Two men have been sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison for their roles in a wide range of online fraud activities, U.K. authorities said this week.
Douglas Harvard, a 24-year-old U.S. citizen, was arrested by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) in Leeds earlier this month during an investigation into a conspiracy by […]

The music and movie industries have reached a legal settlement with their longtime antagonist Kazaa, one of the world’s best known file-sharing networks and a once-popular source of illicit downloads.
Under the terms of the deal, Kazaa’s owner Sharman Networks will pay the world’s four major music companies — Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner […]

Soccer star Wayne Rooney has begun legal action against a Welsh TV actor for the ownership of two websites in the player’s name.
Huw Marshall registered WayneRooney.com and WayneRooney.co.uk in April 2002, when the striker was just 16.
The case has been taken to the United Nations’ World Intellectual Property Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland.
Mr Marshall, who is […]

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch ruled in favor of major Hollywood studios by saying that a number of companies operating DVD scrubbing services — such as CleanFlicks, CleanFilms, Play It Clean Video and Family Flix USA — were violating copyright laws. The judge ordered the firms to turn over all existing copies of the […]

An asteroid up to half a mile wide is due to brush past the Earth early tomorrow.
Unknown asteroids may pose more of a threat than 2004 XP14
Scientists who have been tracking asteroid 2004 XP14 say it will approach almost as close as the Moon, travelling at 10.5 miles per second.
It has been classified as a […]