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Tribler, a new file sharing client, takes away the need to have centralised services such as a torrent search engine, or trackers

New Super Resilient Software Makes File Sharing Unstoppable

Posted by: Sean F, 18:47 EST, Mon February 13, 2012

A new file sharing client may make websites like The Pirate Bay obsolete, and would make it almost impossible for authorities to stop file sharing ... More


Pre-release downloads of movies on BitTorrent networks may not cause box office losses, a new study says

New Study: Release Windows, Not BitTorrent, Driving Box Office Losses

Posted by: Sean F, 16:49 EST, Sat February 11, 2012

A new study finds that box office losses in international markets are more to do with delayed releases, than the availability of pre-release downloads on BitTorrent ... More


iTunes Match is generating money "out of thin air" and by "magic", says music licensing firm TuneCore

iTunes Match Monetizing Piracy By 'Magic'

Posted by: Sean F, 18:36 EST, Fri February 10, 2012

iTunes match is creating money for rightsholders "out of thin air", and now allows them to "get something" when they were previously "getting zero", says CEO of rights handling firm TuneCore ... More



News Icon RapidShare: The Path Forward For File Hosting Websites?

posted by: Sean F, 18:18 EST, Fri February 10, 2012

RapidShare has managed, in only a year, to get themselves removed from the RIAA/MPAA's "notorious markets" piracy list, and their attorney explains how this was done

News Icon Do You Really Own Your Steam Games? One Gamer Finds Out: Maybe Not

posted by: Sean F, 14:06 EST, Wed February 8, 2012

Most gamers may love Steam, but wait until your account gets banned, then that love may soon turns to hate

News Icon Ubi DRM Strikes Again: Games Will Be Unplayable Due To DRM Server Switch

posted by: Sean F, 14:38 EST, Sat February 4, 2012

Ubisoft's controversial DRM strikes again - games including Assassin's Creed won't be playable at all during a planned transition of web services infrastructure next week

News Icon Neil Young: Piracy Is The New Radio

posted by: Sean F, 18:16 EST, Thu February 2, 2012

Neil Young refuses to cast web piracy as the biggest problem facing the music industry, instead, compares it to the promotional potential of radio

News Icon New Reports Highlights Entertainment Industry's Massive Gains in the Age of Piracy

posted by: Sean F, 17:52 EST, Thu February 2, 2012

New report shows that the entertainment industry has had an amazing decade of growth, despite the constant complaints about web piracy

News Icon Angry Birds Dev: Piracy May Help Us

posted by: Sean F, 18:42 EST, Tue January 31, 2012

The CEO of Rovio, the company behind the mega-hit Angry Birds, says that piracy may help to generate revenue, and described the music industry's way of handling web piracy as a good example of "what not to do"

News Icon EMI's VP: SOPA is 'incorrect', Piracy Is A Service Issue, Not A Price One

posted by: Sean F, 15:40 EST, Sun January 29, 2012

EMI's VP breaks ranks with the rest of the music industry by saying that SOPA isn't the way forward, and echoing the thoughts of Valve's Gabe Newell, says that piracy is a service issue more so than a pricing one

News Icon Was Megaupload's New Pro-Artist Distribution Model The Real Reason Behind Shut Down?

posted by: Sean F, 00:27 EST, Fri January 27, 2012

Megaupload's intentions to launch a new service that would see artists sell directly to fans, and cutting out the major music labels, might have given the music industry extra reason to be happy to see Megaupload shut down by the FBI

News Icon Petition Asks White House To Investigate MPAA Bribery Claim

posted by: Sean F, 23:23 EST, Thu January 26, 2012

White House's petition website used again, this time to call for an investigation into MPAA's Chris Dodd for bribery claims, after the former senator threatened to stop writing checks for politicians that did not come out to support SOPA/PIPA

News Icon Hardware Upgrades Not Welcomed By Ubisoft DRM, Ubi Says It's Normal

posted by: Andrew K, 20:43 EST, Tue January 24, 2012

Ubisoft caught in new DRM controversy, as change of graphics card for the game Anno 2070 will mean using up one of only three reactivations

