Tag: LAWSUITS

A Yale student is suing US Airways for $1 million in compensation for his lost Xbox 360 and the emotional toll of attempting to recover it. He claims he had an Xbox 360 with a "specialized hard drive" and other fancy components worth more than $1,000 (is that the kind with the really, really loud drive noise?) in his checked luggage, and when he went to pick up his luggage it was considerably ...

Craigslist, Internet purveyors of random junk, big and small, is facing yet another lawsuit pertaining to its "Erotic Services" section. While previous lawsuits have focused on the site's inability to sufficiently monitor and remove ads soliciting sex, the new suit alleges that Craigslist actually promotes and facilitates prostitution. Tom Dart, Sheriff of Cook County, IL, whom we're guessing ...

Denise Finkel (please don't sue us), a student at The University of Albany in New York, is suing four of her former high school classmates for supposedly bullying and harassing her on Facebook. The lawsuit, filed in New York State Supreme Court, seeks damages of $3 million from the accused teens, their parents and the popular social networking site. The defendants in the case, Michael Dauber, ...

Yesterday, in California, Eminem's royalty rights lawsuit against conglomerate Universal Music Group went to trial in U.S. District Court, reports the Wrap. Asking for $1.3 million from the parent company of Aftermath Records, to which Eminem is signed, the suit's fundamental claim is that royalties from downloads should be dictated by the artist's licensing contract, not distribution contract. ...

Microsoft may be doing its best to move past Windows XP once and for all, but a Los Angeles woman is alleging that the company is all too happy to bank some extra change on the OS in the meantime, and that it's essentially trying to have it both ways. As a result, she's now suing Microsoft over its XP "downgrade" fees, and requesting that the lawsuit be granted class-action certification so others ...

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/RIAA_To_Stop_Suing_Individuals'; When you retard fair use with pointless DRM and then sue anonymous children for illegally downloading music while ignoring those of the execs at the top of the music industry, well, you're asking for a public relations nightmare. Now, with more than 35,000 lawsuits to its credit, the RIAA says it will finally end the ...

Nintendo's fended off class-action lawsuits over "defective" Wiimote straps in the past, and if you remember, they also replaced about 3.2 million of the straps (a/k/a "all of them") around the same time too -- way back in December of 2006. Well, the same lawyer's back for round two with a new, nearly identical suit, but this one also alleges that Nintendo knew that the defect existed and was ...

We really love it when people make outrageous claims that they, for example, own the trademark for an emoticon. Oleg Teterin, a Russian businessman and owner of Superfone (a mobile ad company), has trademarked the wink emoticon, ;-). Teterin says he has no intentions of going after individual users, but that he wants businesses to understand they will not get away with using his trademarked ...

You might remember a little over a year ago a relatively unknown company called ConnectU (started by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narenda) sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their ideas to create Facebook. While the lawsuit quietly drags on, at least one member of the ConnectU team has apparently softened his opposition to the ubiquitous social network. Divya Narenda ...

Earlier today, Steven Tyler -- lead singer and founding member of Aerosmith -- filed suit against individuals on Google's Blogger site, which Tyler claims is full of bloggers that have been impersonating him in their online postings, News.com.au reports. The lawsuit alleges that these anonymous bloggers have caused harm to Tyler and his girlfriend Erin Brady by revealing private facts about the ...

On June 7th, the artist and sex symbol formerly known as Prince officially turned 50 and apparently someone brought hime the wrong gift. It was a copy of a new five-disc Prince tribute album, which consists of 81 cover songs by Norwegian musicians of every genre including that country's National Symphony Orchestra. Soon after receiving "Shockadelica-50th Anniversary Tribute to The Artist ...

It's been about three years since the so-called 'Hot Coffee' scandal rocked the gaming world; a hidden sex scene in 'Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'. It was the cause of an uproar from parents all the way up to Hillary Clinton, and, of course lead to the inevitable lawsuit. Now, as millions have moved on to enjoy 'Grand Theft Auto IV,' it seems that only lawyers still care about the infamous scene. ...

You know what's heavy metal? Biting a live chicken head off on stage. You know what's not? Whining to music critics and telling them not to review your precious new album. Metallica invited music critics in London to listen to six tracks off its forthcoming album, with the implicit implication that the critics would go ahead and write reviews based on what they'd heard (no non-disclosure ...

Blog posts and social networking sites have cost people jobs, relationships, and freedom. But it's rare that high school students get blatantly censored and reprimanded for using for using foul language on said online outlets outside of school. Avery Doninger was the class secretary at Lewis S. Mills High School in Burlington, Connecticut, but was barred for running for re-election her senior ...

The drama between Google and Viacom over copyright infringing videos on YouTube staggers on, despite having fallen out of focus during the last several news cycles. In the latest development, Google, which owns YouTube, has filed papers in the U.S. District Court of Manhattan,charging that Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube threatens the very nature and existence of the Internet. Google claims that ...