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  • Show me the money: 'DVD-Jon'

    Jon Lech Johansen, also known as "DVD-Jon", will seek compensation from the Norwegian government following his acquittal in an appellate court.

  • Will DVD acquittal mean tougher copyright laws?

    The acquittal of a Norwegian programmer charged with breaking Hollywood's DVD encryption scheme could lend new urgency to the entertainment industry's efforts to enact tougher global copyright laws.

  • US Jury convicts man in DMCA case

    A federal jury has convicted a Florida man of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in the first jury-trial conviction under the controversial law, according to a U.S. attorney's office.

  • ElcomSoft verdict: not guilty

    A jury on Tuesday acquitted a Russian software company of criminal copyright charges related to selling a program that can crack antipiracy protections on electronic books.

  • Yahoo porn controversy not for adults only

    The decision by Yahoo management to eliminate some of the adult content on its massive site fills me with gloom, not simply because it caved in to an organised protest from the fringe, but because when a universal site becomes provincial, we all lose.

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