News Icon Music Piracy Falls in 2011, But Revenue Also Drops, As Digital Distribution Grows

posted by: Sean F, 19:26 EST, Tue January 24, 2012

Despite a possible 46% drop in the number of music pirates compared to a year ago thanks to the shut down of LimeWire, the music industry still recorded a 3% decline in revenue

News Icon Anger From Users Of Megaupload's Legitimate Service, While Fear Grips Industry

posted by: Sean F, 22:57 EST, Sat January 21, 2012

Users who used Megaupload's services legitimately are shocked and angered by the closure of the website on Thursday

News Icon SOPA, PIPA Votes Postponed, Indefinitely

posted by: Sean F, 21:51 EST, Sat January 21, 2012

A victory for opponents of SOPA/PIPA, with votes scheduled for January 24 now delayed indefinitely

News Icon Megaupload Shuttered By US Government, Site's Founder Arrested

posted by: Sean F, 14:11 EST, Fri January 20, 2012

Popular file hosting website Megaupload is shut down, with its founder, and others, arrested in a multi-national operation

News Icon Anti-SOPA 'Blackout' Forces Political Back Downs, As MPAA Attacks 'Dangerous Gimmick'

posted by: Sean F, 18:04 EST, Thu January 19, 2012

Thousands of websites take part in a planned day of action, protesting the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, as politicians start to distance themselves from the bill

News Icon Murdoch Attacks Obama, Google For Supporting Open Web

posted by: Sean F, 17:38 EST, Tue January 17, 2012

Rupert Murdoch has controversially attacked President Obama and Google on Twitter, for their stance on the equally controversial Stop Online Piracy Act

News Icon SOPA, PIPA Backers Back Down On DNS Filtering

posted by: Sean F, 18:47 EST, Sat January 14, 2012

DNS filtering will no longer be part of SOPA/PIPA, after the sponsors of the bills back down due to public pressure

News Icon Sega's Solution To SOPA: Do A Hard Reset

posted by: Sean F, 18:29 EST, Sat January 14, 2012

When Sega was asked where it stands on SOPA, the response that was given was unorthodox, to say the least

News Icon SOPA Sponsor May Have Committed Copyright Violation

posted by: Sean F, 19:42 EST, Fri January 13, 2012

The sponsor of the SOPA bill may have committed a copyright violation by improperly using an image on his website

News Icon MPAA Attacks Ars Technica for 'Challenging Efforts To Curb Content Theft'

posted by: Sean F, 19:24 EST, Fri January 13, 2012

MPAA attacks article showing that it misleads on piracy loss figures, and labels tech blog Ars Technica as being pro piracy

News Icon Hollywood's Own Research Firm: Content Owners To Blame For Piracy, SOPA/PIPA Wrong

posted by: Sean F, 18:41 EST, Fri January 13, 2012

Research firm Envisional, previously hired by NBC Universal to conduct research on web piracy, says that content owners should blame themselves for web piracy, and has revealed that the firm tried to convince content owners that SOPA/PIPA "is not the way to go"

News Icon Righthaven Domain Name Sold For $3,300, More Assets To Be Sold Soon

posted by: Sean F, 19:22 EST, Wed January 11, 2012

Righthaven's domain name is sold for $3,300 to an unknown bidder, while more of its assets could be auctioned off to pay the company's substantial debts

News Icon MPAA Conning Congress On Piracy Losses, Says Cato Instititute, GAO

posted by: Sean F, 17:48 EST, Fri January 6, 2012

The MPAA may be double, or even triple, counting losses attributed to piracy, in order to scare the US government into implementing draconian copyright laws

News Icon Movie Box Office Down For 2011, Critic Roger Ebert Refuses To Blame Piracy

posted by: Sean F, 18:03 EST, Tue January 3, 2012

Movie ticket sales are down in North America for 2011, but film veteran Roger Ebert says the blame is not with web piracy

