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It's Sad That It's Newsworthy When An Entertainment Industry Exec Decides Not To Sue Customers
Date : 08 22 2008In noting that the Entertainment Software Association (the ESA) had hired the RIAA's VP in charge of read more »
Nigerian Official Blames The Victims Of Nigerian 419 Advance Fee Scams
Date : 08 22 2008It still amazes us that people still fall for so-called Nigerian advance-fee 419 scam emails. I'd a read more »
UK Law Firm Exaggerates Its $30,000 Win Over Pinball Game Sharer
Date : 08 22 2008We wrote about the woman who was fined $30,000 for file sharing a pinball video game earlier this we read more »
But What If A Takedown Notice Isn't Actually A DMCA Takedown?
Date : 08 22 2008We already covered the judge's ruling about how copyright holders need to consider fair use before s read more »
FBI Asks Congress To Ignore The Whole 'Probable Cause' Part Of The 4th Amendment
Date : 08 22 2008So, in case you haven't been paying attention, the text of the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution read more »
Totally False Propaganda About File Sharing Being Given To Students As Educational Material
Date : 08 22 2008It's no secret that both the MPAA and the RIAA have created so-called "educational campaigns" for st read more »
Diebold/Premier Actually Admits Its Machines Are Faulty! And That It Lied About Antivirus Software...
Date : 08 22 2008Consider me to be in a state of shock. For nearly half a decade Diebold has always responded in the read more »
Old Media Always Afraid of New Media... Even Back in 1929
Date : 08 22 2008Petrea Mitchell reminds us that "old media" always ends up reacting poorly to "new media" no matter read more »
Principal Loses Lawsuit Against Students Over Fake MySpace Profile
Date : 08 22 2008You may remember a story we had last year about a principal at a school so overreacting to some stud read more »
Orange Pays Actors To Stand In Line For The iPhone
Date : 08 22 2008When the disco era was dying, the story was that the famed Studio 54 in New York had to start paying read more »
Singer At New Media Conference Turns Off Audience Member Cameras
Date : 08 22 2008You would think that someone who had "embraced" new media would understand the value of viral conten read more »
McNamara's Syndrome: Being Late To The Game On An Internet Meme
Date : 08 22 2008Last week, Network World columnist Paul McNamara had an amusing post about some jittery Circuit City read more »
The First Step Is For Microsoft To Admit It Has A Problem
Date : 08 21 2008Ars Technica brings word of a pair of interesting efforts underway over at the Mozilla Project -- bo read more »
Finding The Last Sucker To Invest
Date : 08 21 2008Valleywag points us to a rather scathing profile of late stage "investment" firm Advanced Equities i read more »
Microsoft Patents PgUp-PgDn
Date : 08 21 2008theodp writes "What do you call it when you're viewing the middle of one page and a Page Down c read more »