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Comment: remember when sidewalk got owned by ticketmaster (Score 1) 308

by pretzel_logic on Sunday March 13, 2011 @07:45AM (#35470484) Attached to: Man Arrested For Linking To Online Videos

quote "By contrast, Ticketmaster's suit challenges the backbone of the Internet, namely the ability of one Internet user to simply link his or her page to other pages, without changing the linked pages in any way." http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/linking/linking/link3.html

Police Investigating Virtual Furniture Theft 103

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @11:34AM
from the someone-has-been-sleeping-in-my-virtual-bed dept.

krou writes "Finnish police are involved in the investigation of up to 400 cases of theft from virtual world Habbo Hotel, with some users reporting the loss of up to €1000 of virtual furniture and other items. Users were targeted using a phishing scam that used fake webpages to capture usernames and passwords. There is no mention as to whether or not the thieves made off with the bath towels, gowns, shampoo bottles, and soaps."