News Icon Gaming Companies, Even Sony, Withdraw Support For Stop Online Piracy Act

posted by: Sean F, 17:37 EST, Tue January 3, 2012

Reports suggest that major gaming companies Sony, Nintendo and EA, have all removed themselves from the list of SOPA supporting firms

News Icon Reddit Target Republican Congressman Paul Ryan Over His SOPA Support

posted by: Sean F, 17:19 EST, Tue January 3, 2012

Reddit users have switched from targeting GoDaddy to targeting politicians that support SOPA, with the latest target being Rep. Paul Ryan, despite the Congressman's assertions that he hasn't made up his mind on SOPA yet

News Icon GoDaddy Continues To Lose Customers Due To SOPA, Rivals Take Advantage

posted by: Sean F, 17:32 EST, Wed December 28, 2011

By not coming out fully against the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, GoDaddy is still facing a massive Internet backed protest that could see it lose thousands of customers on the 29th of December

News Icon Heritage Foundation, GoDaddy and Ashton Kutcher All Join Anti-SOPA List

posted by: Sean F, 18:16 EST, Sat December 24, 2011

What does a conservative think-tank, a domain name registrar and a Hollywood actor have in common?

News Icon New Firefox Add-on Defeats SOPA DNS Filtering

posted by: Sean F, 17:32 EST, Sat December 24, 2011

A new Firefox add-on makes it a seamless process to access future SOPA-blocked websites

News Icon Righthaven's Own Domain Name Seized, To Be Auctioned Off

posted by: Sean F, 16:57 EST, Sat December 24, 2011

Righthaven inches closer to being totally dismantled, as its own domain name has been seized and could be put up for auction

News Icon Anti-SOPA Protests Continue, Now In Music Form

posted by: Sean F, 18:35 EST, Thu December 22, 2011

Three separate protests of SOPA, two in music form, as the Internet public starts to realize the real dangers of the controversial legislation

News Icon RIAA: Someone Else Using Our IP Address To Download Pirated Stuff

posted by: Sean F, 17:44 EST, Thu December 22, 2011

RIAA denies one of its employees pirated the dozens of songs, movies and software linked to their IP address, instead, goes with the excuse that "someone else did it"

News Icon Reddit May Have To Close Due To SOPA

posted by: Sean F, 19:05 EST, Tue December 20, 2011

Reddit's General Manager says the popular discussion forum may have to close if the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act is passed in its current form

News Icon MPAA Boss Claim Spain, Egypt and Sweden Film Industries Destroyed By Piracy, Not True

posted by: Sean F, 18:18 EST, Tue December 20, 2011

MPAA's Chris Dodd says Spain, Egypt and Sweden industries wiped out by piracy, but this does not appear to reflect the reality of these country's film industries

News Icon Comedian Louis CK's DRM-Free Experiment: It Works!

posted by: Sean F, 17:35 EST, Sat December 17, 2011

Louis CK bypasses the traditional media distribution method, and uses the Internet to sell his videos directly, DRM-Free, and for only $5, with great results

News Icon New Website Exposes BitTorrent Downloaders, Also Exposes Studios For Pirating Movies

posted by: Sean F, 17:09 EST, Sat December 17, 2011

A new website exposes the list of downloads made by BitTorrent downloaders, but also helps to expose infringing activities at movie studios and copyright agencies

News Icon Wikipedia Might Shut Down Website To Protest Against SOPA

posted by: Sean F, 17:34 EST, Wed December 14, 2011

Wikipedia founder suggests blanking pages for a short time to protest against the controversial Stop Piracy Online Act, in the hope of spurring a "public uprising" on the issue

News Icon Quid pro quo: SOPA/PIPA Congressional Staffers Get New Cushy Entertainment Lobby Jobs

posted by: Sean F, 17:59 EST, Mon December 12, 2011

Two GOP Congressional staffers that worked on SOPA/PIPA, now gets high paying jobs with lobby groups still actively promoting both controversial bills

News Icon Stars Come Out To Support Megaupload In New Music Video, Gets Censored By Universal

posted by: Sean F, 17:34 EST, Mon December 12, 2011

Universal Music abuses copyright law to censor artists' free speech rights, when today's biggest stars come out to support "rogue" file hosting website Megaupload

