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The case, brought last June, was avidly followed in the hospitality business because it cited principles of intellectual property law, including trade secrets and trade dress — the kind of tactic more commonly used by large corporations than by restaurants like Pearl, a tiny storefront on Cornelia Street known for urbane takes on lobster rolls, chowder and other New England clam-shack standbys.

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The case has been dismissed without prejudice, with presiding Judge Harold Baer, Jr. deciding not to subject the lawyers to sanctions. "Their excuse here is the well-worn 'clerical error,' i.e., the office clerk 'mis-calendered this date,' and they 'sincerely apologize' for their failure," wrote Baer. "Once again, while Plaintiffs' lawyers... must keep careful records of deadlines and all court days, the error is not sufficiently akin to a contempt of court."

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The answer to the question of whether BitTorrent tracking sites are legal in the United States depends on who is asked. Now it seems the Motion Picture Association of America is prohibited to say publicly why the movie industry believes the answer is "no."

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“It’s good that students are asking questions to make sure that what the RIAA is doing is morally ethical at the same time that RIAA is trying to find out if what we’re doing is morally ethical,” Union Technology Committee Chairman Jonathan Pasquale said.

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China insists, though, that it is making an effort to crack down on piracy, especially in anticipation of the Olympic Games this summer. Chinese officials said at a news conference this morning that the state had convicted 4,322 people for piracy in 2007, and that it would make a special effort to ensure that the Olympic trademark would be protected.

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On Thursday, the Fox News website published an article about the Pope’s Swiss Guard, the elite company of Roman Catholic Swiss who have protected the pontiff for over 500 years. The article by Allison Barrie, “Stripes and Solids, Protecting the Pope,” is here.

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As I started to read Chapter 14 on page 230 something sounded familiar. There was a story about a Harvard MBA visiting a Mexican fishing village. This almost sounded too familiar. Then it came to me: “Hey, wait a minute. I used that story in my book.”

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He also went on to suggest that it would make NBCU a whole lot happier if there were some sort of digital gremlin installed in the Apple iPod lines of MP3 players that detected evidence of piracy and then, you know, reported it or something.

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Jim Keyzer has had a leading role in the prosecution against The Pirate Bay as head of the preliminary investigation. In the upcoming trial he is expected to be a key witness and due to being a police investigator to have high credibility. Keyzer was also heading an investigation where The Pirate Bay sued some of the mayor media corporations for data trespassing. That case was recently cancelled by him.

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In Germany, due to the legal changes that follow a European Union guideline, internet service providers are compelled to give out the names of file sharers "operating on a commercial scale" if a judge rules this way.

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The recording industry’s branch organization makes excuses after involving a pro-file sharing Swedish rap artist in their battle against Pirate Bay without having his consent

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I don’t want to imply that PluggedIn is to blame for this. The music industry and the copyright laws & regulations are to be blamed. And whatever you think of these laws, they’ve done a lot of bad things for all us music lovers around the world: remember Pandora, which you cannot access if you’re outside the US anymore?

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With Comcast working with BitTorrent and just today joining with legal file-sharing startup Pando to work on a "bill of rights" for file sharers and ISPs, the company is trying to make voluntary moves in an effort to stave off involuntary regulation.

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RDR's lawyer, Anthony Falzone, has defended the lexicon as a reference guide. Falzone called it a legal effort "to organize and discuss the complicated and very elaborate world of Harry Potter."

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Having ruffled feathers in the scientific community, the filmmakers behind a documentary questioning evolution theory have now incurred the wrath of one of the most powerful figures in the popular music business, Yoko Ono, and have generated a blogosphere mini-drama in the process.

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We’re proud to present a new service - baywords.com. Because of the need of freedom of speech and secure hosting facility of the words being said we could not agree to how people behave towards bloggers.

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The Pirate Bay has announced that it will file a complaint to ask for compensation from the IFPI for the traffic which was destined for its site, but blocked by the Danish ISP Tele2. If they win, the money will be spent on funding independent artists who share their music for free on filesharing sites.

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The author of an unofficial Harry Potter encyclopaedia broke down as he faced JK Rowling in court in a battle over the right to publish his book.

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So to save time, they put all this stuff on the website. But now the McCain campaign has been outted by TMZ.com and the Huffington Post for a kind of cereal plagiarizing of Cindy McCain's alleged favorite recipes.

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"The address is 216.98.48.53:3074 random local, 3 attempts every 75 seconds, registering to Ubisoft in Ontario. DRM messing with honest patrons again... as long as the game is running it will keep hammering away at that address," one forum member remarked, as other gamers fixed the issues by killing their connection. A forum manager in the UK posted one idea to fix issues, pointing gamers to the latest Nvidia drivers, only to be told that fix does nothing. If you have an Nvidia card or an Internet connection, this may not be the game for you.

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