Posts Tagged with ‘court’

TorrentSpy, once a stalwart participant of BitTorrent communications on the Web, found today that its future was no more. News widely emerged this morning of the website’s defeat amidst the powers of the MPAA in court. The judge presiding over the case involving the link farm “made a default ruling in favor of the MPAA…(saying) the site’s operators had tampered with evidence.”
Long a popular post for links to peer-to-peer file transfers, TorrentSpy first hit a rough patch when news of [...]

The morals involved with file sharing on the Web can most certainly conflict with one another. On the one hand we see consumers fighting for some measure of what majority of the population considers justice. On the other, there exists (in some instances) the significant exploitation of the concept of “free", which certainly does need addressing.
Unfortunately, at a time when the waters are still very, very murky, there are a select few bearing the brunt of digital copyright owners’ [...]

If you weren’t convinced by our last piece on Vonage that the VoIP company is headed down, down, down, maybe this next bit of news will bring you around and help you see the truth. Just hours (okay, days) after Vonage was told to pay Sprint for stepping on the latter party’s patents, the press revealed that the small-fry pariah of the US telecom industry had also managed to lose out its appeal of the judgment concerning its very public [...]

Remember when SunRocket, that US-based VoIP company, left the market without any advanced notice whatsoever? All those frustrated customers, forced to move to new service providers with nary a grace period in which to do so. Good times, eh?
Yeah, right. Well, despite fleeing the scene abruptly in mid-July and failing to offer to do so much as a press event to apologize for their complete and utter douchebagishness, SunRocket’s making news once again. Why, you ask? Well, because the company [...]

VOIP is still a second-class citizen in the world of telephony, but it continues to take the front page of tech journals and blogs. Dozens upon dozens of articles having something or other to do with Voice Over Internet Protocol have surfaced in newspapers in the months and years past as well.
The latest words to be spoken about the technology have to do with a court battle between a telecom monster (Verizon) and a puny, unprofitable New Jersey-based company (Vonage). [...]