Stories about: WTO

Although the controversial online music store AllofMP3.com was officially shutdown by the Russian Government this week for infringing copyright laws, customers from the site who have existing credit can still purchase songs through its downloadable windows desktop and smartphone client, allTunes.com.

For the second time in two years, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last week played the patent infringement card against Linux and again set off a round of negative speculation and vendor clarifications.

A committee in the European Parliament has agreed on substantial changes to a proposed law against counterfeiting and piracy of goods including computer software, music and movies.

With the rapid increase in security breaches leaving law enforcement struggling to keep up, some organizations are taking the law into their own hands and punishing hackers themselves.

Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate News Corporation Ltd. and U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. have grabbed a slice of China's potentially lucrative telecommunications sector with their investment, via a private equity placement, in local carrier China Netcom Corp.