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Microsoft Knocks Legality Of Lindows' Claim Site
News Microsoft has demanded that Lindows.com take down a Web site that offers to process customer claims from the settlement of a California class-action suit against the software giant. In a letter sent to the software seller on Friday and reprinted in...
[September 30, 2003, 10:00]
Legality Of Optical Disk: An Update
White Papers Optical disk technology may offer effective solutions to pressing information management problems. Organizations in both the public and private sector continue to explore the feasibility of adopting this technology to meet their own needs.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Denial Of Service Attacks Are Legal 'grey Area'
News A prosecution witness in the trial of a teenager accused of launching an email bomb attack admitted that the legality of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks caused by a flood of email is a legal grey area that IT professionals want clarified.
[November 2, 2005, 11:20]
Public Procurement Of Timber: EU Member State Initiatives For Sourcing Legal And Sustainable Timber
White Papers And since the eventual legality license may possibly also act as proof of legality for procurement purposes, procurement policy ought to provide a powerful incentive for producer countries to adopt the licensing system.
[June 24, 2005, 3:00]
Copyright Differences Brew P2P Clash
News But it doesn't affect the legality of a US user accessing a foreign hard drive and downloading a file. The issue quickly went to court, but the site disappeared before a judge could rule on the legality of the request.
[January 8, 2003, 9:22]
Adware Firm Quietly Settles Suits
News Though the settlements close another chapter in a long-running dispute over the practices of adware companies such as Claria, they also leave questions unresolved about the legality of their services.
[September 1, 2004, 9:15]
DMCA Case Verdict: Not Guilty
News During the trial, which lasted two weeks, the government said ElcomSoft created a tool for burglars and characterised the company as an affiliate of hacker networks that was determined to sell the Advanced eBook Processor despite its questionable...
[December 18, 2002, 8:08]
Lycos Anti-spam Campaign Bites The Dust
Talkback You can argue about legality all day long, but you can't avoid the simple fact that Lycos came up with the best way (so far) to combat the problem. I am very surprised at the resistance Lycos received for "makelovenotspam".
[December 6, 2004, 16:57]
Lycos Should Send Its Zombie Army Home
Talkback While the writer may have a point about legality and morality, which we can debate until the cows come home, the technical angles of this piece are just plain wrong. Agreed, anonymous. More discussion at http://richi.co.uk/blog/
[December 1, 2004, 16:48]
A Secure Directory Service Based On Exclusive Encryption
White Papers This paper describes the design of a Windows file-system directory service that ensures the persistence, integrity, privacy, syntactic legality, and case-insensitive uniqueness of the names it indexes.
[June 9, 2007, 1:00]
Public Wireless Networks: Exemption Of User Stations
White Papers As a result of recent trade press comment on the legality of GSM Gateways and Fixed Cellular Terminals and at the request of some of the mobile network operators Burnside Telecom has prepared a short paper on the topic of Public Wireless Networks...
[March 2, 2004, 11:20]
Information Commissioner Is On Phorm
Blog Comment http://www.out-law.com/page-9090 Phorm Webwise legality and privacy concerns - lawyers Pinsent Masons join the debate
[May 22, 2008, 10:42]
Government Launches Review Of Intellectual Property Laws
Talkback DO NOT EVEN THINK of making any changes that make like the USA or similar OUR LAWS ARE DRACONIAN Enough as it is Unless of course you fancy a fight in the courts as to the Legality of your Government in the first place be warned you have...
[December 5, 2005, 14:13]
Sharman Clamps Down On Kazaa Lite K++
Talkback While P2P networks are a good source of music,programs and so on (if you're not concerned with the legality of the data on them) they are also a high-security risk for the computer user concerned. As far as I know, K-Lite ++ is free, so if you've...
[October 22, 2004, 16:27]
GRID Demo
Downloads There is also the opportunity to compete in races that operate on the fringes of legality in the back streets and industrial areas of Yokohama.In this demo, you can charge a Ford Mustang GTR muscle car through the iconic streets of San Francisco...
[June 28, 2008, 5:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Legality. Monday 14/11/2005 Morality. Country music. This is the trilogy of cultural imponderables that weighs upon me today. Sony BMG is in the process of being flayed alive in public for the sin of installing very nasty software indeed on its...
[November 18, 2005, 17:05]
Friday
Blog Well, without dwelling on the issues, politics, legality and sheer enormity of the Mesopotamian Adventure, I can't ignore some of the louder barking coming from the Americans when the F-word is mentioned.
[March 28, 2003, 9:51]
US Judge Weighs DVD Copying Arguments
News The judge in a closely watched US lawsuit challenging the legality of DVD-copying software said she was "substantially persuaded" by past court rulings that favoured copyright holders, but closed a hearing on Thursday without issuing a ruling in...
[May 16, 2003, 7:47]
Guerrilla Telco Pushes Broadband 'sub-letting'
News Wi-Fi-sharing start-up Fon is offering its own Wi-Fi routers for €5, although doubts remain over its legality. The Fonera routers share a user's Internet connection with other Fon members, which contravenes some ISPs' terms and conditions.
[September 21, 2006, 17:25]
Thumbnails Ruled Ok
News Search engines' display of miniature images is fair use under copyright law, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday, but the legality of presenting full-size renditions of visual works is yet to be determined.
[July 8, 2003, 10:52]
