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- Judge nixes fair use defense in Tennenbaum filesharing case
- In a last-minute knockout punch, delivered just hours before the latest high-profile RIAA case was scheduled to start, Judge Nancy Gertner denied a fair use defense to Joel Tenenbaum, Ars Technica reports. Tenenbaum had sought to present his fair use theory to the jury but the judge...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Apple hits Psystar with DMCA charges
- Court papers reveal that the day before Thanksgiving Apple added new charges to the five-month old federal lawsuit against mac-clone maker Psystar. The new charges claim that Psystar, along with ten John Does, violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA by bypassing copy-protection mechanisms used by Apple to protect Mac...
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Patent suit targets company being acquired by Microsoft
- On the surface, the latest patent lawsuit to hit the court systems looks like many of the others: allegations of infringement, ongoing unauthorized use and so on. But there's a little bit of a twist to this one. DATallegro, the company that reportedly is doing such infringing, is in the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Judge finds TorrentSpy destroyed evidence, rules for MPAA
- Did TorrentSpy.com traffic in illegal copyright infringement? We may never know for sure since a lawsuit brought by the MPAA against the torrent download site was not decided on its merits, but TorrentSpy's behavior in the case certainly suggests it wasn't feeling too confident. The court in...
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
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- U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document
- So the answer will be change the technology, right??...I certainly hope not. The person responsible should be fired immediately, if this group is supposed to be so secretive and protective of their data. Putting ANY work-related material on your personal computer is not only a bad idea, it may be...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Ruling: Fighting RIAA by blog is OK
- Lawsuits have long been tried in the news media, with lawyers putting their spins on the case in front of news cameras and microphones. So what's wrong with a lawyer using a blog to post court documents and otherwise discredit his legal opponents? Apparently, nothing. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- How Internet surveillance, IT sleuth work helped indict suspected terrorist Zazi
- Kinda eerieMakes me wonder if I should delete that "Socialism" picture of Obama as the Joker from my machine.There are 2 Issues HereThe first is whether such forensics have a legitimate place in law enforcement and the second is whether these methods can be misused. I believe that the...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- FCC: Comcast contradicts itself in claim agency has no power over it
- Not surprising..They got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and now want to deny it. So of course they will change their tune when any type of action is taken. Comcast needs to be strung up from the tallest tree and hung for the world to see. I...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- i4i vs. Microsoft appeal heard; Trash talk ensues
- i Just hope taht MS will have it in the jaw big time For once a little guy could give the knock-out to MS would be a joy ....Would be so niceWould love to see this one almost bankrupt Microsoft.Would love it even more if the next one wipes them...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- Defamation or free speech? U.S. court orders Google to hand over identity of blogger
- If ordered by a judge...releasing the identity to the plaintiff is fair and necessary, otherwise you have no recourse.I will take issue with one statement however. You wrote "After all, it?s protected free speech to say that you believe someone is disingenuous or otherwise intolerable. It?s another thing to imply...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers
- Photo posted on 'Skanks of NYC' blog Yesterday I wrote that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered Google to tell supermodel Liskula Cohen the identity of the blogger behind the "Skanks of NYC" blog, which brands Cohen "a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her...
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Bust in Heartland credit card hack
- Huge antihacking indictments today. A federal grand jury indicted three people for the massive theft of some 130 million credit card numbers from card processor Heartland Payment Systems, The Post reports. The same people - including Albert Gonzales, 28, are believed by the feds to have been involved in hacks...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Justice says $1.9 million verdict is constitutional
- Jammie Thomas-Rasset was hit with a $1.9 million verdict for filesharing 24 songs -- roughly $80,000 per song. Is that even constitutional? Thomas-Rasset's lawyers filed an appeal saying it's not. Friday, the Justice Department weighed in with an opinion that it is PDF. Under the Copyright Act's...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Michael Arrington snared in libel verdict: lessons for us all
- The UK's High Court of Justice has ruled that Michael Arrington and Interserve Inc libeled Sam Sethi (see above.) The original plaint claimed that Arrington/Interserve engaged in a: "...sustained campaign of character assassination against the Claimant alleging fraud; bank forgery and other crimes;...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Hey, kids! The days of free music are over.
- The RIAA claims that they will not be going after any more individuals who share music. As Ars Technica points out in its coverage of the ruling in the Joel Tenenbaum case, Last December, the labels announced that they were no longer initiating new cases...
- Blog posts 2009-08-01
- Tenenbaum admits all, while judge's ruling opens the door to a massive damages award
- More high drama in the Tenenbaum trial, as defendant Joel Tenenbaum cheerily admitted illegal downloading and uploading of the 30 songs for which he's accused of copyright violations. Ben Sheffner reports for Ars Technica on Joel's witness box revelations: ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Apple/Microsoft sued over iPod/Zune controls
- Apple/Microsoft sued over iPod/Zune controlsWe know it's BS, but...finding 13 morons (12 jururs + 1 judge) to dupe isn't too tough. See Eolas.Apple and MS might set asidesome differences for a while and work together on this one.That would be ome big defense to contend with.Win, and get court costsThis...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-17
- $1.9m verdict is unconstitutional, Thomas-Rasset says
- $1.9m verdict is unconstitutional, Thomas-Rasset saysRasset should just pay the fine because...Jammie Thomas-Rasset should just pay the fine because I have heard that the RIAA is very close to gaining control of the U.S. Justice Dept., and they plan to raise the penalty for infringement of even one song to...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
- $1.9m verdict is unconstitutional, Thomas-Rasset says
- While an appeal is likely in the cards, the motion Jammie Thomas-Rasset's lawyers filed today was a request for new trial PDF or for the judge to alter the jury's "shocking" $1.9 million award. Thomas-Rasset's lawyers argued that (1) the jury's verdict of $80,000 per infringed...
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Thomas-Rasset to appeal $1.9m verdict
- Thomas-Rasset to appeal $1.9m verdictShe sure did ask for it.By sharing copyright protected songs. She should stop trying to blame the RIAA for her predicament. Regardless of the appropriateness or not of the $1.9M award two juries have found her guilty of willful infringement. Own up to it and take...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
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