One of the programmers contracted to develop a piece of software called Government-Wide Accounting and Reporting Program (GWA) for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) has been arrested for stealing part of the source code for which the United States spent $9.5 Million (€6.6 Million).
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19 January 2012
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Neustar Media, the company that’s responsible for developing the technology behind the now controversial UltraViolet Digital Right Management (DRM) system, unveiled its plans to revive it, but not by considering it an entirely new system, but by distributing content from the cloud using existing solutions.
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8 December 2011
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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
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Defective By Design, a group of anti-DRM campaigners, issued somewhat of a warning earlier this month telling folks that Apple's iPhone was bad news. Most recently, based on allegations that Apple's reason for DRM on the iPhone is "pure, old fashioned greed," the group has begun encouraging folks worldwide ... |
29 July 2008
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After splitting with its record label, legendary band Nine Inch Nails (NIN) has opted to upload itself the first part of the four-volume work 'Ghosts' to the BitTorrent network. It might sound like something the band might do out of revenge, but the members strongly endorse file sharing. "We encourage you t... |
4 March 2008
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Crazy as it may sound, apparently file sharing only leads to increased music sales according to some studies being quoted on the Open Rights Group discussion list earlier this month. Don't be raising an eyebrow, there's some more explaining involved before the idea starts taking realistic weight. There'... |
27 February 2008
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The United States are the land of opportunity, where everybody can sue anybody and even win. And moreover, the seemingly obvious decisions turn to eye-widening, jaw-dropping twists of plot. A recent ruling could be the turning point for the way cases are instrumented against file sharers. A year ago, Atlantic Recordi... |
27 February 2008
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The Pirate Bay had it good before the IFPI decided to stick its nose in the Peer-to-Peer file sharing tracker's business. When the piracy assist lawsuit was slugged in the Swedish site's face, it joined a vast slew of other similar legal actions being already aimed at the world's biggest BitTorrent tra... |
21 February 2008
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The already certain-looking decision of Denmark Internet Service ProviderTele2 to comply with banning Peer To Peer file sharing tracker The Pirate Bay has been revoked. Flying its colors high and boasting with the way others understand to respect and protect copyrights, the IFPI must have felt like a piano fell over ... |
14 February 2008
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The anti-piracy movement from the authorities is strong, but unfortunately not very successful. The torrent tracking site has a very large fanbase and about 2.5 million subscribers ready to give hell to everybody moving against their 'coup de foudre'. The only way a Danish court thought it could prevent the... |
5 February 2008
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