Venkat Balasubramani has the story of a bizarre fight between a company, Sawabeh Information Services, and the founders of Edcomm, a company that Sawabeh bought in 2010. A few months later, the founders of Edcomm were fired, and the lawsuits commence… Continue reading →

Yesterday, we noted that it appeared that the “GoDaddy boycott” concept may have been losing steam, thanks to the company’s decision to move away from supporting the bill… combined with a new aggressive advertising campaign. Finally, on Thursday mor… Continue reading →

One of the striking features of some of the most successful startups over the last ten years – companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter – is that their infrastructure is based almost entirely around open source. Of course, that shouldn’… Continue reading →

Here’s an interesting case highlighted by Eric Goldman, involving two competing software companies. One of the companies, Real View, downloaded an infringing copy of the other company’s (20-20 Technologies) software via a file sharing network. It see… Continue reading →

While there has been a lot of talk about the threat of cyberwarfare, there should probably be more concern about actual warfare and new secret weapons that can shoot things that explode. Not to be too paranoid, but the US has been focused on terrorism … Continue reading →

Aaron DeOliveira points us to an amusing Christmas to New Year’s week diversion in the story of the song, WTF?! I Wanted An iPhone!!! (warning, potentially NSFW, if your work place doesn’t like people singing curses). Beyond being entertaining and amu… Continue reading →

We wrote a detailed post about the latest Veoh ruling, in which Universal Music lost (again) in claiming that Veoh violated copyright law with its YouTube-like service. Of course, as we pointed out, the “victory” for Veoh is pretty meaningless because… Continue reading →

Recently, Judge Roger Titus of Maryland declared unconstitutional a federal law that made it a
crime to use the internet “with the intent to harass [or] cause substantial emotional distress to a
person in another state.” In the wake of that decision, l… Continue reading →