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VSDA joins Piracy Battle

VSDA joins Piracy Battle 07/20/2004 07:55 PM

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The Tech Law Advisory reports that the Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) has joined the fight against P2P piracy. It is being reported that the VSDA is openly showing support for MPAA’s public education campaign as well as their efforts to use legal efforts to shut down Grokster and Morpheus. Man, it seems like every time we turn around, there is another P2P battle going on. First it was the music industry, now it is…

Canada joins online piracy fight

Canada joins online piracy fight 02/17/2004 11:49 AM
Canada's biggest music companies start legal moves to try to identify people who illegally swap songs online.

Are PCs next in Hollywood piracy battle?

Are PCs next in Hollywood piracy battle? 11/05/2003 11:40 PM
The FCC's "broadcast flag" mandate could have a wider-than-expected impact as TVs and computers converge.

Los Alamos lab joins battle against
cancer

Los Alamos lab joins battle against
cancer 12/29/2004 12:06 PM
globetechnology.com Dec 29 2004 3:21PM GMT

Microsoft continues to battle piracy in
the channel

Microsoft continues to battle piracy in
the channel 12/03/2003 04:10 AM
ZDNet Australia Dec 3 2003 3:37AM ET

DVD Piracy booming MPAA loosing the
battle

DVD Piracy booming MPAA loosing the
battle 12/10/2003 01:51 PM
Seems the MPAA's war on DVD Piracy is being lost. The MPAA is saying that they have found over 150,000...

Piracy battle begins over digital radio

Piracy battle begins over digital radio 06/16/2004 07:54 PM
Consumers, electronics companies oppose RIAA's drive to protect radio content, described by one group as "un-American."

Film firms lose DVD piracy battle

Film firms lose DVD piracy battle 01/06/2004 09:16 AM
BBC Jan 6 2004 7:57AM ET

Yahoo Joins Battle Against Spyware
(NewsFactor)

Yahoo Joins Battle Against Spyware
(NewsFactor) 05/27/2004 02:07 PM
NewsFactor - Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) has launched new anti-spyware software, becoming the latest Internet service provider to combat a problem plaguing virtually every computer user with an Internet connection.

Primus Joins Internet Phone Battle

Primus Joins Internet Phone Battle 06/10/2004 02:50 PM
AP via Daily Press Jun 10 2004 7:06PM GMT

Microsoft joins police in child-porn
battle

Microsoft joins police in child-porn
battle 04/07/2005 03:00 PM
Toronto Police and Microsoft have unveiled a new computer system designed to track down internet distributors of child pornography. The $4.5-million Child Exploitation Tracking System uses internet technology to analyze and compare pornographic pictures seized when an arrest is made. It also compares email lists and network contacts found on seized computers.

Ruling sets back music industry's piracy
battle

Ruling sets back music industry's piracy
battle 08/19/2004 11:06 PM
USA Today Aug 20 2004 3:11AM GMT

As Piracy Battle Nears Supreme Court,
the Messages Grow Manic

As Piracy Battle Nears Supreme Court,
the Messages Grow Manic 02/07/2005 01:30 AM
New York Times Feb 7 2005 3:26AM GMT

Digital Harbor Joins W3C; Leading
Composite Application Developer Joins
Industry-Leading Forum to Participate

Digital Harbor Joins W3C; Leading
Composite Application Developer Joins
Industry-Leading Forum to Participate 06/14/2004 02:48 PM
XMLMania.com Jun 14 2004 5:22PM GMT

The 1966 film “The Battle of Algiers"
Tells Us a Lot About the Battle for Iraq
12/21

The 1966 film “The Battle of Algiers"
Tells Us a Lot About the Battle for Iraq
12/21 12/21/2003 07:18 AM
Philip Gourevitch, writing in the New Yorker .. Winning and losing

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Actual piracy on rise, response
orthagonal to RIAA's response to
"piracy"`

Actual piracy on rise, response
orthagonal to RIAA's response to
"piracy"` 01/27/2004 07:32 PM
Actual piracy is on the rise. That is to say, more people are boarding more ships with more guns and shooting more people and taking more cargo, all the while uttering more horrible cries of "ARRRRR."

Strangely, the shipping industry's response isn't to keelhaul passengers who don't tip well on ocean cruises, or to hull random pleasure boats, or to demand special bow-mounted lasers that vaporize any ship that gets within a hundred miles.

Around the world, more than 20 sailors are known to have been murdered by pirates last year.

Seventy are missing, presumed dead.

