The Internet
The Microsoft lawsuit: Appeals court ruling favours company
By Mike Ingram, July 6, 2001
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has overturned the ruling of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that Microsoft should be broken-up. The judges severely criticised Judge Jackson’s...
Microsoft launches attack on open source software
By Mike Ingram, May 8, 2001
Microsoft Senior Vice President Craig Mundie made a speech on May 3 championing what he called “the commercial software model.” His remarks were particularly directed against the increasin...
Recording industry giants vie for Napster user base
By Mike Ingram, May 3, 2001
As the online music swap service Napster attempts to comply with the terms of an injunction brought by the recording industry, a number of strategic alliances are underway aimed at harnessing the mass...
Yahoo's capitulation to right-wing pressure groups sets dangerous precedent
By Mike Ingram, April 19, 2001
Following a barrage of e-mail protests from the Christian fundamentalist American Families Association (AFA), the Internet Service Provider (ISP) and portal Yahoo has pledged to remove all pornography...
Napster seeks to block access to copyrighted music
By Mike Ingram, March 5, 2001
Confusion reigned over the weekend following a hearing Friday March 2 to determine how to formulate a new injunction against the online music swap company Napster.
AOL-Time Warner threatens children running Harry Potter fan sites
By Mike Ingram, February 28, 2001
A 15-year-old girl from West Yorkshire, England has found herself at the centre of a raging battle being waged by media conglomerate AOL-Time Warner against young fans of the “Harry Potter&rdquo...
Napster offers record companies a new commercial arrangement
By Mike Ingram, February 24, 2001
The Internet music swap service Napster and its 50 million-plus users face a new court injunction that may effectively close down the service as it presently exists. Whatever the eventual fate of Naps...
US Court rejects Napster appeal
By Mike Ingram, February 15, 2001
After three months of deliberation, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the major record labels that the online music swap service Napster must prevent its users from exchanging copyrighte...
Ten years of the World Wide Web
By Mike Ingram, January 18, 2001
As the new millennium gets underway, there are many anniversaries that could and probably should be marked. The 20th century was packed with tumultuous events that changed the world, including two Wor...
Yahoo bans sale of Nazi memorabilia from its Internet auctions
By Mike Ingram, January 5, 2001
The Internet portal Yahoo has decided to ban the sale of Nazi memorabilia from its on-line auctions. The company has denied that the move was in response to a court ruling in France that it must preve...
Microsoft appeal against break-up, claiming judge was biased
By Mike Ingram, December 2, 2000
US software giant Microsoft filed a 150-page brief with a court of appeals this week, in an attempt to halt a planned break-up of the company.
Recording giants could join Bertelsmann's embrace of Napster
By Mike Ingram, November 30, 2000
After an initial period of shock at Bertelsmann's decision to break ranks with the rest of the recording industry and enter into an alliance with Napster, there are indications that the major players ...
