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An Open Source Legal Breakthrough
Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants
Lego Loses Its Unique Right To Make Lego Blocks
Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted
iPhone Antitrust and Computer Fraud Claims Upheld
Internal Emails Released In Vista Capable Debacle
US District Court Says Calculating a Hash Value = Search
RIAA Receives Stern Letter, Folds
Google Sued Over Deceptive Search Results
Hans Reiser Interview on ABC's 20/20
IFPI Domain Dispute Likely to Go To Court
Spammer Perjury is Worth Prosecuting
Court Rules That Palin Must Save Yahoo Emails
Judge Suppresses Report On Voting Systems
Judge Tosses Telco Suit Over City-Owned Network
Michael Robertson Sued Over Missing Linspire Cash
Ted "A Series of Tubes" Stevens Found Guilty
Oregon Judge Says RIAA Made 'Honest Mistake,' Allows Subpoena
Blogger.com Banned In Turkey
For 3 Years, Scammers Ran Truckless Trucking Company
Game Makers Accusing Innocent People of Piracy In the UK
HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade
ISPs Dragged Into Swedish File Sharing Battle
Jack Thompson Includes Gay Porn With Court Filing
Kentucky Judge Upholds State's Gambling-Domain Grab
Live Blogs From the Hans Reiser Trial
PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License
RIAA Appeals Award of Attorneys' Fees
RIAA Sues Usenet.com
SCO Vs. IBM Leaks Exposed
US State Sues Web/SEO Firm For Deceiving Mom-and-Pops
Listening To The Radio At Work? Prepare To Be Sued
Microsoft Had Doubts About the 'Vista Capable' Label
Alaskan Village Sues Over Global Warming
Can Apple + AT&T Shut Down iPhone Unlockers?
Dutch Court Punishes Theft of Virtual Property
Former IBM Exec Ordered To Stop Working For Apple
In Response To Restraining Order, Real Networks Pulls RealDVD
Judge — "Making Available" Is Stealing Music
Judge Rejects RIAA 'Making Available' Theory
Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista
RIAA Directed To Pay $68K In Attorneys Fees
Racketeering Trial of MS and Best Buy Can Proceed
Scientology Injunction Denied Against "Anonymous"
Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet
TorrentSpy Must Preserve Data In RAM For MPAA
UK High Court Allows Software Patent Claims
12 Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know
Apple Sued Over iPhone Bricking
Are DMCA Abuses a Temporary or Permanent Problem?
Australian ISPs Reject Calls To Police Their Users
Class Action Complaint Against RIAA Now Online
Courts May Revisit Software Patents
Daniel Lyons of Forbes Admits Being Snowed by SCO
Ex-Microsoft Lawyer Rejects Anti-Trust Complaints @DOJ
Feds Block EFF Look at Google/DoJ Contacts
First New Dismissal Motion Against RIAA Complaint
Grokking SCO's Demise
Has RIAA Abandoned the 'Making Available' Defense?
Indian Woman Convicted of Murder By Brain Scan
Large Hadron Collider Sparks 'Doomsday' Lawsuit
Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid
Microsoft Finally Bows to EU Antitrust Measures
Microsoft Loses EU Anti-Trust Appeal
NJ Spammer Gets Two Years Jail for AOL Spam Scam
NZ Teen Arrested as 'Spybot Mastermind'
New York's Slap to the Facebook
Next Year's Laws, Now Out In Beta!
Novell to SCO - Pay Up
RIAA Afraid of Harvard
RIAA Loses $222K Verdict
Ray Beckerman Sued By the RIAA
SCO Loses
SCO Wants Summary Ruling, Wants To Appeal Unix Ownership Decision
Should RIAA Investigators Have To Disclose Evidence?
Usenet.com May Find Safe Harbor From RIAA lawsuit
Virginia High Court Wrong About IP Addresses
Why the RIAA Doesn't Want Defendants Exonerated
Yahoo Sued for Spurning Microsoft
$360M Patent Suit Over iPhone Voicemail
$500M Piracy Ring Busted In China
22 Companies Sued Over Wi-Fi Patents
Afghan Student Gets 20 Years For Blasphemy
An Appeal In the "Harry Potter Lexicon" Case
Apple Ordered to Pay Blogger Legal Fees
Bell, SuperMicro Sued Over GPL
Bloggers Immune From Suits Against Commenters
Breathalyzer Source Code Revealed
Court Finds Spamming Not Protected By Constitution
Court Strikes Down Age Verification For Adult Sites
Cybersquatter Faces Jail Time For Wire Fraud
Diebold Goes 0 For 3 In Massachusetts Case
DoJ Sides With RIAA On Damages
Does Hacking Grades Warrant 20 Years in Jail?
EFF Takes On RIAA "Making Available" Theory
Federal Circuit Appeals Court Limits Business-Method Patents
Geek Wins Copyright Lawsuit Against Corporation
German Court Abolishes German Snooping Law
German Court Rules iPhone Locking Legal
Google Wins Agreement To Anonymize YouTube Logs
Gorbachev Asks Gates to Intervene in Piracy Case
Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder
How the RIAA Targets Campus Copyright Violators
Interview With Jailed Video Blogger Josh Wolf
Is RIAA's Linares Affidavit Technically Valid?