Other trends are also emerging: ships are now less likely to be hijacked for their cargo; attackers, possibly from militant groups, are seizing ships and ransoming their crew.

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"Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs
- Battle Torrent"

"Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs
- Battle Torrent" 08/04/2004 03:30 PM

Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs -
Battle Torrent

Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs -
Battle Torrent 08/04/2004 09:28 AM
Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs - Battle Torrent .. proposal for making bittorrent usable

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World's Largest Online Library Joins
ISTE in Promoting Technology in
Education - Questia Online Library and
Research Service Joins ISTE 100

World's Largest Online Library Joins
ISTE in Promoting Technology in
Education - Questia Online Library and
Research Service Joins ISTE 100 06/14/2004 02:07 AM
Questia, world's largest online library and research service joins ISTE 100 to promote effective use of technology in the classroom. [PRWEB Jun 14, 2004]

On Piracy

On Piracy 01/02/2004 01:09 PM

Many people who use pirated products justify it by claiming they're only stealing from rich mega-corporations that screw their customers, but this conveniently overlooks the fact that the people who are hurt the most by piracy are people like me.

Shareware developers are losing enormous amounts of money to piracy, and we're mostly helpless to do anything about it. We can't afford to sue everyone who steals from us, let alone track down people in countries such as Russia who host web sites offering pirated versions of our work. If you visit a few public "warez" sites, you're unlikely to find software from companies such as Microsoft who can afford to prosecute pirates - instead you'll find hundreds of shareware products written by people like me.

Some would argue that we should just accept piracy as part of the job, but chances are the people who say this aren't aware of how widespread piracy really is. A quick look at my web server logs would be enough to startle most people, since the top referrers are invariably warez sites that link to my site (yes, not only do they steal my software, but they also suck my bandwidth).

A couple of years ago I wanted to get an idea of how many people were using pirated versions of TopStyle, so I signed up for an anonymous email account (using a "kewl" nickname, of course) and started hanging out in cracker forums. After proving my cracker creds, I created a supposedly cracked version of TopStyle and arranged to have it listed on a popular warez site.

This cracked version pinged home the first time it was run, providing a way for me to find out how many people were using it. To my dismay, in just a few weeks more people had used this cracked version than had ever purchased it. I knew piracy was rampant, but I didn't realize how widespread it was until this test.

(As an aside, the only thing that prevented me from having this fake cracked version erase the user's hard drive was a sense of ethics - the same thing that's apparently missing from those who steal my software. This does illustrate, though, that you never know what you're getting when you download warez. Folks, if you're downloading pirated software, you're trusting EXEs hosted by people who brag about being criminals!)

Software crackers should be listed alongside spammers, virus writers and script kiddies as scourges of the Internet, because they make software more expensive and more invasive. Trust me: shareware developers such as myself really don't want to resort to things like software activation since it adds to our already oversized workload, but when we see thousands of people stealing from us, we're willing to do pretty much anything (wouldn't you?).

piracy

piracy 06/25/2004 05:12 PM
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Pre-empting piracy

Pre-empting piracy 06/12/2004 12:00 AM
USA Today Jun 12 2004 3:06AM GMT

piracy messages

piracy messages 06/05/2004 04:32 AM
a picture of the piracy-warning before the movie starts .. Gallery of movie copyright warnings .. Anti-copyright warnings in films

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FCC Cracks Down On TV Piracy

FCC Cracks Down On TV Piracy 11/05/2003 05:18 AM
CBS News Nov 5 2003 4:28AM ET

Piracy Protection?!

Piracy Protection?! 09/07/2004 03:36 AM
Many of us, including me, are the software developers. Many call ourselves 'indieware' developers. We develop software, formerly known as 'shareware', that allows people to download it, try it for some period of time (or with some features disabled), and, if the software looks and feels good, purchase it. After ...

On Piracy, Part II

On Piracy, Part II 01/05/2004 03:01 PM

Looks like my rant about software piracy has generated some thoughtful feedback, some of which is listed in the post's t rackbacks. My apologies for not enabling comments for these posts, but unfortunately a recent flood of comment spam has made comments impossible for me to manage.

One thing mentioned in several responses is that people who steal my software wouldn't necessarily have bought it in the first place. This seems such an obvious statement that I didn't bother mentioning it, but perhaps I should have. So, for the record, I'm certain that the majority of people who use pirated versions of TopStyle would never have purchased it. Almost anything that costs money will be used by more people if they can get it for free.

