Megaupload cannot avoid prosecution in the U.S. simply because it had no physical presence in the country, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a colorfully worded opposition to the file-sharing site's motion to dismiss copyright ...
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A Russian man has been arrested in Cyprus on charges that he launched denial-of-service attacks on Amazon.com and eBay in 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha, 25, of Moscow, was arrested Wednesday, the ...
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The operator of a mutual fund has pleaded guilty in U.S. court to charges that he operated a $13 million scheme to sell shares of Facebook and Groupon stock before their initial public offerings. John Mattera, who served as chairman of ...
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AU Optronics was fined $500 million by a court in San Francisco on Thursday, and two of its former executives were fine and sentenced to three-year prison terms in connection with an LCD price-fixing conspiracy, the Department of Justice ...
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Google will pay a historic fine to settle U.S. government charges that it violated privacy laws when it tracked via cookies users of Apple's Safari browser. The US$22.5 million civil penalty is the largest ever secured by the U.S. Federal ...
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The U.S.-based Electronic Frontier Foundation criticised new cybercrime legislation that went into effect Wednesday in the Philippines, which has sparked protests over its heavy-handed approach to speech on the internet. Of most concern ...
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A former executive at Taiwanese LCD marker AU Optronics has been convicted of participating in a worldwide conspiracy to fix the prices of LCD panels,the U.S.Department of Justice said. Shiu Lung Leung,AU Optronics'former senior manager ...
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Penguin Group has become the latest book publisher to reach a settlement with the U.S.Department of Justice in a lawsuit that alleges that Apple and five publishers had conspired to raise e-book prices. Under the proposed settlement ...
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US-based pulp and paper company International Paper (IP) has reached two agreements to sell three US containerboard mills for $470m in connection with the company's acquisition of Temple-Inland for $3.5bn. According to IP, the move aims ...
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Global paper and packaging company International Paper (IP) and Temple-Inland in the US have reached an agreement with Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) with respect to IP’s acquisition of Temple-Inland for ...
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The chairman of the U.S.Senate Judiciary Committee has not reversed course on email privacy and has not proposed to give U.S.agencies access to email and other electronic communications without search warrants,despite a news report to the ...
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IDG News Service-The U.S.Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit accusing eBay of entering into a"handshake"agreement to not recruit or hire employees of software maker Intuit. The DOJ,in an antitrust lawsuit filed Friday,seeks to ...
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A U.S.judge should limit the scope of a proposed court hearing examining whether a former Megaupload user can recover files that were on the website when the U.S.Department of Justice shut it down,the agency said. The hearing should focus ...
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WASHINGTON,D.C.—Republican leadership in the House of Representatives recently cancelled a vote on H.R.3210,a bill that would have weakened illegal logging amendments of the Lacey Act. The bill had been making its way through ...
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IDG News Service-The U.S.Department of Justice is recommending that AU Optronics,a Taiwanese maker of LCD panels,pay a US$1 billion fine,and two former executives serve 10 years in prison,for the company's participation in a long-term ...
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