Microsoft Loses Big In MP3 Patent Dispute With Alcatel-Lucent
A Federal jury in California ordered Microsoft to pay $1.52 billion for infringing on two Alcatel-Lucent MP3 audio code technology patents. Microsoft violated Alcatel-Lucent’s patents by using their MP3 technology in its Windows Media Player. Microsoft argued that it licensed the technology from the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany for $16 million. Fraunhofer and the former Bell Laboratories co-developed MP3 technology. Lucent,...
RIAA Sends 15,000 Illegal File Sharing Complaints To Universities
Approximately 15,000 students from 25 colleges and universities in the United Stated have received complaints from the RIAA alleging illegal music file sharing. The top five offending schools were Ohio, Purdue, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Tennessee and the University of South Carolina. This totals nearly triple the number for the previous school year. But the RIAA seems convinced the program is working....
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