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28 Feb 2002
John Sankus, the leader of the warez group DrinkOrDie faces up to five years' imprisonment and a maximum fine of $250,000 after yesterday pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement.
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28 Feb 2002
A San Diego company has been fined $95,000 by the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Export Administration to settle allegations that it exported encryption software to South Korea in violation of US export control laws.
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28 Feb 2002
A new European law comes into force tomorrow which applies to web sites selling to consumers in the EU. Known as the Brussels Regulation, it applies mainly in the event of disputes between the seller and the consumer.
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28 Feb 2002
Thursday 28th February is International RSI Awareness Day. RSI (repetitive strain injury) affects half a million people in the UK, around one in fifty workers, according to figures released by the Trades Union Congress which last week issued new guidance...
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27 Feb 2002
A French court yesterday announced that it will put Yahoo! and its former president on trial for sales of Nazi memorabilia conducted on the site’s auction pages. The trial will begin a new criminal case on the same facts that are the subject of...
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27 Feb 2002
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) claims that the number of units shipped from record companies to US retail outlets, music clubs and mail order businesses fell 10.3% in 2001.
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27 Feb 2002
The total number of text messages sent in the UK reached an all time high in January of 1.4 billion, 100 million more messages than were sent in December 2001. The figures, from the Mobile Data Association (MDA), include only chargeable person-to-person...
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27 Feb 2002
A Code of Practice was published yesterday that for the first time dispels any doubt that UK businesses should make their web sites accessible to the disabled to avoid falling foul of the Disability Discrimination Act of 1995.
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26 Feb 2002
The US Supreme Court has refused to consider an appeal from city officials in Tampa, Florida, who wanted it to shut down an adult web site, Voyeurdorm.com. The court rejected the city's appeal of earlier rulings that said zoning regulations do not apply...
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26 Feb 2002
A US district court has refused a request by Xerox to block future sales of PDAs (personal digital assistants) running the Palm operating system but has ordered Palm and its former owner 3Com to post a $50 million bond. It’s the latest development...
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