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Sony Antes Up $1.5 Million to Settle DRM Suits

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Sony BMG on Tuesday settled lawsuits with consumers in Texas and California whose computers were infected with spyware hidden on CDs. The attorneys general of both states filed lawsuits last year charging the music giant with unfair business practices and violations of anti-spyware statutes. Under the terms of the settlement, each state will receive US$750,000…

Microsoft’s RSS Patent Application Raises Hackles

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

An application that Microsoft filed last year with the U.S. Patent andTrademark Office could be interpreted to give the software giant broad rightsto RSS, or really simple syndication, technology. The possibility that Microsoft might wind up charging license fees forany RSS-type application has caused denizens of the blogosphere to take up arms against the Redmond,…

Net Neutrality Bill: Saving or Strangling the Internet?

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Network neutrality — an issue that created a firestorm of controversy on Capitol Hill last year — will be on the congressional agenda again in 2007 thanks to Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND). Those legislators filed this week what they’re calling “The Internet Freedom Preservation Act,” which they say will ensure all…

MySpace to Add Parental Alert System

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

News Corp.’s popular social networking site MySpace.com will soon offer parents a glimpse of what their teenagers are doing online. The site, which is one of a group of social networking sites used regularly by more than half of American teens, has recently come under fire for inadequate security controls. Children as young as 14…

Bold California Software Pirate Arrested

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

After this week’s arrest of a California man accused of selling pirated copies of Microsoft and Adobe Systems software, police said the suspect had brazenly offered the disks on eBay and on personal Web sites. This latest case highlights an ongoing trend that software makers are battling. “It may take a lot of guts, but…

DMCA Exemption Could Unlock Cell Phones

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Last November, the Librarian of Congress adopted half a dozen exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), among them one that might give cell phone phone users greater freedom to move between carriers with their mobile devices. That exemption allows users to legally unlock their cell phones, according to two attorneys with Banner &…

Texas Court Dismisses MySpace Sexual Assault Case

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A Texas judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the family of a 13-year-old girl who allegedly was assaulted by a man she met through the social networking Web site MySpace. Part of the case was dismissed with prejudice, a decision that will likely be appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court, according to one of…

Blogger Gets Four-Year Jail Term for Insulting Islam

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

In a stark reminder of the perils some face when using the Internet to express themselves, an Egyptian blogger has been sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of insulting Islam and the country’s president in his writings. An Egyptian court on Thursday found that 22-year old Abdel Kareem Nabil had used his…

The Thorny Problems Posed by Online Predator Bills

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Online predators will again be the target of legislation filed in Congress this year. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) filed a measure last month aimed at protecting children from pornographers, predators and list brokers. Meanwhile, in the House last week, Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) submitted a bill entitled the “Deleting Online Predators Act,” which is reportedly very…

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