Free Your Music with DRM Dumpster

Freeware Mac app DRM Dumpster automates the process of burning your DRMed iTunes Music Store purchases to CD, then rips them back to your computer as unprotected MP3s.

This has always been the unofficial method for stripping DRM from your music, but DRM Dumpster simplifies the process using a CD-RW, meaning that you can just insert one CD and DRM Dumpster will take care of your entire protected iTunes library. Handy.


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HP sues Acer over patent infringement

Litigation season is here! First it was Cisco dragging Apple to court. Oracle sued SAP over "corporate theft on a grand scale" last week. Now it's the US giant Hewlett-Packard taking Taiwanese major Acer to court over Acer's alleged infringement of five HP patents.

The lawsuit was filed today in a court located in the Eastern District of Texas. HP seeks to prevent Acer from selling some products in the United States, including desktops, notebooks, media centers and related products, due to the alleged use of HP-patented technology. HP contends that Acer infringed on patents ranging from DVD editing, power management, processing capabilities, clock switching, and other technologies from 1997 to 2003.

The patents relate to optical data storage, circuits and methods for lowering computer system power consumption, multiple processors in computer systems and an improved method for attaching devices to a digital serial bus.


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Anti-Plagiarism Service Sued for Copyright Violation

By David Johnston

In a strange twist of fate, the anti-plagiarism service TurnItIn has been sued by four high school students for violating copyright laws. The claim stems from TurnItIn’s policy of adding the text of student papers to its database when they are checked for plagiarism. However, the students noticed that requests that their papers not be added to TurnItIn’s database were ignored, violating their intellectual property rights.

They argue that TurnItIn should not be able to use student papers which it does not own in order to make money on its anti-plagiarism service. The suit specifies 6 papers that were copyrighted by the students before being handed in. The students are asking for $150,000 compensation per paper, though they claim to not want or expect the money.


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