There has been some talk recently about the possible death of P2P, particularly in the popular media. The argument is that P2P networks have seen a sharp decrease from the actions of the music industry and their lawsuits against users. Read more
Yahoo is suing small company Xfire for alleged patent infringement. Xfire provides a chat application that allows online gamers to chat with each other. However, Yahoo claims that it owns a software patent that protects precisely that, U.S. patent 6,699,125. Read more
The RIAA has reached a new low in their tactics of suing P2P users. According to The Register, they have sued a dead woman. I love this line: “An RIAA spokesperson said that it would try and dismiss the case.” Read more
This is a Distance Learning LL.M. we are going to start in Edinburgh. If you fancy spending a year (or two) studying Technology Law but can’t be bothered to travel abroad, then we will happily make you feel welcome with Read more
You want to get more money for your industry (which is already a very profitable one). What do you do? You ask people to turn in their bosses for software piracy after you leave the company. I was reading The Read more
(Registration required, remember to use Bugmenot). So, BitTorrent is making TV execs uneasy in the United States. It was meant to happen, as torrent technology is quite fast, but not as fast as the article would make us believe. I Read more
Check this out. The Eiffel Tower’s website specifies that the nighttime Eiffel Tower is protected by copyright, therefore all nighttime pictures of the famous tower that are not licensed are infringing copyright. I have done some research and it seems Read more
MP3.com was one of the early pioneers of online music sharing. It started offering direct links to MP3s, which was shut down easily by the music industry. Afterwards, MP3.com has been offering music from emerging groups that want to offer Read more
Software patents are a serious problem for open source developers according to Linus Torvalds and other open source superstars, despite IBM’s legally binding pledge not to enforce 500 software patents against OSS companies. This should not surprise anybody. With almost Read more
Teoma is a new search engine that follows a similar idea to that of Google Scholar, it tries to filter searches to give sources that have certain authority. It does this by producing searches that are linked to by pages Read more