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- 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...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DMCA, Apple Inc., Psystar, Copyrighted Works, Defendant, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- 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...
- Tags: Patent, Microsoft Corp., Defendant, DATallegro, Intellectual Property, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Storage, Databases, Research & Development, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Sam Diaz
- 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...
- Tags: MPAA, Defendant, TorrentSpy, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
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- Why is there no Windows 7 E upgrade for Europe?
- Why is there no Windows 7 E upgrade for Europe?Can't blame Microsoft for doing what the EC wanted. ntntRE: Why is there no Windows 7 E upgrade for Europe?And this is the impact of the supposedly "consumer protecting" EC. Way to go EC, you just forced us to buy...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Windows 7 E, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- Imagining a real-world verdict in Thomas-Rasset case
- Ray Beckerman has a nice little piece of vitriol about the crazy-ass $1.9 million judgment in the Capitol v Thomas-Rasset case. Ray imagines a parallel universe in which the trial was conducted according to the Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure. In this world, the RIAA needs some shred...
- Tags: RIAA, Ray Beckerman, Ray, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-21
- 'Insane' $1.9 million verdict could prove RIAA's downfall
- So Jammie Thomas-Rasset is a thief - a willful copyright infringer - who uploaded 24 songs to the Internet. At least, the jury in her second trial so found in delivering a $1.9 million verdict: $80,000 per song. Under the law the jury...
- Tags: Damage, RIAA, Public Relations, Government, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- High drama and low points in RIAA trial
- High drama and low points in RIAA trialRichard, can you shed some light on a couple things.I don't know all the details of this trial so I'll talk in general terms about downloading files from a P2P or other source.Ask anyone in this forum and they will tell you I...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), RIAA, original work, P2P
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- High drama and low points in RIAA trial
- High drama today at the illegal music downloading file of Jammie Thomas-Rasset, as RIAA expert witness Dr. Doug Jacobsen testified that he recently found a log file on the defendant's hard drive indicating that an external drive was used to copy files over. That information was not...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Drama, RIAA, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- New Thomas trial opens with advantage to RIAA
- Reporting from the new Jammie Thomas-Rasset trial, Marc Bourgeois notes that jury selection is just about complete at this writing and that the jury is overall younger than the last one, surely good news for the defendant. Even so, it's an uphill battle for Thomas-Rasset, Ars Technica...
- Tags: RIAA, Thomas Trial, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, Kiwi Camara, Peer To Peer (P2P), Network Technology, Networking, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Bad time to be accused of H-1B visa fraud
- Would your firm want this kind of publicity? Be sure and check out the piece in ComputerWorld (May 27, 2009) re: H-1B fraud prosecution. The article by Patrick Thibodeau describes how the U.S. Federal Government is connecting the alleged abuse of the H-1B...
- Tags: Job, H-1B Visa, Juror, Worker, Fraud, H-1B, Government, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy
- By Bill Kallman This guest blog is penned by Bill Kallman, CEO of Scayl, a direct, unlimited secure email solution, a longtime VC and real estate investor. He was a founding director of Streamcast, one of the defendant's in the landmark MGM v Grokster ruling. He holds...
- Tags: Google Inc., Network, Radio, Library, Digital Library, Library Network, GDPLN, Content Industry, Copyright War, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Craigslist sues South Carolina AG, who backs off sort of; Download the complaint
- Craigslist said Wednesday that it is suing South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster for his "direct and public threats to criminally prosecute Craigslist and its management." As noted on the Craigslist blog, the classified ad site is seeking declaratory relief and a restraining order. For background, McMaster...
- Tags: South Carolina, Craigslist, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Linux and the channel
- Linux and the channelRE: Linux and the channelThere is a company called System 76. I have a Pangolin Laptop and I am posting with it now. I love it. The support is great. The hardware was tested by the company to work so I don't have to worry about my...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, ice cream, Linux, foreclosure
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Thomas seeks new counsel, RIAA brooks no delay
- Thomas seeks new counsel, RIAA brooks no delayThere is no reason why this woman should not have counselAnd unless this woman fired her OWN lawyer without notice to the court that she was having problems with him or evidence she was having problems with him, no judge would DARE keep...
- Tags: Jammie Thomas, new counsel, counsel, litigation, witness, RIAA, income
- Discussion threads 2009-05-16
- News to know: Google Search; iPod Touch; Pre launch date; Yahoo; Zune; AMD
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Google: Understanding is the next frontier of search; Meet Wonder Wheel, Google Squared Tom Foremski: How...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple iPod, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Zune, Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Google Search, Apple iPod Touch, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Piracy, Telecom & Utilities, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- 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$, attack
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Pirate Bay defendant urges DDo$ attack on lawyer
- Wow. Talk about revenge. The Pirate Bay cofounder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg anakata has devised an ingeniously evil plan to get back at the law firm that helped deliver the verdict again TPB. According to the Blog Pirate: The plan can be...
- Tags: Asset, Payment, Law Firm, Attack, Litigation, Internet, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Appeals filed in The Pirate Bay case
- Pirate Bay defendant Peter Sunde's lawyer says he will appeal his client's conviction based on Judge Tomas Norstöm's undisclosed ties to the copyright industry, News.com reports. Attorney Peter Althin also says that Sunde has no liability for the alleged wrongdoing of The Pirate Bay, since he was...
- Tags: Trial, Manufacturing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-10
- The Pirate Bay torpedoed
- The Pirate Bay torpedoedThe Pirate Bay verdict ...... thoughts?Even if TPB was completely shut down it wouldn't matter.Piracy will remain as strong as ever and just morph into something even harder to stop.RE: The Pirate Bay torpedoedGood. Enough with the theft of copyrighted material.They may not be so innocent... but...
- Tags: Piracy, TPB, Pirate Bay
- Discussion threads 2009-04-17
- Tenenbaum lawyers: It's only about fair use
- Tenenbaum's team has moved to amend the defendant's answer, offering only the single affirmative defense of fair use. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Burden, Infringement, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
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