News Icon MPAA: America Should Learn From China In Censoring The Internet

posted by: Sean F, 18:51 EST, Sat December 10, 2011

MPAA's boss wants the US and web companies to learn from China when it comes to censoring the Internet, and also compared movie downloads to bank robbery (saying Google is the getaway driver, in this twisted analogy)

News Icon Due Process Denied: DHS's Domain Seizure Ends In Failure

posted by: Sean F, 18:20 EST, Sat December 10, 2011

Seized domain name returned to rightful owners by the Department of Homeland Securities a full year after it was wrongfully seized

News Icon Birds of a Feather: RIAA Comes To 'Copyright Troll' Righthaven's Rescue

posted by: Sean F, 17:46 EST, Sat December 10, 2011

The RIAA is coming to the aid of Righthaven, or at the very least, making sure that fair use rights are not strengthened by court rulings in the case

News Icon Consumer Electronics Association CEO: Stop SOPA To Save Internet

posted by: Sean F, 17:17 EST, Thu December 8, 2011

The CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, which represents all major electronic manufacturers in the US, launches scathing attack on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act

News Icon Groups Petition US Copyright Office: Make DVD Ripping, Xbox Hacking, Legal

posted by: Sean F, 17:57 EST, Tue December 6, 2011

DVD ripping and game console hacking could be made legal, much like how smart phone jailbreaking was made legal last year, if the US Copyright Office rules in favor of new petitions by Public Knowledge and the EFF

News Icon Kaspersky To Withdraw From BSA To Protest Against SOPA

posted by: Sean F, 13:42 EST, Tue December 6, 2011

Kaspersky will withdraw from the Business Software Alliance to protest the lobby group's support of the controversial Stop Piracy Online Act

News Icon Swiss Government: Piracy Is Legal For Personal Use

posted by: Jason F, 13:19 EST, Tue December 6, 2011

Swiss government keeps piracy for personal use legal, as government report shows that web piracy has little financial impact, if any

News Icon Sony Does It Again: Goes With Expensive, Proprietary Memory Format For PS Vita

posted by: Sean F, 17:25 EST, Sat December 3, 2011

Sony is using a new proprietary memory format for the PS Vita, abandoning its own MemoryStick format and the widely used SD format, due to performance and, more importantly, security concerns

News Icon Anti-Piracy Company Caught Distributing 'Stolen' Music, Amidst Corruption Scandal

posted by: Sean F, 16:39 EST, Sat December 3, 2011

A series of events reveals the underbelly of the copyright industry, as anti-piracy video uses authorised music, and the composer's ordeal to get paid for this work embroils him in a corruption scandal

News Icon Congressman Dismisses SOPA's Threat to Freedoms, Says Google Is "Self-Serving"

posted by: Sean F, 16:11 EST, Sat December 3, 2011

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) accuses anti-SOPA protesting of spreading lies, says Google is a "self-serving" promoter of counterfeit drugs, and that online piracy is just like child pornography

News Icon Stats Show Search Engine Results Removal May Not Stop Piracy

posted by: Sean F, 18:53 EST, Thu December 1, 2011

Search engine result filtering may only do so much, aswebsites on the MPAA's "notorious piracy" list derive most of their traffic from other sources

News Icon New Firefox Add-on Defeats SOPA/PIPA DNS Filtering Before It Even Starts

posted by: Sean F, 18:37 EST, Thu December 1, 2011

The MAFIAAFire Team launches preemptive strike against SOPA/PIPA filtering by launching a new Firefox add-on that gets around the potential problem

News Icon Mozilla Urges The Internet To Continue Copyright Fight

posted by: Sean F, 17:29 EST, Wed November 30, 2011

Mozilla asks Internet users to oppose the Senate's PROTECT IP Act by calling senators next Tuesday

News Icon Ubisoft Moving Away From PC Games Due To Piracy, Others Disagree

posted by: Andrew K, 21:06 EST, Fri November 25, 2011

Ubisoft "cancels" two PC ports over piracy concerns, saying "95% of (their) consumers" are pirates, while game retailers disagree with Ubisoft's stance

