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- 'Smoking gun' emails in Viacom-YouTube case
- Is this a smoking gun in the Viacom-YouTube suit? News.com's Greg Sandoval reports that evidence has surfaced that may undercut YouTube's argument that it has safe harbor protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act: Internal YouTube e-mails indicate that YouTube managers knew and discussed the existence of...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc., E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Citizens Financial sued for insufficient E-Banking security
- If a fraudulent transaction ever takes place on one of your bank accounts due to their compromise, who's to blame - the bank, for not providing you as a customer with state-of-the-art security mechanisms that could have prevented it, or you, as a customer whose insecure online behavior led to...
- Tags: Bank, Citizens LLC, Electronic Banking, Financial, Two-factor Authentication, Online Banking, Banking, Security Administration, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Final thoughts on supermodel-blogger catfight
- A few final thoughts on the "skank" blogger case. I was on The Jeff Farias Show Friday talking about this story. Jeff asked me if I was concerned about courts stomping on Internet anonymity and I said, generally, no, that courts must strike a balance between First Amendment rights of...
- Tags: Court, Judge, Rosemary Port, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- Kindle lawsuit not so 'ridiculous'
- Chris Dawson thinks this: If you don't like buying online products only to have them remotely deleted without so much as a "have a nice day," ... Don't buy a bloody Kindle! Chris thinks that Amazon's terms of service create...
- Tags: Lawsuit, Amazon.com Inc., Digital Content, Chris Dawson, Chris, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Judge changes her mind: Tenenbaum is liable
- Another day, another crazy turn in the Tenenbaum trial. First Joel admits that he downloaded and uploaded a multitude of songs. So the plaintiffs ask for a directed verdict taking the decision away from the jury on the issue of liability and other issues. Yesterday the judge denied the motion,...
- Tags: Liability, Jury, Tenenbaum, Ray Beckerman, Strategy, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Tenenbaum admits all, while judge's ruling opens the door to a massive damages award
- Tenenbaum admits all, while judge's ruling opens the door to a massive damages awardlucky for us not all the world have the american rules and court systemntDifficult to judge ...... who is the most stupid in this and other piracy 'debates':1. The defendent.2. The defendent's lawyers.3. The plaintiffs copyright hoders.4....
- Tags: Intellectual property, Tenenbaum
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- Tenenbaum admits all, while judge's ruling opens the door to a massive damages award
- More high drama in the Tenenbaum trial, as defendant Joel Tenenbaum cheerily admitted illegal downloading and uploading of the 30 songs for which he's accused of copyright violations. Ben Sheffner reports for Ars Technica on Joel's witness box revelations: ...
- Tags: Tenenbaum, Filesharers, Piracy, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Consensus! Tenenbaum defense is a trainwreck
- TechDirt says that the Tenenbaum defense is a "trainwreck in motion." Picking up on copyright industry lawyer Ben Sheffner's opinion that the biggest error - of the many Team Tenenbaum made - was the failure to obtain an expert witness on economic damages, TechDirt's Mike Masnick writes: ...
- Tags: Damage, Industry, File-sharing, Charles Nesson, Masnick, Strategy, Peer To Peer (P2P), Management, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Judge puts kibosh on YouTube copyright damages dogpile
- The world can't sue YouTube for copyright damages---especially if they never registered the copyrights, according to a U.S. district judge. The ruling Techmeme, issued by U.S District Judge Louis Stanton July 3, curbs a class action suit brought by a laundry list of foreign entities looking for...
- Tags: Judge, YouTube Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- $1.9m verdict is unconstitutional, Thomas-Rasset says
- While an appeal is likely in the cards, the motion Jammie Thomas-Rasset's lawyers filed today was a request for new trial PDF or for the judge to alter the jury's "shocking" $1.9 million award. Thomas-Rasset's lawyers argued that (1) the jury's verdict of $80,000 per infringed...
- Tags: Lawyer, Jury, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, MediaSentry, Remittitur, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Thomas-Rasset to appeal $1.9m verdict
- Thomas-Rasset to appeal $1.9m verdictShe sure did ask for it.By sharing copyright protected songs. She should stop trying to blame the RIAA for her predicament. Regardless of the appropriateness or not of the $1.9M award two juries have found her guilty of willful infringement. Own up to it and take...
- Tags: Litigation, Digital media, RIAA, Thomas-Rasset
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
- Wow! Jury verdict in Capitol v Thomas-Rasset: $2 million
- Via Recording Industry v The People: In Capitol Records v. Thomas-Rasset, the jury has returned a verdict in favor of plaintiffs in the amount of $1,920,000.00, or $80,000.00 per song file. Ray Beckerman notes that's 228,571 times the actual damages. ...
- Tags: Verdict, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Just let Google give us the books already!
- Just let Google give us the books already!Make the plaintiffs step upThe plaintiffs in the lawsuit should be required by the DOJ to digitize and make available all of the books they are seeking to prevent Google from digitizing. I am willing to bet most of them would drop it...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-10
- Wiretapping ruling protects carriers - not you
- Should companies be punished for letting the government wiretap your phone line? The courts don't think so. US District Court dismissed 46 civil suits filed against several of the major carriers, such as AT&T and Verizon, for allowing the National Security Agency to wiretap their networks without a court-issued wiretap....
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Carrier, Government, Vertical Industries, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Judge rejects telecom cases but Al-Haramain moves forward
- Bad news for the EFF's and ACLU's attempts to sue telephone companies for cooperating with the NSA. Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker rejected the groups’ lawsuits because Congress had passed the FISA amendment giving telecoms immunity. The groups plan to appeal on constitutional grounds. While...
- Tags: Court, Statute, Obama Administration, House, Government, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Vertical Industries, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- News to know: HP, Vista SP2; Pre; Oracle licensing
- 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. Larry Dignan: HP's second quarter on target; Big units take revenue lumps; Headcount cuts ahead Mary Jo Foley: Where is Vista SP2? ...
- Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Performance, Service Pack 2, Palm Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Server, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- The plaintiffs' problem with no software liability
- The plaintiffs' problem with no software liabilityThe problem with your exampleis that [i]if I put software on a chip and someone puts that chip in a product[/i], in regaurds to the chip, the issue is obvious: that chip is still the same chip through out it's life: You cannot modify...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Semiconductors, chip, software
- Discussion threads 2009-05-19
- The plaintiffs' problem with no software liability
- Having different legal standards for embedded software, sold in a product, and other software which the user licenses, then, is not only unfair but leads to more real danger as companies reject the embedded solution over liability issues. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Software, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Thomas seeks new counsel, RIAA brooks no delay
- Thomas seeks new counsel, RIAA brooks no delayThere is no reason why this woman should not have counselAnd unless this woman fired her OWN lawyer without notice to the court that she was having problems with him or evidence she was having problems with him, no judge would DARE keep...
- Tags: Jammie Thomas, new counsel, counsel, litigation, witness, RIAA, income
- Discussion threads 2009-05-16
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