Threatened with potential criminal prosecution over its role in allegedly promoting prostitution through Internet ads posted by third parties on its website, Craiglist Inc. has responded with a pre-emptive strike.
Only a few years ago, the rules of website domain-name ownership were clear-cut. But now social networking websites are integral to the daily lives of many, and their users don’t…
A scheduled sentencing today has been postponed for a 50-year-old Missouri mom convicted of violating a federal statute in an unusual cyberbullying case.
Although the social networking phenomenon is so new that best practices are still being developed, Twitter “tweets” are a potential litigation minefield for attorneys, their employers and other businesses.
Updated: After their recent conviction in a criminal copyright prosecution in Sweden, owners of a well-known file-sharing website have reportedly come up with a plan to pay back a law…
An unidentified Texas paralegal is suing an Internet gossip blog over an anonymous February post that allegedly portrayed her, using her name, as unattractive and infected with herpes, among other…
Announcing new accusations today against the so-called Craiglist suspect involving a third claimed assault victim, the Rhode Island state attorney general also fired a verbal salvo at the website accused…
A sentence of one year of probation and a $5,000 fine are the penalties recommended in a presentence investigation report for the defendant in a landmark federal cyberbullying case, reports…
Even as a Moscow court ruled last week that Russian officials could shut down websites containing extremist comments, the country’s president, former corporate attorney and law professor Dmitry Medvedev, was…
In an effort to enforce its iTunes copyright, Apple Inc. threatened last year to sue BluWiki.com if the website didn’t remove from its discussion board a project called iPodhash. The…
A Boston medical student who allegedly attacked or robbed at least two women he met via ads they placed on Craigslist and is now charged with murdering one of them…
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