Archive for April, 2005
Soldier’s Kin to Get Access to His E-Mails
Last December there was a big brouhaha over Yahoo’s refusal to hand over the contents of a dead Marine’s Yahoo Mail account to his parents. Now Findlaw is reporting that Lance Corporal Ellsworth’s kin will get that access: An Oakland County probate judge signed an order Wednesday directing Yahoo! Inc. to provide the contents of [...]
AOL Blocking Phish Sites
One way that the unscrupulous have of gaining access to your personal information is to use “social engineering” to trick you into clicking on a link that will take you to a different website than the one you think you should be going to. If you get those emails that say “Go to https://www.ebay.com/some-long-string-of-numbers-and-letters to [...]
Symantec wins $3.1 million default judgment
Symantec said Wednesday that it has been granted a $3.1 million default judgment in its California lawsuit against an accused software pirate. In April of 2004, Symantec charged that Sam Jain and several co-defendants created fake pop-up ads telling consumers that their Symantec software was preparing to expire and needed to be renewed. People who [...]
Another Rundown of Interesting Lawsuits
Rosa Parks settles with OutKast. Under the out-of-court settlement announced on Thursday Parks, 92, will receive an undisclosed amount of money that means her “living and health needs … will be secure,” former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer, her guardian, said. The settlement came with OutKast, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Arista Records LLC and LaFace Records. [...]
Hacking Ordeal Over
For two months last year, rescuers searched for Lori Hacking. For the first two weeks, the woman’s putative husband, Mark Hacking, professed no knowledge of what had happened to her. Then he broke down and confessed that he shot her in the head with a rifle and then disposed of her body and the bloody [...]
Stupid Lawsuit of the Week
[UPDATE: This case was thown out.] Every once in a while we find a lawsuit that is such a breathtakingly stupid waste of judicial resources that we feel compelled to mention it in this space as well as at the Institute of Reproductive Geology. This lawsuit found via Fark falls into that category. Rhonda Nichols [...]
Tyler v. Hewlett-Packard Company Update
Just an update on Tyler v. Hewlett-Packard Co. This case, you will recall, deals with an allegation that HP failed to advise its customers that the smart chips of certain HP inkjet printer cartridges causes the cartridges to stop working, regardless of print quality or the amount of ink that is left within the cartridge. [...]
Acushnet wants to School Academy on Fake Balls
The Acushnet Company (makers of Titleist, FootJoy, Cobra, and Pinnacle golf brands) filed suit today in Federal District Court in Dallas against Academy Sports for counterfeiting and trademark infringement. Provided the facts disclosed to the public are the whole story, Academy should be wanting to settle this one pretty quickly. Acushnet claims that contrary to [...]
Judge Sentences Spammer to Nine Years
In the first criminal prosecution under Virginia’s tough anti-spam law, Jeremy Jaynes, a/k/a Gavin Stubberfield, has been sentenced to nine (9) years in prison. The case was filed just two weeks after the effective date of the 2003 expansion of Virginia’s law and came about due to the massive amounts of spam sent by Mr. [...]
Resurrection
Last year I started the Institute for Reproductive Geology. The purpose of the site was to capture people being really so stupid that attempts to educate them was like, well, teaching rocks to reproduce. Well, one thing led to another and then another and then another and then… well, you get the point. Things kept [...]
