The Courts Stories for 2013

How the Dark Lord of the Internet Made His Fortunes 60
NSA's Legal Win Introduces a Lot of Online Insecurity 239
US Federal Judge Rules NSA Data Collection Legal 511
Google Sues Consortium Backed By Apple and Microsoft to Protect Android 150
Ulbricht Admits Seized Bitcoins Are His and Wants Them Back 243
Swedish Man Fined $650,000 For Sharing 1 Movie, Charged Extra For Low Quality 366
Google Seeks To Throw Out UK Safari Tracking Suit 70
Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional 345
Investor Lawsuit Blames NSA For $12B Loss In IBM Value 204
EU Advocate General Says EU Data Retention Directive Unlawful 22
Chimpanzee "Personhood" Lawsuits Fail In New York Courts 370
Decades-Old Rambus Litigation Against Micron For RDRAM Tech Reaches Settlement 82
California Man Arrested for Running 'Revenge Porn' Website 252
Supreme Court To Review Software Patents 115
eBay Founder Pleads For Leniency For the PayPal 14 225
Tech Companies Set To Appeal 2012 Oracle Vs. Google Ruling 198
Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So 462
Hotfile Settles With MPAA, Drops Countersuit Against Warner Bros 88
Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute 562
Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons 641
Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes 293
Woman Fined For Bad Review Striking Back In Court 249
French Court Orders Search Engines, ISPs To Block Pirate Sites 75
Jury Finds Newegg Infringed Patent, Owes $2.3 Million 324
Image Lifted From Twitter Leads to $1.2M Payout For Haitian Photog 242
Samsung Ordered To Pay Apple $290M In Patent Case 219
Sweden Will Deliver Pirate Bay Co-Founder To Denmark 56
Warner Bros. Admits To Issuing Bogus Takedowns 199
Supreme Court Refuses To Hear EPIC Challenge To NSA Surveillance 227
Prison Is For Dangerous Criminals, Not Hacktivists 337
Google Books Case Dismissed On Fair Use Grounds 124
P2P Data Not Private, But It Could Be 59
Could Slashdot (Or Other Private Entity) Sue a Spy Agency Like GCHQ Or NSA? 188
Judge: No Privacy Expectations For Data On P2P Networks 230
Chicago State University Lawyers Attack Faculty Bloggers 94
French Court Orders Google To Block Pictures of Ex-F1 Chief Mosley 180
RIAA Targets 21 Sites For Shutdown 140
Toyota's Killer Firmware 610
Anti-Poaching Lawsuit Against Apple, Google and Others Given the Green Light 172
Federal Prosecutors, In a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps As Evidence 321
ACLU: Lavabit Was 'Fatally Undermined' By Demands For Encryption Keys 230
Facebook Faces PRISM Data Investigation In Ireland 86
Finally, a Bill To End Patent Trolling 162
Court Rules Probable-Cause Warrant Required For GPS Trackers 116
Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights 488
Open Rights Group International Says Virgin, Sky Blocking Innocent Sites 83
Scientology's Fraud Conviction Upheld In France 321
IsoHunt Settles With MPAA, Will Shut Down And Pay Up to $110 Million 245
Mark Cuban Found Not Guilty of Insider Trading 48
Blizzard Wins Legal Battle Against WoW Bot Company 285
Ed Felten: Why Email Services Should Be Court-Order Resistant 183
DOJ: Defendant Has No Standing To Oppose Use of Phone Records 396
Broadcasters Petition US Supreme Court In Fight Against Aereo 229
EU Court Holds News Website Liable For Readers' Comments 246
New York Subpoenaed AirBnb For All NYC User Data 181
DOJ Hasn't Actually Found Silk Road Founder's Bitcoin Yet 294
'Dangerously Naive' Aaron Swartz 'Destroyed Himself' 362
Apple and Nokia Outraged That Samsung Lawyers Leaked Patent License Terms 201
Lavabit Case Unsealed: FBI Demands Companies Secretly Turn Over Crypto Keys 527
Martha Stewart Out To Exterminate Patent Troll Lodsys 150
Arrest Made In Webcam Highjacking Extortion Case 311
Google's Scanning of Gmail To Deliver Ads May Violate Federal Wiretap Laws 325
