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Malwarebytes accuses Chinese antivirus vendor IObit of stealing its intellectual property and threatens to pursue legal action. Despite the solid evidence presented by Malwarebytes, IObit denies any wrongdoing and plans to respond through its lawyers.Malwarebytes Corporation is a US-based company developing several s... |
3 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Three fonts are in the middle of one of the heftiest lawsuits against NBC this year. Font Bureau, a Boston-based graphics agency has filed a complaint against TV giant NBC after it wrongfully used the licenses purchased for three of its fonts (Antenna, Interstate, and Bureau Grotesque). Besides copyright infringement... |
13 October 2009
02:36 GMT |
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Solid Oak Software, a Santa Barbara-based company, plans to release a low-cost version of its Internet content-filtering solution on the Chinese market. The company wants its product to rival Green Dam Youth Escort, the controversial software that stole its proprietary code and used it without authorization. The Ch... |
24 September 2009
08:03 GMT |
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The Skype deal has managed to complicate itself so much that a reader can lose track of events as days go by. Times Online has reported that Skype's original founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, have filed a copyright infringement claim at the District court of North Carolina, accusing eBay of sharing and... |
17 September 2009
06:41 GMT |
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The Federal appeals court in New York issued a ruling on August 21, 2009 regarding an appeal filed by several music recoding companies against a previous ruling that gave Yahoo LAUNCHcast the right to play online music without paying licensing fees. The court classified LAUNCHcast as “not an interactive service... |
24 August 2009
06:35 GMT |
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Another chapter is about to begin in Jammie Thomas-Rasset's fight with the RIAA. A couple of weeks ago the 32 year-old woman was found guilty of willful copyright infringement and was ordered to pay a record $1.92 million in statutory damages to the recording industry. One of the lawyers representing Thomas-Rass... |
2 July 2009
08:54 GMT |
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The newly released Digital Britain report, which is to stand as basis for upcoming changes in UK's telecommunication legislation, suggests giving the Office of Communication (Ofcom) several powers to fight digital piracy. These involve imposing technical restrictions on Internet service providers that fail to cu... |
17 June 2009
06:15 GMT |
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Solid Oak Software, the developer of an Internet filtering application called CYBERsitter, claims that the developers of the new censorship application set to be bundled with all new PCs sold in China beginning next month are illegally using its proprietary code. Researchers from the University of Michigan confirm th... |
16 June 2009
05:45 GMT |
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Jail sentences and a $3.6 million fine came with the guilty verdicts in the Pirate Bay case. The four defendants, namely Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom, were convicted to 1 year in jail and a financial penalty of $3.6 million. The four were found guilty of facilitating access to... |
17 April 2009
09:59 GMT |
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Section 8 is a video game that is being currently under development at TimeGate. We've known this for quite some time and the developer has offered some information on what we can expect once the title is out. What we didn't know is that Paramount, the movie-oriented company, is also interested in creating ... |
10 April 2009
03:47 GMT |
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LittleBigPlanet is one of the most innovative games that have appeared this holiday season. It won over quite a few people with its interesting puzzles but didn't really get off to a great start in terms of sales, as Media Molecule, its developer, and Sony, its publisher, hoped it would. However, as the holiday... |
30 December 2008
02:58 GMT |
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The Free Software Foundation, one of the principal advocates and protectors of open source software has filed a complaint against communications technology giant Cisco for copyright infringement. According to the foundation, Cisco had been using programs such as GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) or the GLibC (GNU C Libra... |
12 December 2008
12:35 GMT |
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The lawsuit initiated against four individuals, all connected to the Pirate Bay, the Sweden-based biggest Bittorrent tracker, was delayed until the end of the year. Although the Stockholm District Court previously announced that the litigation would begin by the end of the summer, it seems that now it needs more time... |
29 August 2008
05:06 GMT |
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A blogger has been arrested by the FBI because he was hosting, on his personal webpage, nine songs from the Guns n' Roses yet to be released “Chinese Democracy” album. In fact, the tracks were uploaded in June and they were removed that same month, both because of several server failures, caused by t... |
28 August 2008
03:32 GMT |
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Patents County Court in London has decided that Isabella Barwinska, a British woman who downloaded and shared a copy of Topware Interactive's Dream Pinball 3D, should pay a great amount of money for copyright infringement. More exactly, over 16,000 pounds, which translate into approximately $30,000. This after t... |
20 August 2008
11:27 GMT |
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Daniel Dove is a 26 year old guy from Virginia who spends his time working as an upload administrator for popular tracker EliteTorrents. He was taken into custody after Operation D-Elite (that's what the FBI dubbed it), trialled in a court of law and found guilty of copyright infringement. Although the sentence... |
1 July 2008
03:21 GMT |
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