Category: Law suit

Why The US Can’t Prosecute Kim DotCom

In what may violate his bail agreement, Kim Dotcom of Megaupload fame has started a new, similar service called Mega, but thanks to good timing, and good PR he’s safe. Dotcom’s launch comes conveniently (an actual coincidence  right after the death of Aaron Schwartz, a man who committed suicide after unfair prosecution for very similar crimes by the US government. The number 2 republican in the senate,...

Rumblefish- Scam, Scum, or Or innocent Victim? Part 1

Does any company deserve the right to profit off of works in the public domain by stomping on another’s rights? No, but that doesn’t stop Rumblefish, a music distributor from doing it. Earlier this year Rumblefish made headlines by using Youtube’s Content ID system to take down a video of a man talking with birds singing in the background. There was no music anywhere...

How One Company Stole Pixar’s Intellectual Property from 10 Films and Didn’t Get Sued

Vídeo Brinquedo- Ever heard of it? Probably not, but if you look at their films, you’ll probably have the feeling you’ve seen something similar before. Every movie they’ve ever made has been stolen from Pixar, Disney, or another major studio. Wanna know something even more unbelievable? They haven’t been sued. Mothers have been sued by the big studios for playing music as their kid...

Apple Patents Air!

Stoppp the madnessssss!!!!! This title isn’t accurate (yet) but in five or ten years, this may be reality. Things that can be powerful in people’s lives when in the public domain, are confined to smaller uses when they are patented, and it is ruining our lives. People with Cancer, and other serious illnesses continue to die, when the potential to treat them is so...

Grandma Sues Apple For $1,000,000

We knew old people don’t understand technology, but this story is just insane. An 83 year old woman is suing Apple for $1,000,000 because she walked into a glass door and broke her nose. Is she crazy? If it was actually Apple’s fault, and their door was dangerous, we would see tons of people breaking their nose on Apple glass doors. Hundreds of thousands,...