App Store Battle: Spotify wants to get into the audiobooks business, but Apple has rejected its new app three times.Some have already announced hiring freezes and job cuts. Big Tech’s Slowdown: Amid stubborn inflation and rising interest rates, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other tech companies are signaling that tough days may be ahead.Musk’s Twitter Takeover: Elon Musk has moved quickly to overhaul Twitter since he completed his $44 billion buyout of the company.At issue in the suit, though, are two software products, Streambox Ripper and Streambox VCR, both of which the company began distributing in October. Streambox, which like Microsoft is based in Redmond, Wash., is primarily a Web portal site and search engine that competes with RealNetworks' portal site.

The suit is based on a part of the act largely untested since it was enacted in October 1998.Ī federal district judge in Seattle, where RealNetworks is based, has issued a temporary restraining order preventing Streambox from developing, producing or selling the software.

RealNetworks' suit accuses the company, Streambox Inc., of violating several laws intended to protect intellectual property, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

In what could be a precedent-setting case in Internet copyright law, RealNetworks Inc., whose products deliver audio and video content over the Web, is suing a company that makes software that converts RealNetworks' products into the format marketed by its rival, the Microsoft Corporation.

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