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- Students (unaware/don't care) about music legalities
- I think the vast majority of people aren't too concerned about the inconsistencies, confusion and misunderstood legalities of sharing, trading and even possession of music tracks. But it does seem to be a growing problem, as a news reports suggest. Many university networks appear limited to some...
- Tags: Student, Legality, Music, Piracy, Peer To Peer (P2P), Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Legality of adware distribution with P2P
- Legality of adware distribution with P2PStill Clear As MudI guess I am going to stick my neck out on this one. So the legality of whether or not a P2P program is technically a vehicle for copyright infringment ... Yes ... But what about the legality and the costs involved...
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, adware, Bertelsman, legality, class action, P2P
- Discussion threads 2005-10-15
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- Clean install with Windows 7 upgrade media? Get the facts!
- Unbelievable"Last week I complained about Microsoft?s shoddy documentation of how its upgrade procedures are supposed to work. I?m delighted to report that I got a tremendous and immediate response from within Microsoft, offering assistance in my testing and also promising to clean up and expand their documentation."So what exactly did...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, product key, acccount, clean install, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Netgear slammed for doing the right thing
- So Welte is a 30-something who thinks his $hit doesn't stink...big deal.Wow..."Harald Welte has more power than I do, power he has earned over many years with good works."Power? Is that something that makes him special? I doubt it. Is power something that impresses you Dana? I feel sorry for...
- Tags: Chipsets, Routers & switches, Semiconductors, Network technology, Operating systems, Netgear Inc., open source, Linux, router, GPL, chipset, Torvalds
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- The 10 biggest moments in IT history
- Despite its relatively short lifespan, IT has had some huge watershed moments. TechRepublic's Jack Wallen followed the tech timeline to identify the most pivotal events. It’s unlikely that everyone will ever agree on the most important dates in the history of IT. I...
- Tags: ARPAnet, Information Technology, Operating System, Dot-com, Apple Inc., Wikipedia, COBOL, Napster Inc., Wiki, Linux, Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Online Communications, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Hey, Amazon! Are you stupid?
- Edtech, or Googletech?Chris, is it possible for you to write an article where you are not excessively gushing about Google? We get the point already. For you, the sun rises and sets with Google. Google is master of the universe. Google can do no harm.As a...
- Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-13
- Google: Books deal is good for everyone
- Tell me how you really feel.Considering you didn't really add anything to their bullet points, am I to assume you are Google's press secretary? Would it have not been better to Twitter the URL to the original statements if you aren't the benevolent dictator's press secretary?Press secretary? Hardly.Read the...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Exclusive: Proof that Green Dam ripped off Solid Oak in 2006
- Exclusive: Proof that Green Dam ripped off Solid Oak in 2006LiabilityI've read that if PC manufacturers go ahead and put this software on their machines, then sell them, they can be held liable by Solid Oak in both the US and China. Why is none of this liability being...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Chinese Government, Solid Oak, government
- Discussion threads 2009-06-30
- New Thomas trial opens with advantage to RIAA
- New Thomas trial opens with advantage to RIAANo hold....1. Mediacentry cannot be thrusted to produce evidence. it as a LONG criminal record and optain most of its so called proof illegally.2. A log file produce by such shady and court proven criminal corpoation (RIAA, Mediasentry), cannot be valid in court....
- Tags: RIAA
- Discussion threads 2009-06-15
- Image Search Downloader 1.0 (Windows)
- Image Search Downloader is a small application to search Google image search engine and download the results to a folder. The program is multithreaded and can download hundreds of images very quickly. This program is free to download and use.You can select various search options such as image size (Small,...
- Tags: Image Search, Microsoft Windows, Mhano Harkness, Image Search Downloader
- Software downloads 2009-06-04
- Judge issues TRO in Craigslist case against South Carolina
- Judge issues TRO in Craigslist case against South CarolinaCraig's List and South CarolinaIn South Carolina there is a saying: "the people of Charleston are a lot like the Chinese, they eat a lot of rice and worship their ancestors. Just like the rest of the State, they still live...
- Tags: Professional development, TRO, Craigslist, Craig
- Discussion threads 2009-05-26
- Recording VoIP Calls: Is it Legal?
- Recording VoIP Calls: Is it Legal?Nooooo, VOIP is a telephone callThe FCC "First report and Order" regarding CALEA Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act clearly puts VOIP within the wiretap statute, which, for the purposes of recording a call, treats VOIP like any other telephone call - with the same...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Federal government, voip call, Pure Digital, phone, Is it Legal, VoIP-calls, VoIP, IS IT
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- OIN spearheads review of Microsoft FAT patents
- OIN spearheads review of Microsoft FAT patentsThe OIN is nothing more than a bottom feeder trying hard....to do away with patents they think they can fight. If Linux based systems are not guily of major patent abuse, as MS has claimed in the past, why would there be an OIN...
- Tags: patent, OIN, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- Is adopting the cloud a money-losing mistake?
- Is adopting the cloud a money-losing mistake?The cloud is many steps backward...The loss of control over your applications, data, security, accessibility, accountability, and much more is seriously many many steps backward from where we are now. The cloud has very limited usefulness for very specific applications and the hype over...
- Tags: Service level management, Intellectual property, SECURITY, cloud system, money-losing mistake
- Discussion threads 2009-04-15
- Outrageous Comcast updates to cutomer agreement - all your systems belong to us
- Outrageous Comcast updates to cutomer agreement - all your systems belong to usJust reply, NO!One of our local newspaper writers responded to similar tactics from credit card companies by imposing HIS own set of rules on THEIR transactions to his account.You might try sending a similarly worded notice accepting their...
- Tags: Modems, Comcast Corp., cable, modem, agreement
- Discussion threads 2009-04-01
- BBC responds to botnet illegality claims
- BBC responds to botnet illegality claimsgoing for the easy target... again...The willingness of people to attack the BBC for this still disturbs me greatly. I have to wonder how many of these has complained about speeding tickets because they were only doing 33mph and 'he was doing at least...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, SECURITY, British Broadcasting Corp., illegality claim
- Discussion threads 2009-03-17
- BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company Prevx
- BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company PrevxDid the BBC break the law?Surely what the BBC did was in contravention of the UK Computer Misuse Act?They made unauthorised changes to people's computers without their permission. Sophos has been asked many times by the media to take part in...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Team management, SECURITY, Spam, team, British Broadcasting Corp., botnet, BBC team
- Discussion threads 2009-03-12
- Amazon's Kindle cave shows the power of publishers
- Amazon backs off text-to-speech feature in Kindle 2, despite claims of legality. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Publisher, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Pirate Bay
- Pirate BayThe name says it allThe "business" was created to "pirate" copyrighted material. Even their website bragged about how many movies and songs you could get with their services.Not All Torrents Are IllegalAlthough you will be able to obtain many copyrighted materials on Pirate Bay, A large amount of torrents...
- Tags: Piracy, Pirate Bay
- Discussion threads 2009-02-19
- Girl arrested for texting in class
- Girl arrested for texting in classSo...Other than thinking the whole thing is absurd, what would be the procedure for dealing with such a lame kid as this in dear old Massachusetts? In particular, what would you personally do with such a miscreant?RE: Girl arrested for texting in classIs texting a...
- Tags: jammer, cell phone, phone
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
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