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On Monday a Dutch court order temporarily banned Pirate Bay in the Netherlands, in order to "cease infringing the copyright of the members" of copyright lobbying group Stichting Brein.
If they didn’t do so the three men behind Pirate Bay would face fines of €30,000 a day, or up to €3m. The temporary ban is set to last for two months.
Pirate Bay has said they will contest the verdict, and the fine has been waived for the month of August to allow a re-opening of the case.
Although for the last few years India hasn’t exactly been warm to the idea of the One Laptop Per Child project, IDG News Service is reporting two Indian government organizations have placed an order for 250,000 OLPC notebook computers. Although the order still leaves the struggling OLPC organization far short of its goal to have shipped millions of OLPC notebooks by this point, if the order plays out it could be a significant shot in the arm to the organization.
According to reports, distribution of the OLPC notebooks is set to begin in June, with as many as 1,500 schools in rural and suburban areas receiving the notebooks.
Pioneer is seeking a court order freezing the sale of Samsung SDI products and asking for compensation for past infringements.
The two companies have been in talks since April of 2005 to try and settle things, however Pioneer has ultimately determined that litigation is necessary in order to protect their property. The following Pioneer patents are being named in the suit:
U.S. Patent No. 5,182,489: Plasma display having increased brightness
U.S. Patent No. 5,640,068: Surface discharge plasma display
In order for the popular DVD Copy Plus and DVD X Copy programs to successfully make copies of DVDs, users will now need to obtain a separate descrambler that is widely available on the Internet, said Robert Moore, founder and president of 321 Studios Inc.
“It’s a hollow victory” for movie studios, Moore said.
Read more at CNN.com.
Music Industry Piracy Investigations obtained a so-called Anton Pilar order Thursday from Justice Murray Wilcox, and began raiding premises in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria on Friday searching for documents and electronic evidence to support its case against the peer-to-peer companies. The order allows a copyright holder to enter premises to search for and seize material that breaches copyright, without alerting the target through court proceedings.
Read the whole story at CNET.
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