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P2P Anti-Piracy System Defeated With 2 Clicks

David Dernoncourt — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:07:00 +0000

eDonkey and BitTorrent users caught up in the latest Logistep anti-piracy sweep haven’t got much to smile about, facing threats, legal action and for many, accusations that are simply untrue. For those who would prefer not to have their privacy invaded by Logistep in the future, this anti-piracy cloud has a silver lining.

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US says China isn’t doing enough about piracy, files complaint with WTO

David Dernoncourt — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:43:00 +0000

The US will bring two complaints against China before the World Trade Organization over the latter’s weak enforcement of intellectual property laws.

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Woman accuses Yahoo of stealing her image

David Dernoncourt — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:02:00 +0000

An Ohio woman is demanding $20 million from Yahoo for allegedly using a photo of her without her permission for a welcome e-mail sent to new users.

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Gamer arrested and faces criminal charges for borrowing library WiFi

David Dernoncourt — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:33:00 +0000

Cops couldn’t leave well enough alone when they rolled up on 21 year-old Brian Tanner jammin’ on some WoW-type action in a library parking lot. Tanner’s lappy was confiscated and he now faces possible criminal charges for illegally accessing WiFi at the Palmer, Alaska library after hours.The first comments on Digg are pretty hilarious too.

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Google sues Polish poets over gmail.pl

David Dernoncourt — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:39:00 +0000

Google has launched legal action against a group of Polish poets, demanding that they give up their Internet domain name gmail.pl, a member of the cultural collective said.

New York teen sues record Industry

David Dernoncourt — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:47:00 +0000

A New York teen, dubbed a pirate by the Record Industry, is counter suing them for defamation, violating anti-trust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats.

PirateReports revokes vBulletin license of HongFire.com for "moral reasons"

David Dernoncourt — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:46:00 +0000

Great, I now have a second objective argument to say vBulletin sucks. The first one was there are many free forum with as much or more features and mods/add-ons, like phpBB, punBB or Vanilla. The new one, which i find much better indeed, is that vBulletin enjoy revoking their customers’ license for “moral reasons”, something that doesn’t even seem to be mentionned in their license agreement (I haven’t been able to check by myself since I couldn’t find the license on their website).

Microsoft helped company finance legal battle over Linux, investor says

David Dernoncourt — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:49:00 +0000

Microsoft Corp. helped a Utah company raise money for its legal challenge to the open-source Linux operating system, an investor said in a court filing. In a sworn statement, Lawrence R. Goldfarb, a founder of BayStar Capital Management of Larkspur, Calif., said he invested $50 million in The SCO Group Inc. at the urging of Microsoft executives who promised to guarantee BayStar’s investment against any losses.

Lightning destroys evidence in Swedish file sharing case

David Dernoncourt — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:51:00 +0000

Swedish authorities have dropped the charges they brought against the Karlskrona (Sweden) municipality head of culture, who last year openly admitted to file sharing and encouraged others to follow.