German soldier wins software right of conscience

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Schumacher wins German GP

Schumacher wins German GP 07/25/2004 09:02 AM
Michael Schumacher beats Jenson Button into second at the German Grand Prix.

Google Wins German Trademark Ruling

Google Wins German Trademark Ruling 09/22/2004 12:55 AM
dmnews.com Sep 22 2004 5:14AM GMT

Atos origin wins major German
outsourcing deal

Atos origin wins major German
outsourcing deal 09/06/2004 06:59 AM
Computer Business Review Sep 6 2004 11:36AM GMT

German Walkman Inventor Wins Battle
Against Sony, Fixes Gaze on Apple

German Walkman Inventor Wins Battle
Against Sony, Fixes Gaze on Apple 06/07/2004 12:09 PM

German inventor Andreas Pavel has just settled a 20 year court battle with Sony over the origins of the Walkman, a device Pavel claimed to have patented in 1977. While Sony has spent the better part of two decades trying to ignore his claims of invention (despite the fact they paid him royalty fees for the first few years of the device's life), Pavel's near bankruptcy after a 3.7 million dollar court battle was finally rewarded by a confidential agreement in which Pavel was reportedly paid off to the tune of several million euros. Pavel, cock of the walk, is now planning to take a swipe at Apple, whose iPod has become the Walkman of this generation. Even better, Pavel has another patent in the wings: a 1989 US filing for a technology that combines the features of a portable audio player and a mobile phone. That patent will be decided on 'soon.'
Read [Management.Silicon via Blues]

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Sony VAIO Pocket Review [Gizmodo]
Old School Sony Walkmans (Walkmen?) [Gizmodo]

Dynamic Answers - Software Factory
Located In Lilburn, GA - Wins Medical
Print-on-demand Software Contract

Dynamic Answers - Software Factory
Located In Lilburn, GA - Wins Medical
Print-on-demand Software Contract 12/24/2004 12:19 PM
Pritchett & Hull Associates, a well-known medical patient education publisher chose Dynamic Answers to design and deliver their new print-on-demand system for web-based patient ed materials. Hospitals and home health care centers will now have an easy-to-use solution for printing fresh patient care handouts from an internet browser. [PRWEB Dec 23, 2004]

Print Manager Plus Wins W2KNews Top
Award for Best Print Management
Software, Best Price, Best Quality in
the Industry American-British Company
Software Shelf Receives Software Award

Print Manager Plus Wins W2KNews Top
Award for Best Print Management
Software, Best Price, Best Quality in
the Industry American-British Company
Software Shelf Receives Software Award 05/31/2004 02:14 PM
Software Shelf International, Inc., an American and British software development and marketing company today announced that its flagship product, Print Manager Plus(R), has won the coveted Sunbelt W2KNews Top Award for Print Management Software. The award is presented at Microsoft's Tech.Ed 2004 for Best print management software, Best price, and Best quality in the industry. The Award was won as a result of voting from over 500,000 W2K News subscribers consisting of Windows NT/2000/2003 Administrators, MIS Managers, MCPs, MCSEs and IT professionals around the world. Print Manager Plus solves the problem of the hidden cost of printing in organizations. According to Datamation document costs consume up to 15% of a company's revenues. Print Manager Plus reduces these costs. [PRWEB May 26, 2004]

German Software Dealer Convicted of
Fraud (AP)

German Software Dealer Convicted of
Fraud (AP) 07/23/2004 02:48 PM
AP - A German software dealer was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 5 1/2 years in jail Thursday for selling cheaper versions of products at inflated prices, which the court said cost Microsoft euro4.5 million (US$5.5 million) in lost revenues.

German software pirate, and his father
get jail time

German software pirate, and his father
get jail time 09/14/2004 04:40 PM
A German court yesterday sentenced a second member of one of Europe's largest software counterfeiting rings to three years prison and handed down a sentence to his father for helping run front operations.

