Responses and clarifications on the CSIRO patent lawsuits
What follows is a brief response to comments on my article published last night, “How the Aussie government 'invented WiFi' and sued its way to $430 million.” I appreciate the feedback,...
Slow learner? MPAA chief hints at talks to revive SOPA
Christopher Dodd, the former Connecticut senator who now leads the Motion Picture Association of America, hasn't given up on his dream of censoring the Internet. In an interview with Hollywood Reporter, he said...
Accused LulzSec member pleads guilty to hacking Sony
Accused LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger pleaded guilty today in a federal court in Los Angeles, California, to felony charges associated with the breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment that occurred in mid-2011. Kretsinger wen...
Feature: How the Aussie government "invented WiFi" and sued its way to $430 million
US consumers will be making a multimillion dollar donation to an Australian government agency in the near future, whether they like it or not. The great majority won't even know about...
Feature: How the Aussie government "invented WiFi" and sued its way to $430 million
US consumers will be making a multimillion dollar donation to an Australian government agency in the near future, whether they like it or not. The great majority won't even know about...
Judge spares Amazon from Colorado sales tax reporting scheme
A federal judge has ruled that Colorado ran afoul of the US Constitution when it passed legislation forcing out-of-state retailers to report their customers' purchases to the state's tax authority.
Two decades...
Facebook countersues Yahoo with patent acquired after being sued by Yahoo
The 10 patents Facebook is asserting against Yahoo in a counterclaim accusing Yahoo of ripping off Facebook-owned technology shows that Facebook's recent push to acquire more patents is moving along at...
Tor traffic disguised as Skype video calls to fool repressive governments
Computer scientists have released a tool that disguises communications sent through the Tor anonymity service as Skype video calls, a cloak that's intended to prevent repressive governments from blocking the anonymous...
US government: We hear there’s child porn on those Megaupload servers, judge!
Carpathia Hosting, which owns over 600 servers leased by Megaupload before the government shut down the file-sharing site, has a problem: those servers are worth serious money, but no one is paying the bills.
Megaupload want......
Judge tosses P2P lawsuits because attorney was practicing without a licence
Last month we reported on allegations that the plaintiff in several copyright trolling cases was represented by an attorney who was not licensed to practice law in Florida. The judge, Robert Hinkle of the Northern...
Facebook counterclaim accuses Yahoo of infringing 10 patents
In response to the patent infringement lawsuit Yahoo filed against Facebook last month, Facebook today answered with a counterclaim of its own, saying Yahoo infringes 10 patents assigned to Facebook.
In a filing in US...
Oracle/Google settlement talks fail, Java patent trial to start April 16
With Oracle's patent and copyright infringement lawsuit against Google scheduled to go to trial on April 16, the judge overseeing the case recently ordered the two companies to hold one final round of settlement talks....
