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Google amends Chrome license agreement after objections

Google will dump a section of the licensing agreement for its new Chrome web browser after some Internet users objected to its copyright implications.

| News | Internet | 09/03/08 at 4:54 pm |

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'Warez' software pirate sentenced to probation

U.S. federal authorities sentenced a prolific illegal trader of software to three years of probation on Thursday, according to the Department of Justice.

| News | Legal | 09/01/08 at 8:10 pm |

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Open source advocates hail appeals court ruling

Free software advocates are praising a federal appeals ruling that allows greater protection for open-source software against copyright infringement.

| News | Legal | Open Source | 08/14/08 at 10:20 am |

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Yahoo: Burn your DRMed tracks to CD now

Yahoo has become the latest company to abandon customers who bought tracks from its music store encoded with DRM (digital rights management), drawing fire from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

| News | Business | Tech & society | 07/25/08 at 9:53 am |

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