SCO, the US software vendor that has angered most of the open-source community with its claim that its proprietary Unix source code has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel, won't be launching any more lawsuits in the foreseeable future, according to chief executive Darl McBride.
Lawyers for music industry players claimed Stephen Cooper received "hundreds of millions of hits" per year to his allegedly illegal music download site, "mp3s4free", as the long-awaited court case against the retired policeman kicked off at the Federal Court in Sydney today.
A patent case in Rhode Island concerning a key component of Microsoft Office is underway with Steven Sinofsky, the company vice president in charge of Office, in attendance and expected to testify.
iiNet has not admitted that any particular users have been infringing copyright in the next step for the court case brought against it by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT).
Shadow Communications Minister Nick Minchin has called for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy to apologise for his criticism of iiNet's Federal Court defence and warned it might lead to legal action.
Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.
This week's Twisted Wire podcast looks at some of the claimed facts surrounding the controversial lawsuit against iiNet regarding copyright infringement by its customers.
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Termination of file-sharing internet users' accounts is coming up for New Zealanders again.
Twitter coverage of the AFACT vs. iiNet trial is breathing new life into court reporting. Why don't we as a society take the next step and stream it all live to the internet, video and audio?
New e-Discovery rules being developed for the Federal Court of Australia will require CIOs to take a more active role in their organisations' legal affairs.
As legal battles heat up over who owns the rights to the operating system, the company that claims ownership of the Unix name says Apple is infringing its trademark.
Australian small businesses are being targetted in the latest software piracy crackdown, with companies which don't get the message under threat of court action.
The landmark ruling of RACV Insurance Pty Ltd v Unisys Australia Pty Ltd (2001) helps to clarify the duties which are owed by software providers to their customers.
A European court dealt a severe blow to Microsoft's competitive ambitions in Europe on Monday by siding with regulators in an antitrust case against the company.
According to court documents, the founder of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit fought a hard battle to keep Mac Office 97 alive.
The latest lawsuit against Intel could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and eventually have an impact on every PC maker that uses Pentium processors.
Microsoft told the Web's leading standards body that it's considering making changes to its Internet Explorer browser in light of a recent ruling against the company in a patent infringement lawsuit.
Can a T-shirt break the law? Copyleft, the maker of a popular T-shirt displaying code to a DVD-cracking program, is added to a high-profile piracy lawsuit.
Studio 321 is pushing ahead with new DVD-copying software despite an imminent ruling on its legality under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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