Charges dropped in Russian Microsoft piracy case
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InfoWorld - Charges have been dropped against a Russian school principal who faced up to five years in prison for software piracy, according to Russia&#39;s state news agency.
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SAN FRANCISCO - The military on Wednesday dropped an espionage charge against a Muslim interpreter accused of spying at the camp for terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.    The development marks the third Guantanamo spy case to fall apart this year, despite vows by Attorney General John Ashcroft and military officials to prosecute the men for jeopardizing the nation's security...
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If Russian prosecutors need a prestige case to show they're tough on software piracy, this almost certainly isn't it. By the Associated Press.
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A Russian court threw out a case against a village headmaster from the Ural mountains region who allegedly used pirated Windows software, a judge told AFP.
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Microsoft Corp., responding to a plea from former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, said Tuesday it had no role in Russia's investigation of a school principal on charges of buying pirated Windows software.
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All charges against a doctor accused of murdering four patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have been dropped, a spokesman for the state prosecutors office said on Tuesday.
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Prosecutors on Thursday dropped charges against one of two men accused of shooting five Duquesne University basketball players, but filed charges against two additional suspects.
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What might have been a relatively insignificant case brought by a shareware re-distributor against security software firm Kaspersky Labs was granted a landmark dismissal on Tuesday, for reasons whose repercussions could lead to a new shield of legal security for anti-malware firms throughout the US.
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Microsoft will release a low-price version of Windows in Russia by the end of the year, an effort to wean consumers in that country off pirated software and Linux.
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It&#39;s part of the company&#39;s effort to beat back Linux and piracy efforts in developing technology markets. Microsoft says it will offer a simplified and lower-priced version of Windows XP in Russia, matching
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Microsoft is sidestepping an appeal from a former leader of the Soviet Union to intervene in a piracy case involving a school principal.
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Charges have been dropped against a captain who was accused of failing to investigate the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha, the Marine Corps said Tuesday.
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South African authorities on Wednesday abruptly dropped criminal charges against a Pretoria man charged last week with possessing components for the construction of nuclear weapons.
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A highly publicized piracy case against a schoolteacher in Russia was dismissed on Thursday, with a Russian District Court saying the case against the man was "trivial."
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A federal court has dismissed two complaints filed by Evgeni Malkin's former Russian team against the Pittsburgh Penguins rookie star, the team and the NHL.
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Microsoft Corp. settled legal disputes yesterday with two of its largest remaining antagonists, ensuring that its antitrust deal with the Justice Department will not be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, and removing two active proponents of a case against the company in the European Union.
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A lawsuit accusing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief strategist of illegally intercepting e-mails has been withdrawn and the legal battle between him and former associates has been resolved, the parties said Wednesday.