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German court ruled GPL valid

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 06:24:30 +0000

A hardware manufacturer Sitecom loses round one of the court battle after the German court ruled the GPL (General Public License) license as valid. The German court issued a preliminary injunction against Sitecom's... Read more...

Console mod-chips ruled legal in Spain

Marcel Klum — Mon, 03 May 2004 19:36:36 +0000

A Spanish judge presiding over a case against a video games store which offered Xbox and PS2 mod-chips to customers has ruled that the devices are legal thanks to a loophole in the country's copyright... Read more...

Console mod-chips ruled legal in Spain

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:23:28 +0000

Hacking by subpoena ruled illegal

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 08:20:03 +0000

Issuing an egregiously overbroad subpoena for stored e-mail qualifies as a computer intrusion in violation of anti-hacking laws, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, deciding a case in which a litigant in a civil matter... Read more...

Plastic Pentium ruled out of court

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 02 Aug 2003 06:44:52 +0000

A FIRM MAKING plastic parts in India was told to stop trading as Pentium Industries after Intel sued it for using its name. But, Intel claimed, after it approached Pentium Industries, the Gujarati firm demanded... Read more...

'DeCSS' DVD descrambler ruled legal

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 02 Nov 2001 13:21:20 +0000

A win for the little guy The Copy Control Association (CCA), which was granted a preliminary injunction against Andrew Bunner and other Webmasters, was handed its head in a California appellate court... Read more...