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Kindle copy to launch in China by end of year

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jul 13th 2009 No Comments

You have to admire Peking University’s Founder Group: when asked about any connection between their ebook device, shown here, and Amazon’s Kindle 2, they bravely told those at the Digital Publishing Fair in Tokyo that “it has nothing to do with the Kindle.”  Unfortunately they also seem a little confused about their own hardware specifications; asked about the E Ink panel size, and they said it was “unclear”.  Happily Tech-On!’s Takuya Otani had brought a ruler, and found it to be a Kindle-like 6-inches.

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Nokla N98 copy-cat gets touch-friendly

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Apr 30th 2009 No Comments

Nokia may not have jumped upon the N98 concept circulating a few years back, but that hasn’t stopped a glossy Chinese copy from appearing.  The Nokla N98 is a touchscreen dual-SIM cellphone; as we’ve seen with copy-cat devices in the past, the specifications of which don’t quite live up to the looks.

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Pirate Bay submits petition for a retrial

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, Apr 27th 2009 No Comments

Defendants from The Pirate Bay submitted a petition for a retrial today, moving forward on accusations that the trial itself was unfair and shouldn’t count. The official claim is that Judge Tomas Norstrom, who presided over the trial was biased.

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Pirate Bay Admins found guilty; get 1-year sentence

By Steven Grady on Friday, Apr 17th 2009 1 Comment

The Swedish courts announced their ruling against Pirate Bay administrators Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde. The group was found guilty of contributing to copyright infringement through their site The Pirate Bay, and were sentenced to 1 year in prison, as well as $3.6 million dollars in fines to be paid to Sony BMG, Warner Bros. and other record labels. The slight bit of good news here is that the Pirate Bay won’t be going anywhere, and will remain operational, as the technology is 100% legal.

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Kindle 2 text-to-speech angers Author’s Guild

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Feb 11th 2009 1 Comment

kindle 2 smallThe Amazon Kindle 2’s text-to-speech feature – which reads out ebooks on the device – probably isn’t the best way to lull your kids off to sleep, being as it’s a very obviously computer-generated voice.  However if the Author’s Guild has its way, it won’t even be around to distract you when your eyes get tired: the Guild is claiming that by including text-to-speech functionality, Amazon are impinging on audio book copyright.

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LA Man pleads guilty to leaking Guns N’ Roses Tracks

By Daniel Lim on Monday, Dec 15th 2008 1 Comment

gunes and roses chinese democracyThink twice next time you upload any copyrighted media files to a content sharing web service or your blog. A man has been accused of illegally posting the veteran rock band Gun N Roses newest Album on his web site (antiquiet) before the album went on an official release.

Kevin Cogill from LA was found guilty of violating federal copyright laws by uploading nine of GNR Chinese Democracy tracks on his website. Not a smart move, and he should be glad that the court didn’t made an example out of him. He pleaded a deal, the charge was reduced from a felony to a less serious misdemeanor. In exchange, Kevin agreed to cooperate with the authorities in any future investigations of the case and assisting in identifying the originated leaks.

He will face sentences coming this March; more likely will be put behind bar, look forward to being-somebody-boyfriend for a year in federal penitentiary, a $100,000 fine and five years probation.