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EU Court Delivers Blow to Copyright Holders

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:14:47 +0000

European Union countries can refuse to disclose names of file sharers on the Internet in civil cases, the EU's top court said on Tuesday in a blow to copyright holders trying to fight digital piracy.... Read more...

Arrests Deal Huge Blow to Online Gambling

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:58:23 +0000

NETeller founders John Lefebvre and Stephen Lawrence were arrested and charged with processing gambling proceeds. The pair illegally handled and processed billions of dollars generated from online gambling. Details for the arrest are unclear but... Read more...

XForms support for Firefox takes a major blow

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:57:06 +0000

In an effort to reduce costs, Novell has cut it's Copenhagen R&D department and with it put one of the major XForms extention developers out of a job. Allan Beaufour, in his blog, explained how... Read more...

Policy Deals Blow to Microsoft

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:50:00 +0000

The state of Massachusetts will require that by 2007 all documents produced by the state's executive branch must be stored in a new universal format. The policy change, which will require modifications to software running... Read more...

Judge Deals Blow to Marvel's Case Against NCsoft

Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:20:01 +0000

A Federal judge partially ruled against Marvel Enterprises Wednesday, all but putting to an end the comic book company's efforts to wring damages and an injunction against NCsoft and CoH developer Cryptic Studios for their... Read more...

Savvis deals a big blow to spammers

Wed, 08 Sep 2004 17:58:34 +0000

With little in the way of good news for users affected by spam (junk email) currently, it's good to hear that Savvis, a ISP for major companies ("the network that carries wall street") and the... Read more...

Intel dealt blow by high court in EU probe

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:58:30 +0000

Intel has to turn over certain confidential documents for its case in Europe. This ruling comes from the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. The documents themselves were produced in a legal dispute between... Read more...

DMCA takes another blow

Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:31:25 +0000

Critics of a controversial U.S. copyright law applauded a jury's decision Tuesday to acquit a Russian software firm charged with creating an illegal encryption-disabling program. The verdict, they say, will make prosecutors more reluctant to... Read more...

Corporations Blow Off Windows XP

Wed, 10 Oct 2001 22:47:33 +0000

It looks like Microsoft is going to have a really tough sell to convince corporations to upgrade to Windows XP. A new poll showed that 52.5% of IT managers have decided not to upgrade, while... Read more...