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States, artists urge top court to hear P2P case

States, artists urge top court to hear P2P caseEFF Brief against Certiorari is good...The brief that the EFF filed against Certiorari is quite a read: http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/20041108_Final_Brief.pdfWhile the SCOTUS might take the case anyway, the brief nicely and substansively attacks the Petitioners' position without creating politics. In fact, the brief...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P, Petitioners, SCOTUS, RIAA, Sony Betamax, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Discussion threads 2004-11-08

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Testers give Microsoft's Entity Framework a no-confidence vote

Testers give Microsoft's Entity Framework a no-confidence voteSounds like the testers and MS are doing good work[i]The best thing that happened in response to this latest action is that the Entity Framework team responded to it immediately[/i]Good for the testers for demanding better, and good for MS for responding immediately....

Tags: Blogging, Microsoft Corp., Entity Framework, no-confidence, MJO

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

No reprieve: XP phase-out begins June 30

XP petitioners: It's time to raise the white flag. After months of rumors that Microsoft might rethink its decision to pull the plug on Windows XP, the official word is out: XP is on its way out. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Comcast traffic management issue before FCC

Today is the deadline for the FCC call for comments on the Comcast traffic management case brought about by a formal complaint from the Free Press and Public Knowledge.  As a former network engineer who designed networks and servers and as someone who has written extensively on these matters, I...

Tags: FCC, Bandwidth, Packet, Electronic Frontier Foundation, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Problem, Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, DOCSIS, Network Management, BitTorrent Seeder, Networking, Cable, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Apple behind new patent reform bill

Apple behind new patent reform billApples cares about you, MS hates youI knew Apple was wonderful and good and kind and caring, otherwise why would they support something that was so wonderful? Apple's support of this will absolutely [b]kill[/b] MS!! HAHAHAHA!!!! m1cR0$$$lop must be so made about this bill and...

Tags: patent, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-04-19

Apple pays 'Asteroid' legal fees; a timeline

A Santa Clara County Court ordered Apple, Inc. to pay the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF over US$700,000 in legal fees associated with the defense of three popular Mac-oriented Web sites PowerPage and Apple Insider in response to reports published about an unreleased Firewire breakout box for GarageBand, code-named "Asteroid."MacNN covered...

Tags: Legal, Apple Computer Inc., Electronic Frontier Foundation

Blog posts 2007-01-30

Major Vonage shareholders to SEC: stop us before we sell!

While I am here in my office making tea, Im also trying to read tea leaves about why a group of Vonages largest shareholders asked the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday to postpone a regulatory step that would make it easier for these execs to sell their stock.This...

Tags: Venture capital, Vonage Holdings Corp., shareholder, SEC

Blog posts 2006-11-14

Google now baby-steps away from eBay-like auction service

I was just reading Steve Bryant's Ten Possible Consequences of Google's GBuy and I couldn't help but wonder about his omission of the possibility that Google will use the core of the auction technology it has already developed to build its own eBay like auction marketplace for goods...

Tags: eBay Inc., Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-06-30

PowerPage wins on appeal

The PowerPage and I got a big win today in the Apple vs. Does case.Our petition in O'Grady, et al. v. Superior Court of Santa Clara County (Case: H028579, 6th District) was granted. From the court's 69 page opinion: The trial court denied the motion on the ground that the...

Tags: PowerPage

Blog posts 2006-05-26

Federal government pulling back from the Web

Government information is disappearing from the public Web. That, says Aliya Sternstein in this week's Federal Computer Week, is one thing government officials and public critics can agree on. As to whether this is a good, necessary thing or a bad, unnecessary thing, there is no end of...

Tags: OMB Watch

Blog posts 2006-03-02

Supreme Court rules against file-swapping firms

Supreme Court rules against file-swapping firmsGoodbye innovationWow. This is really disappointing. The entertainment industry is going to lock down everything tight and sue innovation away. It's so short sighted of them. The innovation actually benefits all of us. Music file sharing just made them open up a new avenue for...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Strategy, file-swapping, RIAA, innovation

Discussion threads 2005-06-27

First VB gets the axe. What's next COBOL?

Perhaps the moral of this story is that you can't teach a dog new tricks. Particularly these old dogs, who, like my old dog, bite back if you don't handle them just right. After all, you can't read Matthew Broersma's report about how more than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic

Blog posts 2005-03-11

P2P companies ask high court for help

P2P companies ask high court for helpEncouraging copyright infringement?I would expect this type of reporting from a non-technology related source, since when happen to put out a tech related article, they seem to normally have only a vague idea of what's going, and don't bother to check and make sure...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Sony Corp., Grokster Ltd., P2P, broadband, broadband connection, software

Discussion threads 2005-03-01

Sheriff misusing FBI computer can't be sued

Sheriff misusing FBI computer can't be sued"Qualified Immunity"--"...as a government official he enjoyed "qualified immunity" from lawsuits..."--This is why our elected officials get away with so much. You can't sue them in their official capacity. Nor can you sue the agency. However, there is a loophole the activists missed-you can...

Tags: Federal government, FBI, constitutional right, computer

Discussion threads 2004-08-05

File-swapping lawsuits loom in Canada

File-swapping lawsuits loom in CanadaLogging IP is expensive to give outWhy would they be suprised? Maybe it's because they have no idea what they are talking about. Logs take up space. If the logs have no value such as DHCP logs then they are deleted. No large corporation is going...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Grokster Ltd., D/L, Frackman, P2P, movie, file-swapping

Discussion threads 2004-02-13