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Submission + - Bing to Become Default iPhone Search?

Submitted by snydeq on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @03:17PM

snydeq writes: BusinessWeek reports ongoing talks between Apple and Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine for the iPhone. The discussions reflect an accelerating rivalry between Apple and Google, one that some believe will be the most important rivalry in tech in the years to come. 'Apple and Google know the other is their primary enemy,' says one person familiar with Apple's thinking. 'Microsoft is now a pawn in that battle.'

Submission + - Tenenbaum Lawyers Now Passing the Hat (blogspot.com)

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NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Sunday August 02, 2009 @12:25AM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "Just when you think this case couldn't get any stranger, it now appears that the defendant's 'legal team' in SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum is passing the hat, taking up a collection. Only the reason for the collection isn't to defray costs and expenses of further defending the action, but to pay the RIAA the amount of the judgment so that their client won't have to declare bankruptcy. I would suggest there might have been a much better way of avoiding bankruptcy. It's called 'handling the case competently'. I guess they don't teach that subject at Harvard Law School."

In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000 793

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 18, 2009 @06:35PM from the there-go-some-hearts-and-minds dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Well the price went up from $9250 per song file to $80,000 per song file, as the jury awarded the RIAA statutory damages of $1,920,000.00 for infringement of 24 MP3s, in Capitol Records v. Thomas-Rasset. In this trial, although the defendant had an expert witness of her own, she never called him to testify, and her attorneys never challenged the technical evidence offered by the RIAA's MediaSentry and Doug Jacobson. Also, neither the special verdict form nor the jury instructions spelled out what the elements of a 'distribution' are, or what needed to be established by the plaintiffs in order to recover statutory — as opposed to actual — damages. No doubt there will now have to be a third trial, and no doubt the unreasonableness of the verdict will lend support to those arguing that the RIAA's statutory damages theory is unconstitutional." Update: 06/19 01:39 GMT by T : Lots more detail at Ars Technica, too.

Comment V for Vendetta far fetched? Don't think so... (Score 1) 895

by Haggador Sparticus on Tuesday April 25, 2006 @12:32AM (#15194670) Attached to: New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame

Slowly but surely, we progress to the facist universe that was exhibited in V for Vendetta. It began its course in overdrive once legislation like the DMCA took place, and here is its next stop. We allow these damning things to progress because of incited fear and slowly but surely each of our very important freedoms are raped from us. We don't notice because it happens too slowly and is not a dramatic change (so we think). I really can see the world of that movie heading in our horizon. (small excerpt from my manifesto) Haggador Sparticus

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