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Pirate Bay copyright convicts lose retrial bid
Four men found guilty of promoting copyright infringement through the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay will not get a retrial, the Swedish court of appeals has ruled. The court found Thursday that the judge who ruled in the original case in April, Tomas...
Half of copyright charges dropped against Pirate Bay (Updated)
Swedish authorities have dropped half of the copyright-related charges against the founders of The Pirate Bay, a website that connects BitTorrent networks to allow users to swap music, video or game files. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/17...
Goo-Hoo! faces EU anti-trust probe
The European Union's Competition Commission is investigating the proposed search advertising tie-up between Google and Yahoo!. "In mid-July, we decided to open a preliminary investigation on our own initiative into potential effects of the Google...
EU concerned about privacy with Google-DoubleClick deal
European lawmakers plan to take the unusual step of pressing antitrust regulators next month to look at privacy concerns raised by Google Inc.'s intended takeover of online ad tracker DoubleClick. The $3.1-billion US deal has spurred rivals and consumer...