The U.S. Department of Justice executed seizure orders against three website domains allegedly engaged in the illegal distribution of copies of copyrighted Android cellphone apps. It is the first time that website domains involving cellphone app marketplaces have been seized, the DoJ said. The seizu...
A coalition of information technology and civil liberties organizations is trying to get ahead of congressional lawmakers and the Obama administration in forging a national cybersecurity policy. Members of the coalition met with congressional staffers last week to brief them on the group's just-rele...
Microsoft has fired off a slew of federal lawsuits -- 21, to be exact -- against resellers in 14 states. In the suits, Microsoft claimed the resellers are engaging in the sale of pirated software. Some of the lawsuits include eight possible repeat offenders that may not have learned their lessons th...
The Software and Information Industry Association filed eight more lawsuits against eBay sellers the group says are hawking pirated versions of software from Adobe, bringing to 17 the number of suits filed so far this year. The SIIA said it filed suits against sellers based in Arizona, California, C...
The Electronic Frontier on Wednesday issued a report critical of the music industry's litigation campaign to reduce digital piracy. "Today, downloading from P2P networks is more popular than ever, despite the widespread public awareness of lawsuits," the report declared. "At the same time, the lawsu...
A joint sting operation by the FBI and the People's Republic of China has netted more than half a million dollars' worth of counterfeit software, the FBI announced Monday. The unprecedented cooperative effort, code-named "Summer Solstice" and dating back to 2005, resulted in the arrest of 25 people ...
An offer made earlier this month to pay whistle blowers $1 million for reporting companies using unlicensed software has met little or no public outcry, unlike lawsuits initiated by the music industry against illegal music downloaders. The Business Software Alliance, a global organization representi...
China has agreed to work more closely with the U.S. to curb the flow of pirated goods, W. Ralph Basham, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, announced Friday. The agreement calls for China to more aggressively pursue within its own borders alleged producers of counterfeit goods that a...
The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with Microsoft in a closely watched patent dispute that could limit the reach of domestic patents in overseas uses. Monday's 7-1 decision overturned a lower court ruling, essentially concluding that Microsoft is not liable for overseas patent infringements in machine...
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