Mozilla Firefox Tops German TV Software
Chart

Mozilla Firefox Tops German TV Software
Chart 04/09/2004 04:05 PM

German software pirate and his father
get jail time

German software pirate and his father
get jail time 09/14/2004 02:27 PM
The noose appears to be tightening around one of Europe's largest software counterfeiting rings as a German court sentenced a second member of the network to prison on Monday, and handed a sentence to his father for helping run front operations. After an 18-week trial, a criminal court in Stuttgart, Germany, sentenced the convicted software pirate to three years in prison without parole for copyright infringement and selling counterfeit Microsoft Corp. software. The court also convicted the defendant's father for his participation in the counterfeiting scheme, issuing him a 16-month jail term and 100 hours of community service.

German software pirate, and his father,
get jail time

German software pirate, and his father,
get jail time 09/14/2004 11:13 AM
The noose appears to be tightening around one of Europe's largest software counterfeiting rings as a German court sentenced a second member of the network to prison on Monday, and handed a sentence to his father for helping run front operations.

Wrestling with your conscience.

Wrestling with your conscience. 01/06/2005 07:21 AM
Bringing the smackdown to church. Saving souls through simulated violence. Ultimate Christian Wrestling.

The conscience of Ashcroft

The conscience of Ashcroft 01/23/2004 02:21 PM
In a speech to the World Economic Forum, according to the AP, "Attorney General John D. Ashcroft yesterday urged nations...to fight corruption, which is costing the world economy more than $2 trillion every year." "Follow our moral lead," Ashcroft said. "Surely in your own country you have a highly visible woman who is resented for her success. I urge you to go after her with the full power of the law. And God bless America."...

Microsoft Corp. and German business
software company SAP held discussions
last year about a potential merger b

Microsoft Corp. and German business
software company SAP held discussions
last year about a potential merger b 06/07/2004 01:54 PM
MSNBC Jun 7 2004 6:09PM GMT

Signs Of Corporate Conscience

Signs Of Corporate Conscience 12/29/2004 04:01 PM

Blake Says He Has Clear Conscience (AP)

Blake Says He Has Clear Conscience (AP) 03/22/2005 10:10 PM
AP - Actor Robert Blake says he has a clear conscience after his acquittal on charges he killed his wife, but he also has an empty bank account and owes a fortune in taxes.

Playing Games With a Conscience

Playing Games With a Conscience 04/22/2004 05:18 AM
Groups bemoan the proliferation of 'hate' websites and games, but some first-person shooters foster cooperation, understanding and tolerance. By Daniel Terdiman.

Sweden's conscience clear

Sweden's conscience clear 06/23/2004 04:43 AM
Sweden's Olof Mellberg says Italy should blame themselves for crashing out of Euro 2004.

"?...the praise and placards expressing
admiration are for the first soldier
convicted of abusing Iraqi prisoners.
The admonishments are reserved for the
soldier who blew the whistle.?"

"?...the praise and placards expressing
admiration are for the first soldier
convicted of abusing Iraqi prisoners.
The admonishments are reserved for the
soldier who blew the whistle.?" 05/26/2004 07:51 PM

Robot Dogs Get Social Conscience
Installed (AP)

Robot Dogs Get Social Conscience
Installed (AP) 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
AP - They sniff, wag their tails, fetch and run in packs.

German Buys Rights to Communist East
German Emblem (Reuters)

German Buys Rights to Communist East
German Emblem (Reuters) 04/21/2004 10:02 AM
Reuters - A western German businessman who bought the rights to the official emblem of communist East Germany defended his move Tuesday, saying critics were jealous they hadn't thought of it before he did.

Bloggers Are Missing in Action as
Ketchum Tests the Conscience of PR

Bloggers Are Missing in Action as
Ketchum Tests the Conscience of PR 02/01/2005 08:39 PM
"Maybe this is the way things are done all the time in PR today. It's one of the most plausible explanations we have for the Ketchum contract, the apparent fraudulence of which is roughly parallel to the memos in the Dan Rather case."

Symantec wins $3 million in software
suit

Symantec wins $3 million in software
suit 12/23/2003 05:47 PM
ZDNet Dec 23 2003 4:52PM ET

E-ballot software wins vote of
confidence

E-ballot software wins vote of
confidence 07/19/2004 07:57 PM
A second company chooses technology from VoteHere to let voters verify that choices were properly registered.

