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How Web providers dodged a big legal bullet
Insight Attorney Eric J. Sinrod outlines a recent U.S. court decision protecting Net companies from liability for third-party content.
TomTom settlement leaves key questions unanswered
News Legal experts say it won't end the uncertainty over Microsoft's Linux patent claims. Open source luminary Bruce Perens warns of a chilling effect.
Tags: Patents, Open source, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Patent, Red Hat Inc., GPL, TomTom, Bruce Perens, attorney
Psystar bankruptcy protection filing could minimize Apple suit
News Essentially, filing has pressed the fast-forward button on the copyright proceedings and minimized what it could owe Apple.
Tags: Mac OS, Personal Computers, Lawsuits, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Bankruptcy, bankruptcy protection, Northern California, Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Lawyer in Pirate Bay case facing 'DDo$' attack
News While Swedish authorities move to collect US$3.8 million in damages from the Pirate Bay defendants, someone has hatched a scheme create bank account problems for one of the plaintiffs' lawyers.
Tags: Piracy, Hacking, Defendant, Attack, payment, bank, asset, Internet, Web Site, law firm
Sorting out the Pirate Bay verdict
News What made the Swedish court in the Pirate Bay copyright infringement case go for guilty? CNET News looks more closely at the verdict to find out.
Tags: Piracy, Defendant, Verdict, Sunde, Server, e-mail, co-founder, File-sharing, Web Site, accounting
Pirate Bay defendants found guilty
News District court in Sweden rules that all four defendants in the high-profile file-swapping case are guilty of having made copyright-protected files accessible for illegal file sharing.
Tags: Piracy, Copyright, Peer to peer, Defendant, Sierra Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Sunde, 20th Century Fox, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, File-sharing
Facebook Beacon has poked its last
News As part of the terms of a class action settlement against the ill-fated advertising experiment, Facebook will finally shut it down--and create a US$9.5 million "settlement fund" to create an independent online privacy foundation.
Tags: Web 2.0, Security, Blockbuster Inc., API, social networking, user control, Facebook, Web, Web 2.0
UK court clears Google search in defamation case
News Google merely facilitates access to content but isn't actually a publisher liable for it, a United Kingdom High Court judge rules.
Tags: Digital media, Google Inc., Search Engine, Digital media, Search Result, Google Search, Search Technology, Web Site, Web
Thailand hopes to be taken off Priority Watch List
News It expects the Untied States will move Thailand from the PWL to the Watch List because of the country's huge success enforcing intellectual property law.
Tags: Copyright, Asia, Business Software Alliance, Thailand, IP, copyright violation, intellectual property, business software, software, financial
'Spam king' could face criminal charges in Facebook case
News Judge refers suit against self-described "spam king" Sanford Wallace to the U.S. Attorney's office for possible criminal proceedings.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Phishing, Spamming, attorney, Bankruptcy, e-mail, Facebook, CAN-SPAM Act, Judge, San Jose
Verizon awarded 'largest-ever' cybersquatting judgment
News A federal court awarded Verizon US$33 million in a case against an Internet domain registrar the company claims chose names to be easily confused with legitimate Verizon sites.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Verizon Communications Inc., ICANN, Cybersquatting, Northern California, Oakland, San Francisco, News.com, Internet
DMCA conviction for seller of bogus Microsoft product keys
News A man in his early 20s is likely headed to jail under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act after he circumvents security measures to sell unlicensed Microsoft software.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Copyright, Microsoft Corp., Security, FBI, prosecutor, attorney, software, agent, Los Angeles
Intel files US$50M suit against insurance firm
News Lawsuit follows American Guarantee and Liability Insurance's failure to pay for Intel's legal defense related to antitrust lawsuits.
Tags: Antitrust, Lawsuits, Mobile processors, Processors, Insurance Company, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, Chip Company, Lawsuit
RIAA loses mistrial appeal
News The Recording Industry Association of America has been dealt another blow in its only copyright infringement case to go to trial.
Tags: Copyright, Web sites, Music, RIAA, P2P, Kazaa, copyright law, Judge, Internet Service Provider, industry
Fund will help alleged Swedish pirates hit by new law
News Pirate Bay spokesperson and Swedish politicians create fund to help alleged pirates fight accusations after the passage of new antipiracy law.
Tags: Piracy, Funding, Audio Book, Fund, Law, Piracy, Backup, Integrity Association, IP, Green
