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Was the judge in the Pirate Bay case biased?
Last week, I wrote about the verdict in The Pirate Bay case in Sweden. This week, it turns out that judge Thomas Norström may have connections to a few organizations that might call into question his...
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Skype Founders Continue Legal Assault on eBay
Back in July, I blogged about how the co-founders of the VoIP service Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, accused eBay of violating its licensing agreement regarding Skype’s underlying technology....
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What's the difference between creative commons and copyright?
Announcer Get in touch with technology with Tech Stuff from howstuffworks.com. Chris Pollette Hello everybody. Welcome to Tech Stuff. My name is Chris Pollette and I am an editor here at...
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TV Cables and Creative Commons – TechStuff Podcast Roundup
Hey there! Today, I’m writing to you from deep inside a top secret location. By top secret, I mean my couch at home. And by deep inside, I mean I’m currently huddled under a massive blanket with only...
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Judge Sides With Apple Against Psystar
U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup ruled on Friday that Psystar was guilty of copyright infringement against Apple, according to Natalie Weinstein of CNET. The whole case revolves around Apple’s...
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LimeWire May Owe Music Industry Big Bucks
Peer-to-peer networks have a nasty stigma. The technology is perfectly legal — it’s an efficient and flexible way to distribute data across networks. But that’s also why software, music, movie and...
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UFC Puts a Choke Hold on Justin.tv
Consider the content spectrum on the Internet. On one side, you have purely original content, generated by the webmaster or by those who work for him/her. On the other, you have user-generated content....
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White House Sends Mixed Messages About Online Privacy
It seems like every other day I write or talk about privacy concerns in relation to the Internet. This week, a pair of stories about how the United States government values online privacy broke and...
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SOPA and PIPA – What the heck are they?
I don’t know if you’ve noticed but the Internet went kind of crazy today. Crazier than usual. On a normal day, crazy means a flame war or two (thousand), a hundred or so cat videos and more content...
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Missed in History: Happy Birthday
Happy birthday, kitties! (iStockphoto/ThinkStock) “They can’t sing ‘Happy Birthday’ in restaurants because of copyright”: It sounds like the kind of thing you’d read on Snopes.com. (And hey, it is on...
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