one step ahead of law enforcement, some of them inevitably end up leading authorities in their direction by not being able to keep their mouths shut. In a day and age when social media is all the rage, it seems more and more criminals are tripping [...] Follow SEJ on Twitter ...

violates copyright law on a major scale. The Guardian is reporting that Justice Arnold of the London High Court has ruled that both the Web site, The Pirate Bay, and its users "unlawfully share copyrighted music." Record labels are wanting to use this momentum to get UK ISPs to block access to the Web site. Those same record labels claim that The Pirate Bay generated $3 ...

pace with Moore's Law , which describes an ongoing trend in computer hardware that sees the number of chip components double every 18 months. This major advance has developed the technology to make this possible well ahead of schedule and gives valuable insights to manufacturers into how devices will behave once they reach the atomic limit, says Professor ...

determined by which law firms step up to join the suit. In the world of class actions, lawyers have a list of plaintiffs at the ready and then race each other to the court house in the hopes of filing the first claim. The early-birds typically become "tag-alongs" eligible for a pay-out when bigger law firms join the fray. Warms one's heart, doesn't it? My question is the ...

State of the Law Regarding Owner Liability for User-Generated Content," says that the chances for successfully suing a website because of the behavior of the site's members are pretty low. According to paidContent , a legal protection that was developed to protect websites all the way back in the pioneering days of the internet still reliably shields websites from being ...

has changed, the law still applies to the company's instant streaming service. In fact, the VPPA is the law that prevents Facebook from implementing the ability for users to share what they watch over Facebook. Steve Swasey, VP of Corporate Communications for Netflix, provided this statement on the matter: Netflix has settled a lawsuit related to the company's compliance ...

the facts and the law ." The court gave the FTC until February 17th to respond, a deadline which the agency just met. The FTC filed two separate documents: a memorandum of opposition ( PDF ) to the suit, and a motion to dismiss it ( PDF ). In the memorandum, the FTC asserts that the lawsuit "seeks to deprive the Commission fo the discression to exercise its enforcement ...

Pinterest has been under fire lately with accusations that their site is nothing more than a place for people to indiscriminately use copyrighted material for their own ends. The powers that be at Pinterest have said that they will address that in the future, but meanwhile, they have made a small overture to helping stem the flow of copyrighted material on

Zynga has been accused of being a copycat , but there are copycats of Zynga as well. Zynga doesn't take too kindly to being copied. TechCruch is reporting that Brazilian social games developer, Vostu, has laid off a portion of its staff. The layoffs could be in response to the settlement of a lawsuit between Vostu and Zynga back in December that saw Vostu

a competition law complaint against Google for abuse of its dominant position, given the distortion of the market for legitimate online music that is likely to result from Google's prioritizing of illegal sites." It's hard to say whether a lawsuit will happen, but big things will happen if it does. How big? Let's imagine a David and Goliath scenario except there is ...