No Upper Bound On Phone Record Collection, Says NSA 238
Judge Orders Patent Troll To Explain Its 'Mr. Sham' To Jury 117
Brooklyn Yogurt Shop Sting Snares Fake Reviewers For NY Attorney General 168
Former FBI Agent Pleads Guilty To Leaking Secrets to the Associated Press 178
Vimeo Held Covered By DMCA Safe Harbor 51
Link Rot and the US Supreme Court 161
LinkedIn Accused of Hacking Customers' E-Mails To Slurp Up Contacts 210
Charles Carreon Finally Surrenders To the Oatmeal 173
Secret Court Upholds Phone Data Collection 174
Doubleclick Cofounder Responds to Patent Troll by Filing Extortion Lawsuit 225
FISA Court Will Release More Opinions Because of Snowden 179
Cisco Can't Shield Customers From Patent Suits, Court Rules 111
Yahoo and Facebook Join Google In FISC Petition After Government Talks Fail 114
Apple Sued For Dividing Final Season of Breaking Bad Into Two On iTunes 458
Court Bars Apple From Making Industry-Wide E-book Deals 130
NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA 531
Jury Finds Google Guilty of Standards-Essential Patents Abuse Against MS 278
Court Orders Retrial In Google Maps-Related Murder Case 152
Martin Luther King Jr's Children In Court Over MLK IP 344
How Patent Trolls Stalled a New Transit App 85
U.S. Gov't Still Fighting the Man Behind Buckyballs; Guess Who's Winning? 555
Feds Seek Prison For Man Who Taught How To Beat a Polygraph 374
One Strike Against No Fly List; More Scrutiny To Come 213
Uber Tip-Skimming Allegations Could Spark National Class Action 167
NJ Court: Sending a Text Message To a Driver Could Make You Liable For Crash 628
Newest YouTube User To Fight a Takedown: Lawrence Lessig 154
City of Johannesburg Leaks Personal Bills Online, Threatens Flaw Finder 46
Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs 432
Bradley Manning Sentenced To 35 Years 491
Company Using Proxy To Evade Craigslist Block Violated CFAA 186
Comcast Allegedly Confirms That Prenda Planted Porn Torrents 175
FISC Chief Judge: We Can't Effectively Oversee the NSA 185
Bradley Manning Says He's Sorry 496
Court: NRC In Violation For Not Ruling On Yucca Mountain 258
First Portions of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File Released 89
TrollingEffects.org To Help Potential Victims of Patent Trolls 35
"Piracy Filter" Blocks TorrentFreak for 4 Million Sky Customers 122
LulzSec's Raynaldo Rivera, a.k.a. 'neuron,' Gets One-Year Prison Term 105
Federal Judge Declares Bitcoin a Currency 425
Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer? 186
Bradley Manning and the 'Hacker Madness' Scare Tactic 169
Liberal Saudi Web Forum Founder Sentenced To 600 Lashes and 7 Years In Prison 506
Bradley Manning Convicted of Espionage, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy' 529
Apple Retailer Facing Class Action Suit Over Employee Bag Checks 353
Judge Rules In Favor of Volkswagen and Silences Scientist 254
Dentist Who Used Copyright To Silence Her Patients Drops Out of Sight 260
Oracle Sues Companies It Says Provide Solaris OS Support In Illegal Manner 154
Judge Denies Administration Request To Delay ACLU Metadata Lawsuit 107
Hallibuton Pleads Guilty To Destroying Simulation Data From 2010 Gulf Oil Spill 104
Five Charged In Largest Hacking Scheme Ever Prosecuted In US 84
MMO Fan Site Removes Character Stats Over Trademark Claim 139
Court Upholds Ruling On Dish Network's 'Hopper' 248
SEC Alleges 'Bitcoin Savings & Trust' Is a Ponzi Scheme 176
Invalidation of Eolas's Web Patent Claims Upheld 72
New Jersey Supreme Court Restricts Police Searches of Phone Data 31
MIT Attempts To Block Release of Documents In Aaron Swartz Case 159
EFF Sues NSA, Justice Department, FBI 333
HBO Asks Google To Take Down "Infringing" VLC Media Player 364
Yahoo Receives Special Recognition For Fighting For User Data Privacy 58
Apple Sued For Man's Porn Addiction 509
George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin 1737
