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- Real appeals injunction against RealDVD; says judge erred
- Real has filed an appeal in its legal battle with the Motion Picture Association of America, arguing that a judge erred when she agreed to a preliminary injunction to halt sales of a DVD-copying program called RealDVD. In legal documents filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals...
- Tags: Software, Preliminary Injunction, CD, Apple iTunes, RealDVD, Piracy, Digital Music, Sales Strategy, Digital Media, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- Wireless users may be shut off if sharing copyrighted files
- ACTA: The Bigger Picturehttp://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4510/125/Not likely to happenWhy? Because the internet companies are not going to shut off paying customers just because they are accused of sharing files 'illegally'.... they will either tell the companies to file a lawsuit against the people in question or give them some REAL evidence that...
- Tags: Strategy, wireless, Acta, rights holder, shut-off, intellectual property
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- News to know: Microsoft store; Domain names; Blackberry Storm2; VoIP; Android
- 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.: Robin Harris: A visit to Microsoft's first store Zack Whittaker: Web addresses to extend to non-English languages...
- Tags: Data Center, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Domain Name, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Telephony, VOIP, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Networking
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- MI5, an ISP lawsuit and an e-petition: More opposition to piracy cut-off plans
- new world order is comingeveryone should boycott any measure imposed by the goverment.there is no piracy - information is free by it's definition.there is only total control over usersSee what can happenwhen one entity the government controls both the regulation and delivery of anything, be it the internet in...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Vertical industries, piracy, world order
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- MI5, an ISP lawsuit and an e-petition: More opposition to piracy cut-off plans
- A major ISP, TalkTalk, the police, and even MI5 and MI6 are opposing the UK file-sharing cut-off plans laid out by the government. Will the policy fall? by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Lawsuit, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Government, Piracy, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
- Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood business model
- RE: Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood Just shows you who the government actually works for.So what's new? [NT].broken systemWe have a broken judicial system that repeatedly favors the rich and the powerful at the expense of the citizens.Judge acknowledges system is brokenNo mavericks in the court,....
- Tags: Strategy, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, business model, agreement, MPAA, DVD
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- Is Web image theft a problem? Solution providers say yes
- I got into an interesting debate this week with a PR guy who was pitching a service that's trying to curb the illegal use of copyrighted images on the Web. The service, called Vivozoom, is offering a subscription and payment system, along with guarantees that the images from the site...
- Tags: Web, Channel Management, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Downloading content illegally vs. getting away with it
- I have mentioned a few times before my somewhat controversial view on Internet piracy - the end-user downloading (and uploading, to some extent) of mostly videos, music files, software - and the issues which surround it. As this generation of students are the forerunners of the technological age, born into...
- Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., RIAA, Licence, RapidShare, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Virgin mulls suspensions of file sharers
- Virgin mulls suspensions of file sharersAnd after they lose alot of customers.. they will do what?I know these media companies think that ISP's should disconnect the users but why would an ISP cut off its feet?Its dumb. Let the courts handle it and if they dont want to, then...
- Tags: INTERNET, sharer, file sharer, Virgin, piracy, suspension
- Discussion threads 2009-06-15
- Limewire addresses Washington's concerns; gives P2P users new sharing tools
- Limewire, in response to national security worries out of Washington, last week told a Congressional committee about features in a new version of its software that were designed to prevent accidental sharing of sensitive files. For the most part, the new features go a long way at addressing Washington's concerns....
- Tags: LimeWire, Washington, Network, P2P, Tool, Peer To Peer (P2P), Piracy, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- RealDVD hearing: Don't block the software because of what-ifs
- If I could be be punished for the things I could do - instead of what I actually do - I would been behind bars years ago. Hollywood movies studios are trying to punish RealNetworks for something that its software could do, not what it actually does,...
- Tags: Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Pirate Bay court case bad news for students
- Pirate Bay court case bad news for studentsThe Pirate Bay will win in the endThe courts in Sweden, after reading the ruling in it's entirety, basically totally IGNORED the law in question at the time of the accusations against the Pirate Bay owners, and used the NEW law they have...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, NOW IT, music, Pirate Bay
- Discussion threads 2009-04-17
- Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent
- A Rhode Island jury has ordered Microsoft to pay $388 million in damages for infringing on an anti-piracy patent owned by Uniloc, a company that makes software that ensures licensing rights and security. The jury decision almost ends a lawsuit that dates back to September 2003. The...
- Tags: Algorithm, Patent, Data, Antipiracy, Microsoft Corp., Registration Number, Piracy, Engineering, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Apple to launch 'variable-pricing' for iTunes
- It appears that Apple has finally caved to the pressures of the recording industry. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, Apple will introduce variable pricing for digital music on the iTunes Music Store starting April 7, raising the price of the hottest and most popular tracks to...
- Tags: Recording Industry, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Media, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Student suicide threat over RIAA bullying tactics
- After checking Twitter a few moments ago, I was shocked, horrified and appalled at the news that a student from Chicago threatened suicide over the forceful, bullying tactics of major media corporations. I didn't think my 200th post on ZDNet would result in me saying this. ...
- Tags: RIAA, Music, Thomas Perrelli, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- Former Microsoft employee accused of spying
- Microsoft is suing a former employee for applying for his job under false pretenses and using his role at the company to gain access to confidential data related to patent litigation he is now waging, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Miki Mullor was hired by Microsoft in November...
- Tags: Patent, OEM, Microsoft Corp., Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- SecuROM DRM sucks
- SecuROM DRM sucksThey are never going to accept thatUnless they are legally forced to. That means massive class-action lawsuits, and no one thus far wants to go that far.Read carefully and see the message...The relevant line to the post you are responding to is:"how many pirates have machines with the...
- Tags: Games, SecuROM DRM, game, piracy, SecurROM
- Discussion threads 2008-12-18
- EA threatens to ban users who talk about DRM ... or not
- EA threatens to ban users who talk about DRM ... or notSeems people do sue EA over this DRM....Did I already mention that EA will have SecuROM in all it's future games in one form or another?If the article hyperlink below has any truth to it I forsee alot more...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, Electronic Arts Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Spore hit by class-action lawsuit over DRM
- Spore hit by class-action lawsuit over DRMI don't know... seems a lot of people are enraged...... over the introduction of such a DRM system to their computers. I've read numerous incidents where people have to constantly restart their game, uninstall the games to get another program running, etc...Also it...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Games, Rootkits, SecuROM, game, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
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