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Judge recommends permanent disbarment for Jack Thompson

By Chris on Thursday, Jul 10th 2008 No Comments

Judge Dava Tunis

Jack Thompson’s career as a lawyer may very well be coming to a permanent end. We all know that he has been in hot water, with the Judge recommending a guilty sentence on 27 misconduct charges, however, it seems that she also recommends that he be permanently disbarred.

The Florida Bar recently recommended a 10-year “enhanced” disbarment sentence for our favorite crazy lawyer. While that may well be long enough for Thompson’s career to be completely ruined, Judge Tunis doesn’t think it is harsh enough.

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Less than 3,000 people affected by Hot Coffee lawsuit

By Chris on Wednesday, Jun 25th 2008 3 Comments

Hot Coffee. There was a time when that actually brought to mind a cup of Joe. However, since the whole incident with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, we rather think of the rediculous lawsuit involving a part of the game that isn’t actually playable without a good deal of work. So the final numbers from the suit are in, and you may be surprised at the number of people seeking damages.

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Apple pulled into lawsuit by small Nevada company

By Bree Pearson on Wednesday, Jun 25th 2008 No Comments

typhoonlawsuit Dell ,Apple, Fujitsu, HTC, Lenovo, LG, Nokia, Panasonic, Palm, Samsung, and Toshiba have all been added to Typhoon Touch Technologies hit list. Typhoon is accusing these companies of using their patented ideas that date back to 1995 for the touch computer. Their patents were so open ended and broad that they have been able to pull these companies in saying that all of their touch computing is in conflict with their ideas. They created the blueprints for their technology for the police departments based on touchscreen portable devices with built in computers.

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Creative face hefty class-action payout over PMP hard-drive claims

By Chris Davies on Thursday, May 1st 2008 No Comments

It’s hard to imagine that there could still be people out there who believe hard-drives will have as much space on them as manufacturers’ spec-sheets boast, but that very issue looks to have turned around and bit Creative on the behind. A class-action suit was filed against the company regarding the quoted capacity of their hard-drive based media players, and it could result in a huge settlement for anybody who bought such a device between May 5th 2001 and April 30th 2008. Of course, Creative themselves aren’t admitting culpability, but seem to be making the gesture as more of a goodwill attempt than because they secretly feel guilty and have been unable to sleep at night.

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Corruption Abroad: Prominent prosecutor in case against The Pirate Bay hired by Warner Brothers

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Apr 18th 2008 1 Comment

So there is still an open case against the TPB, with several companies listed as plaintiffs, but one of the major ones being Warner Brothers. The lead investigator of the case throughout this trial has been Jim Keyzer, well it turn out he recently became employed by the Warner Brothers.

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The Pirate Bay going on the offensive – to countersue IFPI (international version of RIAA)

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Apr 16th 2008 1 Comment

First of all, I was told I should preface this article with the fact that SlashGear does not condone piracy or any other illegal acts. Now that’s out of the way, let’s get to the real meat of this story. The Pirate Bay is being sued by the IFPI, which is basically the international version of the RIAA, for 1.6 million Euros.

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Psystar Claiming $399 Mac Clone – how to do what Apple does for less

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Apr 14th 2008 1 Comment

Psystar Claims 399 Mac Clone This may already be a non-issue as their site is already down, however the company was apparently cranking out computers with 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 250GB HDDs, 2GB of RAM, a DVD burner, and Mac OS X Leopard. For some extra money you could have reportedly gotten FireWire and an NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT added to that list.

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Myka – the set top box for those with lower moral standards

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Apr 11th 2008 1 Comment

This set top box doesn’t work with your cable operator, it won’t DVR the latest episodes of House for you, and it isn’t licensed to work with NetFlix to stream movies to your TV. It will however allow you to legally, or illegally, download and play any and all video content you want.

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SlingCatcher delayed – possibly until late this year

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Apr 10th 2008 No Comments

There was a gentleman who informed Engadget of a notice he received from SlingMedia informing him that the SlingCatcher was not up to Sling Media’s standards. So it has been delayed, Sling didn’t confirm the actual email that was sent, but did sort of confirm that it was going to be delayed citing QA concerns as the cause.

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Thiis Wiiks Wii hack – getting Virtual Console games without paying for them

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Apr 10th 2008 No Comments

I am not entirely sure as to the legality or legitimacy of this hack, but from what I understood of the video, the hacker, Waninkoko, has the latest firmware, drops a disk in, then a few minutes after that his system reboots and viola! He has Super Mario Brothers on his Wii.

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