But even so, this still costs me. My support newsgroups contain countless messages from people who have been asking me questions for years, yet have never purchased a copy. Given that the TopStyle trial version expires after 20 uses, you have think something's fishy there. And you'd be amazed by the number of support emails I get from people who admit that they're using a stolen copy, but still expect me to offer them support.

Perhaps more importantly, you need to consider how these pirated copies are obtained in the first place. While some pirated copies are cracks of the trial version, in other cases people use a stolen credit card number to purchase a copy of TopStyle, then once they download the registered version they post it on some warez site. This results in a chargeback fee from the credit card company - which comes out of my pocket.

Another common argument is that software isn't a physical product, so it has no real value and therefore nothing is lost when someone uses a stolen copy. Uhmmm...look, anyone who is tied to physical objects as the only things with monetary value is flat-out unprepared for the Internet and should stay offline.

Okay, that's enough ranting for now. My purpose with these posts is not to browbeat anyone, but instead to offer an inside view of what piracy really is. All too often the only people commenting on piracy are the pirates themselves or the lawyers protecting large corporations, so I thought I'd share how piracy affects someone like me. Despite my sour attitude regarding piracy and the lack of ethics among those who use warez, I'm still heartened that there are enough honest people to enable small developers to earn a nice living. I love what I do, and if you're among those who has purchased my software and enabled me to keep creating it, then I owe you a great deal of thanks.

The end of DIRECTV piracy?

The end of DIRECTV piracy? 04/15/2004 09:03 AM
The sky is falling! [some links require reg] The years of hacking DIRECTV's signal and pirating its program offerings seem to be coming to an end.

The Economics of Piracy

The Economics of Piracy 01/05/2004 11:35 PM

On Piracy, or, Nick Bradbury is an Amazing Idiot: This was written in response to Nick Bradbury's bit about piracy from yesterday.

...most people who pirate his software probably would never use it anyway, so they aren't costing him any money and they're providing him with free advertising.

This is a good point. I'm not defending piracy, but piracy costs a company money in only one instance: when a person who has the means and inclination to buy the software pirates it instead. I can get a pirated copy of Oracle, but that doesn't mean I've cost that company money, because if I couldn't pirate it, I wouldn't buy it — I'd use something cheaper or free.

Now, there are holes in this theory, of course, because if true, it essentially means that poor people can pirate anything they want because they couldn't or wouldn't buy it otherwise. But I get annoyed when Microsoft claims that piracy costs it untold billions of dollars a year. This is a little arrogant. Microsoft is basically saying that every single person who pirated their software would have paid full price for it if piracy wasn't an option.

This is patently ridiculous and Microsoft knows it, but big numbers make big headlines. If Office was suddenly un-piratable, would Microsoft reap a billion-dollar windfall from would-be thieves? Nope — Open Office would just saturate the market in a big hurry. When the only options are paying for it or finding a much cheaper alternative, 99% of pirates will choose the latter.

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Piracy Paranoia

Piracy Paranoia 07/09/2004 01:12 PM
Fear and hope in a scare sheet from the movie industry.

Privacy vs. Piracy?

Privacy vs. Piracy? 03/14/2005 05:27 PM
The entertainment industry certainly loves to raid ISPs these days. Perhaps it's payback for all those recent court rulings saying that ISPs shouldn't just roll over and hand out private data every time the entertainment industry suspects wrongdoing. Last week, they raided an Austra lian ISP and a Swedish one. The Swedish one was with the help of authorities (the Australian one wasn't), but it was still organized by the entertainment industry. However, in raiding the ISP and carting away lots of info, some are wondering if the raid violated strict data privacy laws in that country. It certainly raises some interesting questions in the light of all of the many, many data leaks over the past couple of weeks. If your data happens to be stored on the same server as someone who is breaking the law, does that mean your data is open to review from private sources?

Piracy Works

Piracy Works 06/22/2005 02:20 AM

Kids on Piracy

Kids on Piracy 01/07/2004 04:35 PM

In response to Nick Bradbury's post on piracy, Aaron Swartz writes:

Nick has no innate right to have people pay for his software, just as I have no right to ask people to pay for use of my name.

Even if he did, most people who pirate his software probably would never use it anyway, so they aren't costing him any money and they're providing him with free advertising.

And of course it makes sense that lots of people who see some interesting new program available for free from a site they're already at will download it and try it out once, just as more people will read an article I wrote in the New York Times than on my weblog.

