Verizon, Rhapsody team up on mobile music
Rhapsody America will sell songs from the major music labels and many independents since MP3 files are not protected by digital rights management technology. Read more...

eBay fined $61M in furor over fake goods

Jury convicts Web site operator in P2P case

The Pirate Bay moves to counter Swedish wiretapping law

Nuance sues start-up Vlingo over speech recognition patent infringement

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Red Hat settles patent suits with Firestar, DataTern

Microsoft hits 21 U.S. resellers with piracy lawsuits

Google, Louis Vuitton face off in trademark spat

Will proposed treaty make border agents copyright cops?

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Security goes to the movies: Iron Man
Time once again for "Security Goes to the Movies," a leisurely look at the inevitable bleeding from the eyes that security folk experience when Hollywood takes liberties with tech, the laws of physics and other aspects of reality. Our shiny and metallic subject today is Iron Man.

Campus Whispers
Universities need to be more proactive — and vocal — in dealing with their students' use of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks for illegal downloads.

Opinion: A spring cleaning for security
The column undertakes spring cleaning as the writer checks in on issues raised by "In Security" over the past year. He's got good news and bad news...

Torvalds: Microsoft is bluffing on patents
Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds expressed doubt that interoperability advocates at Microsoft can triumph and ambivalence about Sun's recent overtures to the open-source movement in a recent interview with the Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin.

The 7 most annoying developments in software
From product keys to click behavior, application developers need to stop annoying their users.

Opinion: Mixing open- and closed-source, managing risk
Talk about the worst of both worlds: When Jon Espenschied tried to untangle a malware attack on his dual-boot system, he found out just how vulnerable combining open- and closed-source software can leave a machine.

Opinion: I'm so bo-o-o-red with the RIAA (but what can I do?)
The music industry's trying to use the current legal system to get around decisions made by legal systems past, says InfoWorld's Robert X. Cringeley. The upshot? We're all thieves -- yes, you too.

Professor uses Youtube, Facebook in copyright fight
As Canada squares off to tackle an impending copyright-reform bill, one of the nation's most diligent observers of the situation is taking his case to the Net's newest streets.

Q&A: Eleven questions for a warez site owner
What goes on in the mind of the folks who run software sites that operate along the lines of the notorious Casbah? PC World's Steve Bass interviewed the owner of a "warez" site in hopes of understanding how the ethics work -- not to mention the finances.

Privacy and piracy: What are we telling the kids?
What are the security consequences of letting the MPAA and RIAA frame the terms of intellectual-property law? Columnist Jon Espenschied has five reasons the madness needs to end.

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The Spy Files For Congress to do anything that helps protect consumers and the critical Internet infrastructure as a whole, it must pass laws that require proactive processes to protect computers, not that tell people how to deal with the resulting mess, says Ira Winkler. Click here to read the latest column by Ira Winkler

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