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An attorney for Sioux Falls lawyer Leo Flynn maintains that he had legitimate reasons for having child pornography in his line of work.

09 Mar 2010 3:04pm GMT

Consumer Focus also says that 85% can only name two, iTunes and Amazon, but UK music industry, in typical fashion, emphasizes that more than 35 exist and touts own study that found 96% awareness of iTunes and Amazon. Consumer Focus, the UK govt-backed consumer advocacy group, has long tried to illustrate the deficiency of the country's [...]

09 Mar 2010 12:00pm GMT

SecureData Security, part of JSE-listed SecureData Holdings and the sub-Saharan distributor for Check Point Software Technologies, the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced the latter's Check Point Abra, a new solution which turns any PC into a fully secure corporate desktop.

09 Mar 2010 10:26am GMT

Use BitTorrent to download all of the MP3 files publicly available on the SXSW website as of March 6, 2010. It's that time of year again with the 2010 SXSW music festival fast approaching. The annual event held in Austin, TX has always been a showcase for some of the latest and greatest music artists around, [...]

09 Mar 2010 8:49am GMT

Oprah, Bill Gates, Tiger Woods and Chelmsford police officer Jennifer Bellissimo all have one thing in common.

08 Mar 2010 6:52pm GMT

'DMA members are already required to meet the standard set forth in the Klobuchar-Thune proposal,' said Linda Woolley , DMA executive vice president, government affairs.

08 Mar 2010 10:36am GMT

Judge sides with MPAA in case against Real Network's RealDVD software that would allow consumers to make backup copies of purchased DVDs for personal use. Chalk up another win for the MPAA and another loss for consumers. For US District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel has issued a permanent injunction against Real Networks DVD-backup software RealDVD. The [...]

08 Mar 2010 9:10am GMT

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) takes the fight over terrestrial radio's refusal to pay performer royalty fees to the next level. It seems the debate over terrestrial radio performance royalty fees is heating up these days with news that House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) recently said that the [...]

08 Mar 2010 8:03am GMT

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07 Mar 2010 10:16am GMT

MAYS LANDING An Egg Harbor Township man entered a guilty plea on Monday, March 1 to fourth-degree endangering the welfare of a child and second-degree distribution of child pornography by sharing it over the Internet.

06 Mar 2010 11:36am GMT

Right now, the landscape for Internet video is relatively stable, with the vast bulk of online video sites (including the market leaders YouTube and Hulu) providing their streams via the Flash plug-in and usually containing H.264 encoded video. Video shared on P2P networks is a different story of course, primarily MPEG-4 [...]

05 Mar 2010 7:16pm GMT

TBI Solicitors sends out an unspecified number of letters to suspected illegal file-sharers threatening legal action unless they agree to pay £700 in compensation ($1,000 USD). One of the tactics employed by copyright holders to try and get a handle on illegal file-sharing is to give overzealous law firms free reign to target as many illegal [...]

05 Mar 2010 3:45pm GMT

Broadband subscriber finds out the hard way that the "unlimited usage for a flat, monthly fee" sentence printed in his Comcast brochure should really read "limited usage for a flat, monthly fee." I mentioned back in late 2008 how Comcast announced it was going to amend its Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and establish a specific monthly [...]

05 Mar 2010 12:02pm GMT

Who's buying your products, anyway?A And who isn't?A As the number of outlets, formats, and experiences continue to proliferate, the music industry is now staring at an incredibly complicated consumer terrain.A The tune-out factor has always been strong among the older demographic, but when more mature listeners react, the results are ...

05 Mar 2010 11:25am GMT

Eric Satrum, age 36, of Radnor, was sentenced in United States District Court here to 38 months in federal prison for possessing images and videos of child pornography.

05 Mar 2010 3:20am GMT

Since I posted yesterday about the UK LibDem Peers' introduction of a pro-web-censorship amendment to the Digital Economy Bill, the Peers have withdrawn their proposal and entered a revised one jointly with Conservative Lords.

04 Mar 2010 6:55pm GMT

Several members of the House of Lords criticize "extraordinary degree of lobbying" by copyright holders to get "three-strikes" legislation passed as quickly as possible, but the MPs warn it'll only mean years of trying to the fix "deficiencies of the present bill." The UK govt's controversial plans to disconnect file-sharers from the Internet is coming under [...]

04 Mar 2010 2:30pm GMT

Legitimate unsolicited e-mails from the Internal Revenue Service are like fairies or Nigerian businessmen who want to give you $1 million: They don't exist.

04 Mar 2010 10:43am GMT

Says govt has been "negligent," demands compensation for years of "massive free downloading," as well as immediate "effective measures… to protect the rights and interests of the record industry." A number of Spanish indie record labels seem to be suffering from a serious case of delusion, blaming everybody but itself for the music industry's woes. For a [...]

04 Mar 2010 8:11am GMT

If you thought that the Canadian government will finally get at least a clue on copyright after protests, swarming riding seats and giving very clear signals through the copyright consultation, you have another thing coming if you heard the speech from the throne today. When the Conservative government of Canada held a copyright consultation to gauge [...]

03 Mar 2010 9:01pm GMT

The FTC has notified almost 100 US organizations of serious P2P-related security breaches that have exposed consumers to the risk of identity theft and fraud.

03 Mar 2010 3:29pm GMT

However, it's almost as if when he makes a statement, we should believe the exact opposite and right now, according to CNet News , Crupnick says NPD "saw a 25 percent decline in illegal downloading in the United States via P2P sites during 2009". NPD once claimed iTunes was beating LimeWire.

02 Mar 2010 3:26pm GMT

Hallelujah! So Digital Dave slew Greedy Goliath and the kingdom is at peace. Let the torrent continue; the free music, movies and live sport.

02 Mar 2010 7:21am GMT

The personal health and financial information stored in thousands of North American home computers may be vulnerable to theft through file-sharing software, according to a research study published online today in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association .

02 Mar 2010 2:42am GMT

A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH : Specialists said that while hackers continue to look for customer data, there has been a rise in industrial espionage and counterfeiting BLOOMBERG AND AFP, WASHINGTON Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010, Page 10 Companies should take a hard look at their systems to ensure that there are no unauthorized P2P file-sharing programs and ...

01 Mar 2010 6:26pm GMT

There was drama at the High Court Wednesday during the trial of MDC treasurer general Roy Bennett when Perekai Mutsetse, a state witness presented as an IT expert, was found to have been a former general hand.

01 Mar 2010 10:10am GMT