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  • Court directs Google to take down blog against cult leader

    The Delhi Court has found blogger Jitender Bagga's blogs against Art of Living leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to be defamatory and has asked Google to take them down.

    Blog posts | May 10, 2012 9:14am PDT

  • Code 'not physical property', court rules in Goldman Sachs espionage case

    Code cannot be stolen under federal law, a court has ruled, in the case of a former Goldman Sachs employee who had his conviction for code theft and espionage overturned.

    Blog posts | April 12, 2012 2:42am PDT

  • How to hide files from the law

    You encrypt your data to protect it from spying eyes, including the government's. Can you be forced to decrypt it and thus incriminate yourself? A US appeals court says NO. This may drive the...

    Blog posts | March 8, 2012 12:07pm PST

  • Social networks cannot be forced to filter content, EU court says

    Rejoice, Europeans. Social networks cannot be forced into installing filtering systems to prevent the "unlawful use" of copyrighted works. Your privacy is safe for another day.

    Blog posts | February 16, 2012 4:10am PST

  • India delays Web censorship hearing against Facebook, Google

    Facebook, Google, and 19 other companies have been asked to censor objectionable material in India by a lower court. They are fighting back in a higher court, which just delayed the case.

    Blog posts | January 19, 2012 5:03pm PST

  • Twitter-savvy politician Shashi Tharoor weighs in on India's threat to ban social networks

    MP Shashi Tharoor wonders if the High Court is going after the wrong target.

    Blog posts | January 14, 2012 12:30am PST

  • Facebook: we have proof Ceglia's contract is a forgery

    Facebook says it has found the original "authentic contract" between Zuckerberg and Ceglia, as well as proof that there are other "storage devices" that Ceglia is intentionally hiding from the...

    Blog posts | August 7, 2011 11:25am PDT

  • Internet: A threat to government or the other way around? (Part 4)

    Justice systems around the world have been turned upside down over the past several years because of the Internet. The basic sets of laws, often founded on a nation's constitution, are being used...

    Blog posts | November 23, 2009 10:51am PST

  • Court reverses Microsoft patent-infringement ruling

    A US federal court on reversed an earlier ruling that Microsoft's product-activation technology infringed on another company's patent, overturning a $388m verdict in the case.

    News items | September 30, 2009 4:26am PDT

  • Court overturns $358m verdict against Microsoft

    Court: Damages for a patent infringement on one little widget in Microsoft Outlook should not be based on the value of the whole software package.

    Blog posts | September 12, 2009 5:06pm PDT

  • SCO Group wins Unix copyright appeal

    SCO Group, whose six-year-old legal case arguing Linux infringes its Unix copyright won an appeal which overturned a ruling that Novell owned Unix copyrights - and paves the way for a trial.

    News items | August 25, 2009 11:17am PDT

  • Final thoughts on supermodel-blogger catfight

    A few final thoughts on the "skank" blogger case. I was on The Jeff Farias Show Friday talking about this story. Jeff asked me if I was concerned about courts stomping on Internet anonymity and I...

    Blog posts | August 23, 2009 9:11pm PDT

  • Microsoft appeals for stay of Word injunction

    In its "emergency motion," Microsoft asked an appeals court to halt an injunction that would force the company to stop selling Word and also to speedily hear the company's appeal, once it is filed.

    News items | August 19, 2009 4:46am PDT

  • Swedish court: Pirate Bay judge not biased

    Was the judge in The Pirate Bay trial biased? After all, it turned out after the trial, although he didn't disclose it at the time, that Judge Tomas Norstöm was a member of several...

    Blog posts | June 26, 2009 7:07am PDT

  • Court says Pirate Bay judge not biased

    Despite the fact that the judge in The Pirate Bay prosecution, Tomas Norström, is a member of several pro-copyright groups, he's not biased, the Stockholm District Court has argued to the...

    Blog posts | June 9, 2009 7:41am PDT

  • Judge rejects telecom cases but Al-Haramain moves forward

    Bad news for the EFF's and ACLU's attempts to sue telephone companies for cooperating with the NSA. Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker rejected the groups’ lawsuits because Congress had passed...

    Blog posts | June 4, 2009 10:21am PDT

  • Courts' PACER system hides law, exposes private data

    Sunlight is said to be the best disinfectant. Electric light is the most efficient policeman. It has always been my view that when the people of this Nation watch their Government in action, they...

    Blog posts | April 9, 2009 11:52am PDT

  • Do feds track cell users illegally? Legal groups want to know

    The ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the Justice Dept. Tuesday for information regarding the use of cellphones as tracking devices. The Washington Post reports that the ACLU had...

    Blog posts | July 2, 2008 8:05am PDT

  • Dems ready to cave on telecom immunity

    Democratic leaders are preparing to cave to intense pressure to give telecom companies immunity from spying-related lawsuits, News.com's Anne Broache reports. Pitched as a "compromise" by...

    Blog posts | May 30, 2008 10:34am PDT

  • Wikileaks judge realizes you can't enjoin the net

    So, the Wikileaks.org site is back online, after Federal Judge Jeffrey White dissolved his previous order, ordering the site's U.S. registrar to pull it off the net. In reversing those orders, the...

    Blog posts | March 3, 2008 7:00pm PST

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