Noose Tightens On Napster Clones
News I wouldn't say it's the end of the road for (Madster), but one of the things that makes it tough is that the (court) is highly critical of the wilful blindness approach to running these sorts of companies," said Tim Wu, an associate professor at...
[July 1, 2003, 9:06]
Apple Sues Mac-clone Maker Psystar
News Apple is seeking any profits earned by Psystar from its Open Computer, triple damages for "wilful acts" and a permanent injunction against the sale of the product, as well as the recall of those units already sold.
[July 16, 2008, 17:15]
Vonage Hit By $58m Payout To Verizon
News The eight jurors rejected Verizon's argument that the infringement was wilful. If the jury had found that the infringement was wilful, it could have tripled the damages it awarded to Verizon. The monetary damages and the ongoing royalties awarded...
[March 9, 2007, 7:44]
Mainframe Data Backup And Disaster Recovery White Paper
White Papers The concept of data backup includes not only the backing up of data, but also the ability to restore the data after some loss or failure, either accidentally (disk failure) or through the wilful destruction of the data.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Rambus Sues Hitachi Over Patent Infringement
News Rambus Tuesday filed suit against Hitachi for alleged wilful patent infringement on several semiconductor products, seeking injunctions against the manufacture, use and sale of several memory and microprocessor products, and seeking punitive...
[January 19, 2000, 14:57]
US Report: Incriminating Memos Could Sink Microsoft
News The U.S.government believes it has a collection of incriminating memos from Microsoft executives that prove the company's wilful intent to use its monopoly position to derail its competition - namely Netscape.
[May 21, 1998, 9:58]
She's Back, Only Different
News And that's what the computing environment has become: a monoculture of Windows desktops, connected by Visual Basic programming and Microsoft Office suite macro commands that are easily exploited by wilful programmers.
[October 25, 1999, 8:12]
Red Hat And Novell Hit With Linux Patent Suit
News Both companies were warned of the likely suit, so their actions are "deliberate and wilful", says IP Innovation. Linux vendors Red Hat and Novell have been sued for patent infringement — but not by Microsoft.
[October 12, 2007, 17:53]
A Farewell To Memphis
Leader It also annoyed its many millions of adoptive parents by refusing to wear anything but the rather antisocial Active Desktop, an act of wilful, pointless defiance. With news that Microsoft is withdrawing all support from next month, Firefox 2.0 will...
[June 13, 2006, 16:45]
Software Pirates Face Ten Years In Jail
News The current maximum penalty for the "wilful making for sale or dealing in infringing copies of copyright material" -- such as software, videos and music -- is two years. The House of Commons has agreed to bring in significant changes to the...
[April 15, 2002, 16:31]
Microsoft Patent-infringement Case To Go To Trial
News The motion also seeks a ruling that any Microsoft infringement of TVI's patents is not wilful, because there is no evidence Microsoft knew of the TVI patents before the suit. A federal judge ruled against Microsoft on Wednesday in a patent suit...
[October 14, 2004, 9:00]
SCO Wants $5bn From IBM
News Such actions have been wilful and have been done with knowledge of the copyright rights of SCO. Linux antagonist SCO Group is seeking to add $2bn to its legal claim against computing giant IBM while changing the scope of the suit.
[February 9, 2004, 7:15]
Ruling Means Dark Days For P2P Users?
News Civil liabilities for wilful copyright infringement are substantial, carrying a maximum fine of $150,000 (£94,000) per violation. Friday's ruling that the makers of Grokster and Morpheus aren't liable for copyright infringement occurring as a...
[April 28, 2003, 9:44]
Defender Of The Linux Faith
News But if they try to hide it, it's a wilful copyright violation, which is a more serious legal offence. Earlier this week, open source developer Harald Welte personally handed over warning letters to 13 technology companies at the CeBIT technology...
[March 17, 2005, 12:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It concludes with an even more strongly worded piece of advice to cease and desist our evil, otherwise we'll be guilty of wilful copyright infringement with absolutely oodles of dollars in fines. Thursday 15/9/2005
[September 16, 2005, 19:15]
Google Scores Copyright Victory
News When an ISP automatically and temporarily stores data without human intervention so that the system can operate and transmit data to its users, the necessary element of volition [wilful intent to infringe] is missing," the court said.
[March 17, 2006, 9:30]
Bloody Battles In The Courtroom: An Apple History
News Jobs' conduct, according to Apple's lawsuit, is "wanton, wilful, malicious and outrageous". If Apple is sued by server appliance manufacturer Cobalt, it will be the latest in a long line of legal entanglements that go back to the creation of the...
[August 3, 2000, 15:00]
