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Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced a cross-licensing deal with Korean consumer electronics maker LG Electronics Inc. It is the fifth such deal in recent months that involves Redmond's controversial granting of Linux patent 'protection' --...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jun 7, 2007 · Hot! with 28 comments

Microsoft has reached a deal with Indonesia over the tens of thousands of pirated versions of Windows programs used in government departments. Ministers said Microsoft had agreed an amnesty under which a...

· Jun 9, 2005 with -1 comments

The Recording Industry Association of America has pulled the plug on a controversial program that offered file sharers amnesty from the group's legal campaign to stop the unauthorized swapping of music files over the Internet....

· Apr 20, 2004 with 2 comments

UK police are mulling over launching an interesting initiative in which paedophiles can avoid a court appearence if they offer themselves and their hard drives up for counselling and erasure/destruction, respectively. According to the BBC,...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Dec 9, 2003 with -1 comments

A day after the Recording Industry Association of America filed a slew of lawsuits against alleged illegal song swappers, it became the target of legal action over its own "amnesty program." California resident...

· Sep 10, 2003 · Hot! with -1 comments

Downloaders who admit they done wrong could be let off the hook The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is believed to be preparing an amnesty for users of peer-to-peer (P2P) sites, but...

Darren Bolton · Sep 8, 2003 with -1 comments

The recording industry is expected to announce as early as next week an amnesty program for people who admit they illegally share music files across the Internet, promising not to sue them in exchange for...

· Sep 5, 2003 with -1 comments

Human rights group Amnesty International has fingered a handful of tech companies that allegedly have sold products used in government censorship of Internet speech in China. In a report released Tuesday, Amnesty...

· Nov 28, 2002 with -1 comments