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Apple's free iBook Author software comes with a catch: sell only through Apple or give your work away.

RIAA claims that LimeWire owes it trillions of dollars were called 'absurd' by a New York federal judge.

When they go to court, most companies dump every bit of data they can collect on lawyers, who get paid a lot more than a DBA to filter through it.

A New Jersey IT consulting firm has reached a plea agreement with the federal government to settle an H-1B fraud case brought against it in 2009.

Document dump." "Unsearchable morass." That's how Ontario Superior Court Justice Cary Boswell described the nearly 23 million pages of electronic records handed over by the prosecution in an ongoing criminal fraud case of three former Nortel Networks executives.

Rather than looking into antitrust, the EU should investigate Google's privacy practices, as much to show the rest of IT what its risk is as to reveal anything about Google.

I don't know, but I do know that it's going to make a mess of the technology business and all of us will pay for it.

In some ways, proprietary software contribution agreements are a lot easier to deal with: a developer writes some code, a company pays for it, and the developer's code is owned by the company, for all eternity. But with the wildly different licenses, organizations, and developer motivations that exist in the open source world, it's hard to get standard templates for these agreements created.

Late last month, the folks over at SourceForge.Net found themselves in a bit of a kerfuffle regarding their decision to start enforcing US export laws regarding the transfer of technology to certain individuals, companies, and entities (a.k.a. nations the US has deemed bad news). How they dealt with the community backlash is a good lesson in compromise.

Who is this so-called "Papermaster", and what do the big brains at Apple want with him?

A U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday dissolved a gag order against a trio of MIT students who said they found flaws in the Massachusetts transit authority's ticketing system.