If nothing else, you have to feel sorry for poor Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University student who managed to get his $675,000 file-sharing verdict reduced to $67,500… and then watched as an appeals court bumped it back up to its original amount again, reports Ars Technica.
Tenenbaum was ordered to pay $675,000 by a jury after being …
Samsung’s banking on home-field advantage to get the iPhone 5 banned in Korea, even as Apple gains the upper hand in smaller patent battles overseas.
Samsung executives told Korea Times that it will seek a sales ban against the iPhone 5 once it launches in Korea. “For as long as Apple does not drop mobile telecommunications functions, …
Sony has a new message for its PlayStation users: If you try and take part in a class action lawsuit against us, you’re in violation of your contract.
The Sony Corporation, already dealing with one class action suit on behalf of the 70 million PlayStation users whose personal information was lost during April’s PSN security breach, …
Canadian authorities have had to issue a warning to Internet users concerning fake copyright notices they may receive about pornography they haven’t actually downloaded. Confused? You will be.
Apparently, some Canadian senior citizens have received letters claiming to come from “Artisan International License, Compliance and …
Cyber attacks on PayPal, AT&T and other organizations weren’t just attempts to cause chaos or anarchistic assaults on the establishment, according to attorneys defending the fourteen members of Anonymous arrested earlier this year. Instead, they were apparently part of a political protest over the treatment of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian …
Watch out, IBM, it looks like Google’s just snapped up 1,000 patents belonging to you, which almost sounds dramatic, except for the part where IBM let them.
Make that 1,023 patents in all, which Bloomberg reports were acquired from IBM on August 17. The move is thought to be part of Google’s recent strategy to stockpile patents …
The future of law enforcement is…the future.
Cops in Santa Cruz, CA have started using a mathematical algorithm that predicts when and where crimes will occur, the aim being to have police officers on the scene before anything actually happens. Somewhat surprisingly, five people have been arrested as a result of the program and …
Things aren’t going well for Groupon these days. Not only is the daily deals business facing a downturn with Yelp cutting back the frequency of its deal service and Facebook dropping its service altogether, but now Groupon is facing its second class action lawsuit in two months—and this one comes from its own employees.
A lawsuit …
There is, it seems, only one problem with enforcing stricter copyright laws when it comes to online piracy: People stop using the Internet altogether.
It sounds dramatic, but evidence in both New Zealand and Sweden suggests that—rather than risk being caught downloading illegal material and facing fines (or, in New Zealand’s case, …
Potential teenage Matthew Brodericks, beware: In this era of LulzSec, DDoS attacks on BART and hacktivst group Anonymous telling NATO that the world doesn’t belong to them anymore, the White House has decided that it’s time to take hacking seriously, asking for tougher sentencing for those found guilty of cybercrime.
Speaking before …
Leave it to Walmart to find some kind of silver lining in an expensive settlement to a class action lawsuit. A California court has tentatively approved the corporate giant’s proposal to provide the 40 million Netflix subscribers their agreed upon settlement in the form of gift cards to Walmart’s website, which just happens to house …
Not that this should be monstrously surprising, but Sprint has filed a lawsuit against the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger. The suit has been filed "as a related case to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) suit against the proposed acquisition," according to Sprint’s press release.
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