And what's this nonsense about warez sites only having shareware stuff and not stuff from Microsoft. In my experience with the biggest, easiest-to-use things, the opposite is true (tons of BigCo software, very little shareware).

And while it's true that EXEs can often do anything (because modern OSes don't have basic security protections like chroot, which has been in UNIX for decades), this is true of all software not just warez.

Yes, piracy probably does take some sales away from Nick, but I doubt it's very many. If Nick wants to sell more software, maybe he should start by not screaming at his potential customers. What's next? Yelling at people who use his software on friends computers? Or at the library?

Aaron then wrote these series of comments in response to Schoolblo g's post that agrees with Nick's view:

Chris is arguing what’s known as the sweat-of-the-brow theory of intellectual monopolies: someone who puts work into something deserves to control how it is used.

Taken to its extreme, this probably results in things you disagree with. (Michael Jackson has put a lot of money and work into his face. Can he charge people who distribute pictures of it? A newspaper reporter puts a lot of work into discovering a story. Can he charge people who repeat it.) And certainly, in the specific case of copyright, if Chris’s world was in place we’d have no libraries or video stores, and all the books at bookstores would be shrink-wrapped or behind glass.

By Nick’s reasoning, everyone who rents a movie from a video store or takes a book out of the library is a pirate, because they cost the author one potential sale (in the US, authors don’t get paid anything for library or video store rentals).

Chris, do you feel authors have a right to keep their book out of libraries? They worked hard on their book, shouldn’t they get to make the terms of use? If you don’t, how do you distinguish libraries from downloads? (It’s true that libraries don’t usually involve copies, but this is a practical distinction — quibbles like that don’t see like they’d interfere with a strong right.)

I spend months researching an important story. Finally, after great lengths, I confirm that Nixon’s team funded Watergate break-in, and I provide a chain of evidence to prove it. You run a rival newspaper and you verify all the evidence with your own eyes. Can you publish the story as well? I put a lot of work into that story, I don’t want you to copy it, even if you give me credit.

The fact that video rental stores are legal while peer-to-peer systems aren’t is an accident of law and technology. The law regulated copying while the computer systems required copies to do everything. If we had built our networks with superfast pnuematic tubes instead of wires, we could whisk CDs across them to share with others without violating the law at all. It’s hard to believe one system could be moral and the other not, simply because of this technological accident.

The fact is that there is no such morality behind copyright. Copyright is a recent invention, which originally only touched commercial publishers (of which there aren’t very many). This idea of their being some moral reason for it is even more recent. You won’t find it in any religion, or any old culture. It’s a silly idea, and it goes against our nature to share and build upon each other’s work.

What’s the moral problem with me downloading Nick’s software when there was no chance of me buying it? I get the software, Nick doesn’t lose any money and possibly gets some free advertising. It seems everyone is better off; how could this be immoral?

Yup.  That's how smart kids of 21st century thinks.  What a shame.

Aside from the lost profit and firmness of the moral ground piracy stands on, piracy undermines the soul of our young.  When you do something others consider bad, you start a ball of self-justification rolling so you can sleep at night.  So what if I burnt a house down?  No one got hurt!

Let this bullshit go on and, before you know it, the only acceptable answer to “Why can't I drive your car when you are not using it?“ will be an Uzi.

The Piracy Pyramid

The Piracy Pyramid 01/03/2005 02:39 PM
Anathema, darknets, master rippers, and currys: The Shadow Internet. [via Volokh]

Software piracy on the up

Software piracy on the up 07/12/2004 10:48 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 13 2004 3:09AM GMT

VC joins 6A

VC joins 6A 06/06/2004 02:25 PM

Andrew Anker Joins Six Apart. My friend and past co-worker Andrew Anker has taken a role at Six Apart as EVP, Corp. Dev. This means a lot to me, not only am I a big fan of both AA and SA, I take it as a sign that SA is getting serious about building out their a platform to grow as this nascent industry grows, and that's a good thing. There is tons of work to be done on both the revenue and product side of blogging, and it's heartening to to know the team at Six Apart will be on the case.  [John Battelle's Searchblog]

VC joins 6A.

This is a good thing?  I guess if you're a SixApart investor - but we'll have to see what this means to us folks - the end-users, developers and industry that have seen 6A fall from grace. 

Will Andrew (along with the recently West coast ensconed Anil Dash) be able to pick up the pieces?  Is Andrew Anil's boss or vice versa?  What about Barak - how come there was no announcement about him becoming CEO?

I remember Andrew as the guy at Wired that Dave Winer and I tried to..... well let's just say - it didn't happen.

