On the day Google announced its big mobile payment system, PayPal announced that it’s suing Google and two former PayPal execs who went to Google and were apparently heavily involved in this effort. The focus is apparently on Osama Bedier, who apparen… Continue reading →

Google Chrome may have undergone some significant changes since it launched, but one thing’s for sure: people love it. We’ve got a new collection of tricks to help you get the most out of Google’s browser. Originally posted at The Download Blog

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Over the past few years, we’ve written about the controversial program from a group called “Medical Justice” to get doctors to force their patients to sign over the copyright on any future reviews they might write on sites like Yelp or RateMyMD. The w… Continue reading →

Yikes. Here’s a story that’s been making the law blog rounds that I hadn’t heard about until now. There’s a lot of background here, so I’ll see if I can catch you up. Apparently, the family of someone accused of murder hired a 2009 law school gradua… Continue reading →

There hasn’t been much movement in the last few months with ACTA, though there’s been plenty of scrambling behind the scenes. The latest is that a “new” final draft of the document has been released, though all it really appears to have changed is the… Continue reading →

There are stories about legal battles over copyright that make you shake your head in bewilderment.  There are some that make you chuckle.  And then there are some that simply infuriate, such as this one sent in by Chris ODonnell.

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No more will people suffer the fate of Mirco Wilhelm and his accidentally deleted 4,000 photos. Flickr can now restore accounts within 90 days. Originally posted at Deep Tech

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We were just discussing the whole misguided focus on privacy policies. For years, now, there’s been this false and silly belief that, if we just required that websites have “privacy policies,” it would somehow lead to more privacy. But it’s a complet… Continue reading →

Steve Ballmer is the latest Microsoft exec to whine about how much “piracy” is costing the company in China, noting that they make so much less in that country than in the US, despite similar numbers of PCs being sold in each country. The mistake shou… Continue reading →