Oct 16, 2007 | audio, DRM, file_sharing, law, video
The first rule of Usenet is, you don’t talk about Usenet.Careful observation of that rule has allowed Internet newsgroups to avoid getting involved in the entertainment industry’s freakish litigation war on its customers. Now a new lawsuit suggests that...
Oct 10, 2007 | business, law
Electronic discovery – production of electronic data in litigation – is increasingly common, and often difficult and expensive. Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were intended to make electronic discovery more predictable but the effect...
Sep 30, 2007 | computers, hardware, Home_Server, law, network
As always, there’s new technology that’s becoming commonplace even though we hadn’t really noticed it yet. Let’s start with network-attached storage – “NAS.”Our appetite for storage space is voracious. Businesses and law firms...
Sep 12, 2007 | Adobe, law
Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional is highly polished software for creating PDFs from scanned documents or onscreen files, and it adds the ability to use PDFs for other purposes, from e-mail archives to Bates-numbered document storage and production. Here’s my first...
Sep 5, 2007 | law, software
LexisNexis has updated some of its software for law firm accounting, but the upgrades only make it harder to figure out the LexisNexis product line.PCLaw had been a stand-alone law firm accounting program for many years when LexisNexis acquired it in 2005. Over the...
Aug 28, 2007 | audio, DRM, file_sharing, law, video
The world of copyright protection is a mess, and each day brings new craziness. A Federal District Court judge granted a ruling for summary judgment against a family that had run Kazaa on a computer with copyrighted material in a shared folder – with no evidence...
