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Justice Department Steps Up Google, Yahoo Probe
By David A. Utter - Wed, 07/02/2008 - 7:00am. 1 comment
Antitrust regulators will take a closer look at the potential implications of an advertising deal made by Google and Yahoo last month.
A Neutral Net Will Save The Watchdogs
By Jason Lee Miller - Wed, 10/17/2007 - 3:20pm.
Something is starkly wrong when diametrically opposed ideologues join hands in public to protest something else. That something wrong, in a nutshell: the government and communications companies working in concert to erode the freedoms that made our country great.
Feds Can't Have ISP Records
By Jason Lee Miller - Fri, 09/07/2007 - 4:40pm.
A federal judge said no to part to the Democrat green-lighted new version of the Patriot Act yesterday. The Feds will have to get permission from the court before they can order ISPs to turn over customer records without telling the customer.
I invoked him yesterday, and I'm invoking him again today, Nelson Muntz joins all of us as we point at the DOJ and the FBI and give a collective "Ha ha!"
DOJ Likes Packet Sniffing, Votes For AT&T
By Jason Lee Miller - Thu, 09/06/2007 - 4:57pm.
Your first thought may be: What's the Department of Justice got to do with Net Neutrality? Well, essentially nothing at this point, except that the FCC asked the Antitrust Division for its opinion. The Commission could have saved some time by just jotting down what AT&T said.
Google, Complain To DOJ About Microsoft
By David A. Utter - Tue, 06/26/2007 - 5:16pm.
Google's request for extensions of some of Microsoft's antitrust consent decree received naught but an icy rejection from the bench.
Microsoft, Google Settle Vista Complaint
By David A. Utter - Wed, 06/20/2007 - 6:31am.
The Department of Justice has reached an agreement with Microsoft that will end a complaint made by Google about a Vista feature.
Google Gets Former DOJ Lobbyist
By Doug Caverly - Mon, 06/04/2007 - 12:31pm.
Lobbyists work on behalf of all sorts of nasty causes - some people might not approve of oil companies and tobacco corporations, for example. But lobbyists also work on behalf of charitable organizations and the like. And now one more lobbyist works for Google.
Extradited Software Pirate Pleads Guilty
By Mike Sachoff - Mon, 04/23/2007 - 2:44pm.
The leader of one of the oldest and most well known Internet software piracy groups, Hew Raymond Griffiths has pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement charges, in one of the first extraditions for an intellectual property offense.
Griffiths, a British national living in Bateau Bay, Australia was extradited in February 2007 to face charges in U.S. District Court.
EBay Pirate Locked Down By DOJ
By Jason Lee Miller - Thu, 03/29/2007 - 12:35pm.
An Indiana man was sentenced to over two years in prison for selling over $700,000 worth of counterfeit software on eBay, the US Department of Justice announced.
Courtney Smith, 36, of Anderson, Ind., was sentenced in US District Court to 27 months in prison, a two-year supervised release, and will face fines and restitution in excess of $7,000. That's a pretty stiff penalty considering he only made $4,000 from the sale of pirated Rockwell Automation software.
DOJ Ramps Up Online Predator Campaign
By Mike Sachoff - Mon, 03/26/2007 - 4:41pm.
Three agencies have partnered to raise awareness and educate teenage girls about the potential dangers of posting and sharing information online.The U.S. Department of Justice, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the Ad Council all are focused on their Online Sexual Exploitation public service advertising (PSA) campaign.
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