Neowin News Feed for: Amnesty

Microsoft grants Linux patent amnesty to LG Electronics

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:02:37 +0000

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced a cross-licensing deal with Korean consumer electronics maker LG Electronics Inc. It is the fifth such deal in recent months that involves Redmond's controversial granting of Linux patent 'protection' --... Read more...

$1 Amnesty for Pirated Software

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 14:45:45 +0000

Microsoft has reached a deal with Indonesia over the tens of thousands of pirated versions of Windows programs used in government departments. Ministers said Microsoft had agreed an amnesty under which a... Read more...

RIAA drops amnesty program

Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:31:27 +0000

The Recording Industry Association of America has pulled the plug on a controversial program that offered file sharers amnesty from the group's legal campaign to stop the unauthorized swapping of music files over the Internet.... Read more...

UK police moot paedo hard disk amnesty

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:08:16 +0000

UK police are mulling over launching an interesting initiative in which paedophiles can avoid a court appearence if they offer themselves and their hard drives up for counselling and erasure/destruction, respectively. According to the BBC,... Read more...

RIAA sued for amnesty offer

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:22:11 +0000

A day after the Recording Industry Association of America filed a slew of lawsuits against alleged illegal song swappers, it became the target of legal action over its own "amnesty program." California resident... Read more...

RIAA considers amnesty for P2P users

Darren Bolton — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 07:19:51 +0000

Downloaders who admit they done wrong could be let off the hook The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is believed to be preparing an amnesty for users of peer-to-peer (P2P) sites, but... Read more...

Amnesty offer for music file sharers

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 16:09:21 +0000

The recording industry is expected to announce as early as next week an amnesty program for people who admit they illegally share music files across the Internet, promising not to sue them in exchange for... Read more...

Amnesty blows the horn on MS, Sun, Cisco

Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:05:02 +0000

Human rights group Amnesty International has fingered a handful of tech companies that allegedly have sold products used in government censorship of Internet speech in China. In a report released Tuesday, Amnesty... Read more...