News March 2011 News Archive

Amazon has come under attack by the record industry for allowing their customers to store the legally purchased music online, in the cloud, for playback on their mobile devices ... Read more ...

Only at Righthaven could a "clearical error" lead to a full scale lawsuit, as one Ars Technica writer found out ... Read more ...

Usenet website is now using free speech tool to ensure their website stays up, even if the MPAA gets governments and ISPs to block their domain name ... Read more ...

Avalanche Studios boss Christofer Sundberg has come out attacking "stupid DRM", and calls for more hacker involvement in the PC gaming industry, as well as better games, to fight the piracy problem ... Read more ...

NPD says the number of people download pirated music, as well as the number of tracks downloaded, have dropped significantly in Q4 2010 compared to Q4 2007, possibly due to LimeWire shutdown ... Read more ...

A new version of the Xvid codec has just been released. Version 1.3.1 is mainly a bug fix release ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 12th March 2011 ... Read more ...

Sony lawyers claim George Hotz, aka geohot, has fled to South America to avoid handing over key equipment requested by the judge in the PS3 jailbreak lawsuit ... Read more ...

U.S. Judge calls record companies' damages claim "absurd", as total amount of damages may exceed total global GDP ... Read more ...

Following the White House's proposal to make streaming a felony, music industry expert Moses Avalon hopes the new laws will be used to curb all speech on P2P ... Read more ...

Want to control your PS3 and play games without using a controller? Sony hasn't made a device for it yet, but an enterprising hacker has made Microsoft's Kinect work on the PS3 ... Read more ...

A prominent piracy expert feels the best way for the entertainment industry to respond to BitTorrent file sharing is to compete ... Read more ...

Sony offers Android hacker Koushik Dutta a job, but he turns it down to protest Sony's actions against PS3 hacker George Hotz (aka geohot) ... Read more ...

Controversial copyright law firm, Righthaven, has had another setback in court ... Read more ...

Paramount to release movie on BitTorrent ... Read more ...

The extended versions of the Lord of the Rings movies comes to Blu-ray ... Read more ...

Ubisoft may have included a pirated version of the Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood soundtrack the Digital Deluxe version of the game ... Read more ...

The production of Zune music players may be halted due to lack of demand, as well as Microsoft's shifting focus towards the Windows Phone ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 5th March 2011 ... Read more ...

Analyst Michael Pachter believes Kinect is outselling the Move by a 5:1 margin ... Read more ...

A new report says that the piracy problem, particularly in less developed nations, can only be solved via pricing changes ... Read more ...

Blu-ray disc production factories has been shut down and personnel evacuated following the Japanese earthquake and flooding from the subsequent tsunami ... Read more ...

The Observer observes that Hollywood's losing battle against online piracy may be their own fault in not adapting quickly enough ... Read more ...

You can now rent movies on Facebook, as Warner Bros. test out renting The Dark Knight to millions of Facebook users ... Read more ...

The latest PS3 firmware adds the ability to store your save files in the cloud ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 26th February 2011 ... Read more ...

Microsoft's Kinect accessory for the Xbox 360 is now officially the fastest selling consumer electronics device in history ... Read more ...

LimeWire has settled with music publishers, but it is still being sued for $1b by music copyright owners ... Read more ...

Here's a list of the winners of Digital Digest's Facebook/Twitter competition ... Read more ...

Amazon's new Android app store DRM is causing concern amongst users and developers ... Read more ...

Apple is allegedly in negotiations with major music labels to add a long time missing feature to the iTunes music store - the ability to re-download your purchases ... Read more ...

The US DoJ is launching an investigation into whether the MPEG LA is trying to stifle Google's VP8/WebM and being anti-competitive ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 19th February 2011 ... Read more ...

It looks like 3D TV owners will have to wait until February 2012 before they will be able to buy the 3D Blu-ray version of Avatar ... Read more ...

Malware apps have been found and removed from Android Market, but not before thousands of phones may have been compromised in the most serious security breach of the Android platform so far ... Read more ...

Minecraft's creator Markus "Notch" Persson says it's wrong to label online pirates as thieves ... Read more ...

A roundup of what's new in Apple's iPad 2, from the new CPU, to other hardware and software changes ... Read more ...

A new Danish study shows that people don't mind illegally downloading copyright materials, as they find it socially acceptable to do so ... Read more ...