The cheeky folks at the Pirate Bay may need a peg leg or two when Sweden’s legal sharks are done with them. A Swedish prosecutor filed charges today against the popular BitTorrent tracker’s proprietors, accusing them of “promoting other people’s infringements of copyright laws.“
“The operation of the Pirate Bay is financed through advertising revenues,” [...]
A $9,250 per-song fine might seem an excessive punishment for illegally sharing music for no personal gain, but it’s really not. According to the U.S. Justice Department, anyway.
The DOJ says the $222,000 in damages awarded to the Recording Industry Association of America in the Virgin Records America et al. v. Thomas copyright-infringement case is constitutional. [...]
As lawsuits go, the timing couldn’t be more perfect. Klausner Technologies filed a $360 million patent-infringement suit against Apple Monday claiming iPhone’s Visual Voicemail, a signature feature of the device, violates a few Klausner patents (so much for those vaunted “200 iPhone patents”). This on the very day that IDG World Expo announced that Apple [...]
Burst has added another notch to its patent-infringement settlement belt. The scrappy three-man company, which once beat a $60 million settlement out of Microsoft over charges that the software giant had stolen its streaming media technology, has managed to squeeze a few million out of Apple as well.
Bringing an end to an often contentious [...]
Well, look at that. AT&T’s actually figured out a way to turn the bad press over its cozy relationship with the National Security Agency into a product endorsement: offer a surveillance service to owners of small- and medium-size businesses.
Today the NSA-preferred telecom announced AT&T Remote Monitor, a package of IP video cameras and environmental sensors [...]
Good thing Viacom and CBS Corp. Chairman Sumner Redstone plans to live at least another 50 years; he may actually be around long enough to see the realization of Viacom’s grand Internet strategy and its bet on the marriage of old-line media assets with new distribution technologies. Assuming, of course, the sanctity of copyright [...]
Who better than AT&T to filter the Internet for widespread copyright infringement? After all, the company has a fair bit of experience with just this sort of thing, having aided and abetted the National Security Agency in its warrantless domestic-surveillance efforts.
Anyway, together with NBC and Disney, AT&T has invested a combined $10 million in Vobile, [...]
Flash memory maker SanDisk has apparently devised a means of offsetting the legal bills that might arise from the price-fixing suit filed against it (and 23 other companies) earlier this year: suing the better part of the removable flash storage industry for patent infringement.
SanDisk filed three patent-infringement lawsuits against 25 companies that make, sell or [...]
Unlimited local and long-distance calls aren’t the only things Vonage is selling at a steep discount these days–check out its stock. Shares of the Internet phone company, which went public in May 2006 at $17, are this morning trading at $1.32, down 14.29% on news that AT&T has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against it.
In a [...]
John Heileman, contributing editor at New York magazine, begins the conversation with Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman by discussing the plan unveiled today to post Comedy Central’s “Daily Show With Jon Stewart” on the Web. As owner of Comedy Central, Viacom is seeking to spread the cable channel’s content on many platforms, thus creating a “richer” [...]
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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.
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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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