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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]
US Justice Department Ready To Prosecute File-swappers
Talkback File Swapping/Sharing should be legal. 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? 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 Justice Department has begun investigating two joint ventures run by major movie studios that plan to provide video-on-demand over the Web, sources familiar with the action said Friday. The process that is under way with the Department of...
[December 24, 2001, 11:20]
Google, Yahoo In Talks With US Justice Dept
News Google and Yahoo are in early-stage negotiations with the US Justice Department to avoid an antitrust challenge to their proposed advertising agreement, according to a report on Monday in The Wall Street Journal.
[October 14, 2008, 10:04]
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]
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. Yahoo wouldn't clarify how long the brief delay would last...
[October 6, 2008, 9:18]
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]
Will MS Pact Changes Open Floodgates?
News The US Justice Department and Microsoft are expected to file separate legal briefs on Wednesday that will reveal modifications to their landmark antitrust settlement. Andy Gavil, an antitrust professor with the Howard University School of Law, said...
[February 28, 2002, 9:10]
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]
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]
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. The Justice Department estimated that the seized copyright material was worth $50m (£28.2m).
[April 23, 2004, 8:30]
US Casts Doubt On EU's Microsoft Decision
News In imposing this anticonsumer, anti-innovation penalty, the commission has blatantly undercut the settlement that was so carefully and painstakingly crafted with Microsoft by the US Department of Justice and several state antitrust authorities.
[March 31, 2004, 8:45]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Justice Dept: Why Oracle Won't Win
News His predecessor at the US Department of Justice took on Bill Gates and Microsoft. He joined the Justice Department in 2001 and became head of its antitrust division last June. Pate, the antitrust chief at the Department of Justice, is responsible...
[March 9, 2004, 10:45]
Judge Winds Up PeopleSoft Trial
News The judge presiding over the Oracle antitrust trial aggressively questioned the software maker and the US Justice Department on Tuesday as both sides made final arguments regarding Oracle's attempt at a hostile takeover of rival PeopleSoft.
[July 21, 2004, 8:55]
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]