Symantec wins US$3M judgment in software
piracy suit

Symantec wins US$3M judgment in software
piracy suit 12/30/2003 10:05 PM

Symantec wins $3 million in
counterfeit-software suit

Symantec wins $3 million in
counterfeit-software suit 12/23/2003 04:32 PM
The security-software maker wins a judgment against one of America's more famous spammers after a court rules Maryland Internet Marketing was selling counterfeit Symantec applications.

Sun wins GBP1.2bn software deal for
criminal records

Sun wins GBP1.2bn software deal for
criminal records 01/04/2004 10:50 PM
Scotsman Online Jan 4 2004 9:44PM ET

EFF wins Grokster! Software doesn't have
to be easy for Hollywood to wiretap!

EFF wins Grokster! Software doesn't have
to be easy for Hollywood to wiretap! 08/19/2004 02:37 PM
I'm supposed to be on holidays from blogging this week, but this is too important not to blog RIGHT NOW.

EFF has won its Grokster case in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals -- this is the case that establishes that if you make truly decentralized P2P software -- like Gnutella -- you can't be held liable for any copyright infringement that takes place on their networks. This is the "Betamax principle," from the famous Supreme Court case that established that Sony wasn't responsoble for any infringement that its customers undertook with their VCRs.

The Studios' argument was that people who make P2P software should be obliged to build it in such a way as to make it easy to police -- i.e. not on Gnutella-like lines -- an idea so sickeningly dumb that it's a tremendous relief that the court refused to buy it.

Now is a good time to download the 16MB MP3 audio of EFF IP Attorney Fred von Lohmann's oral argument in the appeal -- he was nothing less than briliant (and it didn't hurt that one of the shmendricks representing the rights-holders kept forgetting the judge's name). This is some of the best courtroom drama you'll ever hear, and when you're done, download the PDF of the decision below and rejoice in our freedom.

I don't often shill for donations to EFF here on Boing Boing, but if there is one day this year that you make a tax-deductible donation to the organization that just won the right to write any software you damn well please, even if it's not amenable to being wiretapped by the record labels, today is it.

It's a good day.

"The Copyright Owners urge a re-examination of the law in the light of what they believe to be proper public policy, expanding exponentially the reach of the doctrines of contributory and vicarious copyright infringement. Not only would such a renovation conflict with binding precedent, it would be unwise. Doubtless, taking that step would satisfy the Copyright Owners’ immediate economic aims. However, it would also alter general copyright law in profound ways with unknown ultimate consequences outside the present context.

"Further, as we have observed, we live in a quicksilver technological environment with courts ill-suited to fix the flow of internet innovation. AT&T Corp. v. City of Portland, 216 F.3d 871, 876 (9th Cir. 1999). The introduction of new technology is always disruptive to old markets, and particularly to those copyright owners whose works are sold through well established distribution mechanisms. Yet, history has shown that time and market forces often provide equilibrium in balancing interests, whether the new technology be a player piano, a copier, a tape recorder, a video recorder, a personal computer, a karaoke machine, or an MP3 player.Thus, it is prudent for courts to exercise caution before restructuring liability theories for the purpose of addressing specific market abuses, despite their apparent present magnitude.

"Indeed, the Supreme Court has admonished us to leave such matters to Congress. In Sony-Betamax, the Court spoke quite clearly about the role of Congress in applying copyright law to new technologies. As the Supreme Court stated in that case, “The direction of Art. I is that Congress shall have the power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. When, as here, the Constitution is permissive, the sign of how far Congress has chosen to go can come only from Congress.” 464 U.S. at 456 (quoting Deepsouth Packing Co. v. Laitram Corp., 406 U.S. 518, 530 (1972))."

