£16000 Fine For Mother Spells Trouble For UK P2P File-sharing

A Polish mother of two has been told to pay more than £16,000 in a ruling that could possibly spell the end of the judicial system's apparent leniency towards online file sharers

TUE 19 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Court Decision Means Open Source Licenses Are legally Enforceable

Open Source may to be synonymous with "free as in free beer" but it doesn't mean that one can do what ever they want with the code and go unpunished

FRI 15 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Pirate Bay Gets Italian Boot From Media-Friendly Berlusconi

Guess that's what happens when the president of a country also happens to be the owner of a media conglomerate; Silvio Berlusconi has ordered Italian ISPs to block popular Swedish Torrent website, the Pirate Bay

TUE 12 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

US Patent Office Rejects Dell's Attempt to Trademark "Cloud Computing" Term

Dell’s claims for “Cloud Computing” trademark, has been adjourned by the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)

FRI 08 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Google Unveils Free Legal Music Service In China

Chinese don't like to pay for content that they can seamlessly copy and that's a ruthless factoid that Google has sneakily adopted to launch its brand new music search engine, exclusively in China

WED 06 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Facebook Scraps Scrabulous Application Over Copyright Struggle With Hasbro

In what seems to be the re-enactment of a Goliath vs David fight, Facebook has been forced to take down the popular word game Scrabulous from its North American websites after Hasbro launched a legal battle against the creators of the application

WED 30 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Narnia Domain Name Returned To CS Lewis Estate After Bitter Battle

A Domain Name might not be a good gift after all especially when it is a copyrighted and well-known one; that's possibly the conclusion that Richard Saville-Smith arrived at after losing narnia.mobi to C.S. Lewis (Pte) Ltd

FRI 25 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

8p Daily Music License Fee To Hit File sharers

Internet Piracy costs the UK music industry around £200 million per year but plans are already being drawn to get internet users to pay a Music license, similar to the way you pay for your annual TV license

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

SCO Ordered To Pay Novell USD2.5M For Unix Infringements

Judge Kimball asks SCO to pay $2.5 million to Novel for breach of fiduciary and other related charges

MON 21 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Apple To Take Legal Action Against Psystar For Making Mac Clones

Amidst its much hyped 3G iPhone launch celebration, computer maker Apple has sued Miami-based Psystar for manufacturing and selling unauthorized clones of Mac

THU 17 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News