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1. Apple sued over camera patent by litigant with a past

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   UPDATED: Cupertino firm Apple has received a writ from a company that alleges it breaches patents it owns. The company that's suing Apple has a track record of winning its actions.Cupertino firm Apple ...

2. Social Networking helps you dodge the law

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   ... through to ads. It's not as advertising, it's as a link in the text, and that's perfectly legal."Michael Terpin, chairman and CEO of SocialRadius, cited viral ads such as the 'baby-father' one which turned ...

3. Bethesda sues Interplay over disputed Fallout trademark

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... incur if this Court were to issue a permanent injunction," Bethesda wrote in a legal document obtained by TG Daily. "Unless enjoined by this Court, Defendant Interplay will continue to manufacture, sell ...

4. Australian faces jail for video cleared by censors

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Aussie police want to jail a site administrator for 20 years for showing a video of another man swinging his baby around on his video sharing site, LiveLeak. Queensland, Australia - Aussie police want ...

5. Thatcher government cockup throws UK DVD laws into disarray

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   A bureaucratic blunder by the Tory government back in 1984 means that the UK law covering illegal DVDs and videos is unenforceable, leaving pirates free to produce illegal copies of movies and sell ...

6. Car texting video too shocking for YouTube

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... her concentration for a few seconds. Texting while driving is illegal in the UK, but many still choose to ignore the law. The video is available here. Gwent police worked with filmmaker Peter Watkins-Hughes ...

7. Feds bust serial console jailbreaker

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... 27-year-old Matthew Crippen after receiving a tip by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) in May. Crippen was indicted on two counts by a federal grand jury for illegally modifying Xbox, PlayStation ...

8. Microsoft buys Israeli company linked to Project Natal

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... Euro Gamer. "You have to have a strong legal approach, and this is not easy stuff. It has to be all buttoned up, legally." 3DV Systems' image sensing technology is based on the Time-Of-Flight (TOF) principle, ...

9. Feds bust fake video games scam

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Two men have been charged by the FBI in a scam involving counterfeit video gaming machines. If found guilty they face 45 years in jail and fines of more than $5.25 million. Washington, DC - Two men ...

10. Nintendo claims victory in Wii patent lawsuit

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... follows the successful conclusion of a legal dispute with Fenner Technologies over Wii and Gamecube peripherals. The company also sued Nyko for selling a device similar to the Wii's Nunchuk. The Nunchuk ...

11. WD offers two terabytes for $299

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... features a number of technologies beginning with the word 'Intel', which begs the question of whether WD is in receipt of any legal documents from attorneys based in the Santa Clara area. IntelliSeek, ...

12. The Pirate Bay: Piracy not dead by a longshot

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... perfectly willing to pop their heads up in the global game of piracy. The infernal fake moles are a perfect analogy for illegal file trading: Short of unplugging the entire machine, there’s no way to completely ...

13. Disney reaches deal with YouTube

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... quite a bit of illegally recorded video content to a destination that is explored by broadcasters as an additional revenue source.  YouTube said that Disney Media Networks will launch multiple ad-supported ...

14. RIAA asks ISPs to send copyright warnings in three-strike policy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... to forward the note to the customer's email, or alert the customer that it appears they are uploading music illegally, and ask them to stop. This would be step one in a type of three strike plan. The second ...

15. YouTube removing Warner Music videos again, not just muting

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... can earn a "safe harbor", meaning that if they quickly remove material that has been part of a takedown notice, then they are legally safe in the event it is proven a copyright infringement did occur. ...

16. iPhone: Renegade app store opens but Apple wants to kill it

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... by enabling sales of sanctioned applications for the same 70:30 revenue sharing model that Apple offers. But Apple is already prepping to send its legal sharks after The Cydia Store by leveraging DCMA ...

17. The Beatles go digital with MTV, sorta

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... cannot be downloaded legally on the Internet, it is widely believed that tracks from the legendary British group are among the most downloaded music. We will still have to wait until songs like Twist and ...

18. Courtrooms adapting to the YouTube world?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... citation in a petition filed with the courts last month, as reported by The New York Times. The difference in this is that it is not a legal precedent or an affidavit. The video shows what could either ...

19. Netflix to begin offering streaming-only plans

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... a lot. Other services are much more legalistic and cap as low as 5 GB (Verizon Wireless broadband). With the money making potential of these kinds of streaming services, it is likely that the cable ...

20. Facebook reverts its Terms of Use under pressure

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... or the Facebook Code of Conduct, or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of users or others. You are solely responsible at your sole cost and ...

21. The next Psystar: PearC sells Mac clones in Europe

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    While Apple has its legal artillery in place against Mac clone maker Psystar in the U.S., we hear about the next Psystar that recently surfaced in Germany. PearC is the next company effectively breaking ...

22. U.S. House votes, approves DTV delay until June 12

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    On Wednesday evening, the U.S. House passed the bill to delay this nation's analog to digital TV switchover. The new date moves from February 17 to June 12. The bill now goes to President Obama for his ...

23. YouTube's copyright system goes wrong, EFF intends to sue

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... the EFF feels actually constitute Fair Use. This blog post reaches out to individuals who have lost their content and would like to take legal action. Last month, utilizing YouTube's new automated copyright ...

24. Apple's A-bomb against Palm: A 358 page iPhone patent

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... has now threatened Palm with legal action. Palm is not letting on that it's shaken, but make no mistake - too much is at stake here:  Both Palm's very survival and iPhone's fate. If the two companies ...

25. RIAA concerned trial webcast could be manipulated

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      The RIAA has been "up in arms" regarding the decision to have their pre-trial arguments webcast in an upcoming file-sharing trial. They are nervous that re-runs of the trial will be subject to editing ...

