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...proclaimed "Spam King" Sanford Wallace. Wallace, a professional e-mail marketer from New Hampshire who also likes to be called Spamford, used ill-gotten passwords to surreptitiously log into user accounts for the purpose of sending advertisements to their list of friends. But Wallace isn't alone. Despite myriad legal and technological attempts to combat it, spam will cost firms an estimated $130 billion worldwide in 2009 in lost productivity and technical costs, according to Ferris Research. (See the top 10 Internet blunders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spam | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...things change. The library project is now embroiled in a ferocious legal free-for-all spanning the globe. At the battle's heart is Google's year-old settlement with groups representing authors and publishers who sued the company over its plans to digitize and copy books. In response to complaints by the settlement's many opponents, a federal judge in New York has asked Google to revise the settlement by Nov. 9. After that, opponents and the Department of Justice (DOJ) will carefully scrutinize the new deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Antitrust Battle Over Google's Library | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

...deal benefit the public along with authors and publishers, while providing only minimal profit to Google? Or will it chart the course for future digital publishing and nudge Google ahead of rivals in the infancy of an emerging and potentially lucrative business? It is suspense worthy of a legal thriller - and Scott Turow is among the settlement's supporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Antitrust Battle Over Google's Library | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

...monopoly cartel controlling the future of digital publishing. "They have worked very hard to create the impression that this is like a freight train, and if you want to stand in front of it, you'll get run over," Gary Reback, an antitrust attorney who penned the legal brief for the Open Book Alliance, told TIME. (See the 100 best novels of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Antitrust Battle Over Google's Library | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

Last month the DOJ dropped perhaps the biggest bombshell. While saying that the settlement could breathe life into millions of unavailable works, the government also said the deal raised "significant legal concerns," and was the target of an antitrust probe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Antitrust Battle Over Google's Library | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

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