It took five minutes for the jury in Virgin Records America et al. v. Thomas to find Jammie Thomas guilty of illegally downloading and sharing 24 songs over the Kazaa file-sharing network. But it took five hours for it to determine damages.
This according to juror Michael Hegg, who tells Wired that one of his impaneled [...]
Vonage lawyer Louis Jameson was right. Vonage doesn’t owe Sprint Nextel a dime. It owes the company 800 million of them. Vonage settled its patent dispute with Sprint Nextel this morning for $80 million–$35 million for past use of Sprint’s patented technology and $40 million for future licensing, along with a $5 million prepayment.
Since September 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America has filed more than 21,000 illegal downloading suits. Yesterday, testimony began in the first one ever to go to trial.
The case is Virgin Records America et al. v. Thomas, and it pits Jammie Thomas, a single mother of two from central Minnesota, against the RIAA, which [...]
Spam litigation is not the stuff of which cottage industries are made. Just ask James Gordon, who’s been ordered to pay attorneys fees and costs in the amount of $111,440 to Virtumundo, the email marketer he sued under the CAN-SPAM Act.
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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