News May 2015 News Archive

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 31 May 2015 ... Read more ...

More homes in Australia have VCRs than Blu-ray players, more box CRT TVs than 3D TVs ... Read more ...

MPAA, RIAA backed group wants domain registrars to enlist as copyright cops, to suspend domains on request ... Read more ...

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 16th May 2015 ... Read more ...

The Pirate Bay switches to a new multi-domain strategy following news that their .SE domain name will be seized soon ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 24 May 2015 ... Read more ...

PS4 price cut may be on the way to curb the Xbox One's gaining momenum ... Read more ...

New EU study finds piracy site shutdowns ineffective and could make future enforcement much more difficult ... Read more ...

Scammers steal all of EZTV's domain names in brazen hostile takeover, as the founder of the site calls it quits ... Read more ...

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 9th May 2015 ... Read more ...

MPAA gets PayPal to freeze account of open source developer who has long since removed the PayPal donation button from his torrent search engine website ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 17 May 2015 ... Read more ...

BDA announce that Ultra HD 4K Blu-ray specs are complete, and unveils logo ... Read more ...

The latest version of Firefox now downloads and installs DRM automatically, but the alternative may mean no more Netflix or Hulu ... Read more ...

The first non-leaked episode of Game of Thrones breaks piracy records again ... Read more ...

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 2nd May 2015 ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 10 May 2015 ... Read more ...

EU planning major copyright shake-up to make copyright laws fairer to consumers, including ending the practice of geo-blocking ... Read more ...

MPAA says publicly that they are seeking unbiased research, but privately want only pro-copyright conclusions ... Read more ...

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 25th April 2015 ... Read more ...

Xbox One sales catching up to PS4 sales, but at a snail's pace and at the expense of revenue ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 3 May 2015 ... Read more ...

Vague language in copyright amendment could grant unprecedented powers to curb anti-copyright related speech in Australia ... Read more ...

A record month for 4K TVs, but Ultra HD sets still only a small percentage of total LCD sales ... Read more ...