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Bad Joojoo – You’ve Been InterServed! CrunchPad v Fusion Garage

by Jay Garrett on December 12, 2009

joojooI guessed that after Fusion Garage dismissed Michael Arrington’s and TechCrunch’s involvement with the Crunchpad as being merely another blog on the release of the rebranded tablet, JooJoo, that the sound of lawyers preparing paperwork could be heard in the distance.

As sure as eggs are eggs the document INTERSERVE doing business as TECHCRUNCH and CRUNCHPAD INC versus FUSION GARAGE LTD has been filed.

According to Arrington, much of the key intellectual property – including the board and much of the mechanicals – is owned by Pegatron, the manufacturing arm of Asus.



”Pegatron was licensing this IP (intellectual property) back to the project exclusively. Fusion Garage is no longer working with Pegatron, they’ve hired a new ODM. They have likely given Pegatron’s IP to the new ODM to speed development. Pegatron has expressed concern to us about this, and I would not be surprised if they sued Fusion Garage separately over this issue,” claimed Arrington.

Unsurprisingly, Fusion Garage CEO Chandrasekar “Chandra” Rathakrishnan vehemently disagreed with Arrington’s claims.

“The JooJoo tablet – including the hardware and UI – was built and designed by Fusion Garage. We have been working on [this device] since February 2008,” Chandra told TG Daily. “Remember, TechCrunch originally wanted to acquire Fusion Garage, but that didn’t happen. [It is also worth noting] that [Arrington's] original [CrunchPad] price point of $200 was utterly unrealistic. In fact, it was little more than a hallucination.” 


My only word of advice would be to hang on before preording the Joojoo for the $500 deposit – I know it’s nice and been a long time in coming as the CrunchPad but if Arrington’s lawsuit is true regarding the lack of Fusion Garage’s sound capital resource then this could end up being a long wait and could involve you kissing your cash goodbye.

I for one will be waiting to see it fully reviewed and perhaps even sat on my desk at Gadgety Towers before advising you to splash some cash ;)

Check out the Civil Cover Sheet below if you love litigation ;)


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Pirate Bay Found Guilty – Fined and Goin Dahrn!

by Jay G on April 17, 2009

news-pirate-bayThe Pirate Bay trial verdict is in: the (in)famous torrent site administrators have been found guilty of flouting copyright law and been slapped with hefty punishment.

The Swedish court has found Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij, and Carl Lundström, the men behind the Pirate Bay, guilty of breaking copyright law.

The four must each serve a year in jail and pay a fine of $3.6m (£2.4m).

So, how will that affect us – the everyday internet user?

Well, it seems that The Pirate Bay website will remain, so this isn’t the end by any means.

The defendants will almost certainly appeal the case so this story will continue to run and you can expect more courtroom Twitter updates and ‘experts’ being confused about the internet.

This continues to be one of the most important internet court cases in history.

A Pirate Bay press conference is scheduled for midday, so expect more news then.

And here is the news!

Peter Sunde, one of the site’s founders, has proved that a pirate never says die by stating “we can’ t pay and we wouldn’t pay.”

Sunde held an online press conference on behalf of the Pirate Bay following the verdict today, in which he called the guilty verdict “bizarre”.

“We can’t pay and we wouldn’t pay. Even if I had the money I would rather burn everything I owned, and I wouldn’t even give them the ashes,” the Pirate Bay admin said.

“It’s serious to actually be found guilty and get jail time. It’s really serious. And that’s a bit weird.”

Are you for or against the guilty verdict?

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Mozilla Files To Legalise iPhone Jailbreaking

February 20, 2009 Click to read more →

Firefox makers, Mozilla, have filed papers to the US Copyright Office in a move that sees them going head to head with Apple over the legally murkey process of iPhone unlocking.
Mozilla is backing a proposal by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to make an exemption to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act that would allow a legal iPhone [...]

Pirate Bay Charges Dropped

February 17, 2009 Click to read more →

The prosecution has dropped the main charges against The Pirate Bay on day 2 of the trial.
After being unable to prove in court that illegally distributed files had used The Pirate Bay site the representative of the large music and film companies including Warner Bros, MGM, Universal and EMI had no choice but to drop half the charges.
Co-defendant Fredrik Neij said that prosecutor [...]

Pirate Bay in Court – Facing £1.8 Million Fine and Jail

February 16, 2009 Click to read more →

Pirate Bay co-founders, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde (both pictured), Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström, a donor to the site, face up to two years in prison if convicted in the most high-profile anti-piracy case in recent years.
They’re pleading that their activities are legal under Swedish copyright laws, because Pirate Bay does not host copyrighted [...]

Pirate Bay could be Scuppered!

January 31, 2008 Click to read more →

The founders of The Pirate Bay, one of the best directories for BitTorrents, have been broadsided by charges of conspiracy to break copyright law in their homeland, Sweden.
Before now they’ve managed to dodge anything like this as they don’t actually hold any dodgy stuff on their server – instead they just act as a go-between.
The 4 are having their collars [...]