Wellington: Two years ago, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom joked in emails with his new neighbours in New Zealand about his bad-boy reputation before telling them his criminal past was behind him and he was coming to the country with good intentions. "I am a former hacker" who was once convicted of insider trading, he wrote, before going on to say "In all seriousness: My wife, two kids and myself love...
11:30 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Wellington: With 150 million registered users, about 50 million hits daily and endorsements from music superstars, Megaupload.com was among the world's biggest file-sharing sites. Big enough, according to a US indictment, that it earned founder Kim Dotcom $42 million last year alone. The movie industry howled that the site was making money off pirated material. Though the company is based in Hong Kong and Dotcom was living in New Zealand,...
02:30 PM, Jan 20, 2012
San Francisco: Business software maker SAP AG on Wednesday said it agreed to pay $20 million to settle criminal charges from the US Department of Justice against a now-defunct subsidiary, TomorrowNow. The subsidiary was accused of 12 counts of fraud and copyright infringement for stealing documents from rival Oracle Corp.'s password-protected websites. SAP had earlier acknowledged the theft and shut down the division. The $20 million penalty is twice what...
02:24 PM, Sep 15, 2011
Sanjay Dutt may host the next season of 'Bigg Boss', while 'Delhi Belly's 'Bhaag DK Bose' runs into controversy yet again. ...
03:14 PM, Jun 30, 2011
Los Angeles: The owners of a California Web site that sold Beatles songs for 25 cents each before they went on sale legally through iTunes have agreed to pay the band's EMI Group label $950,000 to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit, court papers showed on Monday. A federal judge ruled last December that Santa Cruz-based Media Rights Technologies violated EMI's copyrights by illegally selling the music of the Beatles and...
12:31 PM, Mar 29, 2011
New York: The operator of Lime Wire, a once-popular file-sharing service shut down last year for copyright infringement, has settled a lawsuit brought by music publishers. The settlement with Lime Wire LLC covers more than 30 publishers, including units of EMI Group, Sony Corp and Vivendi SA. The terms were not disclosed. These publishers also dismissed claims against New York-based Lime Wire's founder, Mark Gorton. The case was dismissed with...
10:20 AM, Mar 09, 2011
New York: The record-breaking $ 1.3 billion verdict Oracle won on Tuesday in its copyright case against SAP sent shockwaves through the technology world, but observers said it was unlikely to have a direct impact on high-profile litigation over mobile devices. Over the last several months, major technology companies such as Microsoft Corp, Nokia Corp, Apple Inc, and Motorola In have traded lawsuits involving patents crucial to the architecture of...
12:25 PM, Nov 25, 2010
Bangalore: Google has denied Oracle's complaint of copyright infringement in development of Android smartphone software and asked a US court to dismiss Oracle's lawsuit, court documents showed. Oracle sued Google in August, alleging patent and copyright infringement in the development of the popular Android smartphone software. In its response filed on Monday with a California federal court, Google said Oracle's complaint included vague and broad allegations of copyright infringement. "The...
11:33 AM, Oct 06, 2010
Beijing: China's press watchdog has ordered 15 websites to remove videos which were unauthorised or had copyright issues. The 15 sites, including youku.com, ku6.com and video.baidu.com, took up more than 80 percent of the country's video market share, Wang Ziqiang, a senior official with the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), was quoted as saying by Xinhua. "If these websites can abide by the laws and regulations with an...
11:42 AM, Sep 16, 2010
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08:37 PM, Dec 05, 2008
New Delhi: Desperate to don his India jersey once again, cricketer Yuvraj Singh, who recently returned to the country after undergoing three cycles of chemotherapy in the US for a rare germ cell cancer, says he is set to start training in a week or two. I'll start training in a week or two. I definitely want to get back on the field as soon as possible and wear my...
04:48 PM, May 14, 2008
Perth: Curator Cameron Sutherland on Thursday said the hot conditions here have taken some sting out of the green WACA surface but the pitch would still suit the fast bowlers in the third Test between India and Australia beginning Friday. It still has a nice grass coverage. But it's pretty hot and wind is drying moisture. So we are leaving it at the moment and would decide tomorrow morning if...
02:50 AM, Apr 10, 2008
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