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US Justice Department ready to prosecute file-swappers
Talkback What's next, is the RIAA going to install microchips into our radios to find out who is recording music off of the radio onto cassette tapes? File Swapping/Sharing should be legal. It's ridiculous. If I buy someones CD and I want to send a friend a...
[February 28, 2004, 17:36]
US Justice Department OKs BT's MCI buyout
News Department of Justice announced on Monday it has conditionally approved British Telecommunications PLC's $20 billion-plus buyout of MCI Communications Corp.the largest takeover of a U.S.based company by a foreign concern.
[July 8, 1997, 15:43]
US Justice Department eyes online video efforts
News The process that is under way with the Department of Justice.is part of the standard operating review process for a joint venture such as the one created with MovieFly," Levy said. The Justice Department has begun investigating two joint ventures...
[December 24, 2001, 11:20]
US Justice Department ready to prosecute file-swappers
News The US Department of Justice is prepared to begin prosecuting peer-to-peer pirates, a top government official said on Tuesday. There does have to be some kind of a public message that stealing is stealing is stealing," said Malcolm, who oversees...
[August 21, 2002, 7:51]
Apple escapes charges in US stock-options probe
News The US Department of Justice has ended its two-year criminal probe into backdated stock options at Apple and has decided not to file charges against current and former executives, including chief executive Steve Jobs, according to a report on...
[July 11, 2008, 10:42]
Music pirate faces prison term
News The US Department of Justice said on Thursday that it had accepted a guilty plea in a criminal copyright case involving the former leader of a Net music piracy group called the Apocalypse Crew. Shumaker's case, part of the long-running Operation...
[August 22, 2003, 10:45]
Worldwide anti-piracy sweep nets three
News The US Department of Justice said on Tuesday three men pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement, as part of what attorneys called the largest multinational Net piracy investigation to date. It is a priority of this Office and the...
[March 9, 2005, 9:10]
E-gold execs plead guilty in money-laundering case
News The executives in charge of online payment system E-gold have pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday. According to the Department of Justice, the E-gold operation was attractive to criminals because...
[July 23, 2008, 14:19]
Students nabbed in warez raids
News The Dutch Department of Justice raided the University of Twente as part of a software piracy investigation, a school representative said on Thursday. The Dutch sweep came just days before the US Customs Office unleashed "Operation Buccaneer", a...
[December 21, 2001, 10:25]
Judge orders Microsoft broken in two
News US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled Wednesday that Microsoft should be split into two companies, closely following a US Department of Justice recommendation. At a hearing two weeks ago, Jackson invited the US Department of Justice and...
[June 8, 2000, 8:51]
Appeals court reaffirms Microsoft settlement
News A US Appeals Court on Wednesday upheld Microsoft's landmark antitrust settlement with the Department of Justice and several state attorneys general, rejecting Massachusetts' appeal for stiffer penalties.
[July 1, 2004, 9:30]
US mulls antitrust challenge to Google-Yahoo deal
News The US Department of Justice has reportedly hired a well-known antitrust litigator for a possible court challenge to a planned advertising deal between Google and Yahoo. Also this week, the US Association of National Advertisers sent a letter to...
[September 9, 2008, 11:47]
Yahoo-Google deal opposed by ad-trade group
News The US Association of National Advertisers announced on Sunday that it has sent a letter to the head of the antitrust division of the US Department of Justice, citing its opposition to the Yahoo-Google search-advertising deal.
[September 8, 2008, 14:07]
US government, Net firms fail to agree on data retention
News A meeting at the US Justice Department last week to discuss forcing Internet providers to record Americans' online activities ended without reaching an agreement, according to multiple participants. Another participant said it appeared that the...
[June 5, 2006, 10:25]
Microsoft bows to US government pressure
News Microsoft will alter a Windows XP music-purchasing feature in response to criticism from the US government, the US Department of Justice said on Thursday. Controversy over the "Shop for Music Online" feature became public in October 2003, when the...
[January 16, 2004, 7:50]
Microsoft-Yahoo bid attracts regulatory 'interest'
News The US Department of Justice has said that it is "interested" in looking at the possible antitrust effects of any deal struck between Microsoft and Yahoo. Following the announcement, US Department of Justice spokeswoman Gina Talamona said the DoJ...
[February 4, 2008, 12:03]
Feds weed out drug paraphernalia sites
News The US Justice Department on Monday said it indicted 11 Web site operators for allegedly selling illegal devices including bongs and holders for marijuana cigarettes. Keith Stroup, director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana...
[February 25, 2003, 8:17]
International crackdown scores warez victory
News The US Department of Justice has landed its first conviction against an American defendant caught via Operation Fastlink, a multinational law enforcement effort undertaken against online software piracy.
[December 29, 2004, 8:30]
US agency wants more cash to fight file sharing
News The US Justice Department recommended a sweeping transformation of the nation's intellectual-property laws, saying peer-to-peer piracy is a "widespread" problem that can be addressed only through more spending, more FBI agents and more power for...
[October 13, 2004, 9:30]
US regulators want rewrite of Google book settlement
News The US Department of Justice on Friday urged the court overseeing Google's book-search settlement with authors and publishers to reject the settlement in its current form, although it strongly hinted that the parties are flexible on certain...
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