Jack Thompson Disbarred
Jammie Appeals, Citing "Excessive" Damages
Judge Makes Lawyers Pay For Frivolous Patent Suit
Judge Permits eBay's "Buy It Now" Feature
Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK
Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law
Major UK Child Porn Investigation Flawed
Massive Canadian Class-Action Cellphone Suit Is Approved
Mediasentry Violates Cease & Desist Order
Microsoft Loses Appeal of "Vista-Capable" Lawsuit
Microsoft Settles Iowa Antitrust Case
Microsoft Tries To Prevent Further Discovery
Microsoft Under Third EU Investigation for OOXML
Novell's 2004 Case Against Microsoft Moves Forward
Oklahoma Security Expert Attacks RIAA Claims
Pirate Bay Raid Investigation Finished
Prof. Johan Pouwelse To Take On RIAA Expert
Psystar Will Countersue Apple
RIAA Exec Moves Over To Gaming Industry
RIAA Litigation May Be Unconstitutional
RIAA Pays Tanya Andersen $107,951
RIAA Trying To Avoid a Jury Trial
RIAA Wants Student Deposed On School Day
SCOTUS Case May End Sale Prices
Sony Sues Rootkit Maker
Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Reporting it
The Shady Business Practices of Classmates.com
U. Maine Law Students Trying To Shut RIAA Down
UK Man Convicted For Wi-Fi Piggybacking
Web Accessibility Gets a Boost In California Court
YouTube Hands Over User Info To Fox
RIAA Wants Its $222,000 Verdict Back
Apple Sued Over Fundamental iTunes Model
10,000-website Strong Malware Maze Created by Criminals
CRIA Admits P2P Downloading Legal in Canada
Canadian ISPs Send Thousands of Copyright Notices
College Demands RIAA Pay Up For Wasting Its Time
Comcast May Face Lawsuits Over BitTorrent Filtering
Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA
EFF Jumps in Against RIAA for Copyright Misuse
EU Slaps Intel With Formal Antitrust Charges
FCC Declines To Probe Disclosure of Phone Records
Fark Seeks to Trademark NSFW
German Police Arrest Admin of Tor Anonymity Server
Germany Says Copying of DVDs, CDs Is Verboten
In the UK, Possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook Is Terrorism
Is a Domain Name an Automatic Trademark?
Judge Orders TorrentSpy to Turn Over RAM
Linux Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat/Novell
Lobbying Could Cause Legal Trouble for Microsoft
Man Wins Partial Victory In Circuit City Arrest
Microsoft Sued Over Vista Marketing
Microsoft Sued by a Beijing Student Over 'Privacy Violation'
Mozilla Foundation Sues Microsoft Over Tabbed Browsing
MySpace Not Guilty in Child Assault Case
New Attorneys Fee Decision Against RIAA
Oregon AG Seeks to Investigate RIAA Tactics
Perens Counters Claim of GPL Legal Risk
Potentially Huge Legal Boost for EU File Traders
RIAA Short on Funds? Fails to Pay Attorney Fees
RIAA Targets New Colleges, Still Avoids Harvard
RIAA's 'Misspeaking' May Have Affected Verdict
Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files
Seven States Extend Microsoft Antitrust Judgment
Slot Machine with Bad Software Sends Players To Jail
Texas Family 'Sues Creative Commons'
University of Kansas Adopts 'One Strike' Copyright Infringement Policy
Variety Says Class Action May Stop RIAA Suits
Verizon Sues FCC over 700MHz Open Access Rules
Vista Makes Forensic PC Exam Easier for Lawyers
Wikipedia Wins Defamation Case
RIAA Victim Wins Attorney's Fees
"Vista Capable" Lawsuit Is Now a Class Action
$125 Million Settlement In Authors Guild v. Google
11 Charged In TJX, Other Breaches
ACLU Protests Police Scanning License Plates
ACLU of Ohio Sues To Block Paper Ballots
AMD Claims Intel Inadvertently Destroyed Evidence in Antitrust Case
All 44 Blackboard Patent Claims Invalidated
All Fifty States May Face Voting Machine Lawsuit
Andersen Vs. RIAA Counterclaims Challenged
Apple Inc. Inks Apple Corps Deal
Apple Sued Over iPhone Non-Replaceable Batteries
Arizona Judge Shoots Down RIAA Theories
Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home
Barr Sues Over McCain's, Obama's Presence on Texas Ballot
Belgian ISP Forced To Block P2P Traffic
Boston University Student Challenges RIAA
Buffalo Tech Gets New Trial On Wi-Fi Patent
BusinessWeek Takes On the RIAA
COPA Suffers Yet Another Court Defeat
Canada's Wayne Crookes Sues the Net
Canadian Court Rules "Hyperlink" Is Not Defamation
Canadian Theatre Chain Sued for Abusive Search
Case Against Video-Sharing Site Dismissed