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Hauri Wins Order for Computer Security
Software From U.S. Firm

Hauri Wins Order for Computer Security
Software From U.S. Firm 04/22/2004 07:45 AM
Yonhap News Apr 22 2004 12:16PM GMT

Maximizer Software Wins ISM's CRM Award
for Third Consecutive Year

Maximizer Software Wins ISM's CRM Award
for Third Consecutive Year 03/22/2005 07:09 PM
BC Technology Mar 22 2005 10:59PM GMT

Fully Featured German Webspace and
Customizable .de Domain Registration
Services at Retail Rates Provided to End
Users by German - Ukrainian Co-operation
MZL & Novatech

Fully Featured German Webspace and
Customizable .de Domain Registration
Services at Retail Rates Provided to End
Users by German - Ukrainian Co-operation
MZL & Novatech 06/27/2004 02:58 AM
MZL & Novatech enter the web hosting market with prices of 6.99 USD (setup 4.80 USD) per year for a German .de domain with user specified DNS entries and bandwidth metered featured webspace from of 2.99 USD per year. [PRWEB Jun 27, 2004]

NetSupport DNA Software Wins CeBIT
America's Best Enterprise Systems
Management

NetSupport DNA Software Wins CeBIT
America's Best Enterprise Systems
Management 06/01/2004 08:24 PM
dBusinessNews.com Jun 1 2004 10:12PM GMT

Microsoft's latest media-playing
software wins grudging praise

Microsoft's latest media-playing
software wins grudging praise 11/16/2003 08:13 AM
Los Angeles Times Nov 16 2003 7:20AM ET

Entertainment PC Powered By Meedio
Software Wins Home Cinema Choice Best
Buy Award

Entertainment PC Powered By Meedio
Software Wins Home Cinema Choice Best
Buy Award 07/27/2004 02:12 AM
EPC's Fidelity II media center PC powered by Meedio software wins Home Cinema Choice magazine's Best Buy Award and five out of five stars for it's Meedio software interface. [PRWEB Jul 27, 2004]

STR Software Wins Another Contract from
Lockheed Martin to Upgraded Automated
Faxing System

STR Software Wins Another Contract from
Lockheed Martin to Upgraded Automated
Faxing System 09/22/2004 02:32 AM
STR Software was recently awarded another contract from longtime customer Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colo. The company purchased an upgrade license for AventX MPE, an electronic software product for automatically faxing documents from the HP e3000, a hardware product manufactured by Hewlett-Packard. [PRWEB Sep 22, 2004]

NetSupport DNA Software Wins CeBIT
America’s Best Enterprise Systems
Management Award

NetSupport DNA Software Wins CeBIT
America’s Best Enterprise Systems
Management Award 05/31/2004 02:14 PM
NetSupport DNA 1.01 desktop management software has won the Best of CeBIT America Best Enterprise Systems Management Award at the 2004 CeBIT America technology show in New York, judged by eWeek/PC Magazine. [PRWEB May 29, 2004]

Aplana Software and M-Tech’s hotSOS
Solution Wins Two Honorary Microsoft
Awards at Once

Aplana Software and M-Tech’s hotSOS
Solution Wins Two Honorary Microsoft
Awards at Once 07/16/2004 03:14 AM
TORONTO -- July 13, 2004 - Aplana Software - a leading Russian software services provider, was named a winner in two categories of Microsoft® Partner Program Awards 2004 - Winning Customer of the Year and Customer Experience of the Year – and became the only Russian vendor honored with Microsoft partner awards this year. The award is given for the development of hotSOS (Hotel Service Order Optimization System), a project fulfilled for M-Tech a US based supplier of quality management software for the hospitality industry. [PRWEB Jul 16, 2004]

World Watch - August 29, 2004 - Election
Guidebook, Kerry's Conscience, and
Doomsayers II - The Ornery American

World Watch - August 29, 2004 - Election
Guidebook, Kerry's Conscience, and
Doomsayers II - The Ornery American 09/08/2004 09:55 PM
Orson Scott Card has this to say about the election: .. disasters that will certainly happen .. pro-war Democrats

ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2004-08-29-1.html
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James Coates: Microsoft's latest
media-playing software wins grudging
praise

James Coates: Microsoft's latest
media-playing software wins grudging
praise 11/16/2003 08:13 AM
Chicago Tribune Nov 16 2003 6:53AM ET
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