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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]
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]
Antitrust scrutiny holds up Yahoo-Google deal
News Yahoo and Google are delaying implementation of their search-ad deal to give US Justice Department antitrust investigators more time to look into the deal, according to published reports. The companies have agreed to a brief delay in implementing...
[October 6, 2008, 9:18]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
US launches probe into Google Books settlement
News The US Department of Justice confirmed on Thursday that is has opened a formal investigation into the settlement between Google and book publishers over the digital publishing rights to certain books, citing antitrust concerns.
[July 3, 2009, 9:33]
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]
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...
[September 21, 2009, 9:44]
