News August 2011 News Archive

DRM makes games "worth less", and it's a backwards way of fighting piracy, says Valve's Gabe Newell ... Read more ...

Everyone has done it. Downloading YouTube videos seems to be no different to time-shifting on TiVo or DVRs, but it seems the major music labels are not happy people are doing it, and have sued downloader website TubeFire ... Read more ...

'The Hurt Locker' producers start suing the deceased, and 'The Expendables' lawsuit dropped, only to be later refiled to make it more "judge-proof" ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 13th August 2011 ... Read more ...

The release of Star Wars on Blu-ray is an opportunity for George Lucas to mess with the classic movies (and the prequel trilogy) - has he done it again? ... Read more ...

New study shows people are increasingly using tablets and smartphones to watch full length movies, instead of using portable DVD players ... Read more ...

Fox no longers allows day-late airings of catch-up episodes of their shows on Hulu, and this has led to a surge in piracy for these shows, according to data obtained by TorrentFreak ... Read more ...

Cloud music hosting service MP3tunes wins a victory in the courts against EMI, that may yet turn out to be a hollow one, as the threat of financial damages being rewarded against the company looms large ... Read more ...

Legal experts hail a win for Google as the National Music Publishers' Association withdraws from Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube ... Read more ...

New PS3 pricing in the hopes of reversing a PS3 sales slump (in the United States), and also the announcement of a new PSP model ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 6th August 2011 ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 30th July 2011 ... Read more ...

The CEO of one of New Zealand's largest ISPs say that the government should stop propping up the dying business model of the entertainment industry via copyright laws, and should concentrate more on encouraging innovation to fight online piracy ... Read more ...

MPAA attacks journalist for simply pointing out that families struggling to pay their bills may resort to piracy to get their movie and TV entertainment needs ... Read more ...

A roundup of some recent 3D related news, including 3D glasses vending machines, standardization finally coming for 3DTV owners, but they may have less 3D to watch as a result of ESPN 3D being dropped by AT&T's U-verse ... Read more ...

Walmart will stop selling MP3s at the end of this month. Those that purchased DRM protected MP3s from them will now have to rely on the shopping giant to keep the DRM servers up and running ... Read more ...

A historic landmark has been reached this week, when TorrentFreak revealed that more than 200,000 people have been listed in copyright lawsuits so far, most of them being BitTorrent users ... Read more ...

A legally blind man has been accused of downloading a Japanese porn video ... Read more ...

A new study says people tend to pirate good games more than bad games, but does that really tell us anything we don't really know? ... Read more ...

UltraViolet coming via Warner's 'Horrible Bosses' and 'Green Latern', and access to the UV cloud will be done through Flixster. Also, HBO Go is coming to game consoles and other Internet connected devices ... Read more ...

Delay for PlayStation 3DTV, but PS Vita (plus a PS3) may do what the Wii U can do, months before the Wii U is released ... Read more ...

Diablo 3 will have an "always-on" DRM, meaning you cannot play the game if you don't have a good Internet connection ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 23rd July 2011 ... Read more ...

Porn website Perfect 10 sues yet another company, this time Megaupload, for profiting from user uploads of copyrighted content ... Read more ...

Zediva is ordered to shut down as, in the judge's opinion, it violated copyright and is a threat to traditional video-on-demand services ... Read more ...