A federal judge has ruled that the domain seizure of the rojadirecta.com domain by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not cause substantial hardship to its legal owner, Spanish firm Puerto 80.Last year, ICE, the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, began seizing domain names believed ... |
5 August 2011
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A Spanish court of appeals has ruled that sites which merely link to other pages hosting pirated content do not violate any of the country's laws.The ruling came in a copyright infringement case between the Spanish General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) and a website called index-web.com that dates back t... |
15 July 2011
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The definition of computers as specified in Dutch computer intrusion legislation has led to the acquittal of a defendant charged with breaking into a protected WiFi network.The controversial verdict [Google translation] was handed down earlier this month by a Hague court in the case of a Maerlant College graduate who... |
21 March 2011
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Facebook scored another win in its fight against spammers as a federal court awarded the company $360,500,000 in statutory damages from a phisher.The ruling from US district court judge Jeremy Fogel is against a man named Philip Porembski, who is believed to have hijacked at least 116,000 Facebook accounts."Since Oct... |
29 January 2011
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California Supreme Court's ruling to allow the search of arestees' cell phones without the need of a warrant could drive more people to adopt mobile encryption solutions.On Monday, the court decided 5 to 2 that police officers are entitled to examine the mobile devices of arrested individuals, because they ... |
4 January 2011
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A California court has issued an order for IsoHunt's administrators to remove all of the infringing torrent files from their website. To get around the judge's decision, Gary Fung, IsoHunt's founder, is trying to have the court approve a lighter version of the torrent search engine as an alternative to... |
1 April 2010
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In a decision issued on September 7, 2009, the National Arbitration Forum decided to transfer ownership rights over the googlewebmarketing.com domain name from Absolutee Corp. Ltd. c/o DNS Manager to Google Inc. After all domain name disputes have been moved by ICANN to the National Arbitration Forum (there is also t... |
11 September 2009
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The US District Court of Delaware has issued a verdict in the case between Finjan Inc. and Secure Computing Corporation for several patent infringements. The court also permitted and ruled an injunction against the retail of McAfee-owned products Webwasher and TSP. The above-mentioned products, according to the Dist... |
20 August 2009
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled (PDF) that companies providing content-filtering software, such as antivirus vendors, are protected from liability, under the Communications Decency Act of 1996. The decision comes in the case of Zango vs. Kaspersky, but the court expresses concern that, in a more gener... |
29 June 2009
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The European Commission is reported to have opened an infringement proceeding against Romania as a result of the confusion created with the telecoms regulator. Last year, the Romanian government decided to remove the President of the national telecoms regulator, going on with restructuring and renaming this authority... |
31 January 2009
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Lance Atkinson, one of the individuals involved in the major Herbal King spam operation, has been fined with $NZ100,000 (US $57,000), after pleading guilty. He still faces charges in the United States, where he is named as one of the defendants in a lawsuit brought forward by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The H... |
22 December 2008
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After 40 years of smoking approximately one pack of cigarettes per day, Norma Rose sued the tobacco industry, filing a product liability claim, which argued that producers should use less tar and nicotine in their products. A lower New York State Court ruled in favor of Rose and her husband a while back, but now the ... |
17 December 2008
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