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Smartcar accuses $50M-funded rival Otonomo of API plagiarism

Ruthless copying is common in tech. Just ask Snapchat. However, it’s typically more conceptual than literal. But car API startup Smartcar claims that its competitor Otonomo copy-and-pasted Smart

Battle Of The Gmail Extensions: Baydin Goes After Grexit For Plagiarizing Its Code

Ruh-roh. While we were happy to discover <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/20/grexits-inboxwhiz-keeps-you-from-obsessively-checking-your-gmail-by-hiding-it-from-you/">a simple Gmail add-on</a> f

RealDVD now available for download: Dead simple DVD copying, but with odd DRM

Those of you in the market to buy bridges for a $1, you should probably know that Real’s RealDVD is now available for download. A quick primer on what RealDVD actually does: the $30 Windows-only

RealDVD: Real Networks gets into the DVD copying games

Hold onto your hats, folks, as we’re about to be inundated with more and more chatter about fair use, your rights, and whether or not Real Networks just committed the worst crime in history. It

New study shows that many pirates would buy movies if they couldn't pirate

An interesting study (PDF) carried out by an organization called Futuresource Consulting (and sponsored by Macrovision, for you tin foil hat types) just showed up in our inbox claiming that consumers