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Submission + - Swedish Court Orders ISP to Take Down Pirate Bay (pcmag.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @05:30AM

suraj.sun writes: A Swedish court on Monday ordered an Internet service provider to take down the torrent-tracking Pirate Bay Web site or face fines of about $70,000, a move that resulted in an initial three hours of down time.

The site then came back online, but quickly went down again.

"The good people at the MAFIAA decided to sue. Not TPB [The Pirate Bay], not the owners of TPB. Not even TPBs ISP. They decided to sue TPBs ISPs ISP," according to a cached version of a blog post written by the owners of the Pirate Bay.

Site owners refer to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) collectively as the MAFIAA.

"And you know what? They won. They made a court believe their #lies and they made them force the ISPs ISP to shut down access to TPB," the blog post continued.

In April, Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij, and Carl Lundstrom were all sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay about $3.58 million in damages for copyright infringement.

In June, Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB said it would buy The Pirate Bay for about $8 million. Stockholders are supposed to vote on that deal on Thursday, but there are reports ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6081715/The-Pirate-Bay-sale-uncertain.html ) that the company's chairman has resigned.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351936,00.asp

i4i Says OpenOffice Does Not Infringe Like MS Word 146

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @05:46PM from the tooth-for-tooth dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "After the permanent injunction barring Microsoft from selling Microsoft Word, many armchair lawyers and pundits wondered how the ruling would affect OpenOffice. The company with the patent, i4i, believes that OpenOffice does not infringe upon it. But lest anyone think that therefore ODF will win out over OOXML, keep in mind that Microsoft has its own broad XML document patent, which issued just two weeks ago, having been filed in December 2004, and they're telling the Supreme Court to apply the Bilski ruling narrowly, so that it doesn't invalidate patents like theirs (and i4i's). After all, unlike most companies and individuals, Microsoft can afford $290 million infringement fines. Then again, given that Microsoft's new patent has only two independent claims (claim #1 and claim #12), and both of those claims 'comprise' something using an 'XML file format for documents associated with an application having a rich set of features,' maybe they wouldn't be that hard to work around if you just make sure any otherwise infringing format is only associated with an application lacking in the feature richness department."

Submission + - Social Media Banned from College Stadiums (mashable.com)

Submitted by RawJoe on Monday August 17, 2009 @05:26PM

RawJoe writes: Today, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) is expected to release a final version of its new media policy that, at the moment, can best be described as a ban on all social media usage at SEC games. Earlier this month, the conference informed its schools of the new policy, which reads:

"Ticketed fans can't "produce or disseminate (or aid in producing or disseminating) any material or information about the Event, including, but not limited to, any account, description, picture, video, audio, reproduction or other information concerning the Event."

Translated, that means no Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TwitPic, or any other service that could in any way compete with authorized media coverage of the event. In the case of the SEC, authorized media coverage rights belong to CBS, who has a $3 billion deal with the conference over the next 15 years according to The St Petersburg Times.

Comment It's more likeshe was stalking the police... (Score 1) 847

by LaraineMae on Sunday August 16, 2009 @04:57PM (#29086175) Attached to: Woman With Police-Monitoring Blog Arrested

because if she had a legit beef with them, she could have joined her local independent (citizen) police review board and made constructive observations/complaints.

Comment Good article, thanks! (Score 1) 103

by LaraineMae on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @11:23PM (#29033179) Attached to: Adobe Flash Cookies Raising Privacy Questions Again

Read the article and all the comments, installed BetterPrivacy and it works great. Using the default configuration, it deleted 140 Flash Cookies/LSOs. No problems with any of the sites I normally use. I also use Flashblock, Ghostery, and NoScript.

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