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- Court decision poses serious privacy threat
- A little Fourth Amendment law: Warrants are required when law enforcement wants to violate citizens' reasonable expectations of privacy. The Supreme Court has held, for instance, that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy when driving a car, since you are putting yourself in public view and using public streets,...
- Tags: Privacy, Courts
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- RIAA hit with $68,000 in attorney's fees
- In November 2004, the Recording Industry Association of America sued Deborah Foster for copyright infringement, claiming her IP address was connected to illegal downloading. It expanded the suit to include her adult daughter Amanda and won a default judgement against Amanda. But the RIAA kept going after Debbie, trying to...
- Tags: Courts
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Sue-happy RIAA gets hit with malicious prosecution claim
- In their crusade against illegal file sharing, it looks like the Recording Industry Association of America has taken their job a bit too seriously. Ars Technica reports that one exonerated defendant may bring suit against the RIAA for malicious prosecution, and there may be more.Tanya Andersen, a disabled single mother...
- Tags: Courts
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- 'Day of Silence' for Internet radio
- Gandhi would be proud of what probably is the Internet's first passive resistance protest--the "Day of Silence" coming to Internet radio on June 26. As a response to a court ruling that imposes huge increases on the royalty rates Internet radio operators must pay - which are applied retroactively, no...
- Tags: Courts, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- EFF filing brief in TorrentSpy case
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation has plans to file an amicus brieffor TorrentSpy as it defends itself against copyright violation charges filed by the Motion Picture Association of America, reports CNET News.comThe case is notable because TorrentSpy had attempted to guard against lawsuits by simply not logging any user information. But...
- Tags: Privacy, Courts
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Best Buy lawyer falsified emails in class action suit
- When it rains it pours buckets of legal problem for Best Buy, who had another predicament sprung on them the other day. One of the lawyers who is defending the company against a class-action lawsuit has confessed to "faking two e-mails and a memo" related to the suit, reports Ars...
- Tags: Courts
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- DOJ backs off of Microsoft as former counsel dismisses Google's antitrust claim
- The Bush administration seems to be softening its stance on Microsoft and the company's anticompetitive conduct, reports the New York TimesThis change in attitude mirrors the market shift from desktop software to Internet search and web-based software, which circumvents Microsoft. The recent rejection of an antitrust complaint filed by Google...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Courts
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Teacher in porn popup case likely to be exonerated
- The substitute teacher who was convicted on four felony counts of risking injury to minors after she failed to prevent porn ads from popping up on a classroom computer has been granted a motion for a new trial, reports Wired News. Julie Amero, of Norwich, Conn., who was to be...
- Tags: Courts
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Internet ban for life overturned by appeals court
- Just how far can a court go in punishing child sex offenders? A US District Court in Pennsylvania had dealt with Daniel Voelke - a 35-year-old Pennsylvania resident who was charged with possessing child and sexual exploitation of a minor after briefly exposing the naked rear end of...
- Tags: Courts
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Virtual land beef moves to realworld court
- A lawsuit over virtual property is being played out in a very real courtroom as a Pennsylvania judge has denied two motions by Linden Labs, creators of Second Life, to allow them to shut down an attorney's account, reports Ars Technica.Pennsylvania attorney Marc Bragg says his Second Life property is...
- Tags: Courts
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- NPR file suit in net radio royalty conflict
- National Public Radio has joined the ranks of online radio broadcasters objecting to recent ruling to increase music royalty fees, reports the Associated Press.NPR filed a notice with the DC Circuit Court of Appeals this week, stating that it would challenge the ruling by a panel of copyright judges that...
- Tags: Courts, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Whosarat.com reveals informants' IDs - and prosecutors want it shut down
- Hey, all you convicted felons out there! Want to find out who snitched on you? Check out whosarat.com, the website that exposes the identities of witnesses and informants cooperating with the government. But you better hurry, federal prosecutors are getting wind of the site and they are mad.Prosecutors are trying...
- Tags: Courts, Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
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- Michael Arrington snared in libel verdict: lessons for us all
- Michael Arrington snared in libel verdict: lessons for us allabsurd eh!So Arrington thinks Sam's litigation was absurd, and has decided not to submit to the the jurisdiction of the UK courts. I heard Mike was a lawyer, so it seems strange tactics to me - and surely he's been...
- Tags: INTERNET, Michael Arrington
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistake
- Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistakePerfect! The reason I will NEVER buy, use, or recommend a Kindle......or its equivalent, in easy-to-swallow, poison-pill form.Thanks so much for this story.Huh?Why wrong?If you as the end consumer, buy stolen goods, you don't get to keep them!So I'm guessing you are protesting the...
- Tags: E-books, Viruses and worms, Jeff Bezos, Orwellian, Amazon.com Inc., refund
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- Analysts: AMD has no answers for Intel's assault
- Analysts: AMD has no answers for Intel's assaultSure they do...They'll go cry to the EC that Intel is being mean to them again, giving the EC another opportunity to extort billions more from Intel.AMD should make the next step from ATOMATOM had it's heyday, now the chip seems more like...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Semiconductors, Processors, price/performance, GEODE, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., ATI Technologies Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-22
- Pirate Bay defendant urges DDo$ attack on lawyer
- Pirate Bay defendant urges DDo$ attack on lawyerBrave but silly manHe has yet to realise the golden rule in life, **NEVER** go up against lawyers.Especially, if they have just smacked you down in court.Revenge is sweete, except it will be the lawyer taking it all.. Yeah, sounds like Pirate Bay...
- Tags: Piracy, SECURITY, Revenge, Pirate Bay, DDo$ attack, DDo$, attack
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Show me how you beat Microsoft in patent fight
- Show me how you beat Microsoft in patent fightDid ya see thishttp://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/31/bridge.microsoft/index.htmlI was told in another blog that the patent is long filenames in FAT. If that is the case then we need to sue the US Patent office for giving out false patents. If they can patent...
- Tags: software movement, patent, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, GPLv2
- Discussion threads 2009-03-31
- Linux Foundation ready to fight Microsoft if TomTom lawsuit involves Linux kernel
- Linux Foundation ready to fight Microsoft if TomTom lawsuit involves Linux kernelA mixed barrel of fish.There are so many threads in this mess that one can look at almost anything. But some things come out loud and clear:1. We are in a post-Bilski situation......software patents (which seem to be at...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Linux kernel, Tom-Tom, TomTom, patent
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
- Does Drew decision criminalize TOS violations?
- Does Drew decision criminalize TOS violations?I am sorry, but that verdict was bull and it will and MUST be overturned.Yet another instance of prosecutors grasping at straws. yes, people wanted to see this chick do some time for bullying this girl verbally... but doesnt what they are doing amount...
- Tags: Free Speech, Does Drew, Does Drew decision, TOS
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- How to read your FBI file
- How to read your FBI fileGood well-balanced articleNothing one-sided here. Those evil Bushies will stop at nothing when it comes to knowing everyone's secrets, won't they?Hey, pal, EVERYBODY thought Saddam had WMDs, even your heroes Kerry, Kennedy, and (shudder!) Pelosi. Seems that Saddam went to great lengths to convince...
- Tags: Federal government, FBI
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
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