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- Expert praises, criticizes Atlantic v. Howell decision
- It's becoming clear that the Atlantic v. Howell decision is a major big deal in the RIAA lawsuit landscape, as the heavy hitters are starting to comment. William Patry just published a seven-volume treatise on copyright law, Patry on Copyright (yours for just over $1,500). He's also...
- Tags: Copyright Law, Judge, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 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
- WikiLeaks Not Shut Down
- WikiLeaks has not been shut down. It's more available than ever. I had not intended on commenting about this story. I have seen it and seen it, ever since the Web was spun. Local government tries to suppress something, data gets routed offshore. Chinese...
- Tags: Censorship, Judge, News, WikiLeaks, Web Site Development, Government, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Feds seek cell positioning data without warrants
- Is that a cellphone in your pocket or are you just glad to for me to see you? Federal law enforcement agents are "routinely" seeking court orders for cellphone companies to provide them with realtime positioning data on suspects - often without even a pretense of...
- Tags: Agent, Warrant, Positioning, Cause, Judge, Real Estate, Branding, Business Operations, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Talking Time Keeper (exe)
- Talking Time Keeper is a fully featured desktop time package. Its features include the ability to announce the time using real voices, including celebrity sound-alike voices (either at the click of a button or at specified intervals), plus chimes (including Grandfather Clock mode), alarms and timers, which display messages and...
- Tags: Application, Voice, Judge, Tool, Talking Time Keeper, Productivity, Telecommunications
- Software downloads 2007-10-23
- Saint Paint Studio (exe)
- Saint Paint Studio is a paint package designed to be the essential base tool for editing photos, Web graphics, icons, images, and animations. Developed initially for use in the games industry, it comes with the most vital tools needed by professional artists, designers, and programmers, but is suitable for users...
- Tags: Judge, Animation, Photograph, Saint Paint Studio, Productivity
- Software downloads 2007-10-19
- judge: National security letter provision is unconstitutional
- Congress recently revised the USA Patriot Act to allow the FBI to use "national security letters" to compel companies - including Internet service providers and telecom companies - to produce customer records -- and forbid them from telling customers or anyone else about it. The law also severely limited the...
- Tags: Security, Law, FBI, Judge, First Amendment, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- judge says making files available is the same as distributing
- Defendants in RIAA copyright infringement suits got some bad news today when Judge Neil V. Wake granted summary judgment for RIAA in the case of Atlantic v. Howell. Pamela and Jeffrey Howell defended themselves in the suit and claimed simply that their file-sharing program was "not set up to share,"...
- Tags: RIAA, Judge, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- Vidconf technology saves courts big bucks
- Videoconferencing between courtrooms and jailhouses is nothing new. But conventional videoconferencing technology is expensive and hard-wired. Hard to take on the road. But in Utah, courts are adopting lightweight technology that runs on laptops and webcams, and the result is that judges can conduct hearings even when on...
- Tags: JUDGE, John Sandberg
- Blog posts 2006-08-25
- Talking Calculator (exe)
- Talking Calculator is designed to be a simple, easy to use calculator, much like a desk calculator which you use everyday for simple calculations, from totting up expenses to converting miles to kilometers. Being on your PC however, you can benefit from many improvements such as a history list and...
- Tags: Judge, Talking Calculator, Benefits, Desktops, Human Resources, Hardware
- Software downloads 2006-08-22
- Public shaming via broadband: Ohio judge puts sentencing hearings on YouTube
- At one time in this nation, we used to shame our convicted criminals by hanging photos of them in public places. Or hanging them in public places.While I certainly do not support the second option, it would appear that broadband technology offers a solution that offers the capability to...
- Tags: James Kimbler, JUDGE
- Blog posts 2006-06-23
- Trivia Millionaire (exe)
- Trivia Millionaire is a trivia game in which the objective is to become a millionaire. Much like the popular TV show. You are asked a series of 15 general knowledge questions (some of which are picture questions) which increase in difficulty to 1 million. Up to 9 players can play...
- Tags: Knowledge, Judge, Millionaire, Trivia Millionaire, Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2006-06-14
- judge denies DoJ access to searches
- Judge James Ware has granted the DoJ access to 50,000 URLs from Google's database, but denied access to any search queries according to an official statement from Google on their blog. Originally the subpoena requested that Google provide billions of URLs and two months of search queries performed by...
- Tags: Google Inc., JUDGE
- Blog posts 2006-03-17
- EXCLUSIVE; Google judge's questionable past
- Within the next few days, U.S. District Court Judge James Ware is expected to order Google to hand over search results from as many as 50,000 websites as well as 5,000 individual Web searches. This would be in an effort on the part of the Bush administration to revive a...
- Tags: James Ware, JUDGE
- Blog posts 2006-03-15
- Here's the timeline for how the BlackBerry case will come out
- Via these pages as well as my BBHub BlackBerry blog, I have been tracking, covering and analyzing the BlackBerry vs. NTP patent infringement case very closely. I now would like to offer you my forecast for what will happen over the next few weeks and months:Now that U.S. Judge James...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., JUDGE, Multi-Mode, NTP
- Blog posts 2006-02-28
- My BlackBerry prediction: injunction with 60-day stay
- On my BBHub BlackBerry blog this morning, I offer my own prediction about how Judge James Spencer will rule today in the patent infringement case between Research In Motion and NTP.I write:My own crystal ball - the one between my ears- tells me that Judge James Spencer is going to...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., James Spencer, 60-Day, JUDGE, NTP
- Blog posts 2006-02-24
- Photo: President Bush and nominee Alito
- President Bush and Judge Samuel Alito speak at the White House following Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court.
- Tags: Alito, Bush, nomination, nominee, president, White House, Judge, photograph
- Image galleries 2005-11-01
- Photo: President Bush and nominee Alito
- President Bush and Judge Samuel Alito speak at the White House following Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court.
- Tags: Alito, Bush, nominee, nomination, president, White House, Judge, photograph
- Image galleries 2005-11-01
- XML judge (exe)
- The XML Judge allows you to check multiple XML files quickly and thoroughly. Aside from checking business rules, publishing house-rules, even checking whether a new data source is supplying the same kinds of structures that were previously used.
- Tags: Judge, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2005-10-06
- Ex-AOLer gets one day in jail per 189K IDs stolen
- Sending a clear message to anybody who comes to the aid of a spammer by illicitly securing electronic IDs, New York U.S. District Judge (yes, ID theft is a felony) Alvin Hellerstein has sentenced former American Online employee Jason Smathers to 15 months in prison for stealing 92 million AOL...
- Tags: Jason Smathers, JUDGE
- Blog posts 2005-08-17
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