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12 hrs ago | P2pnet.net

Is Vye Music innovation? Or is it stealing?

Music:- "A 16-year Gold Coast kid is promoting the theft of music with his new site Vye Music," says Undercover.com in Australia.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Digital Rights Management, Online Music, Internet

Fri Nov 27, 2009

Freerepublic.com

Failure to launch: Would-be ‘Mac cloner’ Psystar...

"The Mac clone maker now fighting for its life in federal court pitched an extremely aggressive business plan to potential investors last year, claiming that it would sell as many as 12 million machines in 2011," Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld.

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Related Topix: Computers, Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Laptops/Notebooks, Science / Technology, Apple, CPU

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Techworld

Mac clone maker promised investors huge sales

The Mac clone maker now fighting for its life in federal court pitched an extremely aggressive business plan to potential investors last year, claiming that it would sell as many as 12 million machines in 2011.

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Related Topix: Computers, Laptops/Notebooks, Science / Technology, Apple, CPU

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Techdirt

Spanish Court Dismisses Complaint From Nintendo Against Counterfiet...

It seems that Spain is a country that is pretty consistently figuring out that we shouldn't just throw out all other rights the second "piracy" is shouted by the entertainment industry.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Digital Rights Management, Science / Technology

Mon Nov 23, 2009

San Francisco Chronicle

Microsoft invokes DMCA & shuts Cryptome downloads of COFEE

Microsoft has shut down the last publicly and openly available download of their Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor .

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Sun Nov 22, 2009

COLDFUSION Developer's Journal

Intellectual Property Partner Paul Garrity Joins Sheppard Mullin New York

Garrity was previously a partner at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP in New York. Garrity specializes in intellectual property litigation.

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Related Topix: New York, Law, Patent / Trademark Law

Fri Nov 20, 2009

The Washington Post

ACTA puts digital rights on table

For the more than 10 years I've been writing this column, I keep coming back to copyright-policy issues, and not just because I work in Washington.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

MacNewsWorld

Apple's Retail Engine Keeps On Rolling

Look for up to 50 new Apple stores to open up around the world in 2010. The company plans to keep putting energy behind its profitable retail locations.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Apple, Startups, Computers, Apple Computer, iPhone, 9

Wed Nov 18, 2009

PR-inside.com

a Protect Your Intellectual Property, or Prepare to Have It Stolena

In fact, this CEO of the nation's fastest-growing CFO services firm has a strong message to other business owners: protect your intellectual property, or prepare to have it stolen.

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Related Topix: Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Metro, Startups, B2B CFO, B2B CFO, LLC, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Tue Nov 17, 2009

ABA Journal

Judge Nixes a Hackintoshera Bid to Put Mac Os X in Cloned Computers

Apple won a legal battle over the use of its operating system Friday, when a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that Psystar violated copyright law by selling its own cloned computers with Mac OS X. The clone-maker got around Apple's restrictions on using the operating system in non-Macintosh machines by installing circumventing software on its ...

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Apple, Computers

Mon Nov 16, 2009

The WHIR

DMCA revisions leaked

As noted in a previous entry, the U.S. and its major trading partners are engaged in negotiations on a new treaty entitled the " Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement " or ACTA.

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Sun Nov 15, 2009

Rational Review

You could lose your Internet service

"I see that economics blogger Brad DeLong is celebrating his first DMCA takedown notice.

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Sat Nov 14, 2009

Aaron Swartz

Is the DMCA a scam?

I received my first DMCA takedown notice today. I published publicly-available IRS information about the nonprofit Kwaze-Kwasa [USA] Inc.

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Related Topix: Internet Service Providers

GrokLaw

Apple Wins Like a Champ - Psystar is Toast -- What? You're Surprised?

ArchiveExplorer Autozone Bilski BK Timeline Cast: Lawyers Contracts Courts DRM GPL Grokdoc HTML How To IBM Timeline Legal Docs MS Litigation Novell Appeal Novell Timeline Novell v. MS Novell-MS Deal ODF/OOXML OOXML Appeals Patents ProjectMonterey Psystar Quote Database Red Hat Salus Book SCO SCO Financials SCO:Soup2Nuts SCOBankruptcy Sean Daly ...

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Apple, Digital Rights Management, Open Source Software, Linux, Computers

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Raw Story

Liberals cry 'unfair' after Fox orders unbalanced YouTube purge

Liberal bloggers are accusing Fox News of launching an Internet war against them in a campaign to selectively remove Fox clips from YouTube.

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Related Topix: Blog News

Boing Boing

EFF to represent Yes Men in Chamber of Commerce lawsuit

Rebecca from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "More news about the Yes Men and the Chamber of Commerce.

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Related Topix: Activism, Law, Washington DC

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Techdirt

Modern Warfare Game Modder DMCA's Infinity Ward

Reader Cameron Boykin alerts us to the news that a game modder appears to have filed a DMCA claim against Infinity Ward for its video of a certain part of Modern Warfare 2 , claiming that the element in the game was influenced by a mod he had created.

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

MotherJones

The DMCA and You

The long arm of the law has reached out and grabbed Brad DeLong by the throat: Well, this is new.

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Tue Nov 10, 2009

Ars Technica

Blu-ray discs get Managed Copy; hardware support nonexistent

"Managed copy" has been slouching its way toward our living rooms for years now, but the technology that can make backup copies of films will finally come to all Blu-ray discs on December 4, 2009 .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Digital Rights Management

Mon Nov 09, 2009

TechNewsWorld

Betrayals: Obama's Hollywood Sellout, Tech Companies' Layoffs

If a secret copyright treaty should move out of the draft stage and become law, the entertainment industry will be celebrating, but the rest of us will be squirming under draconian measures that will make the DMCA look downright appealing -- and the DMCA is one of the worst laws ever adopted.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Entertainment, Google, Startups, Software

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