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Banned Xbox Ad Spurs Lawsuit
News Already banned on British TV, a controversial ad for the Xbox could land Microsoft in a French court. The Independent Television Commission called the ad "shocking" and banned it from being shown on UK television, although it is still being run in...
[June 25, 2002, 15:20]
Banned Napster Users Strike Back
News But within hours of the ban Wednesday, a user logged on as "Cryptic" had posted a workaround for the banned users on Napster message boards. Technology got them banned. He waited until installation was complete, and immediately got the message that...
[May 12, 2000, 8:58]
Demon Users Banned From Usenet
News Some subscribers to Internet service provider Demon are being summarily banned from posting to online bulletin boards, ZDNet News has learned. Demon's actions are the latest ripple from the defamation case between Demon Internet and Laurence...
[April 17, 2000, 14:34]
T-Mobile 'banned VoIP Because Of Poor Quality'
News As first reported by ZDNet UK earlier this week, the mobile provider has banned the use of VoIP and IM services over its new HSDPA-enabled data cards. T-Mobile UK has claimed that voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls are too low in quality to be allowed over...
[May 11, 2006, 16:50]
A Year Ago: Online Booksellers Defend Right To Sell Banned Books
News Online booksellers have defended their right to sell race-hate literature to countries in which it is banned, after a Los Angeles based anti-Nazi organisation called for a halt to the sale of books such as Mein Kampf in Germany.
[August 11, 2000, 7:07]
A Year Ago: Demon Users Banned From Usenet
News Some subscribers to Internet service provider Demon are being summarily banned from posting to online bulletin boards, ZDNet News has learned. Following landmark online defamation case, Demon is watching what its users are writing -- and...
[April 17, 2001, 6:05]
Brits Banned From Smiling In Passport Photos
Talkback When I read this I had to check the date as I thought it was April but I was wrong it was August. Does this mean that we must have one identity for travel and one that we use normaly, how long before we all have to have crew cuts because some bit...
[August 10, 2004, 13:35]
Spammers Tout Banned DVD Technology
News But already unsolicited bulk email is showing up in inboxes telling consumers that if they act fast, they can buy the last copies of the "banned" software. Missed your chance to get software -- now deemed illegal -- that will copy DVDs?
[March 2, 2004, 8:15]
Sydney 2000: The Day They Banned The Net Down Under
News Video streaming of Olympic events is forbidden on the Internet this year. The International Olympic committee (IOC) managing the event has sold £1.45bn of exclusive broadcasting rights to twenty world-wide customers; but the Games' Web presence...
[September 12, 2000, 15:11]
Brits Banned From Smiling In Passport Photos
Talkback Is there anyone who knows that how many Brits are smiling on their passport?
[August 9, 2004, 17:19]
Brits Banned From Smiling In Passport Photos
Talkback I've just been to the post office to get my passport checked and it was refused for having a white background on the photos, is this right? where is the best place to get passport photos from it this is right?
[August 9, 2004, 14:23]
Online Booksellers Defend Right To Sell Banned Books
News The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles-based organisation that monitors anti-Semitism, became enraged when it discovered that German citizens can directly order banned material from online booksellers such as Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com...
[August 10, 1999, 13:51]
Kazaa Firm Banned From Suing Record Labels
Talkback Wow what a smart move Kazza and Sharman have a ruling which says that they are incidental to any copyright breaches so that effectively rules them out of being sued in future - business as usual for them I think
[October 21, 2003, 18:35]
Deceptive URLs And 'virtual' Porn Banned
News The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to ban pornographic Internet sites with misleading addresses and computer-generated child pornography. During a debate over a bill to create a notification network for child...
[March 28, 2003, 12:14]
Kazaa Firm Banned From Suing Record Labels
News Sharman Networks, the company behind the popular Kazaa file-swapping software, cannot pursue a suit accusing record labels and movie studios of antitrust violations, a federal judge has ruled. In the ruling, dated 2 July, US district judge Stephen...
[July 8, 2003, 14:56]
T-Mobile 'banned VoIP Because Of Poor Quality'
Talkback Loss of revenue is the main reason - not poor quality. Because the bandwidth used by VoIP is much greater than that used by mobile phones, even 3G ones, they will loose bandwidth avaiability so other uses may suffer.
[May 12, 2006, 12:06]
T-Mobile 'banned VoIP Because Of Poor Quality'
Talkback T-mobile's claim, while creative, is almost absurd enough for Jon Stewart to put it on the Daily Show. Unfortunately, the government can supply enough folly that T-Mobile probably won't get the air time.
[May 12, 2006, 20:25]
DeCSS Banned Again
News In another setback for free speech advocates, hacker magazine 2600 has lost its bid for an appeal of a ruling banning it from posting code that can be used to crack DVD copy protections. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals refused 2600's request to...
[May 20, 2002, 7:31]
Chess Player Banned For Wireless Cheating
Blog An Indian chess player is feeling rather forked off after being caught using his mobile phone to help win games, according to Reuters. Umakant Sharma was reportedly caught at a recent tournament when officials "discovered that he had stitched a...
[December 27, 2006, 15:51]
T-Mobile 'banned VoIP Because Of Poor Quality'
Talkback In reality VoIP is hyped. Current infrastructure and common knowledge have not advanced enough to be able to say that overall VoIP is of enough continues quality and availability to be reliable enough as a good enough de facto alternative to more...
[May 12, 2006, 23:14]
