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The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled AOL spammer Jeremy Jaynes should go free, after he was convicted in 2004 and sentenced to serve 9 years in a federal prison. The court's decision was not taken because Jeremy Jaynes was actually innocent, as he did send spam e-mails, but because the law under which he was con... |
13 September 2008
07:43 GMT |
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Germany's Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that the authorities wouldn't any longer be at large to collect data from the Internet users' personal computers whenever and however they please. Certain limitations were imposed upon the state-controlled agencies, such as the need for judicial permiss... |
28 February 2008
05:26 GMT |
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Jack Thompson, the anti-game militant, GTA & Co. hater and, according to Fox News, "Campus shooting expert" (which is hilarious, really) is already awaiting a referee's decision regarding his possible disbarment. But things got a bit more complicated, since his friends from the Florida Supreme Court slapped him ... |
25 February 2008
05:10 GMT |
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Sometimes having the legal power to sue anyone, over anything, brings strange ideas, and many lawsuits stand to test that theory. None of which can hold a candle to the suit Google had to go through, believe me on that. It was sued for 'crimes against humanity' by a man named Dylan Stephen Jayne, who observ... |
11 February 2008
14:21 GMT |
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Hate crimes over the Internet are very seldom followed by a court decision in Canada, that's why the ruling yesterday caused a bit of a stir. Discrimination is not new on the web, it has been there when there were only a few sites and it will always be one of the major causes for grief. Moreover, people claiming... |
6 February 2008
06:03 GMT |
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Today is a big day on the Britney front, and we're all wondering whether by the end of the day Brit Brit will still hold a chance (however remote) of ever getting near her kids, or if we'll witness yet another public meltdown, like the one that followed Britney's latest run-in with the law. And yes, fo... |
14 January 2008
04:01 GMT |
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Christmas and the Holidays will come with a bitter taste for Yahoo! China, as it has just lost the suit filed against it by the IFPI, representing companies including Warner Music Group Corp., Sony BMG and Universal Vivendi, for violating copyrights because of links between its search engine and Web sites with 229 il... |
21 December 2007
13:16 GMT |
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I've been told an interesting story under the QT once, about the fact that we're still using DVDs because most of the porn that is for sale at the moment, on the internet, is available on them, and that when the big boys decide that they feel like moving to the next largest storage capacity medium, the who... |
5 December 2007
10:30 GMT |
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Eddie Murphy and Melanie Brown from the Spice Girls have been involved for a couple of months, from July to December last year. Their brief affair resulted in a tiny bundle of joy, that Mel later called Angel Iris. But Angel is also the reason of discontent among the two former lovers: after a paternity test establis... |
15 August 2007
08:21 GMT |
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Two teenagers from Hastings were sent to the judge after a video showing them assaulting a third teen was posted on YouTube. It seems like the two attackers are brothers and were sent to the Hastings Youth Court for attacking a person in one of the city's parks. According to Newstalk ZB, the two brothers were re... |
2 May 2007
14:56 GMT |
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