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UK lawmakers officially announced the Digital Economy Bill intended to address issues identified by the Digital Britain Report. As expected it makes communications regulators at Ofcom responsible ...
Date: 21 Nov 2009 03:11 | 14 comments
AbingtonIP, a law firm that specializes in consumer class action lawsuits, is actively recruiting Xbox 360 gamers that have had their consoles banned from Xbox Live, in anticipation of a lawsuit.
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Date: 20 Nov 2009 19:11 | 35 comments
Judge William Alsup has ruled in favor of Apple this weekend, effectively killing Mac clone maker Psystar, whom the company had accused of copyright infringement.
"In sum, Psystar has violated ...
Date: 16 Nov 2009 03:11 | 10 comments
Switzerland's federal data protection commissioner Hans Thur has announced plans to sue search engine giant Google over lack of privacy safeguards in the Street View mapping system.
The system ...
Date: 16 Nov 2009 02:11 | 11 comments
Long time chip-making rivals AMD and Intel have settled all legal complaints today, with the larger Intel agreeing to pay AMD $1.25 billion USD and setting down new rules to adhere by.
Additionally, ...
Date: 12 Nov 2009 19:11 | 7 comments
The iPhone App developer Storm8 has been sued this week by Michael Turner, who claims that the developer is 'stealing' user's phone numbers, a clear violation of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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Date: 7 Nov 2009 22:11 | 11 comments
The Big 4 record label EMI sued Bluebeat.com this week, claiming the site is selling unauthorized digital copies of the Beatles albums.
The site sells each track for $0.25 but EMI says they ...
Date: 6 Nov 2009 00:11
The highly secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which has been drafted under non-disclosure agreements and given to different nations with watermarks in case they choose to "leak" ...
Date: 5 Nov 2009 03:11 | 149 comments
Former MP3tunes founder Michael Robertson was sued by EMI two years ago over the site and the company tried to go after his personal assets in an effort to bankrupt him and set an example.
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Date: 4 Nov 2009 21:11 | 1 comment
Spring Design, which recently released its Android-based Alex e-reader, has sued Barnes & Noble over the Nook e-reader, claiming B&N "misappropriated trade secrets" and "violated a non-disclosure ...
Date: 3 Nov 2009 18:11 | 2 comments
The results of a new study conducted by Demos, a London-based public policy think tank, once again affirm that the people who download the most music spend more than average buying music legally.
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Date: 3 Nov 2009 10:11 | 22 comments
Lord Mandelson has announced this week that the UK will in fact be adopting the highly controversial 'three strikes' Internet piracy law, disconnecting multiple time offenders from the Internet ...
Date: 28 Oct 2009 17:10 | 34 comments
Electronics companies Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi confirmed today that their optical disc drive operations are currently under investigation for antitrust violation in the United States.
Sony's ...
Date: 27 Oct 2009 19:10 | 6 comments
A provision which would require a judicial order before the government could have someone's internet account shut off has been removed from the Telecoms Package being negotiated between European ...
Date: 25 Oct 2009 07:10 | 1 comment
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- DMCA
An American legislation, called Digital Millennium Copyrights Act that outlaws distribution, sale, use and advertising of tools that allow circumventing copy protection mechanisms. Legislation ...
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