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Filipino court unlikely to recognize Facebook libel
News Lawsuit involving damaging status updates made on social networking site won't go far in court because Philippines has no Internet libel law, says lawyer.
Tags: Lawsuits, Local Government, Web 2.0, Philippines, sexual orientation, entertainment, social networking, Facebook, Internet, general manager
Prosecutor: Cloud is security's frontier
News Software piracy model is becoming obsolete as programs are more and more distributed over the Net, making targets of cloud computing centers, U.S. attorney says.
Tags: Cloud computing, Piracy, Security, Attack, attorney, distributed denial of service, computer hacking, computer, Cloud computing, intellectual property
Lernout & Hauspie founders detained for a month
News Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, co-founders of Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV, will be detained in jail for a month while an investigation into fraud and stock-price manipulation continues.
Italian YouTube privacy trial postponed
News A case that brings defamation and privacy charges against Google employees has been pushed back to February 18.
Tags: Video, Web sites, Lawsuits, Google Inc., CFO, Officer, prosecutor, Milan, YouTube Inc., monitoring
Google on trial in Italy
News Should Google have to get consent from a subject before a video is uploaded? That's one of the issues at stake in a lawsuit focused on privacy violations.
Tags: Web sites, Video, Lawsuits, Google Inc., TV, Officer, prosecutor, Internet content company, Milan, Cajani
Next up for Pirate Bay defendants: Italian trial?
News Having been found guilty of making copyright-protected files accessible for illegal file sharing, the four Pirate Bay men could face prosecution in Italy, lawyers in that country say.
Tags: Piracy, Lawsuits, Entertainment Company, BitTorrent, prosecutor, International Data Group, Internet Service, copyright law, Sweden, File-sharing
Pirate Bay trial coming to a close
News Defense attorneys make their final argments, after prosecutors call for jail timefor defendants.
Tags: Copyright, Lawsuits, Piracy, BitTorrent, EMI Group Plc., Google Inc., prosecutor, attorney, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox
Two engineers sentenced for espionage
News Case goes back to 2001 when the men, who had worked at Sun Microsystems, Transmeta, NEC, and Trident, tried to smuggle chip design documents out of the United States and into China.
Tags: Processors, Product development and design, Government, Trident Microsystems, Chip, prosecutor, Transmeta Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Associated Press, San Francisco International Airport
Nasa hacker judicial review date set
News A U.K. High Court judicial review date has been set for the case of Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon.
Tags: Lawsuits, Defense/military, Hacking, NASA, Home Secretary, prosecutor, Sharp Corp., Pentagon, appraisal, computer
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
IP infringement fines to increase tenfold in UK
News The maximum fine will increase from US$7,520 to US$75,200, following a consultation by the Intellectual Property Office consultation in the United Kingdom.
Tags: Copyright, Patents, IP, prosecutor, intellectual property, U.K., alliance, Patents, executive director, Copyright
Italy charges Google officials over taunting video
News Four former and current Google executives face defamation and breach of privacy charges for allegedly allowing clip of teen with Down syndrome being taunted to be posted, says report.
Tags: Video, Privacy, Lawsuits, Internet advertising, Marketing, Google Inc., prosecutor, Europe, Google Video, News.com
Ex-Samsung chairman convicted of tax evasion
News Although a three-year prison sentence is suspended, South Korean court rules that Lee Kun-hee must pay a hefty fine, according to an Associated Press report.
Tags: Legal, Corporate law, Taxes, prosecutor, Stock, Associated Press, Korea, bond, aide, chairman
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
Anna virus writer goes on trial
News Jan de Wit, the 20-year-old who wrote the Anna Kournikova virus, went to trial on Thursday, but the prosecutor asked for a relatively light sentence with no jail term--240 hours of community service.
