Joel fought back…. with Styrofoam?
dan tynan on Jul 31 2009 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Cringley, DMCA Madness, Infoworld
File swapper Joel Tenenbaum fought the law, and the law won. Now a jury must decide how much he owes the RIAA.
Tag Archive 'law suits'
Charged with battery (or, why battery technology blows)
dan tynan on Jul 13 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Gadgets, Infoworld
Exagerrated claims for laptop battery life are nothing new. But now they’re hitting the courts thanks to a new class action suit.
Don’t stop believing in the RIAA’s capacity for evil
dan tynan on Jun 22 2009 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Cringley, Infoworld
Another file swapping law suit, another outrageous verdict. Something’s deeply wrong with the laws controlling copyrights.
YouTube, copyrights, and copy wrongs
dan tynan on May 14 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Video, Web 2.0
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
The longer I stay in this business, the more I think I should have listened to my mother and become a copyright attorney. Don’t get me wrong — I love digging for dirt and punishing the technologically wicked, but just think of the employment opportunities. [...]
