74,000 .eu Domains By Three Companies SuspendedJuly 24th, 2006 Over 74,000 .eu domains have been suspended and 400 registering companies sued by EURid, the non-profit organisation in charge of the European Union's top-level domain. EURid has taken legal action after a review of the system for .eu domains (which went live in April) revealed that only three companies had registered several hundred phantom companies in order to manipulate the system.
YouTube Sued Over 1992 Los Angeles Riot VideoJuly 18th, 2006 L.A. News Service, a Los Angeles video news service sued YouTube Inc. on Friday in federal court for allowing its users to upload copyrighted video footage on YouTube, including the beating of trucker Reginald Denny during the 1992 riots.
Should United Sue Google for Loss of 300 Million Dollars & Reputation?September 11th, 2008 You all know now that Google News crawled an obscure reprint of an article from 2002 when United Airlines was on the brink of bankruptcy. United Airlines has since recovered but due to a missing dateline, Google News ran the story as today's news.
U.S. Government Ordered to Halt National Security Agency's Internet and Telephone Surveillance ProgramAugust 21st, 2006 U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor said the spying program, which was authorized by President George W. Bush shortly after the 9/11 terrorism attacks but remained undisclosed until late last year, violates constitutional rights of free speech, privacy and the separation of powers.
Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Alleged Spyware in Another Class Action LawsuitJuly 18th, 2006 Another lawsuit has been filed, in U.S. District Court in Seattle, against Microsoft over Windows Genuine Advantage, alleging that the anti-piracy tool is spyware.
Apple Sued By Burst.Com Claiming Patent Infringement on iTunes, iPod and Quicktime SoftwareApril 18th, 2006 Burst.com has filed a countersuit against Apple Computer claiming that the iTunes software, the iPod and the Quicktime streaming software all infringe on patents held by Burst.com. Burst is asking for royalties as well as an injunction.
Sexually Assaulted Teen Sues MySpace for 30 MillionJune 20th, 2006 A 14-year-old Travis County girl who said she was sexually assaulted by a man she met on MySpace.com sued the MySpace for $30 million, claiming that it fails to protect minors from adult sexual predators. The lawsuit claims that the Web site does not require users to verify their age and calls the security measures aimed at preventing strangers from contacting users younger than 16 "utterly ineffective."
What do they expect MySpace to do? Ask every registrants to provide photocopy of age or driver's license?
At the core I think the primary responsibility of managing their children is on the parents.
Are You Being Sub-Dosed by Your Doctor?August 11th, 2005 A California doctor has been indicted on federal charges for "sub-dosing" AIDS patients, or giving them less than the prescribed amounts of their medications in order to increase his profit. Dr. George Kooshian, a well-known California AIDS doctor, was accused of "subdosing" his patients - giving them less than the prescribed amount of medication to boost his profits.
Sony Rootkit Class Action Lawsuit SettledMay 23rd, 2006 Customers who bought Sony CDs with XCP copy control software (rootkit) are set to get refunds as a result of the consolidated class action settlement. Sony was sued in three separate class action lawsuits, which were consolidated into Monday's settlement.
Executive who led Google's China expansion leaving; was subject of court battle with MicrosoftSeptember 3rd, 2009 Executive who led Google's China expansion leavingBEIJING — The executive who led Google Inc.'s expansion in China after being hired away from Microsoft Corp. following a high-profile court battle is leaving to start his own business, the U.S.
University of California Joins Google Library ProjectAugust 9th, 2006 The University of California is joining Google's book-scanning project, throwing the weight of another 100 academic libraries behind an ambitious venture that's under legal attack for alleged copyright infringement. The deal covers all the libraries in UC's 10-campus system, marking the biggest expansion of Google's effort to convert millions of library books into digital form since a group of authors and publishers sued last fall to derail a project launched 20 months ago.
UK court says Google not liable for defamatory material appearing in search resultsJuly 21st, 2009 UK court rejects suit on Google search resultsLONDON — A British judge has ruled that Google cannot be held responsible for defamatory words that appear in results on the popular Internet search engine. Justice David Eady said that Google is not a publisher because searches are carried out entirely by computers and the search engine does not choose the terms itself.
Microsoft Sues FairUse4WM, Windows Media DRM Remover, DeveloperOctober 2nd, 2006 Microsoft Corp. has sued an anonymous computer hacker whose free program FairUse4WM allows users to copy digital movies and songs by bypassing a software protection (DRM) built into the company's Media player.
Illinois court allows iPCS' challenge of Sprint-Clearwire WiMax deal to go forwardMay 1st, 2009 Court rules for iPCS in Sprint WiMax fightKANSAS CITY, Mo. — An Illinois court is allowing a lawsuit to move forward that challenges Sprint Nextel's deal with Clearwire Corp.
Google Facing Class Action Lawsuit on Click FraudDecember 11th, 2005 Google, Inc. has been sued by AIT, a "two-time" INC 500 Company, who has advertised with Google for years, as the representative plaintiff in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
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