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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:03:06 -0800
From: GigaLaw.com
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GigaLaw.com Daily News March 14, 2001
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Headlines for today (scroll down for abstracts and links):
Judge Recuses Himself from Microsoft Discrimination Suit Napster Blocks Some Songs, But Refuses Others Hardware Manufacturers May Lose if Napster Goes Away Boy Charged with Hacking into NASA Systems U.S. Warns Ukraine About Pirating CDs Pirates Release Copy of Microsoft Office XP Online ICANN Promises Quick Decision on New Domain Names Senator Emphasizes Importance of Internet Taxes EBay Shifts Legal Strategy, Monitors Illegal Items Foreign Tech Workers Especially Hurt by Layoffs Electronic Filing Working Well in New York Courts Web Site Offers Reward for Cell Phone Patent Buster
Headlines from one year ago:
Virginia Is First With Controversial Software Law Antitrust Claim Against Intel Thrown Out Gore Blasted for Net-Tax Stance
New on GigaLaw.com:
Legal Limits on Government Employees' Computer Use @ http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2001/burke-2001-03-p1.html
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[MICROSOFT] Judge Recuses Himself from Microsoft Discrimination Suit The judge who oversaw Microsoft's antitrust trial has recused himself from another proceeding affecting the software giant. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued an order late that removed him from overseeing a massive $5 billion discrimination suit against Microsoft. Read the article: CNET News.com @ http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5124564.html?tag=tp_pr
[COPYRIGHT] Napster Blocks Some Songs, But Refuses Others Napster is blocking more than 115,000 files from being traded over its popular song-swapping service and is taking new steps to prevent users from working around the limitations, the company said. But the controversial company also said it was not taking action to screen an additional 46,000 titles because the copyright holders failed to follow procedures set by a federal judge for identifying allegedly infringing songs. Read the article: The Industry Standard @ http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,22802,00.html
[COPYRIGHT] Hardware Manufacturers May Lose if Napster Goes Away As music fans mourn the disappearance of songs from Napster's music-swapping service, hardware manufacturers and especially high-speed Net providers may also be shedding a few private tears. To download, store and listen to MP3-encoded files, consumers have purchased an array of hardware and software: decent speakers, a CD burner, a large hard drive, and possibly software for compiling play lists and converting audio tracks from standard CDs to the MP3 format. Read the article: ZDNet News @ http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2695974,00.html
[HACKING] Boy Charged with Hacking into NASA Systems A 15-year-old Michigan boy has been arrested on felony hacking charges after allegedly breaking into at least three NASA computer systems and altering their Web sites. The teenager posted images on the sites related to a hacking group called Electronic Souls, authorities said. Read the article: Nando Times @ http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/0,1643,500463211-500706718-503874142-0,00.html
[COPYRIGHT] U.S. Warns Ukraine About Pirating CDs The United States warned Ukraine it faces possible U.S. trade sanctions unless it takes immediate steps to stop its rampant piracy of music compact discs and other optical media products. "Failure by the government to address these concerns within three months...could lead to the imposition of sanctions," the U.S. Trade Representative's office said in a statement announcing it had put Ukraine on its ``priority foreign country'' list because of its widespread CD piracy. Read the article: SiliconValley.com @ http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/046680.htm
[COPYRIGHT] Pirates Release Copy of Microsoft Office XP Online Microsoft has added security features to make the next versions of Windows and Office the toughest ever to pirate. But despite their plans to thwart piracy, a copy of Office XP has leaked out to the Internet a month before it will even be available to business users. Read the article: Wired News @ http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,42402,00.html Further reading on GigaLaw.com: A Software Copyright Primer @ http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/hollander-2000-02-p1.html
[DOMAIN NAMES] ICANN Promises Quick Decision on New Domain Names The managers for Internet names ended meetings by requesting public input and promising to decide in three weeks on the future of .com, .net and .org. Some board members of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers questioned a deal that its staff reached with VeriSign Inc. to extend the company's rights to run the master list for .com names. Read the article: SiliconValley.com @ http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/078235.htm
[TAXES] Senator Emphasizes Importance of Internet Taxes Internet retailers are contributing to what will amount to a decay in education, law enforcement and emergency services as long as they are not forced to collect sales taxes online, Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., said in a speech on the Senate floor. Repeating the oft-quoted mantra in the justification of collecting online taxes, Graham urged fellow senators to support a recently introduced bill, sponsored by North Dakota Democrat Bob Dorgan that would allow states to simplify their tax systems to allow taxes from online sales to be collected easily. Read the article: Newsbytes @ http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/163092.html Further reading on GigaLaw.com: Commission Addresses Internet Tax Issues @ http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/kubiszyn-2000-05-p1.html
[COPYRIGHT] EBay Shifts Legal Strategy, Monitors Illegal Items For most of its history, eBay has chosen to forgo monitoring for pirated music, movies and software on its site, only removing items when notified by copyright holders or site users. But in a shift of legal strategy, the company in January began to search its site for copyrighted material. Read the article: law.com @ http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View&c=Article&cid=ZZZCVYG09KC&live=true&cst=1&pc=5&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&showsummary=0
[EMPLOYMENT] Foreign Tech Workers Especially Hurt by Layoffs In 2000, tech companies in the United States successfully lobbied for an increase in the cap on the number of H-1B visas granted annually. A few months later -- in the face of mass layoffs -- an increasing number of foreign tech workers are finding themselves out of a job, and either forced by law to return to their homeland within 10 days or become part of a temporary employment phenomenon with the unfortunate tag of "body-shopping." Read the article: Wired News @ http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42369,00.html
[LAWYERS] Electronic Filing Working Well in New York Courts As federal courts in New York make efforts to upgrade and build new systems for handling cases and to provide Internet access for attorneys and the public, the use of electronic filing in the Eastern District is gaining widespread acceptance. Four years after the district was selected to produce one of four prototypes in the country for electronic filing and case management, both the volume of cases handled electronically and the number of judges using the system are on the increase. Read the article: law.com @ http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View&c=Article&cid=ZZZ5LE5Y8KC&live=true&cst=1&pc=5&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&showsummary=0
[PATENTS] Web Site Offers Reward for Cell Phone Patent Buster A Web site is offering $60,000 to anyone who can prove that Freedom Wireless doesn't deserve three patents for technology crucial to the operation of prepaid cellular phones. He refused to name the money's source. BountyQuest is in the business of busting patents and has been posting similar bounties from anonymous donors for at least a year. Read the article: CNET News.com @ http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-5125851.html?tag=mn_hd Further reading on GigaLaw.com: Questions and Answers About U.S. Patent Law @ http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/pto-2000-06-p1.html
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