, 2002, 9:13]
Skype fixes critical security flaw
News The URI handler skype4com, which the Skype software creates to handle web addresses, can fail when handling short strings, producing a memory violation that allows code to be written to memory. Skype has fixed a critical security hole in the latest...
[December 7, 2007, 16:47]
Microsoft: Don't sell PCs without operating systems
Talkback It's a violation of controversial End User License Agreement. Think about how old is XP? Today, the life span of Windows OS has become longer than that of hardware. You will have to purcahse new machine before you will get any major upgrade of...
[April 5, 2006, 18:00]
Amazon hit by 'shopping cart' patents lawsuit
News The lawsuit is revealed in Amazon's latest financial filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which also notes a separate lawsuit, filed in July 2003, for alleged violation of another other e-commerce technology.
[February 26, 2004, 12:40]
Music industry to snoop on Napster fans
News The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a group which represents the global music industry, hopes to use the software in its fight against copyright violation on the Internet.
[February 19, 2001, 14:21]
VeriSign slapped again over redirection
News A federal district court judge on Thursday threw out VeriSign's legal arguments that a ban on the tactic by the group responsible for managing the Internet's infrastructure amounted to a violation of United States antitrust law.
[August 27, 2004, 8:25]
SCO's legal gun takes aim at Linux
Talkback If this were not the case then every book printer in the US would be in violation even though they have a licence from the copyright holder. What box of cracker jacks did the SCO attourney get his law licence from?
[August 22, 2003, 14:02]