News Icon Google Censors New 'Piracy Related' Keywords

posted by: Sean F, 16:19 EST, Fri November 25, 2011

Google adds new keywords to their "blacklist" of terms that don't appear in the Google suggest/auto-complete search feature

News Icon Senator To Filibuster New Copyright Law, Asks Internet For Help

posted by: Sean F, 19:06 EST, Wed November 23, 2011

Senator Wyden of Oregon promises to filibuster SOPA's uglier, older brother, the PROTECT IP Act in the Senate by reading out the names of people who oppose the bill

News Icon Australian Mass Copyright Lawsuit Firm's Websites Closes, VP Resigns

posted by: Sean F, 18:02 EST, Tue November 22, 2011

Australian's version of mass copyright lawsuit may be over before it even starts, as Movie Rights Group's website is taken down, and VP leaves the company

News Icon Danish Police Raids Home of Blogger For Writing Guides On Accessing The Pirate Bay

posted by: Sean F, 17:38 EST, Tue November 22, 2011

Danish blogger has home searched because he believes he wrote articles criticizing Danish anti-piracy group RettighedsAlliancen, as well as guides on how to stay anonymous online and access The (banned in Denmark) Pirate Bay

News Icon Righthaven Loses Another Case: Stephens Media Accepts Fair Use Rights

posted by: Sean F, 17:22 EST, Mon November 21, 2011

Righthaven loses another court case, this time on fair use grounds against progressive website Democratic Underground

News Icon Warner Bros. Admit UltraViolet Failures, Gives Users iTunes Vouchers As Compensation

posted by: Sean F, 14:43 EST, Sat November 19, 2011

Facing angry users frustrated at Warner Bros' implementation of UltraViolet, iTunes vouchers are being handed out to users so they can actually have a working digital copy

News Icon FilmOn's Alki David Sues CBS, CNET (Again) For Profiting From Copyright Infringement

posted by: Anne N, 17:18 EST, Fri November 18, 2011

Lawsuit alleging Download.com, and its parent CBS, actively encouraged copyright infringement by distributing LimeWire is back on, after FilmOn founder Alki David re-files lawsuit with more plaintiffs

News Icon Groups Testify At SOPA Hearing, Internet Campaign Swamps Congress

posted by: Jason F, 17:06 EST, Fri November 18, 2011

While politicians hear from the MPAA and other pro-copyright groups on their thoughts about the controversial SOPA copyright bill, Internet users stage a day of protest resulting in over a million protest emails being sent to Congress

News Icon Internet Giants Step Up Campaign Against Stop Online Piracy Act

posted by: Sean F, 17:35 EST, Wed November 16, 2011

A who's who of Internet companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, have penned an open letter urging Congress to reconsider the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, which they say could kill off innovation and put the country at risk from cyberthreats

News Icon EFF: Internet Security And Innovation Under Threat From SOPA

posted by: Sean F, 15:02 EST, Mon November 14, 2011

The Electronic Frontier Foundation warns that clauses in SOPA could kill of software development, and make many current essential industry tools and services illegal, under the new "reckless" legislation

News Icon GOG: DRM is Counter-Productive, And Steam Is Steamrolling Its Competitors

posted by: Sean F, 15:46 EST, Sun November 13, 2011

Good Old Games's managing director says that DRM does more harm than good, and warned publishers to stop using it, while also revealing the full dominance of Steam in the digital game distribution market

News Icon Dutch ISPs: Filtering The Pirate Bay Violates Human Rights, And Pointless Anyway

posted by: Sean F, 15:21 EST, Sun November 13, 2011

Notorious Dutch anti-piracy agency BREIN is in court again trying to dismiss freedom of expression as relevant when it comes to the right of rights holders to protect their works

News Icon Hotfile Lawsuit: Warner Removed Content It Didn't Own, Including Open Source Software

posted by: Sean F, 17:55 EST, Thu November 10, 2011

Warner Bros. admit to wrongly removing files from Hotfile that it did not hold copyright to, and to removing an open source software also hosted by the file hosting website

