News November 2013 News Archive

Musician Moby takes music industry to task over their "shortsightedness" in not recognizing the importance of creating new fans, even if these fans come via piracy ... Read more ...

MPAA received more money from member studios in 2012, with chairman Chris Dodd receiving $3.3m in salary and bonuses ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 24 November 2013 ... Read more ...

Over a million Xbox One consoles sold in the first 24 hours, as some users report disc drive grinding noise problems ... Read more ...

Amid calls for reduced statutory damages for copyright offenses, the MPAA and RIAA have issued their support for the current system which saw a single mother fined $1.92 million for sharing 24 songs ... Read more ...

The MPAA updates guidelines that call for increased scrutiny of people with walking canes, long coats and people who pull out their phones during movie screenings ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 9th November 2013 ... Read more ...

The PS4 launch may be the most successful ever, as a million consoles are sold in the first 24 hours in North America. But reports of faulty "Blue light of death" consoles also surface ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 17 November 2013 ... Read more ...

Sony is hoping Nintendo's Wii U starts selling well, in order to convince gamers that traditional video gaming, as opposed to smartphones and tablet games, is still the way to go ... Read more ...

The game industry knows DRM isn't working, but still uses it to fool investors, shareholders, and themselves, into thinking they're doing something against piracy - says the developers of The Witcher series ... Read more ...

Netflix, YouTube now account for 50% of peak download traffic, with BitTorrent usage falling below 10% for the first time ... Read more ...

MPAA, RIAA backed group proposes pro-copyright teachings to kids still in kindergarten ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 2nd November 2013 ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 10 November 2013 ... Read more ...

Xbox One won't be able to play Blu-ray 3D titles, Microsoft rep confirms ... Read more ...

Both the RIAA and the BPI may have abused license terms of third-party code that was used for their websites ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 26th October 2013 ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 3 November 2013 ... Read more ...

Sony's PS4 can't play audio CDs, lacks MP3 support, and will no longer act as a DLNA client for home media streaming ... Read more ...

A site claiming to be the new isoHunt is back up only a week after the original was shut down by the MPAA ... Read more ...

Cisco will eat licensing cost for their open source H.264 implementation to solve a big problem for the open source community ... Read more ...