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Guns N' Roses Loves Online Music, On Its Own Terms
Date : 20 Nov 2008
TechdirtIt will be great when Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy album comes out -- if only because it'll end 14 years of speculation and hy read more »
Movie Studios Sue Australian ISP For Not Waving Magic Wand And Defeating Piracy
Date : 20 Nov 2008 TechdirtA few years ago, after realizing that blaming consumers wasn't a particularly effective strategy in covering up for the entertainm read more »
Video Game Without DRM Has Piracy Rates About The Same As DRM'd Games
Date : 20 Nov 2008 TechdirtReader SteveD sent in this story a week ago, but I just got around to looking at the details. Apparently the makers of the video read more »
Yes, Actually, Music Can Be Free
Date : 20 Nov 2008 TechdirtA few folks have submitted links to a blog post by Mark Mulligan, who is a VP and Director of Research for Forrester. In the post read more »
Sega Apparently Learned Nothing From EA's Spore-DRM Mistakes
Date : 20 Nov 2008 TechdirtYou would think that, given the widespread negative publicity generated by EA's choice to use draconian DRM with the release of Sp read more »
Singers Sue Label For Failing To Sue Others For Infringement
Date : 20 Nov 2008 TechdirtTechdirt has covered many copyright lawsuits in the past, but this one is a bit different. Singers Daryl Hall and John Oates have read more »
Facebook Sued For Patent Infringement
Date : 20 Nov 2008 TechdirtIt's pretty much a rite of passage for any tech company these days, as you get larger and more recognized, some company that has a read more »
Alwaleed to boost Citigroup stake to 5 percent (Reuters)
Date : 20 Nov 2008
Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Citigroup Inc won a vote of confidence from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, its largest individual investor, who said o read more »
Stock futures extend losses on jobless claims (Reuters)
Date : 20 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Stock index futures extended losses on Thursday after data showed the number of U.S. workers filing new claims for joble read more »
Global job losses rise as recession plays on (Reuters)
Date : 20 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - World economic misery spread on Thursday with forecasts of a global recession running well into 2009, Japan's exports to read more »
Children's Place profit up (Reuters)
Date : 20 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - Children's Place Retail Stores Inc's quarterly profit almost doubled, driven by higher sales and improved gross margins read more »
GMAC applies for bank status (Reuters)
Date : 20 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - The money-losing finance company GMAC said on Thursday it has filed to become a bank holding company, joining the growin read more »
PepsiCo stands by 2008 earnings outlook (Reuters)
Date : 20 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessReuters - PepsiCo Inc reiterated its full-year 2008 earnings outlook on Thursday and said it would discuss innovation plans for 20 read more »
Yet Another Study Shows That Social Networks Are Good For Kids
Date : 20 Nov 2008 TechdirtThis has been covered before, of course, but it's always good to see more research on the subject. The MacArthur Foundation has j read more »
Google Kills Lively Quickly
Date : 20 Nov 2008 TechdirtJust a few months ago, when Google launched its "Lively" 3D chat offering, I questioned Google's strategy, as it didn't seem to of read more »
SKorean stocks fall sharply after Wall Street drop (AP)
Date : 20 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessAP - South Korean stocks fell for an eighth straight session Thursday, and the won dropped against the U.S. dollar to levels not s read more »
Nathan Myhrvold Now Capitalizing On Failed University Patent Intitiatives
Date : 20 Nov 2008 TechdirtWe've discussed, in the past, the infamous Bayh-Dole Act, which tried to push universities to patent more of their research, with read more »
Yellow-Pages Publishers Teetering On The Brink
Date : 19 Nov 2008 TechdirtA few times a year, I find a copy or two of Yellow Pages directories sitting on my doorstep. Never mind that I haven't used one in read more »
Spammers Trying To Regain Control Over Cut Off Spam Bots
Date : 19 Nov 2008 TechdirtLast week, there was a lot of attention over the shutdown of McColo, a hosting company that was apparently used by a huge number o read more »
Kentucky Appeals Court Tells Kentucky To Hold Off Seizing Domains
Date : 19 Nov 2008 TechdirtWhile a lower court in Kentucky had agreed to allow the state to seize 141 domain names as being "illegal gambling devices" despit read more »
The Bank Terrorist (Investor's Business Daily)
Date : 19 Nov 2008 Yahoo! News: BusinessInvestor's Business Daily - Housing: For years, a self-described "bank terrorist" blackmailed banks into making bad home loans in read more »
Should It Be Illegal To Sell A Keylogger? Or Just To Use It?
Date : 19 Nov 2008 TechdirtA court has issued an injunction temporarily banning the sale of a keylogger product called RemoteSpy. The ruling probably makes read more »
Lori Drew's Lawyers Worried About Finding Jury That Hasn't Prejudged Drew
Date : 19 Nov 2008 TechdirtWith the judge agreeing that the information about Megan Meier's suicide can be included in the computer fraud lawsuit against Lor read more »
RIAA Agrees To Settlement, Then Asks For Twice As Much
Date : 19 Nov 2008 TechdirtRay Beckermann is, once again, highlighting some highly questionable activities by the RIAA, noting that after getting defendants read more »
Are Copyright Holders Purposely Putting Content On P2P In Order To Demand Money?
Date : 19 Nov 2008 TechdirtWe've discussed the highly questionable activities of UK law firm Davenport Lyons for its supposed campaigns on behalf of various read more »