Whistleblowing IT Director Fired By FL State Attorney 569
Microsoft Sues US Customs For Allowing Imports of Banned Motorola Phones 87
Federal Judge Rejects State Secrets Claims: EFF Case To Proceed 146
UK Government Surveillance Faces Legal Challenge.. In Secret Court 137
Security Researchers Submit Brief For Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer 161
Irish Supreme Court Upholds 3-Strikes Rule For Copyright Violation 82
Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial 325
Why Apple and Samsung Still Get Along, Behind the Courtroom Battles 125
Teenage League of Legends Player Jailed For Months For Facebook Joke 743
Boston Marathon Bomber Charged With Using 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' 533
FTC Wins Huge $7.5 Million Penalty Against "Do Not Call" List Violator 136
Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act 1073
Formlabs In Settlement Talks Over 3D Printing Patent Lawsuit 57
US Charges Edward Snowden With Espionage 442
Supreme Court Gene Patents Ruling Opens Genetic Test Options 22
Aaron's Law Would Revamp Computer Fraud Penalties 163
Pirate Bay Founder Sentenced To Jail 168
NSA's Role In Terror Cases Concealed From Defense Lawyers 172
Google Files First Amendment Challenge Against FISA Gag Order 163
Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You 662
Microsoft Antitrust Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Dead at 76 193
SCO v. IBM Is Officially Reopened 104
Ortiz-Heymann: the Prior Generation 57
Apogee Suing Gearbox Over Unpaid Royalties For Duke Nukem Forever 88
Birthday Song's Copyright Leads To a Lawsuit For the Ages 442
Supreme Court: No Patents For Natural DNA Sequences 214
New Bill Would Declassify FISC Opinions 130
Federal Judge Says Interns Should Be Paid 540
Man Who Sold $100 Million Worth of Pirated Software Gets 12 Years In Prison 304
Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders 768
Amazon: Publishers Strong-Armed Us On E-Books 171
Class Action Suit Goodies Await Tech Users 117
U.S. District Judge: Forced Decryption of Hard Drives Violates Fifth Amendment 417
iPhone 4, iPad 2 Get US Import Ban 213
White House Announces Reforms Targeting Patent Trolls 124
SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest 643
Apple E-book Price-Fixing Trial Begins 213
Opposition Mounts To Oracle's Attempt To Copyright Java APIs 187
Judge Orders Google To Comply With FBI's Warrantless NSL Requests 167
Kim Dotcom Wins Case Against NZ Police To Get Seized Material Back 111
DOJ Fights To Bury Court Ruling On Government Surveillance 100
Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives 802
Nasdaq Fined $10M Over Facebook IPO Failures 91
Criminal Complaint Filed Against Facebook After Girl's Death 559
Jeremy Hammond of LulzSec Pleads Guilty To Stratfor Attack 192
Judge Thinks Apple Will Lose E-Book Price-Fixing Case 150
Curiosity Rewarded: Florida Teen Heading to Space Camp, Not Jail 241
Kim Dotcom Wants Money From Google, Twitter For 2-Factor Authentication 122
First Government Lawsuit Against a Patent Troll 96
Motion To Delay Sanctions Against Prenda Lawyers Denied 68
Judges Debate Patents and If New Software Makes a Computer a "New Machine" 247
Medical Firm Sues IRS For 4th Amendment Violation In Records Seizure 365
Wikileaks Releases Docs Before Trial of TPB Founder Warg 70
Fed. Appeals Court Says Police Need Warrant to Search Phone 69
LulzSec Hackers Sentenced To Short Prison Terms 104
Irish Judge Orders 'The Internet' To Delete Video 243
Groklaw Turns Ten 50
Justice Department Calls Apple the "Ringmaster" In e-book Price Fixing Case 192
Federal Judge Dismisses Movie Piracy Complaint 225
In Germany, Offensive Autocomplete Is No Laughing Matter 200
New Prenda Law Shell Corp Threatening to Tell Your Neighbors You Pirated Porn 258
Supreme Court Rules For Monsanto In Patent Case 579
