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Article | 20/02/2013 Swedish Pirate Party faces legal action for providing Internet access to Pirate Bay
The Swedish Pirate Party faces a lawsuit if it does not stop providing Internet access to The Pirate Bay file-sharing site by next Tuesday.
Article | 20/02/2013 Microsoft, EMC, NetApp join Oracle's legal fight against Google on Java
Microsoft, EMC and NetApp have joined an appeal by Oracle against an earlier decision in a copyright and patent infringement lawsuit against Google ov...
Article | 19/02/2013 British music industry bids to block three more file-sharing sites
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is seeking to block file-sharing sites Fenopy, H33t and Kickass Torrents, the BPI said on Tuesday.
Article | 13/02/2013 Oracle contests Google's 'fair use' of Java code in appeal
An appeals court should rule, as a matter of law, that Google's commercial use of Java in a market where Oracle already competed was not fair use, the...
Article | 6/02/2013 Movie industry not entitled to Usenet piracy profits, UK high court rules
The movie industry has no rights to the profits made by the owner of Usenet-indexing website Newzbin2 by infringing on copyrights, the England and Wal...
Article | 5/02/2013 Lawmakers pledge to change hacking law during Swartz memorial
U.S. lawmakers pledged to rewrite an antihacking law as hundreds of people gathered in Washington, D.C., to mourn the death of Internet activist and i...
Article | 4/02/2013 German publishers say Google won't get the same deal it got in France
German newspaper and magazine publishers said Monday that they won't give Google the same copyright deal as it struck with French publishers to settle...
Article | 31/01/2013 US agencies seize fake NFL gear, websites
Three U.S. investigative agencies, working with state and local police departments across the country, have seized more than 300 websites and US$13.6 ...
Article | 30/01/2013 Tech industry sharply criticizes German online copyright bill
As German government officials prepared to meet to discuss a controversial online copyright bill on Wednesday, Yahoo, Facebook and German online start...
Article | 14/01/2013 US DOJ did not entrap Megaupload, the agency says
The U.S. Department of Justice did not mislead a court and attempt to entrap file storage site Megaupload on copyright infringement charges, the agenc...
Article | 8/01/2013 Man pleads guilty to selling $100 million worth of pirated software
A Chinese man has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to selling pirated software used in defense, space and other industries with a retail value of more t...
Article | 4/01/2013 Internet piracy group leader sentenced to five years in prison
The leader of a U.S. online piracy group that covertly recorded movies showing in theaters and offered them online has been sentenced to five years in...
Article | 3/01/2013 Megaupload claims it was asked by US to keep infringing files
The U.S. government misrepresented facts when it approached a court for search warrants against Megaupload, according to a filing Wednesday by counsel...
Article | 28/12/2012 Apple fined in Beijing court over e-book sales
Apple was ordered by a Beijing court on Thursday to pay a total of 1.03 million yuan (US$165,000) for selling unlicensed e-books, according to a repor...
Article | 24/12/2012 US Congress may not have stomach for another SOPA
As a new session of the U.S. Congress convenes in early 2013, don't expect lawmakers to rush out a new version of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or...