For about two years now, RealNetworks, the company behind products such as RealPlayer and RealOne, has been involved with legal battles with the Motion Picture Association of America, who stated that RealDVD, a DVD cloning …

Back in December, we covered the TechCrunch vs FusionGarage story.  Essentially what came out of that law suit is still mostly unknown, I haven’t seen an update from TechCrunch about it, but maybe, it is going …

Microsoft is launching a new website today which it hopes will spur discussion on key technology policy debates about privacy, security, competition, cloud computing, intellectual property rights and other topics. The site includes opinion articles, …

The Little App Factory recently received a cease and desist letter from Baker & McKenzie on behalf of Apple requesting that they change the name of their popular Mac app, “iPodRip”.  The name change requested …

Malwarebytes, the company best known for their Anti-Malware product made a post on their site today warning its customers that IOBit, a Chinese company, has been stealing their (Malwarebytes’) database and implementing it within IOBit’s …

Did you know there is an iPhone app in the App Store called Twitter?  No?  Me either.  But it is there and it’s not an official app either.  The iPhone App called Twitter has been …

Today, the FTC in a somewhat expected announcement updated their “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising”.  The changes reflect the agency’s attempt to become more current.  The updates allow the FTC …

A German court has ordered the file sharing site Rapidshare.com to pay €24,000,000 ($33,600,000 USD) in fines and must now filter their content against copyright infringement.
According to a statement from GEMA, “[t]he judgment states that …

As of late, European countries are feeling the heat to deal with online piracy.  Compaines such as Logistep, ASC:Law, and Peppermint Jam are continually harassing ISPs to turn over the IP addresses of suspected pirates.
But …

In September 2008, Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome recorded a video for his website about the do’s and don’ts of picking an online nickname.  All of his videos are uploaded to various video websites including YouTube …

YouTube was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. It was acquired by Google in 2006. Today, YouTube is the leader in online broadcasting and sharing of original videos. …

The music downloading phenomenon has spread throughout the world. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is extremely concerned about illegal downloading from the internet. The RIAA believes that decreasing CD sales are …

Ok, I read this article. After I read it, I thought for a second or two – that’s all it took. I then continued to say to myself “What the…”. What exactly …

As many of you probably have seen Trend Micro has released a public beta of HijackThis (beta version 2.00). Of course, everyone has their own opinion on this matter and about the future of …

On Thursday, February 22, Microsoft was fined a record $1.52 billion for infringement of digital music patent. A court in San Diego decided that Microsoft breached patents, owned by Alcatel-Lucent, which enabled MP3 encoding. Microsoft …