26. YouTube rolls out download feature on Barack Obama channel

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... that finally lets people legally download YouTube videos to their computers. Sort of. Google has actually chosen Barack Obama's YouTube channel as an exclusive test ground for the download feature that ...

27. Blockbuster and Sonic Solutions team up for Internet movie delivery

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... new Blockbuster service may require a reconsideration by Comcast and other ISPs when the content being downloaded is legally purchased from a legitimate pay-for-service like Blockbuster.  ...

28. DRM-free iTunes music embedded with owner's email address

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

      Apple's DRM-free iTunes service is proving to be completely DRM-free, meaning any player can play new music downloaded from iTunes in the AAC (.m4a extension) iTunes Plus format. However, the DRM-free ...

29. YouTube terror video gets Florida student 15 years

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tampa (FL) - An engineering student from Egypt at the University of South Florida plead guilty and was sentenced to 15 years after a 12-minute video in Arabic was discovered on his notebook back in August, ...

30. Better late than never: YouTube to host full-length MGM films

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... as well as “full-length action films like Bulletproof Monk and The Magnificent Seven, in addition to clips from popular movies like "Legally Blonde." The videos will be offered free of charge and ads will ...

31. YouTube filters estimated to be 75-85% effective

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... are now capable of capturing 75-80% of all of the uploads that are not legal. Chicago (IL) - About a year ago, Google implemented video filtering on YouTube in an effort to prevent the uploading of unauthorized ...

32. DMCA 10 years old, keeping Internet alive

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... in Hollywood, as publishers needed a legal foundation to protect their intellectual property from being infringed upon on a large scale. Therefore they worked hard to secure an anti-circumvention rule ...

33. Legitimate P2P traffic to drive overall Internet traffic growth

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... the next few years.  Though the current amount of legal traffic being conveyed across P2P lines is small, it is expected to grow 10 times as fast as illegal P2P traffic. “The awareness of P2P networking ...

34. Imeem for Android G1 brings social to the music on the go

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... on the Web and beyond." The service is based on ad-supported streaming of music and video content that is obtained legally from all four major music labels and thousands of independent labels, in addition ...

35. Anonymous member charged with Scientology attack

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... illegal access to Sarah Palin’s e-mail account by Tennessee student David Kernell, who shared contents and the password on an Anonymous message board. This case, heard Friday, in U.S. District Court in ...

36. YouTube touts back: McCain, you voted for the DMCA, now deal with it

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... the right to issue a counter-notice if they feel that they have a legal right to, and YouTube will then, within the timeframe of ten days, restore the video. "YouTube does not possess the requisite information ...

37. John McCain battles YouTube

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... of legal dispute. Our take The letter from the campaign could be considered quite ironic. McCain voted for the DMCA, and he opposes legislation to enforce network neutrality and now favors free speech ...

38. MPAA sues Real Networks over RealDVD – and has reason to be upset

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... software enables users to engage in an illegal practice known as “rent, rip and return,” whereby a person rents a DVD from a legitimate business like Blockbuster or Netflix, uses the RealDVD software to ...

39. Homeland Security testing ‘mind-reading’ checkpoints

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... today?” and “Do you plan to illegally record any information at the expo today?” Sensors monitor the subjects’ voice, facial muscles, body temperature, respiration rate and heart rate while being interviewed. ...

40. The Guardian toasts your hard drive in 30 Seconds

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

      You got a hot tip the Feds will be knocking your door in a few hours with warrants to bust your illegal data operation. You've got a lot of hard drives to demolish and little time to do it. What ...

41. A new try of buy once, play anywhere – without Apple

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

      The effort of making legal digital media available to consumers in convenient ways across many devices has been an industry disaster defined by piracy paranoia, lawsuits, exaggerated copy protection policies, ...

42. Nvidia asked to pay up for defective chips

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Shalov Stone Bonner & Rocco said it has filed a securities fraud class action against Nvidia, selflessly representing all investors who purchased or otherwise acquired the common stock of ...

43. 10 ways to modify your Xbox 360

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... 360, so closing all other Internet applications prior to playing is key. Optimized compressed tunnels in Xlink Kai allows for lag free (for the most part) online gaming. Additionally, though illegal and ...

44. Judge: Labels must consider 'fair use'

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    A U.S. judge says record labels cannot order YouTube users to remove videos featuring their music unless they can show it's not a legal "fair use." In what is being considered a victory for individual ...

45. Networked DVR finds legal favour

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    A New York judge has declared legal a service that provides remote access to networked digital video recordings (DVR) from a standard cable TV box. US cable TV provider Cablevision has won its case ...

46. Google caught up in $780 million lawsuit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      There are more signs that Google’s honeymoon period is coming to an end and increasingly has to deal with less comfortable business matters. As Viacom wages as legal battle with the company, demanding ...

47. Dear Apple, Jesus would be mortified!

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... system. I can get directions from one place to another, but driving, while looking at the map, and reading is not only impossible, but its also incredibly dangerous, and illegal in many places. At this ...

48. Google forced to give Viacom video logs, but can keep search source code

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Viacom won a significant victory in their $1 billion copyright infringement case against Google/YouTube.  Google has been ordered to hand over terabytes of video search information that shows ...

49. GTA ‘Hot Coffee’ lawsuit means big bucks for lawyers, small change for regular folks

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... go to trial because the judge has to approve the settlement.  Of course look for even larger legal bills and the airing of copious amounts of dirty laundry if it does go to trial. Read more … New ...

50. LA’s ‘most prolific’ tagger in jail after posting incriminating YouTube video

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... was already on probation from a 2007 spray painting incident and was arrested at the probation office.  He is being held on $100,000 bail. If you’re going to do something illegal, for god sakes don’t ...