Thursday Geekdom Round-up
A little bit of a different post here's what's going on in Geekdom today.
~ ThinkSecret.com has finally found legal representation in it's fight against Apple. ThinkSecret.com is owned and run by 19 year old Harvard Law student Nick Ciarelli, and is being sued by Apple for posting stories in late December about a variety of unreleased products that Apple was planning to announce at Mac World including the Mac Mini and iPod shuffle. ThinkSecret.com is now represented pro-bono by renowned San Francisco Internet lawyer Terry Gross who once represented the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the group who champions consumer fair use laws.
~ According to The Wall Street Journal, HP will now region encode printer cartridges so that consumers will be forced to buy replacement cartridges for their printers in the country where they live. For example if you live in the U.K. and buy cartridges from a U.S. vendor the cartridges will not work in your European bought printer. The full story is here.
~ It looks like the long awaited sequel to the 1998 movie version of the TV show the X-files is getting closer to production. According to a story in the Sun Newspaper in England series creator Chris Carter is close to finishing the script for the new movie and David Duchovny has already committed to the project. The full story is here.
~ Microsoft yesterday announced plans to offer it's Outlook e-mail client as a subscription service. CNet has the story here.
~ AOL has announced that they are jumping into the desktop search arena along with Google and Yahoo. ZDNet has the story here.
~ Slashdot is reporting that the U.S. Department of Justice has reached plea agreements with two men who operated P2P filesharing hubs. William Trowbridge of Johnson City, New York owned and operated MovieRoom.com from 2002 to 2004, while Michael Chicoine of San Antonio, Texas ran Achenon's Alley. Both men plead guilty to conspiracy to commit felony criminal copyright infringement and face up to five years in prison and/or $250,000 in fines.
~ ThinkSecret.com has finally found legal representation in it's fight against Apple. ThinkSecret.com is owned and run by 19 year old Harvard Law student Nick Ciarelli, and is being sued by Apple for posting stories in late December about a variety of unreleased products that Apple was planning to announce at Mac World including the Mac Mini and iPod shuffle. ThinkSecret.com is now represented pro-bono by renowned San Francisco Internet lawyer Terry Gross who once represented the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the group who champions consumer fair use laws.
~ According to The Wall Street Journal, HP will now region encode printer cartridges so that consumers will be forced to buy replacement cartridges for their printers in the country where they live. For example if you live in the U.K. and buy cartridges from a U.S. vendor the cartridges will not work in your European bought printer. The full story is here.
~ It looks like the long awaited sequel to the 1998 movie version of the TV show the X-files is getting closer to production. According to a story in the Sun Newspaper in England series creator Chris Carter is close to finishing the script for the new movie and David Duchovny has already committed to the project. The full story is here.
~ Microsoft yesterday announced plans to offer it's Outlook e-mail client as a subscription service. CNet has the story here.
~ AOL has announced that they are jumping into the desktop search arena along with Google and Yahoo. ZDNet has the story here.
~ Slashdot is reporting that the U.S. Department of Justice has reached plea agreements with two men who operated P2P filesharing hubs. William Trowbridge of Johnson City, New York owned and operated MovieRoom.com from 2002 to 2004, while Michael Chicoine of San Antonio, Texas ran Achenon's Alley. Both men plead guilty to conspiracy to commit felony criminal copyright infringement and face up to five years in prison and/or $250,000 in fines.
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