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Services Australia 'legal privilege' robo-debt claim refused by Senate committee

As former Labor Leader Bill Shorten says, relying on a computer algorithm was a 'stupid idea'.

February 11, 2020 by Asha Barbaschow

Commentary: How India's ancient caste system is ruining lives in Silicon Valley

Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians and many of them are allegedly making life a living hell for Dalits, those who are classified as the lowest of the low in India, whose horrifying historical persecution has continued in the cradle of tech.

September 21, 2020 by Rajiv Rao

Bush pushes for cybercrime treaty

President Bush asks the U.S. Senate to ratify the first international cybercrime treaty.

November 18, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Swap this! EMusic takes on Napster

The music-download site unleashes tracking software it says will help root out who has been illegally trafficking in EMusic songs.

November 20, 2000 by Ben Charny

Spat brews over cable antitrust switch

A member of the Federal Trade Commission slams a plan to switch antitrust scrutiny of the cable, media and entertainment industries from the FTC to the Justice Department.

January 17, 2002 by Jim Hu

The meat of the Microsoft-Novell deal is in the patents

The most meaty part of the November 2 cooperative-technology deal between Microsoft and Novell is also the hardest to understand: The patent portion.

November 2, 2006 by Mary Jo Foley

Court cuts off deep linking

A Danish court bars a news site from linking to other Web sites' back pages without permission--the first legal ruling to outlaw deep linking. Could it be the start of a clampdown?

July 8, 2002 by Lisa M. Bowman

Tech hides data, IDs inside music files

SunnComm Technologies says it has licensed a new product that can hide data, video, software or an identifying watermark inside music files.

March 21, 2003 by John Borland

Net helps fight fen-phen case

Computers radically change the way lawyers fight court battles, as diet pill fight shows.

October 7, 1999 by Richard Schmitt

Napster not the problem, RIAA not the enemy

**** ZDNet News reader Hal Cohen gives us his own analogy to the Napster/Pirate Ship analogy that had sparked a heated debate between ZDNet News readers; Markus Diersböck, 'History repeats itself' and Janet Fisher, 'Napster is a pirate ship'. Read Hal's analogy below.

October 29, 2000 by Hal Cohen