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Report: Music pirates will evade countermeasures
News Copy-protection plans and courtroom battles will not give recording companies what they want: an end to music piracy through popular online sites such as Napster, according to a new report.
Kazaa owner takes heart in P2P ruling
News Sharman Networks applauds U.S. appeal court decision that lets peer-to-peer software makers off the hook.
Tags: Peer to peer
Napster seeks injunction appeal
News Napster's legal team raced to court yesterday to beat back a judge's order that will effectively shut down its core music-swapping service by midnight PT today.
Judge seals courtroom in MPAA DVD-copying case
News DVD Copy Control Association says public should be barred from the courtroom because information about the technology used to encrypt DVDs is a trade secret.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Courtroom, Haiku, U.S. Circuit Court, RealNetworks Inc., attorney, DVD-copying, Marilyn Patel, CSS, DVD
Court to revisit encryption ruling
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Stanford curbs students' Napster use
News Citing bandwidth issues, Stanford University has become the latest college to limit access to music-file swapping service Napster.
U.S. OKs legal notices sent via e-mail
News A federal appeals court gives the green light to legal documents served through e-mail, at least in cases of parties without a physical address.
Court shoots down Napster appeal
News Federal judges block Napster's attempt to reopen the court order that drove the company to bar song swapping that once attracted millions of people to its service.
Little progress at Microsoft talks, sources say
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AT&T to open up high-speed network
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Sony sues another software firm over PlayStation emulator
News Sony is suing another software developer for allegedly infringing patents with a program designed to allow PlayStation games to be played on a PC.
AT&T trial weighs future of high-speed Net access
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Court rules for Microsoft in antitrust case
News People who bought Microsoft products indirectly can't sue the software maker under U.S federal law.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Antitrust
Fans rush to Napster ahead of court ruling
News The last-minute rush for free music is on. Spurred by news that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will finally rule on the future of Napster, music lovers started flocking to the music-swapping service.
Second wave of suits crashes against Napster
News Want to sue Napster? Take a number. As Napster's hopes for a win in court dim, the line of companies and musicians looking for their piece of the legal action is growing by the day.
