On January 29th, 2005 with 85 comments
isn't my name writes "We all know that OSRM has come out to offer insurance against intellectual property claims for open source software. Recently, we've...
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On January 29th, 2005 with 505 comments
Richard M. Smith writes "Tukwila, Washington firefighter, Philip Scott Lyons found out the hard way
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On January 29th, 2005 with 265 comments
RMX writes "Groklaw has an excellent analysis of some Patent Questions About the CDDL. For /.ers who don't like reading a lot, the most important point is...
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On January 28th, 2005 with 438 comments
ScentCone writes "Minnesota teen Jeffrey Lee Parsons got a year and half for releasing a Blaster variant. The lightweight sentence was due, said the judge, to...
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On January 28th, 2005 with 9 comments
Adhoc writes "LWN has a nice clear summary of the current patent situation in the EU. Since concerned folk in the EU should take action soon, the nice folks at...
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On January 28th, 2005 with 580 comments
Stephan writes "The AP reports that Norway's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a student whose Napster.no homepage (no relation to the U.S. Napster,...
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On January 27th, 2005 with 233 comments
securitas writes "The New York Times' Steve Lohr reports that 'Eight of the nation's largest technology companies, including I.B.M., Microsoft and Oracle, have...
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On January 21st, 2005 with 34 comments
CaptainEbo writes "In Bridgeport Music v. Dimension Films, the Sixth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals eliminated the 'de minimis' exception for copyright in...
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On January 20th, 2005 with 376 comments
editingwhiz writes "Bob Mims of the Salt Lake Tribune has the scoop straight from the courthouse steps: 'A federal magistrate has handed a partial victory to...
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On January 20th, 2005 with 522 comments
Garthilk writes "Blizzard recently made a bit of press when they announced that they would be actively enforcing their End User License agreement and prohibit...
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On January 15th, 2005 with 55 comments
Chuck Talk writes "Orange Crate has an interview with Ben Edelman, a Harvard Law student and PhD candidate in Economics. Ben is noted for his work in studying...
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On January 13th, 2005 with 293 comments
NW writes "Ben Edelman just published a list of major investors in spyware companies totaling over $139 million in venture capital." Slashdot has not verified...
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On January 11th, 2005 with 443 comments
Iphtashu Fitz writes "We've all heard it. The recorded message when you call technical support or your bank or credit card company: 'This call may be...
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On January 11th, 2005 with 188 comments
ravenII writes "Members of the European Parliament from countries including Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden have asked for the software...
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On January 7th, 2005 with 866 comments
Dan Brickley writes "It appears that Iranian ISPs have been ordered to block a large number of popular Web sites, including weblogging, community, chat and...
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On January 6th, 2005 with 420 comments
Eric Giguere writes "In a story that has Bay Street (the Canadian equivalent of Wall Street) in a kerfuffle, the Globe and Mail writes that bank employees...
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On January 1st, 2005 with 42 comments
norfolkboy writes "The UK Freedom of Information Act comes into force today, 1st January 2005. Under the new law, passed by Parliament in 2000, all citizens...
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On January 1st, 2005 with 428 comments
graemee pastes: "The District Court of Munich has ordered Fujitsu Siemens Computers to pay a copyright levy on new PCs. The landmark decision, announced on...
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On December 31st, 2004 with 271 comments
nikkoslack copies and pastes: "Microsoft is abandoning one of its most controversial attempts to dominate the Internet after rival companies banded together to...
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On December 30th, 2004 with 232 comments
camusflage writes "AP is running a story on the penetration of GPS devices and monitoring of fleet operations. Such technology is hitting the mainstream, with...
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On December 25th, 2004 with 116 comments
Chris Hoofnagle writes "EPIC has released ten privacy resolutions for the New Year. In addition to losing weight next year, lose all those data brokers who...
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On December 23rd, 2004 with 698 comments
Just another Coward writes "DSL Reports grabbed a copy of the lawsuit threat letters sent by the MPAA to the bittorrent website owners. This latest document...
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On December 21st, 2004 with 36 comments
Several people wrote in with news bits about Poland maneuvering to block software patents in the EU. Patent supporters had planned to sneak in a patent vote...
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On December 19th, 2004 with 194 comments
phoric writes "In what is believed the be the largest federal judgement in history against spammers, an ISP from eastern Iowa was awarded a $1 billion dollar...
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On December 19th, 2004 with 23 comments
cavaroc writes "Wired is reporting that the Australian record labels are now threatening the International Red Cross for being a beneficiary of Sharman...
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On December 18th, 2004 with 34 comments
slutdot writes "This NYT story tells of the ACLU's use of data mining in order to collect a wide variety of information about its members and donors in a...
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On December 17th, 2004 with 193 comments
Iphtashu Fitz writes "The FTC has just issued its final report on how it will define Spam with regards to the federal CAN-SPAM act. According to the FTC,...
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On December 17th, 2004 with 437 comments
Rippy the Gator writes "The Globe and Mail says that consumers may soon be paying less for MP3 players because the Federal Court of Appeal ruled that special...
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On December 16th, 2004 with 650 comments
NW writes "According to FOIA documents obtained by EPIC new Postal Service self-service postage machines take portrait-style photographs of customers and...
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On December 14th, 2004 with 13 comments
acidradio writes "The Maryland Supreme Court has ruled that fining a spam mailer in New York is unconstitutional as it tries to control commerce outside...
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