Death Knell For Righthaven In 9th Circuit Decision 36
San Francisco Abandons Mobile Phone Radiation Labels 132
German Court Rejects Apple's Privacy Policy 124
Feds Drop CFAA Charges Against 'Hacker' Who Exploited Poker Machines 144
Judge Refers Prenda Copyright Trolls To Criminal Investigators 134
Google Seeks 'Do-No-Discoverable-Evil' Patent 109
Redditors (and Popehat) Versus a Bus Company 153
Florida Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Search Cell Phones 107
Warner Bros. Sued By Meme Creators Over Copyright Infringement 210
Video Poker Firmware Bug Yields Big Money, Federal Charges 312
Pirates of the Caribbean: the Pirate Bay Moves To Island of Sint Maarten 108
MPAA Executive Tampers With Evidence In Piracy Case 156
Was Google's Motorola Mobility Acquisition a Mistake? 189
Chinese Court Fines Apple For Copyright Violations 102
DMCA Safe Harbor May Not Apply To Old Copyrighted Works 139
Aereo Ruling Could Impact Pandora 107
Federal Magistrate Rules That Fifth Amendment Applies To Encryption Keys 322
Motorola Loses ITC Case Against Apple for Proximity Sensor Patents 121
Australian Mobile Phone Provider Sent 1000s of Fake Debt Collection Letters 82
State Secrets, No-Fly List Showdown Looms 216
Silicon Valley Firms Want To Nix Calif. Internet Privacy Bill 110
British Woman's Twitter Comments Spark Expensive Libel Claims 303
YouTube Wins Against Viacom Again 49
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Indicted For Hacking, Fraud 99
Trader Pleads Guilty To Illegal Purchase of Nearly $1B In Apple Stock 174
Will the Supreme Court End Human Gene Patents? 228
Guantanamo Hearings Delayed as Legal Files Vanish 170
Man Who Tangled With The Oatmeal Ordered To Pay $46k 68
Judge Slams Apple-Motorola Suit As 'Business Strategy' 140
Bin Laden Raid Member To Be WikiLeaks Witness 212
New Revenue Model For Low Budget Films: Lawsuits 162
Rackspace Goes On Rampage Against Patent Trolls 132
Judge Denies Class Action Status In Tech Workers' Lawsuit 103
Aaron Swartz Prosecution Team Claims Online Harassment 429
Court: Aereo TV Rebroadcast Is Still Legal 64
Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail 1111
Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights 207
Apple Loses the iPad Mini Trademark 144
Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence 761
9th Circuit Affirms IsoHunt Decision; No DMCA Safe Harbor 211
Twitter Sued For $50M For Refusing To Identify Anti-Semitic Users 335
Digging Into the Legal Status of 3-D Printed Guns 404
Supreme Court Upholds First Sale Doctrine 648
Jammie Thomas Denied Supreme Court Appeal 347
Villians & Vigilantes Creators Win Lawsuit, Rights To Game 30
41 Months In Prison For Man Who Leaked AT&T iPad Email Addresses 459
Veoh Once Again Beats UMG (After Going Out of Business) 229
Porn Troll Panics, Dismisses Pending Lawsuits 106
Apple Faces Lawsuit For Retina MacBook Pro 'Ghosting' Issue 195
National Security Letters Ruled Unconstitutional, Banned 231
European Human Rights Court Rejects Pirate Bay Founders' Appeal 183
Using Truth Serum To Confirm Insanity 308
Canadian File Sharing Plaintiff Admits To Copyright Trolling 87
Court: 4th Amendment Applies At Border, Password Protected Files Not Suspicious 194
Dotcom Wins Right To Sue NZ Government 127
US Attorney General Defends Handling of Aaron Swartz Case 276
Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy 357
Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear 385
Copyright Trolls Sue Bloggers, Defense Lawyers 219
Bradley Manning Makes Statement 440
Conflicted Judges Are Classier With English Accents 74
Cablevision Suing Viacom Over Cable Bundling 138
Apple's $1B Patent Award From Samsung Gets Cut By $450M 56
US Wins Appeal In Battle To Extradite Kim Dotcom 175
Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges 491

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