News Icon Music Industry: Copyright Laws Don't Go Far Enough

posted by: Jason F, 19:09 EST, Wed November 9, 2011

RIAA comes out firing, saying the DMCA gives far too much protection to websites and service providers, while the RIAA's chief defends the controversial SOPA legislation that will give power to rights holders to cut off funding to websites without the need to provide court tested evidence of wrongdoings

News Icon Britain's Music Industry: ISP Should Block The Pirate Bay

posted by: Sean F, 18:03 EST, Mon November 7, 2011

The BPI asks BT to block The Pirate Bay without the need for a court order, saying TPB destroys UK jobs, exposes users to viruses, and subtly hinted at charges the Torrent indexer links to child pornography

News Icon Righthaven Legal Bill Nearly Doubled, US Marshals Now Involved

posted by: Sean F, 17:31 EST, Fri November 4, 2011

Righthaven may face the wrath of the US Marshals service if they do not pay cost in a lost lawsuit, costs which have nearly doubled due to Righthaven's refusal to pay up

News Icon Despite Recession, Piracy, Copyright Industries Still Flourishing

posted by: Anne N, 15:57 EST, Fri November 4, 2011

The creative industries tout their important to the U.S. economy, but also expose just how well they're doing and how piracy doesn't really affect them at all

News Icon Judge: Piracy May Help Sales, Not Hurt Them

posted by: Sean F, 18:22 EST, Thu November 3, 2011

Piracy may not hurt sales, and may in fact help sales, a Spanish judge rules in a piracy case

News Icon Petition Obama To Kill Off Stop Online Piracy Act, E-Parasites, Act

posted by: Sean F, 17:59 EST, Thu November 3, 2011

If you want your voice heard, then sign up to a new petition that calls for the White House to take action against the Stop Online Piracy Act, also dubbed the E-Parasites Act, which aims to allow the US government to censor websites the copyright lobby deems "inappropriate"

News Icon Another DRM Bites The Dust: Convert Your Rhapsody DRM'd Files Or Lose Them Forever

posted by: Sean F, 17:44 EST, Thu November 3, 2011

Customers of the Rhapsody music service who still have DRM'd files must takes the painful steps of converting their music to audio CD and then ripping it again, or lose the ability to play the files after November 7, when the DRM system goes offline

News Icon UK Court Orders Newzbin2 To Be Blocked Within 14 Days, As NZBsRus Goes Down Too

posted by: Sean F, 14:58 EST, Tue November 1, 2011

UK Court says that ISP BT must block access to Newzbin2 within 14 days, as another UK Usenet indexer goes down at the same time

News Icon Justin Bieber Attacks Harsh Copyright Laws, Says Senator Should Be "Locked Up"

posted by: Sean F, 14:41 EST, Tue November 1, 2011

Justin Bieber is now firmly at the center of a new copyright controversial, as he says the Senator supporting the stronger copyright laws should be "locked up" herself, while Bieber's lawyers fight those that seems to be on Bieber's side

News Icon MPAA Granted Permanent Injunction Against Video Streaming Website Zediva

posted by: Sean F, 19:29 EST, Sun October 30, 2011

Zediva will have to cease operations immediately and pay the MPAA $1.8m in damages, as a judge rules against their business model

News Icon US House of Reps Introduce New Controversial Copyright Bill

posted by: Sean F, 17:24 EST, Fri October 28, 2011

A new proposed bi-partisan bill was been put forward to the US House of Representatives, which gives the government the power to seize websites allegedly engaged in copyright infringement

News Icon Another $120,000 Rewarded Against Alleged 'Copyright Troll' Righthaven

posted by: Sean F, 16:49 EST, Fri October 28, 2011

Righthaven's loss in another lawsuit means they now have to pay $120,000 in legal costs, a judge rules

News Icon BitTorrent Admins Could Face 6 Years Prison, As Studios Claim Damages Of $1.25B

posted by: Sean F, 14:07 EST, Wed October 26, 2011

Movie studios claim $1.25 billion in damages against Russian couple who ran the Interfilm BitTorrent tracker

