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Yesterday I received a generic replacement battery that I had ordered for my Sony VGN-FS840/W laptop. When placed in the laptop the battery indicator flashes rapidly. The laptop will not turn on with the battery inserted, even if the AC cord is also used. The battery shows no charge and does not […]

One good DRM paper deserves another. Former EFF Staff Attorney, Jason Schultz, has taken a position at UC Berkeley’s School of Law and has just posted a pre-publication paper he co-wrote with Berkeley Law Professor Pamela Samuelson entitled: Should Copyright Owners Have to Give Notice About Their Use of Technical Protection Measures? From […]

Radiohead recently announced that fans could pick the price they’d pay for Radiohead’s new album, In Rainbows.
To check this out and support this experiment, I signed up for the download-only version and chose to pay $.99 per song, i.e., $9.90 for the 10-song album. (I used a currency-converter to figure out how much to pay […]

On July 3rd the 9th Circuit filed its opinion in Perfect 10 v. Visa Int’l Serv. Assoc., (9th Cir. 2007). The majority (Reinhardt and Smith) takes itself to be following the recent P10 decisions from the 9th Circuit, Perfect 10, Inc. v. CCBill LLC, (9th Cir. 2007). and Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon, Inc., […]

The Perfect 10 v. CCBill decision from the 9th Circuit on March 29 was amended last Thursday to add a footnote regarding the meaning of “intellectual property” in Sec. 230 (the CDA). It responds to a point in Perfect 10’s petitions for rehearing and rehearing en banc (which were denied) that the 9th Circuit’s […]

I wrote an article that, in part, explained the SCO v. IBM lawsuit up to that point in time. That wouldn’t have been necessary had this history of SCO been around. Too funny.

Earlier this week the 9th Circuit released an amended opinion in Kahle v. Gonzalez and denied the motion for rehearing en banc. The 9th Circuit saw it as an attempt to relitigate Eldred v. Ashcroft, which I would argue is not accurate, but I think this does not bode well for getting the Supreme […]

The Supreme Court of the United States has just handed down two important patent rulings that could be especially relevant for software and technology companies. In a ruling that alters the analysis of when a patent is obvious the Supreme Court found that lower courts had too rigidly interpreted the requirements for finding a […]

This nice work by Larisa, Alison, David, and other borgers gets a write-up in The Daily Californian entitled: Radio Tags in ID Cards Raise Privacy Issues.