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US Report: Music Industry Slaps Writ On Diamond's MP3 Walkman
News Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc.was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America on Friday, alleging that Diamond's Rio player, a portable Walkman-like device for playing MP3 music files downloaded from the Internet or recorded on a user's...
[October 12, 1998, 9:25]
News Burst: EMI Issues Writ Against Phone Tunes Web Site
News EMI Music Publishing is suing a Web site that lets users downloads popular tunes as ringing tones for their mobile phones. The site, yourmobile.com, offers hundreds of songs, and EMI claims it owns the copyright on 300 of the tunes.
[August 21, 2000, 12:06]
A Year Ago: Music Industry Slaps Writ On MP3 Walkman
News Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc.was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America on Friday, alleging that Diamond's Rio player, a portable Walkman-like device for playing MP3 music files downloaded from the Internet or recorded on a user's...
[October 11, 1999, 7:00]
Microsoft Stands Firm In The 'great Linux Debate'
Talkback M$ embodies a "totalitarian" philosophy of things: software, imposed from above, like Holy Writ. Not a problem if the writ isn't riddled with rot, bloat, and holes for spyware and other crap. M$ wishes it could be the ONE source of all the stuff on...
[April 24, 2004, 17:06]
Core Moves To Defend Lara
News The cartridge has been renamed since the writ was issued. Fire International publishes 'cheat' software which allows Playstation and Nintendo users to win games more easily. Fire was due to launch new software for Tomb Raider III entitled...
[December 14, 1998, 14:29]
Google: An Apology
Talkback Sarcasm is the writ of british media for as long as I can remember, why should it change because it's too subtle for our foreign readers on the great interweb? Is it surprising that all the rants at this "apology" seem to come from americans...
[August 12, 2005, 23:36]
If You Fancy Running A Controversial Website...
Blog Comment It seems that almost any quack, charlatan, snake-oil salesman or Awful Poo Lady can silence critics by waving a writ at their ISPs - and down they come. Netcetera are indeed spineless - and they're not alone.
[February 21, 2008, 17:04]
Spam Case - Virgin Settles Out Of Court
News The writ against Surrey businessman Adrian Paris who was charged with spamming Virgin Net customers in April was settled out of court last week. Mr Paris has agreed not to open any more Virgin accounts or to send unsolicited emails to Virgin Net...
[May 26, 1999, 13:17]
News Burst: BT May Be Taken To Court By British ISP
News NextCall says it will take out a writ against the telco because its Calls and Access service, which allows other phone companies to make use of its cable network, was crippled by insufficient technical and customer service from BT.
[November 30, 1999, 12:01]
ID Card Database Plans Expand
Talkback Personally I think it is typical NuLabour control freakery writ large and I simply want no part of it.http://www.renewforfreedom.org/ If the electorate think this is a such good thing, as the President often asserts, why is it I very seldom read...
[April 23, 2006, 10:53]
AOL And Freeserve Laywers In Talks
News A Dixons spokeswoman claims the issue is unresolved, hence the current writ -- lodged in the High Court at the end of March. However, lawyers for both sides are today in talks and an AOL spokeswoman says the company is hopeful of an "early...
[April 19, 1999, 12:07]
Intel Sues Cyrix, AMD Over MMX Name
News We're going to defend any suit Intel throws at us but as of Friday we had not been served with a writ," said Cyrix UK managing director Brendan Sherry. On Friday, Intel filed suit in a US District Court, claiming its rivals have "begun implementing...
[March 17, 1997, 15:04]
LookBack '98: Gadgets We Have Known And Loved - Part II
News Armed only with a credit card sized Walkman-type thingy, Diamond strutted its stuff in court this year when the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) slapped a writ on the Rio, claiming it threatened the livelihood of recording artists...
[December 25, 1998, 9:49]
Demon Takes Observer Tussle To Web
News The letter also states an intention to issue a writ against The Observer. Demon has posted its solicitor's letter and an open letter from its Chairman on its Web site after The Observer failed to print a retraction of its August 25 article accusing...
[September 3, 1996, 16:56]
A Year Ago: Intel Sues Cyrix, AMD Over MMX Name
News We're going to defend any suit Intel throws at us but as of Friday we had not been served with a writ," said Cyrix UK managing director Brendan Sherry. Intel is throwing the law books at x86 chip rivals Cyrix and AMD again, this time over use of...
[March 17, 1998, 6:00]
Nasa Hacker's Lawyers Prepare High Court Appeal
News A writ of habeas corpus calls on a court to examine whether a custodian has the authority to detain a particular individual, and in this case, could slow or halt McKinnon's extradition. The solicitors for self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon...
[September 4, 2008, 10:02]
Sage Loses Rights To US Brand
News The court case was brought by Quick Technologies (QTI) when it issued a writ in March 1998 against Sage Software and Sage Holdings -- the US subsidiaries of The Sage Group plc. One of the UK's tech success stories, accountancy software firm Sage...
[June 6, 2001, 16:54]
Demon Vs Observer: CIS Says ISPs Aren't Publishers
News A spokeswoman for The Observer last night said the newspaper a has not yet received a writ threatened by Demon in a letter published on the Web. CompuServe has given implicit support to Demon Internet, criticising the way that Internet Service...
[September 4, 1996, 13:57]
Apple's Big Chance Begins At Home
Talkback Looks, price, a stable operating system and it's got ipod writ large upon it. Ok, I started with PCs many years ago and gradually worked my way through 95,98 and now xp. I've done the games, read the books and worn the t shirt, so what now.
[October 15, 2004, 15:46]
3G IPhone Confirmed, For Italy At Least
Blog Not the first time that a big American company has found its holy writ fails to run quite as expected outside the linear borders of the 48 states. Over at David Manners' blog, there's confirmation -- if it were really needed -- that the 3G iPhone...
[May 9, 2008, 11:00]
