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UA Student Convicted for Downloading Music & Movies

Parvin Dhaliwal (18), a student at the University of Arizona (UA), is the first person in country to be convicted of a crime under state law for downloading music and movies. Dhaliwal pleaded guilty to possession of counterfeit marks, or unauthorized copies of intellectual property, and was sentenced to a three-month deferred jail sentence, three years of probation, 200 hours of community service and a $5,400 fine. Dhaliwal must also take a copyright class at UA and stop using file-sharing applications. What makes this conviction notable is that copyright protection is normally a federal matter.

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Todd Cochrane
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Apple, Commerce, Crime

Apple Wins Initial Ruling Against Rumor Sites

According to MacMinute,  A California judge ruled Thursday that Apple can force three Mac sites–Powerpage.org, AppleInsider and Think Secret–to disclose where they got confidential information about an unreleased Apple product. “Judge James Kleinberg of state court in San Jose, California,…

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Commerce, Crime

Finally, An Anti-Phishing Bill

For years criminals have been able to set up fake websites in the hopes to lure customers of those sites to enter their usernames and passwords, or other private information. These “phisher” sites would then take that information and use…

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Intel’s Concept PC

Intel’s Concept PC

Yesterday in San Francisco at the Intel Developers Forum, Intel introduced concept designed PC’s that they would like to see in the future. These are portable PC’s that Intel feels will be where the consumer market is heading toward in the…

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