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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]
Will MS Pact Changes Open Floodgates?
News Andy Gavil, an antitrust professor with the Howard University School of Law, said the Justice Department and Microsoft have little choice but to change the settlement following a query made by US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in a 31...
[February 28, 2002, 9:10]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Young Worm-creator Arrested In US
News The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that a juvenile had been arrested in connection with the release of a computer worm that spread in the same way as the MSBlast worm. The Justice Department called the worm a "variant of the Blaster...
[September 29, 2003, 8:54]
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]
Oracle And Justice Department Look To June Trial
News Oracle and the US Department of Justice are seeking a trial date of 21 June, in the closely watched antitrust case over Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft, according to papers filed on Monday in the US District Court of Northern California.
[March 10, 2004, 10:30]
Global Piracy Purge Nets 200 PCs
News The US Department of Justice said on Thursday that it had conducted an international sweep of suspected online copyright pirates. Members of such groups may distribute material to "select clientele" over secure servers, and those files eventually...
[April 23, 2004, 8:30]
Justice Dept: Why Oracle Won't Win
News His predecessor at the US Department of Justice took on Bill Gates and Microsoft. Pate, the antitrust chief at the Department of Justice, is responsible for overseeing the government's attempt to block Oracle's hostile takeover bid for competitor...
[March 9, 2004, 10:45]
Hynix Fined $185m For DRAM Price Fixing
News The US Department of Justice announced Thursday that Hynix Semiconductor has agreed to plead guilty to criminal antitrust violations over DRAM price fixing and pay a $185m (£96.7m) fine. Hynix is the latest DRAM maker to reach a settlement with the...
[April 22, 2005, 9:45]
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]
