While a lower court in Kentucky had agreed to allow the state to seize 141 domain names as being "illegal gambling devices" despite having nothing to do with the state of Kentucky, other than being av...
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A court has issued an injunction temporarily banning the sale of a keylogger product called RemoteSpy.The ruling probably makes sense under the current FTC law, but it does raise some questions about ...
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With the judge agreeing that the information about Megan Meier's suicide can be included in the computer fraud lawsuit against Lori Drew, Drew's lawyers are discovering that the emotional aspects of t...
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Ray Beckermann is, once again, highlighting some highly questionable activities by the RIAA, noting that after getting defendants to agree to a settlement amount, the RIAA sometimes immediately asks f...
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We've discussed the highly questionable activities of UK law firm Davenport Lyons for its supposed campaigns on behalf of various copyright holders.From what we had seen, the firm wasn't particularly ...
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As quite a few folks have sent in, it appears that the always funny team of folks who made up Monty Python actually seem to get the concept of giving away infinite goods to increase the value of scarc...
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Australian politicians have been pushing to censor the internet for years, with its latest initiative being the most extreme and most ridiculous.Of course, even though each and every past effort by th...
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Over the years, we've seen so many bogus reports on the supposed "losses" to various industries due to unauthorized file sharing, that it's about time the story was flipped.Reader SteveD writes in to ...
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Back in 2005, when Microsoft was first mulling the idea of offering security software, we noted that the company was between something of a rock and a hard place.If it decided to charge for the softwa...
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The FT's got a story saying "YouTube is in danger of being upstaged commercially" by Hulu, the online video site owned NBC and News Corp. It's based on a report saying Hulu will make as much in advert...
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Back when Apple first sued Psystar, we were afraid that the smaller company wouldn't have much of a legal leg to stand on, even if it claimed antitrust violations by Apple -- which it did.However, the...
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Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child initiative has received plenty of press over the years, though we've never quite fully understood it. While the idea of making cheap, durable laptops availab...
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In the past we've linked to some of Ian Rogers great presentations at music industry conferences, and now he's done it again.At a recent music industry conference, he told the assembled industry execs...
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In response to an article about how "Web 2.0 gives new tools to hate groups" I was tempted to write an entire post, mimicking the original, except changing every instance of "hate" to something positi...
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We've written plenty of times about the so-called "think tank" the ProgressFreedom Foundation.The group, which has called itself a "free market" think tank appears to be anything but free market when ...
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It appears that Apple has begun using HDCP copy protection technology on some content it sells through the iTunes Music Store, and implementing it in its latest laptops. HDCP "protects" content as it ...
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After more than a decade of watching the entertainment industry (mainly the RIAA and the MPAA), one thing I've learned is that the organization never gives up in pushing its legislative agenda.If ther...
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Many of you probably remember BountyQuest, the company set up by Tim O'Reilly and Jeff Bezos as an attempt to bust bogus patents by reaching out to the "wisdom of the crowd" to dig up prior art.The in...
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Two recent patent battle lawsuits made news this week, and both highlighted one troubling aspect of patent lawsuits: patent holders trying to damage others beyond the company that infringed.Now, befor...
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A couple months ago, we wrote about what may be one of the most bizarre and questionable trademark lawsuits we've seen.Huge corporate law firm Jones Day was suing a small website called BlockShopper f...
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