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Article | 15/09/2008 Court overturns Virginia spam law, sides with free speech
The Virginia Supreme Court has overturned a state antispam law and the 2004 conviction of long-time spammer Jeremy Jaynes, saying the law is an overly...
Article | 10/09/2008 Malaysia resident sentenced in brokerage hacking scheme
A resident of Malaysia was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison on a conspiracy charge related to an international fraud scheme that hacked into o...
Article | 10/09/2008 P-to-P network administrator gets prison sentence
An administrator of a peer-to-peer network focused on distributing movies has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice sa...
Article | 9/09/2008 Google claims license to user content in multiple products
Google last week removed some language in its Chrome browser's terms of service that gave the company a license to any material displayed in the brows...
Article | 4/09/2008 Google amends Chrome license agreement after objections
Google will dump a section of the licensing agreement for its new Chrome browser after some Internet users objected to its copyright implications.
Article | 27/08/2008 Privacy group: US border-crossing database raises concerns
A plan by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to collect personal information on every traveler coming into the country and keep that information...
Article | 22/08/2008 Groups ask court to lift gag order in Intel antitrust case
A tech trade group and a handful of news organizations have asked a U.S. court to lift its order to seal documents in the pending antitrust lawsuit br...
Article | 19/08/2008 Google launches white spaces campaign
Google hopes a new Web site will help convince the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to allow a new generation of wireless broadband devices to c...
Article | 8/08/2008 Woman sentenced for Web site with 'obscene' stories
A U.S. woman has been sentenced to five years of probation, including six months of home detention, and forfeiture of her computer after pleading guil...
Article | 7/08/2008 DOJ files complaint against online ad firm
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to seize two houses and US$53 million from the owner of an Internet-based business allegedly engaged in a "m...
Article | 6/08/2008 Eleven charged in massive ID theft scheme
Eleven people have been charged or indicted in a massive identity theft and computer fraud scheme involving some of the largest data breaches in recen...
Article | 4/08/2008 FCC rules against Comcast P-to-P throttling
The US Federal Communications Commission has ordered Comcast to stop interfering with peer-to-peer traffic on its broadband network, with officials th...
Article | 29/07/2008 Groups cheer reports of FCC acting against Comcast
Consumer rights groups cheered reports saying the US Federal Communications Commission is ready to take action against Comcast for the cable-based Int...
Article | 28/07/2008 Software group weighs piracy lawsuit against eBay
A trade group representing hundreds of software vendors is considering a lawsuit against eBay for what it calls widespread sales of counterfeit softwa...
Article | 22/07/2008 Internet currency firm pleads guilty to money laundering
E-Gold, an Internet-based payment service, and three owners have pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to money laundering, the U.S. Department o...

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