Spike Lee Wins Cybersquatting Case Against Porn Site
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Movie director Spike Lee has won his cybersquatting case against a Philippines-based operator who misused the domain name to redirect surfers to a pornographic Web Site, arbitrators ruled Friday.
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Blog: Google wins on appeal in Usenet copyright case.
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The country's netizens have become experts at wielding the power of the web to settle personal squabbles. This time, they took on a major tech company--and won
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LOS ANGELES: A Malaysian resident who ran a website which charged users to watch pirated films was ordered by a California court to pay US$23.8mil (RM90.4mil) to movie studios, the industry&#39;s trade group said on Tuesday.
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By Tampone, Kevin  SYRACUSE - A federal lawsuit over an allegedly defamatory Web site has been settled.  Nick Orso's Body Shop and Service Center sued a former customer, John Kiggins, over the site in March. The parties settled the suit April 17.
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Â· Actor took advantage of fan for four years, QC saysÂ· Police found pornographic images on home computer
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A man fired by IBM for visiting adult chat rooms on work time files suit, setting up a case that could determine how the internet is handled in the work place. By the Associated Press.
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A federal judged ruled that the Web site was not protected by the First Amendment because it incited criminal conduct.
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Spider-Man creator Stan Lee wins a court battle with comic company Marvel to get a slice of their movie profits.
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The decision is a victory for free speech and Internet-rights advocates who argued that although the law was well-intentioned, its effects were unconstitutional.
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InfoWorld - The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has won a lawsuit against the operators ofÂ TorrentSpy.com, with the judge ruling in favor of the MPAA because the Web site operators tampered with evidence.
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Individuals who use the Internet  to distribute information from another source may not be held  to account if the material is considered defamatory, the  California Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a reversal of a  lower court decision.
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The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it won a court order to shut down illegal advertising for six companies accused of profiting from thousands of X-rated e-mails directing people to their online pornography sites in the government's first legal case involving adult Internet spam.
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By Susan Lee  AT first I couldn't believe the figures. More than 30 children rescued from an internet porn ring? Right here in Britain?   But hang on, where were the appeals about these kids? The searches?   Then I realised they hadn't vanished at all.
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Description: A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that companies that provide software that runs two Internet-based file-sharing networks are not liable for copyright infringement by people who use the networks to share music and movies.
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(InfoWorld) - Two men were convicted in Arizona Monday on eight criminal counts, including money laundering and transportation of obscene materials, in connection with running a pornographic spamming business, the U.S. Department of Justice said. A jury in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona in Phoenix convicted Jeffrey A. Kilbride, 41, of Venice, Calif., and James R. Schaffer, 41, of Paradise Valley, Ariz., on all eight counts they faced. The trial, which began June 5, was the first to include charges under the Controlling the Assault of Non-solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act, a law passed by the U.S. Congress in 2003 in an effort to crack down on unsolicited commercial e-mail. The men made "millions of dollars by sending unwanted sexually explicit e-mails to hundreds of thousands of innocent people, including families and children," Alice Fisher, assistant attorney general for the DOJ's Criminal Division, said in a statement. Kilbride and Schaffer started their spamming operation in 2003, and they made more than $2 million by sending out spam e-mail advertising porn Web sites, the DOJ said. The two earned a commission for each person directed to one of the sites. "Hard-core" pornographic images were embedded in each e-mail and were visible to any person who opened the e-mail, the DOJ said. Kilbride and Schaffer were convicted of two violations of the CAN-SPAM Act. One of the counts charged that Kilbride and Schaffer sent multiple electronic commercial mail messages containing falsified header information. In the other count, the two were charged with sending e-mail using domain names that were registered using false information. Kilbride and Schaffer were also convicted on one count of conspiring to commit fraud in connection with electronic mail and four counts of felony obscenity charges for transporting hard-core pornographic images of adults. They were also convicted on a federal money laundering charge for moving funds inside and out of the United States to conceal the ownership of those funds. The two face a maximum penalty of five years in prison for each CAN-SPAM and obscenity offense, as well as a fine of up to $500,000 and a maximum of 20 years in prison for money laundering. Sentencing is set for Sept. 24. When the CAN-SPAM Act went into effect in January 2004, Kilbride and Schaffer arranged to remotely log on to servers in Amsterdam, to make it look like their spam messages were being sent from abroad, when in reality Kilbride and Schaffer were operating their business from inside the United States, the DOJ said. Eight U.S. residents who complained to either the U.S. Federal Trade Commission or AOL traveled from Massachusetts, Texas, Iowa, and California to testify in the trial and to describe how their families, including some children, received the spam. AOL and the FTC received more than 660,000 complaints about the defendants' pornographic spam, including some from people who had set parental controls to protect their children from accessing graphic sexual content.
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Sex columnist and internet A-lister Violet Blue files suit against a porn actress using the same name. The columnist alleges the actress's films, including Who Violet Blew sully her reputation and infringe on her trademark.