Technology, Technology news, Times Online > A little while ago, I received an e-mail from a lady in the Trading Standards department of a large northern town. They had encountered businesses which were selling copies of Firefox, and wanted to confirm that this was in violation of our licence agreements before taking action against them. [...]
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Company claims patent win in online rich media
Company claims patent win in online rich media | CNET News.com > Internet design company Balthaser announced Tuesday that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted it a patent for the design and creation of rich-media services over the Internet. How many more of these rediculous patents will we have to endure before the [...]
Huge Anti-Piracy Push By MPAA
Slyck News – Huge Anti-Piracy Push By MPAA > The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is steamrolling across the great indexing plains. Tuesday brought news the eDonkey2000 indexing server Razorback2 was taken offline by Belgian Police, in conjunction with the MPAA. Today, the MPAA has announced a tremendous escalation in their fight against online [...]
19 Charged in Alleged Software Piracy Plot
19 Charged in Alleged Software Piracy Plot – Yahoo! News > CHICAGO - A federal grand jury has indicted 19 people on charges they used the Internet to pirate more than $6.5 million worth of copyrighted computer software, games and movies. Goodbye RISCISO. Been ages since I’ve seen a game I’d wanted at all, and [...]
Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
Create an e-annoyance, go to jail | Perspectives | CNET News.com > Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. If you annoy someone on the internet without using your true identity, you can be fined and imprisoned for [...]
Spammer lands $11 billion fine
Spammer lands $11 billion fine > A SMALL ISP in the town of Clinton, Iowa, has just won one of the largest payouts ever extracted from a spammer. > The firm, CIS Internet Services, won $11.2 billion from James McCalla, from Florida, who was found to have sent millions of unsolicited e-mails advertising mortgage and [...]
China declares war on Internet pornography
China declares war on Internet pornography > The Chinese government regularly censors Internet content in an effort to diminish the distribution of politically subversive material, but now the communist state is expanding its control and targetting Internet pornography web sites as well. According to a Chinese government official, 221 people have been arrested, and almost [...]
Lock and Load
PBS | I, Cringely . December 8, 2005 – Lock and Load > Two interesting events took place while I was distracted with Google over the past couple weeks — events that give us just a bit more information about where the future of digital media distribution is likely to end up, and the risks [...]
Wired News: Yahoo Devours Del.icio.us
Wired News: Yahoo Devours Del.icio.us > SUNNYVALE, California — In its latest acquisition of a social networking service, internet powerhouse Yahoo on Friday chomped down on del.icio.us, a startup that enables people to more easily compile and share their favorite content on the web. I need to get my act together and create something Yahoo [...]
Hooked on the Web: Help Is on the Way
Hooked on the Web: Help Is on the Way – New York Times > These specialists estimate that 6 percent to 10 percent of the approximately 189 million Internet users in this country have a dependency that can be as destructive as alcoholism and drug addiction, and they are rushing to treat it. Yet some [...]