Legal Briefs: piracy and hardware dust-ups

As reported on gameslaw.net, the founders of the Swedish torrent site, The Pirate Bay, began their criminal trials Monday, on charges of "promoting violations by other people of laws protecting royalties."

Back in the US, Intel has filed suit against Nvidia. From Shack News:

The lawsuit stems from 2004 license agreement between the two companies. Nvidia believes the agreement allows it to produce nForce motherboards that support the latest Intel hardware, such as Nehalem processors. Intel, quite obviously, disagrees.

'At the heart of this issue is that the CPU has run its course and the soul of the PC is shifting quickly to the GPU," stated Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. "This is clearly an attempt to stifle innovation to protect a decaying CPU business.'