Justice!

A lawsuit filed by America Online against a spammer a year ago has earned one man a Porsche, reports InformationWeek. The spammer`s 2002 Porsche Boxster S Cabriolet two-door convertible has been confiscated and has been won by a US retiree in a sweepstakes. Who said redistribution of ill-gotten wealth was only a South Africa thing?

AOL is headquartered in Virginia, and Virginia`s anti-spam statute, which went into effect on July 1 last year, gives the state`s law-enforcement agencies the right to seize spammers` assets. The winner commented: "I don`t want to read their messages, and I always click on the `Report Spam` button, and that makes me feel good."

Wal-Mart in the US is selling "the world`s first" DVD player that can skip over violence, swearing, nudity and other movie content that some viewers find offensive, reports AzCentral. The $79 unit features technology by ClearPlay.

The product follows the Super Bowl halftime controversy as well as the Federal communications Commission fining Clear Channel for indecent content on The Howard Stern Show. But ClearPlay CEO Bill Aho said the timing is coincidental.

Despite the fact that SCO has dropped its "Linux is unconstitutional" claim in court, its corporate spinners insist that "it is still there", reports The Inquirer.

Last week SCO said that it was not going to continue the argument in its court case with IBM, and pulled the statement out of its court documents. However in an interview with EWeek, Blake Stowell, the SCO spin master, insisted the company had not backed off its legal claims that the GNU General Public License (GPL) was unconstitutional. See if you can follow the reasoning.

On its first anniversary, iTunes, the innovative solution for legal music downloads, has brought almost $70 million into Apple Computer`s coffers while reinventing commercial music choices for consumers. Other music retailers, including Wal-Mart, have taken notice and followed suit, reports Twin Cities.

Before iTunes, the mushrooming problem of illegal downloads seemed, at least to the music industry, a challenge to its existence that could only be addressed by going after downloaders. And while the iTunes bridge hasn`t ended the freewheeling theft of music and other recordings, it has crafted technology and a workable commercial model.

Apple has also released a fix for a flaw in its QuickTime software, which was discovered and notified to it by eEye Digital Security in February, reports Sydney Morning Herald.

Most PDA users were introduced to the device through the Palm OS, but Microsoft`s handheld operating system is proving popular. PC World reports that Microsoft`s Windows CE .Net family has pulled into a virtual tie with the Palm OS, according to first-quarter market share information from Gartner.

PDA vendors shipped 1.11 million units with the Palm OS in the first quarter, down 21% from the first quarter of 2003, says Todd Kort, principal analyst with Gartner. Shipments of Windows devices increased 4.6% from last year`s first quarter to 1.10 million units.