Andrew has recently been a VC at one of thsoe firms.  It's hard to tell them apart.  So good luck to Andrew and 6A - don't forget how you got there.

And OH - support FOAF!  Oh wait - they do support FOAF already!  Just a little funky.  Well I have FULL CONFIDENCE that 6A will do the right thing - when it comes to FOAF.

Here we go!

Want to know a reason piracy will never
be contained

Want to know a reason piracy will never
be contained 04/20/2004 03:15 AM
If you have traveled to any 3rd world country you will realize immediately why piracy will never be contained and...

Speaking of Music Piracy ....

Speaking of Music Piracy .... 04/09/2004 03:57 PM
Digital music was supposed be a cheaper alternative to grossly overpriced CDs. But the companies controlling the industry are looking for ways to raise prices and boost their profits.

Is There A Difference Between Piracy And
Promotion?

Is There A Difference Between Piracy And
Promotion? 08/10/2004 03:43 PM
Nearly two years ago, we wrote about a piece by Larry Lessig looking at how the comic industry in Japan was thriving based on copycat comics that would normally be seen as infringing works in the US, forcing entertainment industry lawyers to shut down these fan-created efforts. In something of a followup to that piece, Henry Jenkins has written about how so-called "piracy" has been a huge help in making Japanese anime popular and commercially viable in the US. Clearly, the easy distribution of digital content has different effects -- some of which are beneficial and some of which are harmful -- for the creators of that content. By assuming that only one of these effects exist, companies that are cracking down on "piracy" without realizing they may be hurting free promotional activity are doing damage to their own business.

iTunes may not curb piracy

iTunes may not curb piracy 11/13/2003 08:44 PM

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Comic strip sendup of MPAA "respect
copyright" ads

Comic strip sendup of MPAA "respect
copyright" ads 09/12/2004 12:45 PM
Xeni Jardin: Remember those in-theater MPAA ads blogged here, here and here on BoingBoing? Boondocks lampoons them this week. Link (Thanks, Patricio!)

MPAA Funds School Programs In Copyright
Dogma

MPAA Funds School Programs In Copyright
Dogma 04/25/2004 02:01 PM

NEC to settle Net suit

NEC to settle Net suit 05/28/2004 01:56 AM
Boston Globe May 28 2004 5:37AM GMT

AMD, Intergraph Settle Suit

AMD, Intergraph Settle Suit 04/12/2004 12:43 PM
Intergraph Corp. said Monday that it had settled all of its outstanding patent claims against Advanced Micro Devices, following a similar settlement with Intel Corp. last week.

RIM, NTP Settle Patent Suit

RIM, NTP Settle Patent Suit 03/17/2005 03:23 AM
The BlackBerry maker will pay NTP $450 million to settle a long-standing patent dispute.

Microsoft to settle suit over patents

Microsoft to settle suit over patents 04/13/2004 03:05 AM
Baltimore Sun Apr 13 2004 7:32AM GMT

Sex.com, VeriSign settle domain name
suit

Sex.com, VeriSign settle domain name
suit 04/20/2004 12:44 PM
The agreement ends a protracted battle over the transfer of the stolen domain.

Infineon Will Pay $46.8M To Settle
Rambus Suit

Infineon Will Pay $46.8M To Settle
Rambus Suit 03/22/2005 09:57 PM
Rambus Inc. said that it has settled its claims against DRAM manufacturer Infineon in return for licensing fees that could run just under $149 million.

Microsoft, Fairfax Firm Settle Suit

Microsoft, Fairfax Firm Settle Suit 05/25/2004 11:41 PM
Washington Post May 26 2004 4:22AM GMT

Microsoft and Gateway to Settle
Antitrust Suit

Microsoft and Gateway to Settle
Antitrust Suit 04/11/2005 11:26 PM
The Microsoft Corporation will pay Gateway $150 million to settle the computer maker's claim that it was harmed by Microsoft's abuse of its Windows monopoly.

eBay, Tumbleweed settle patent suit

eBay, Tumbleweed settle patent suit 12/29/2003 07:58 PM
Online-auction giant eBay caps a busy year in court by checking off another resolution of an intellectual-property lawsuit.

Burst, Microsoft agree to settle suit

Burst, Microsoft agree to settle suit 03/14/2005 05:42 PM
Fight over alleged streaming-media technology theft draws to tentative close.

