- Wed Jul 18 2001 Russian's arrest latest in copyright fight
A small Russian software company learns that Adobe doesn't pull its punches when an engineer is arrested for creating a program to crack the eBook format.
- Wed Aug 15 2001 Researchers weigh publication, prosecution
A talk billed as the "presentation the RIAA does not want you to see" goes ahead, but it may have a chilling effect on other programmers.
- Sun Nov 25 2001 The week ahead: A peek at earnings and exhibits
Microsoft will be hosting its Windows Embedded Developers Conference in Las Vegas, among other highlights.
- Wed Jun 18 2003 Senator OK with zapping pirates' PCs
Sen. Orrin Hatch retreats a bit from his suggestion that copyright holders should be able to remotely destroy the PCs of music pirates, but he says the proposal is still alive.
- Wed Jan 8 2003 Microsoft e-book software cracked
A U.K. programmer releases software said to dismantle the anticopying technology in Microsoft Reader, setting the stage for another confrontation in the digital piracy wars.
- Wed Aug 29 2001 Lawyer Lessig raps new copyright laws
Copyright and patent law, ostensibly designed to protect innovation, now have become tools large companies can use to maintain their dominance and control, Lawrence Lessig says.
- Wed Oct 10 2001 The "other" DMCA
Critics say it's simply a legal sword the government can use to slice away at fair use, but Doug Isenberg writes that the DMCA, while not perfect, nonetheless helps protect many Internet companies.
- Tue Dec 17 2002 ElcomSoft verdict: Not guilty
In the first major test of the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a jury finds ElcomSoft not guilty of creating a tool to steal eBooks.
- Thu Nov 13 2003 GameSpy warns security researcher
The online-gaming service provider says it sent an Italian hacker a letter requesting that he remove advisories and utilities highlighting vulnerabilities in its products.
- Mon Sep 23 2002 The thin gray line
special report Squeezed between corporate security experts and hell-bent hackers, so called grey hat hackers are finding themselves on the wrong side of the law.

