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Xbox mod chip discontinued
News One of the companies making Xbox "mod chips" -- add-on components that modify the game machine so it can run illegally copied discs and homemade software -- has gone out of business, possibly because of legal pressure from Microsoft.
[June 27, 2002, 8:36]
Music industry to snoop on Napster fans
News The music industry is developing software that will automatically detect people who are illegally swapping songs over the Internet -- and it is prepared to pass the information onto the police. It already conducts manual searches of the Web to find...
[February 19, 2001, 14:21]
Microsoft hit with another antitrust suit
News Streaming-media provider RealNetworks on Thursday sued longtime nemesis Microsoft on antitrust charges, accusing the software giant of illegally using its Windows monopoly to hurt digital media rivals.
[December 19, 2003, 7:50]
Google keeping the wolf from Firefox' door
Talkback Is Firefox illegally using it's illegally gained (10%) monopoly, achieved through illegally restrictive OEM contracts and clever marketing despite technical inferiority to force people towards Google rather than other search engines (which can...
[March 3, 2005, 11:06]
French parliament rejects internet piracy law
News France's parliament rejected a bill on Thursday that proposed disconnecting internet users if they download music or films illegally, with the ruling UMP party failing to turn out in force to approve the law.
[April 14, 2009, 15:03]
Sony reacts quickly to game hack
News Sony claims that a group of hackers illegally created a huge amount of Everquest II (EQ2) currency over the weekend, and says the players caused the game's economy to suffer 20 percent inflation in just 24 hours before being caught.
[August 12, 2005, 18:00]
Architect of CAD scam faces jail
News A Derby man is facing up to 10 years in jail after pleading guilty to illegally selling expensive CAD software at massively reduced prices. Khan called for the BSA to take a tough stance against online sellers who "deceive end users and fuel the...
[January 15, 2008, 15:21]
Kazaa forced to block search terms
News Eminem, Madonna and Kylie Minogue are just some of the popular artists whose songs are to be blocked from being illegally distributed on the peer-to-peer network Kazaa, following orders issued by an Australian federal court yesterday.
[November 25, 2005, 8:35]
EMusic wants Napster users banished
News Embattled MP3 site EMusic.com has asked Napster to block access to 600 of its users who have supposedly been trading EMusic tunes illegally through the controversial file-swapping application. So far, Napster has not responded to the first of...
[November 30, 2000, 9:47]
PayPal to pay out on problem accounts
News PayPal has notified customers how to apply for a share of a $9.25m (£5.1m) settlement of a case in which it was accused of illegally freezing members' funds. In June, PayPal reached a preliminary settlement with customers who accused the eBay unit...
[July 30, 2004, 11:30]
Quarter of Australia's software is counterfeit
News Twenty-nine percent of software installed on PCs in Australia in 2006 was obtained illegally, according to a new study by analyst house IDC, sponsored by the Business Software Alliance (BSA): a two percent drop from 2005 levels.
[February 19, 2008, 9:57]
Firms warned on employee music piracy
News The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is threatening to sue individual surfers who download content illegally using file-sharing services such as KaZaA. In an advisory note on its website Gartner said: "If a company is found to be...
[July 4, 2003, 15:13]
France passes controversial antipiracy bill
News The measure supported by French president Nicolas Sarkozy punishes digital pirates by suspending internet service if they are caught illegally sharing copyrighted material. At least one major ISP in the US, AT&T, has already agreed to work with the...
[May 13, 2009, 11:06]
Bristol: Microsoft aggressive, not anti-competitive
News Bristol sued Microsoft in August, arguing that it illegally withheld source code and used its dominant position with Windows to move into other markets. But Bristol claimed that when it came time to renew the contract and include versions 4 and 5...
[June 7, 1999, 11:25]
Entertainment industry joins Internet2
News The RIAA's decision to join the coalition comes several months after it filed a lawsuit against students who allegedly used Internet2 to illegally swap music files. The coalition's ambitions sparked concern in the movie and recording industries...
[September 12, 2005, 10:45]
Microsoft hunting for Whistler pirate
News Microsoft acknowledged Friday that a copy of an internal build of the follow-on to Windows 2000, code-named Whistler, was posted on the Internet illegally. However, the company does have a project, the Internet Monitoring program, whereby it uses...
[March 27, 2000, 9:28]
IT staff can't be trusted, claim self-appointed software police
News FAST said that directors should be aware that their company's Internet activity could be being monitored by FAST itself, and any employee who downloads software illegally could make them personally liable for copyright infringement.
[April 29, 2005, 13:35]
IBM wants judgement on SCO's Linux copyright
News The request appears in an amended counterclaim that Big Blue filed on Tuesday in its legal battle with SCO, whose main claims allege that IBM violated contract provisions by distributing Linux products that illegally incorporate Unix code that SCO...
[March 31, 2004, 9:00]
SCO sets up Linux-licence shop
News It enables companies that use Linux to purchase a licence that covers SCO's Unix System V, portions of which SCO claims were illegally incorporated into the source code of Linux. SCO rattled the technology world last year when it sued IBM, claiming...
[February 24, 2004, 7:20]
SCO sets steep charge for Linux licence
News The conflicting claims stem from SCO's filing of a $3bn (£1.87bn) lawsuit against IBM, claiming that the computing giant illegally incorporated into its Linux software source code from the Unix operating system that SCO controls.
[August 6, 2003, 9:10]
