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Napster Bans Manic Street Preacher Fans
News Sony Music UK, the record label behind the Welsh indie band, contacted the US service warning it that these users were breaching its copyright and threatening legal action. Napster users accused of copying and swapping Manic Street Preacher songs...
[February 8, 2001, 15:42]
Companies Accused Of Violating The GPL
News The warning notice gives them a chance to fix their products before they get into legal trouble. Harald Welte, a Linux kernel developer who runs gpl-violations.org, personally handed over warning letters to 13 technology companies at CeBIT this...
[March 16, 2005, 15:45]
Consumers Attack CD Copy Protection
News This suggests, Gartner said, that copy-protected CDs without warning labels could have a negative impact on sales. It is currently optional to place a warning label on discs that use copy-protection. In a series of US interviews with 1,005 adults...
[October 29, 2002, 13:08]
Another 80 Song Swappers Hit By Suits
News It subsequently sent warning letters to 204 people early in October, saying they had been identified as likely targets of a new round of suits. The RIAA said that a total of 156 people have agreed in principle to settle the lawsuits, a figure that...
[October 31, 2003, 9:25]
HP Backs Down On DMCA Warning
News HP's dramatic warning appears to have been the first time the DMCA was invoked to stifle research related to computer security. This time, public outcry among programmers, researchers and technologists was quick and fierce, prompting HP to back...
[August 2, 2002, 7:45]
Viral Marketing Has Virus-like Effects
News Internet security companies are warning about devious marketing tactics that have virus-like effects, but aren't actually viruses. Ironically, even though Internet Explorer presents a 'security warning', many people treat this as some kind of a...
[July 16, 2003, 10:48]
US Govt To Get Early Warning Of Net Attacks
News A centralised early warning system for Internet security alerts should be working by this autumn, an official from the US Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday afternoon. We don't have today a way to do early warning detection broadly...
[August 1, 2003, 10:40]
Industry Nervous, Not Afraid Of SCO Suit
News SCO, based in Lindon, Utah, sent letters earlier this month to 1,500 corporations warning them they could be liable for using Linux. So far, the warning appears to be going unheeded. Information technology managers are moving ahead with their Linux...
[May 27, 2003, 11:24]
Transmeta To Keep 'em Coming
News The conference call was actually held to discuss the company's earnings warning, but Allen inadvertently commented on the TSMC deal. In its earnings warning issued Wednesday, Transmeta said second-quarter revenue will be down 40 percent to 45...
[June 25, 2001, 9:18]
US Report: Microsoft May Follow Own Path On Java
News It also must put a warning label within the code of the tool that is activated if a developer elects to change the setting to use the Microsoft-specific extensions. The warning label is designed to tell developers that if they use the extensions, a...
[November 18, 1998, 13:01]
Apple Threatens DVD Burners With DMCA
News Earlier this month, the company's lawyers sent a stiff warning to an Apple dealer, warning that a patch to Apple's iDVD burning software ran afoul of the controversial 1998 copyright law. At issue in the legal threat is Apple's well-received iDVD...
[August 29, 2002, 8:10]
SCO Warns Businesses Over Linux Liabilities
News SCO Group, a financially struggling company that claims its Unix intellectual property has been illegally incorporated into Linux, has sent letters to about 1,500 of the world's largest corporations warning they could be liable for using Linux.
[May 15, 2003, 7:28]
Apple Mac OS X On X86: A First Test
Talkback Let's comment of other TalkBack comments in a very biased manner [BIAS WARNING]. This seems like a great review, although putting it online like this is a legal risk. New Intel Apple macs (iBook, Powerbooks, iMacs, Mac minis etc.need* to support...
[November 11, 2005, 16:36]
EDS Threatened With Legal Action Over £51m Tax Fiasco
News But talks over compensation have become deadlocked and, following an executive committee meeting of the HM Revenue and Customs department (HMRC), the Revenue has issued a statement warning it will sue EDS and air all the details of the tax credit...
[June 22, 2005, 9:35]
Sun After MS Trade Secrets, Says MS
News Following a formal legal warning from the European Commission over its Windows 2000 operating system, Microsoft has cast the debate over its software practices as jealous, mean-spirited accusations by a disgruntled competitor.
[August 3, 2000, 16:27]
Experts Slam RIP Bill On Encryption
News Privacy campaigners and legal experts are warning that the forthcoming Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) bill could appropriately enough mean the death of practical encryption in Britain. Unfortunately the home office doesn't work in a way...
[November 19, 1999, 16:50]
Could Employers Ban Personal Email?
News The warning comes shortly after a tribunal ruling Monday, which upheld a company's decision to sack two employees for wasting resources by distributing joke emails. The British Chamber of Commerce has warned that employers may ban workers from...
[November 28, 2000, 15:49]
SCO Group's War On Linux
News Thur 15 May SCO Group has sent letters to hundreds of the world's biggest companies warning of potential legal threats for those who use Linux, a move that could derail the open-source software Thur 15 May SuSE says it will continue supporting the...
[May 19, 2003, 14:03]
SCO Adds To IBM Ammunition
News The AutoZone case could be used as a template for legal attacks against any Linux user, argues SCO, a financially struggling company has sent legal warning letters to hundreds of such organisations. The SCO Group has added a few snippets of detail...
[July 16, 2004, 14:40]
Is Your Company Habouring File-swappers?
News Copyright holders have steadily increased their pressure on corporations to crack down on their employees' file-trading behaviour, sending letters to the Fortune 500 companies warning of legal risks, and even settling out of court for $1m (£0.62m...
[July 16, 2003, 11:45]
