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Beijing police to 'clean out' illegal foreigners CLIFFORD COONAN in Beijing ACCOMPANIED BY a powerful logo of a giant smashing fist, Beijing authorities have launched a 100-day campaign to â??clean outâ?

Google, Oracle To Postpone Copyright Damages Phase - 3 Hours ago

, 8:22 PM ET) -- Oracle Corp. and Google Inc. agreed Wednesday to put off the issue of damages related to Google's alleged infringement of Oracle's Java software, taking it out of the hands of the jury

Robert Holleyman: Shadow Market: The Story of Software Piracy in 2011 - 3 Hours ago

What if 57 percent of consumers admitted they shoplift? That's how many of the world's computer users say they pirate software, according to the ninth edition of the BSA Global Software Piracy Study

The Legal Cost of Improper Internet Censorship - 4 Hours ago

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 30 years ago that public schools cannot engage in viewpoint-based censorship of library books. Schools can keep books off the shelves if they are poorly written or inappropriate

Wil Wheaton: BitTorrent Isn't Only For Piracy - 3 Hours ago

he didn't need bittorrent, all he had to do was go to a mirror site that didn't have bandwidth issues. Bittorrent can be usefull but speed is not one of the things it excels at. It depends on the peers

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Pirate Bay Co-Founderâ??s Attorney Says Prosecution Violates Human Rights - 3 Hours ago

In 2009 Fredrik Neij, a co-founder of the file-sharing site the Pirate Bay, and three co-defendants were found guilty by a Swedish court of being accessories to copyright violation. Neij was sentenced

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Global software piracy costs record $63.4b [Times of Oman] - 17 Hours ago

] (Times of Oman Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Washington: Software piracy cost the industry a record $63.4 billion globally in 2011 with emerging economies listed as the main culprits, an annual study

Research and Markets: Internet and Online Privacy: A Legal and Business Guide - 17 Hours ago

] May 16, 2012 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4w945q/internet_and_onlin) has announced the addition of the "Internet and Online Privacy: A Legal

'Software piracy cost $21bn to Asia in 2011' - 21 Hours ago

SEOUL: An industry report says software piracy in Asia cost businesses more than $20 billion in lost sales last year. The Business Software Alliance's study released Wednesday said consumers in Asia Pacific

Pirate Pay Blocks BitTorrent Sharing. Is it Illegal DOS? - 23 Hours ago

Skolkovo or Russian's competition to Silicon Valley has a hot company Pirate Pay which just received funding from Microsoft. The idea behind the system is to confuse BitTorrent clients to keep them from

Oracle lawsuit lets Google dust off its halo - 5/16/2012

The Google Inc logo is projected on a screen during the unveiling of "Google Instant" at a news conference in San Francisco, California September 8, 2010. An Oracle lawsuit is giving Google GOOG-Q Since

Judge dismisses piracy suits, says IP address doesn't confirm state - 5/15/2012

A California judge has dismissed 15 lawsuits against John Does accused of sharing pirated adult movies on BitTorrent, saying the court lacks jurisdiction because the geolocation tools relied on don't

Oracle's Android lawsuit against Google goes to jury for patent decision - 5/15/2012

SAN FRANCISCO -- A California jury began another round of deliberations on Tuesday in a high profile trial over allegations that Google's (GOOG) Android mobile platform violates Oracle's (ORCL) intellectual

Google Music Is Forced to Limit Users Due to "Piracy" - 5 Hours ago

No matter what you think about piracy it's hard to argue against the fact that many times it's easier to pirate something than it is to pay for it. If you grab a bunch of albums from The Pirate Bay, you

Oracle (ORCL) and H-P (HPQ) fire new salvos in their legal battle over Oracle's - 5 Hours ago

Oracle ( ORCL ) and H-P ( HPQ ) fire new salvos in their legal battle over Oracle's decision to end support for H-P servers running Intel Itanium CPUs. Oracle has released a series of e-mails showing

BSA 2011 Study Shows Growth in Global Piracy; ISVs to Turn to Compliance Programs - 5/15/2012

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The leading software intelligence solutions provider, V.i. Laboratories, Inc.("V.i. Labs"), today announced that its top customers have identified more than $2.4 billion in revenue

New MerlinCryption Embedded Encryption Software Protects Industrial Manufacturers - 5/15/2012

MerlinM2M(TM) encryption and dynamic authentication platform intensifies security against counterfeiting, illegal off-brand production, and unscrupulous manufacturers, while preserving the competitive

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Chinese Court allows usernames to be sued If someone's legal rights are infringed - 5/15/2012

In the past, it would have been unthinkable because defendants' true identities are required in a trial according to Chinese law or else courts will not accept the cases. But now online violators in East

Chinese Court allows usernames to be suedIf someone's legal rights are infringed - 5/15/2012

If someone's legal rights are infringed upon on the Internet and the violator's real name is unknown, can the plaintiff still take a lawsuit from cyberspace to the courts? In the past, it would have been

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