According to an Associated Press report, the Honduran Congress has voted unanimously to pass legislation that will ban the sale and distribution of "violent" games if the law is signed by the president. The games specifically mentioned in the law are Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, Turok, House of the Dead, Duke Nukem, Shadowman, Quake, Killer Instinct, Doom, Legacy of Kain, Street Fighter, and Perfect Dark.
Test.com's patent on online testing is 'bogus,' the public interest law group says.
Tumblr has agreed to better monitor illegal porn distribution with South Korean authorities after initially refusing to do so.
With estimates that sales of digital music (online music plus mobile music and ring tones) within Western Europe and North America accounted for 13.9% of total consumer spending on music in 2005, Strategy Analytics projects that by 2010 more than $8.
Following up on complaints by several Minneapolis librarians, a federal agency has issued a preliminary finding that library visitors may create a hostile environment for employees by downloading porn.
Just days after the new law comes into force, privacy activists add more tech giants to their list of GDPR targets.
The business world and high-tech groups also back the bill, saying it could save them billions of dollars.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has settled civil fraud charges against a 15-year-old boy who the SEC said forced up prices of thinly traded stocks by posting messages on Yahoo! Inc.
Two new surveys about the online music downloading phenomenon show that the big winner is Napster, and the big loser is the music industry. With Napster founder Shawn Fanning on the cover of yet another magazine — this week it was Time — a report by AdRelevance shows that the media bonanza is translating into cash for the embattled company.
In the fiscal 2004, enging in September, British music industry celebrates the best year ever with 237 mln album sold in 12 months. Industry sales were up 3% in 2004.
