News May 2014 News Archive

Ubisoft suffers another DRM disaster, with launch of much-hyped 'Watch Dogs' game marred by DRM troubles for PC users ... Read more ...

Spotify says industry claims that free and cheap music services like Spotify has done nothing to stop piracy is not true, and that many of Spotify's users are ex-pirates ... Read more ...

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 17th May 2014 ... Read more ...

Controversial anti-piracy technology Cinavia might have just been broken by German based software firm ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 25 May 2014 ... Read more ...

Sony says the PS4, at $399, is already profitable. Unlike the PS3, which took several re-designs and 4 years to reach the same point! ... Read more ...

The Pirate Bay's PirateBrowser has been downloaded more than 5 million times since its release in August of last year ... Read more ...

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 10th May 2014 ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 18 May 2014 ... Read more ...

A third of all peak Internet traffic now being consumed by Netflix, at the expense of file sharing traffic ... Read more ...

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 3rd May 2014 ... Read more ...

Microsoft drops Kinect from Xbox One bundle, offers console at the same price as PS4 ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 11 May 2014 ... Read more ...

Nintendo posts third annual loss in a row on the back of slower than expected Wii U sales ... Read more ...

UK ISPs and rights holders come to agreement on a graduated response regime that appears more watered down than other schemes around the world ... Read more ...

Study finds that from a random sample of 6,000 Finns, each downloaded nearly 3,000 pirated music and movie files ... Read more ...

Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 26th April 2014 ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 4 May 2014 ... Read more ...

A senior citizen gets ejected from cinema for having old style brick slider phone, accused of trying to record the movie ... Read more ...

Sony issues writedown of its disc manufacturing business on slowing physical media demand ... Read more ...

Clever or too smart for their own good, U.S. Supreme Court set to rule on Aereo case that highlights the absurdities of digital copyright law ... Read more ...