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Around four years ago, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit against LimeWire. The RIAA was suing on behalf of several music labels. In short, the RIAA claimed that LimeWire's P2P software, which allowed people to download and distribute copyrighted songs for free, caused the music industry to lose millions of dollars. The RIAA won that case.
As I reported before Apple and various publishers have been sued by the DOJ for price-fixing and collusion in US VS Apple. Apple responded today with a brief statement saying “ it’s not true.” Apple stated that they broke Amazon’s e-book monopoly and therefore did a good thing. Others, myself included would argue that the agency model has artificially raised
Yahoo has filed a patent infringement suit against Facebook. The case has been filed in federal court in San Jose, California. Yahoo says that it is suing over ten patents that are related to web-based advertising. Yahoo is also suing because the company says that Facebook is using a social networking model that is based on Yahoo's patented social networking
What if I told you there was a bill that would make it easier for law enforcement to stop child pornography and protect children, would you be for it. What if I told you that there was a bill that forced ISP to retain their customer names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers and temporary assigned ISP
The history of advancing technology is long littered with accusations of copyright infringement along with charges of outright thievery. The problem seems to stem from ever-changing definitions of what comprises a song, a performance, or a book. Back in the days when the player piano was invented, musicians themselves seemed to define a song as a live performance. Hence, the
The UK's Information Commissioner today confirmed that Google breached UK's Data Protection Act when the Street View cars captured personal data while collecting wi-fi network information. As a result of this, Google will be required to sign an undertaking to take steps to ensure that breaches of the Act don't re-occur. Google will then be audited in nine month's time to
The names of thousands for BT & Sky broadband customers who had allegedly illegally downloaded adult material have been leaked on-line. The lists appear to have been obtained from servers of a law firm ACS:Law by the notorious 4chan group. ACS:Law had obtained the lists from ISPs Sky and PlusNet (owned by BT) and had been using the information to