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• Help! Help! He Took My... 1's and 0's

  Posted: 15 Nov 2007 at 10:44 by colithium

  Recent events in The Netherlands concerning the virtual world of Habbo Hotel® have got many people asking, "Should someone be legally punished for stealing virtual property?" The answer is yes, but not for the reasons cited by the majority of debaters.  First, some background.
  

• Binary Freedom

  Posted: 15 Jul 2006 at 10:47 by colithium

  A recent controversy has arisen in the tech world. The issue is over “net neutrality”. The firestorms came after several major high speed internet providers proposed a system by which higher paying customers’ data would be granted a higher priority while on the particular company’s network. Critics

• Myspace - A Place For... Lawsuits?

  Posted: 22 Jun 2006 at 01:47 by colithium

  Myspace -- a web service that allows users to create their own "templated" page, used primarily for presenting information on the users -- is facing its first lawsuit. A simplified version of the reported story is a 14 year old girl from Texas met someone who claimed to be in high school but in real

• Microsoft [0] - Apple [0] - Europe [2]

  Posted: 17 Jun 2006 at 06:46 by colithium

  In a surprisingly similar turn of events, Apple's iPod and iTunes are under attack by miscellaneous governments of Europe. Said governments are voicing the opinion that it is unfair for Apple to make iTunes interface exclusively with their device -- the iPod. They are deeming it "in restraint of tra

• Logical Pitfalls And Anti-Trust

  Posted: 27 Oct 2005 at 22:38 by colithium

  Another potential Microsoft anti-trust case has been brought to light. A brief summary of the case is as follows:Microsoft proposed to license the technology it has developed (Windows Media Audio music format, aka WMA) to several portable music player manufacturers on the condition that they support

• The Red Flag

  Posted: 19 Oct 2005 at 23:38 by colithium

  Back in September it was revealed that Yahoo! (Hong Kong) divulged information regarding a Chinese reporter to the Chinese authorities which then convicted the reporter to ten years in Chinese prison. The reporter's alleged crime? Sending via a Yahoo! e-mail account one of China's many "state secret

• Anti Trust

  Posted: 18 Oct 2005 at 22:33 by colithium

  There has been an influx of anti trust related lawsuits brought against Microsoft lately. Microsoft's alleged crime is "restraint of trade" by such practices as holding proprietary APIs and packaging Windows Media Player with their operating system Windows XP. The European Union responded