Ebbers and chums pay $51m to settle
pensions suit

Ebbers and chums pay $51m to settle
pensions suit 07/07/2004 06:21 AM
Worlcom employees sue ex-CEO

Microsoft to pay $440m to settle patent
suit

Microsoft to pay $440m to settle patent
suit 04/13/2004 07:25 AM
eircom net Apr 13 2004 11:49AM GMT

Intergraph, AMD settle suit over chip
patents

Intergraph, AMD settle suit over chip
patents 04/12/2004 12:48 PM
SiliconValley.com Apr 12 2004 4:08PM GMT

Microsoft pays to settle another patent
suit

Microsoft pays to settle another patent
suit 04/12/2004 10:14 AM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 12 2004 1:47PM GMT

Microsoft agrees to settle antitrust
suit

Microsoft agrees to settle antitrust
suit 04/20/2004 11:35 PM
eTaiwanNews.com Apr 21 2004 3:45AM GMT

Microsoft, Fairfax Firm Settle Suit
(washingtonpost.com)

Microsoft, Fairfax Firm Settle Suit
(washingtonpost.com) 05/26/2004 07:26 AM
washingtonpost.com - Fairfax video-game maker Mythic Entertainment Inc. announced yesterday that it had reached a settlement with Microsoft Corp. that ends a federal lawsuit claiming the software giant had infringed on the local company's trademarks.

Data center firms settle cookie suit

Data center firms settle cookie suit 09/16/2004 08:36 PM
F5 Networks and Radware have come to terms in a patent dispute over "cookie persistence" technology.

Microsoft pays $60 million to settle
patent suit

Microsoft pays $60 million to settle
patent suit 12/25/2003 11:41 AM
MultiReg.com Dec 25 2003 10:09AM ET

Microsoft-Minnesota Settle Antitrust
Suit (Reuters)

Microsoft-Minnesota Settle Antitrust
Suit (Reuters) 04/19/2004 12:29 PM
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) said on Monday it had reached a deal to settle a Minnesota class action antitrust case that accused the world's largest software maker of abusing its Windows monopoly to overcharge for software.

Computer Assoc. and Quest Software
settle suit

Computer Assoc. and Quest Software
settle suit 03/25/2005 01:20 AM
India Daily Mar 25 2005 5:16AM GMT

Cisco, Huawei Settle Router Patent Suit

Cisco, Huawei Settle Router Patent Suit 07/29/2004 02:51 AM
Los Angeles Times Jul 29 2004 7:21AM GMT

Intergraph, Gateway settle Pentium
patent suit

Intergraph, Gateway settle Pentium
patent suit 05/13/2004 12:41 PM
Gateway agrees to pay Intergraph at least $10 million to settle a suit alleging that Pentium-based Gateway PCs violated patents involving an Intergraph chip called Clipper.

Microsoft agrees to pay SPX $60 million
to settle patent-infringement suit

Microsoft agrees to pay SPX $60 million
to settle patent-infringement suit 12/25/2003 05:34 AM
Seattle Times Dec 25 2003 4:16AM ET

Microsoft pays $440 million to settle
InterTrust patent suit

Microsoft pays $440 million to settle
InterTrust patent suit 04/12/2004 11:37 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Apr 12 2004 3:47PM GMT

Briefly: Data center firms settle cookie
suit

Briefly: Data center firms settle cookie
suit 09/16/2004 08:36 PM
roundup Plus: nStor sells off telecoms management unit...Nortel lowers expectations...Microsoft connects with SAP...Autodesk updates hobbyist tool.

Film Studios, Microchip Firm Settle Suit
Over DVD Decoder

Film Studios, Microchip Firm Settle Suit
Over DVD Decoder 04/15/2005 04:39 AM
Los Angeles Times Apr 15 2005 8:42AM GMT

Microsoft pays $440 million US to settle
InterTrust patent suit

Microsoft pays $440 million US to settle
InterTrust patent suit 04/12/2004 07:26 PM
National Post Apr 12 2004 11:19PM GMT

SCO suit digs into copyright

SCO suit digs into copyright 12/08/2003 01:06 PM

The open source legal battle launched by the SCO group earlier this year returned to the public eye once more with an exchange between SCO's CEO and the leading advocate for intellectual property reform.

Darl McBride published the first of a promised series of open letters , which describe SCO's position on intellectual property. McBride argues that the general public license ( GPL )is essentially unconstitutional. This widely-read article then elicited a response from Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig , who replied that GPL is within the constitutional framework of intellectual property ownership.

VSDA joins the Piracy Battle

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