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- Judge decisively rejects RIAA legal theory
- Judge decisively rejects RIAA legal theoryNiceOK so if I buy a CD and let strangers walk in my house and listen to them I'm infringing on copyright! hahahaha!This judge probablydissented just to get his name in the paper. Because hundreds of other judges have upheld the theory, because it's pretty...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Copyright-Infringement, theory, legal theory, RIAA, music
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- Judge decisively rejects RIAA legal theory
- A federal district judge has delivered a pretty resounding blow to a theory the RIAA has been using to win verdicts in its copyright-infringement lawsuit campaign. In Atlantic Records v. Howell, Judge Neil Wake refused the RIAA's motion for summary judgment based on the "making available" theory. ...
- Tags: Theory, RIAA, Judge, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- RIAA sues Project Playlist
- Is Project Playlist legal? The site allows users to build playlists of music found on other websites whether they got there legally or not the site claims disinterest and then streams them to listeners. They pay the relevant performance royalties. A WikiAnswer claims, "It is 100%...
- Tags: Performance, RIAA, Music, Music File, Performance Management, Web Site Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Psystar: Apple's terms violate U.S. monopoly laws
- Psystar: Apple's terms violate U.S. monopoly lawsPar for the courseLet someone else do all the work and try to make a buck off it.... Isn't that textbook moderm American business?I agreeIt would be quite shameful if Apple tried to make a buck off of Psystar's hard work.Then is Psystar technically...
- Tags: Operating systems, Digital media, Digital music, Psystar, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- In close First Amendment case, Virginia court upholds spammer conviction
- What do geeks hate more than free speech restrictions? Spammers! Thus, anti-spam laws are an interesting collision. Spamming is clearly speech -- albeit commercial speech. So are antispam laws constitutional? The Virginia Supreme Court took that matter up in the case of Jeremy Jaynes, a particularly obnoxious...
- Tags: Speech, Anti-spam, First Amendment, Spamming, Statute, Virginia, Jeremy Jaynes, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Producer, game firm in rights battle over zombies
- Producer, game firm in rights battle over zombiesWhat Next?C'mon, this is ridiculous. Will LucasArts sue Disney for having a comedy about Pirates? Obviously the makers of Grand Theft Auto need to be sued for making games that replicate hundreds of films? Perhaps MOHAA will be next for following the same...
- Tags: Games, zombie, game, game company
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Apple Retail Store shopper to Steve Jobs: clerk had no right to ask for my ID
- Update: Ignacio, who is the customer in this tale, informs The Consumerist thatthe store manager has apologized for asking for his ID. Apparently in a gracious mood, Ignacio has forgiven the store and plans to go in to shop soon. But he's doing so after all this: ...
- Tags: Visa Inc., Steve Jobs, Card, Cardholder, Credit Card, Apple Inc., Citigroup Inc., Merchant, MasterCard International, Ignacio, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- RIAA gets student names, can't do much with them
- RIAA gets student names, can't do much with themOffense and Defense - They Pick and ChooseAs a copyright owner and publisher I will admit the perception created by these public reports does elude a mysterious 'mafia' sort of role RIAA plays in society now, esp. towards higher educational bodies. ...
- Tags: Nothing, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- News to know: Microsoft flaw; AMD; IBM; Cloud computing
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Don't dawdle on Microsoft latest batch of patches AMD loses $1.77 billion in December quarter Bits: IBM: A separate reality Dan Farber: Salesforce.com ascends to the cloud. Phil Wainewright: Enterprise SaaS and the cloud...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Computing, IBM Corp., Flaw, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Notebooks, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- WashPo gets RIAA CD rip story wrong on Dec. 30; I got it right on Dec. 11
- WashPo gets RIAA CD rip story wrong on Dec. 30; I got it right on Dec. 11Message has been deleted.Hey Russell...You might also want to alert your compatriot, Dvorak. Seems he's jumped on the WashPo bandwagon as well.http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2242789,00.aspTotallySince Washington Post has nothing better to do than read the amateurish...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Advertising & Promotion, keyphrase, RIAA, WashPo, CD
- Discussion threads 2008-01-04
- WashPo gets RIAA CD rip story wrong on Dec. 30; I got it right on Dec. 11
- When I first became aware of that clueless December 30 Washington Post article in which Mark Fisher erroneously claimed the RIAA was maintaining that ripping CDs was illegal, wanna know what I thought to myself? Well, h-e-l-l-o!! Mark, if you had only read my...
- Tags: CD, RIAA, WashPo, Keyphrase, Peer To Peer (P2P), Tools & Techniques, Internet, Management, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Could open source exist without the Betamax case?
- Could open source exist without the Betamax case?RIAA is Over-ReachingI agree that the Betamax time-shifting decision was a very big deal. I don't think it has much to say for open-source software, since software wasn't even subject to copyright until the 1976 copyright revision. When that was done...
- Tags: CD, open source, Sony Betamax, Betamax Case, RIAA, MP3 Ripping
- Discussion threads 2008-01-01
- What that RIAA/CD rip court brief really says
- There's a lot of misinformation floating around the blogosphere about what exactly the (hiss, boo) Recording Industry Association of America is saying in a court brief about the very act of ripping your CDs, converting them to MP3s, and then storing them on your hard drive...
- Tags: Hard Drive, P2P, RIAA, Keyphrase, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- The RIAA is NOT saying that ripping your CDs is illegal
- Despite what some websites are reporting, the RIAA is NOT saying that ripping CDs into MP3s is illegal. The story started on lawyer Ray Beckerman's Recording Industry vs. The People blog. In a post yesterday Beckerman is claiming that the RIAA is saying that ripping CDs for...
- Tags: CD, RIAA, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Patent troll hits medical tablets
- Dell and Motion Computing have been sued for patent infringement by a patent troll working alongside a small tablet PC maker. The troll, Typhoon Touch Technologies, makes no products of its own, and is in the business of acquiring and licensing patents, according to its web site....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Patent, Tablet, Co-plaintiff, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Justice comes out against Jammie Thomas
- Justice comes out against Jammie ThomasI could be sarcastic and cynical......but instead I'll merely wonder why the DOJ feels compelled to intervene.A great need to punish Thomas harshly.Especially since she represents all that conservative godf******s loathe:Single mother two kidsMinority Native AmericanPoor (can't afford the good legal defenders)More informed about the...
- Tags: Digital media, Jammie Thomas, U.S. Department of Justice
- Discussion threads 2007-12-05
- Justice comes out against Jammie Thomas
- After Jammie Thomas left court with a $222,000 judgment against her for allegedly illegally downloading music, she vowed to appeal the decision. The basis of the appeal was that the statutory fines the jury levied against her are unconstitutional, considering that the actual value of each download is only about...
- Tags: Damage, Infringement, Internet, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Police Blotter: Verizon forced to turn over text messages
- Police Blotter: Verizon forced to turn over text messagesThe moral of the story is......text messages aren't private and may be released by court order. Thus, if you're planning something you really don't want other people to know about, encrypted e-mail is much better.RE: Police Blotter: Verizon forced to turn...
- Tags: Federal government, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Verizon Communications Inc., Police Blotter, CALEA
- Discussion threads 2007-12-05
- Police Blotter: MySpace profile sets convicted felon free
- Police Blotter: MySpace profile sets convicted felon freeAnd this is why our legal system is brokenWe assume that we can get a jury of uneducated peers that will only accept the evidence that is presented to them on a golden platter. They are not allowed to associate or research...
- Tags: MySpace, Myspace Profile, felon, Police Blotter
- Discussion threads 2007-11-30
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