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  • Five reasons you should pay for your porn

    Why should you pay for your porn instead of downloading it illegally? Because the consequences of doing so could be costly.

    Blog posts | May 25, 2012 4:42am PDT

  • Judge says defendant must decrypt files, Fifth Amendment not at issue

    A federal case that may have helped define constitutional law in the digital age turns not on the defendant's rights in regard to her encryption password, but on the fact that evidence clearly...

    Blog posts | January 23, 2012 9:14pm PST

  • Passwords tangled in Fifth Amendment

    A bank fraud case in Colorado could help determine the legal protection of users who password protect data. In the case, a woman is arguing that giving up her password to unlock encrypted data...

    Blog posts | January 10, 2012 4:41am PST

  • Every Inch Counts: Porn Filesharing Lawsuits Crest 30K Defendants

    New lawsuits emerging from the porn industry could also result in mass shakedowns of file sharers of mainstream video content.

    Blog posts | November 8, 2010 3:19pm PST

  • Porn studio sues 7,098 alleged film pirates

    In a move sure to outrage both file-sharers on BitTorrent networks and legal watchdogs, a well-known pornographer has filed a US federal copyright suit against 7,098 individuals.

    News items | November 3, 2010 4:51am PDT

  • Judge nixes fair use defense in Tennenbaum filesharing case

    In a last-minute knockout punch, delivered just hours before the latest high-profile RIAA case was scheduled to start, Judge Nancy Gertner denied a fair use defense to Joel Tenenbaum, Ars Technica...

    Blog posts | July 27, 2009 1:52pm PDT

  • Apple hits Psystar with DMCA charges

    Court papers reveal that the day before Thanksgiving Apple added new charges to the five-month old federal lawsuit against mac-clone maker Psystar. The new charges claim that Psystar, along with...

    Blog posts | December 1, 2008 5:57pm PST

  • Patent suit targets company being acquired by Microsoft

    On the surface, the latest patent lawsuit to hit the court systems looks like many of the others: allegations of infringement, ongoing unauthorized use and so on. But there's a little bit of a...

    Blog posts | August 13, 2008 3:00pm PDT

  • Judge finds TorrentSpy destroyed evidence, rules for MPAA

    Did TorrentSpy.com traffic in illegal copyright infringement? We may never know for sure since a lawsuit brought by the MPAA against the torrent download site was not decided on its merits, but...

    Blog posts | December 19, 2007 8:09pm PST

  • Dude, what happened to my PC?

    Internet attorney Eric J. Sinrod explains why the law is unforgiving when a computer with discoverable data in a case goes "missing."

    News items | December 5, 2007 4:00am PST

  • Police Blotter: Dot-com swindler goes to prison

    Appeals court upholds verdict, revokes bail for church elder convicted of bilking dot-com IPO investors out of their life savings.

    News items | November 21, 2007 5:12am PST

  • Police Blotter: Can a cell phone camera intimidate a witness?

    Court rules that trial defendant committed crime when pretending to photograph an undercover officer with his cell phone.

    News items | November 16, 2007 12:47pm PST

  • Police Blotter: Is it legal to use an alias anymore?

    Arizona senior citizen sentenced to 10 years for inventing the name "Peter Reynolds" and using it to open bank accounts, pay his monthly bills.

    News items | October 12, 2007 11:08am PDT

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