News Icon Valve's Gabe Newell: Better Service Key To Piracy Fight, Free-To-Play Works

posted by: Andrew K, 22:04 EST, Tue October 25, 2011

Gabe Newell explains why providing better service to gamers is better than using DRM to fight piracy, while promotes the idea that "free-to-play" games can make money

News Icon Sony PS3 Jailbroken Once Again, "Jailbreak 2" Works With New Firmware/Games

posted by: Andrew K, 21:57 EST, Tue October 25, 2011

A new jailbreak device for the PS3 promises to allow pirates to play new games that are released after firmware 3.60

News Icon Steve Jobs: Android is a "stolen product", "I'm going to destroy Android"

posted by: Anne N, 19:23 EST, Fri October 21, 2011

Steve Jobs once vowed to go "thermonuclear" in a bid to destroy Google's Android, as he believed it was nothing but a "stolen product", a new authorised biography reveals

News Icon Google Bans FrostWire From Android Market, Doesn't Say Why

posted by: Jason F, 14:33 EST, Fri October 21, 2011

Google bans the popular file sharing app FrostWire from Android Market, but doesn't tell the developers why

News Icon Anti-Piracy Firm AiPlex: Requesting Bloggers To Remove Articles Seen As 'Negative'

posted by: Sean F, 14:30 EST, Mon October 17, 2011

Digital Digest receives take-down notice from anti-piracy firm AiPlex, asking us to remove an article from last year that talked about the brief cyber-war between Anonymous and AiPlex, over claims that the anti-piracy firm had used illegal tactics in their war against piracy websites

News Icon White House Instrumental In Getting ISP Deal For RIAA/MPAA

posted by: Sean F, 14:05 EST, Mon October 17, 2011

Freedom of Information request reveals emails that show the friendly relationship between the Obama administration and the lobbying arms of the music and movie industries, the RIAA and MPAA

News Icon Australian Government Flags Copyright Law Changes, Some Good, Some Not So Good

posted by: Sean F, 16:54 EST, Sat October 15, 2011

The Australian government wants to make it easier for rights holders and mass lawsuit firms to obtain information of suspected copyright infringers under new proposed changes to the copyright law

News Icon UltraViolet Launched With Little Or No Fanfare

posted by: Anne N, 14:15 EST, Thu October 13, 2011

UltraViolet is now available via WB's 'Horrible Bosses' and 'Green Lantern', but the cloud based digital copy system will do more once studios makes it easier to consumer to access their UltraViolet movie collection

News Icon Anti-Piracy Firm's New Approach - Leak Games, Get Downloaders To Buy Full Version

posted by: Sean F, 14:34 EST, Tue October 11, 2011

A new anti-piracy firm has leaked and distributed copies of Dues Ex Human Revolution, modified it so that it directed gamers to an online questionnaire after the first few levels, asked them what they would pay for the game, and then offered them the game at the average price gamers were willing to pay - and many did

News Icon DRM May Cause Music Piracy, Researchers Say, And Low Piracy Rates May Hurt Profits

posted by: Sean F, 16:02 EST, Sun October 9, 2011

A new research paper by professors from Rice University and Duke University says that DRM may actually be increasing music piracy rates, and that lower piracy rates sometimes corresponds with lower revenue

News Icon European Greens Call For Copyright Reform, Legalized File Sharing, Banning of DRM

posted by: Sean F, 18:56 EST, Sat October 8, 2011

The European Greens have released a new position paper on copyright reform which calls for a ban to DRM, legalizing not-for-profit file sharing of copyrighted works, and a reduction in the copyright protect period from 70 years to 20 years

News Icon Piracy Not The Biggest Threat, Says Miramax, Netflix Chiefs, Digital Monopolies Are

posted by: Jason F, 18:34 EST, Thu October 6, 2011

Miramax's CEO and Netflix chief content officer warn the movie industry that they need to embrace innovation and competition, or the industry will face the same fate as the music industry

News Icon 'The Hurt Locker' Mass Lawsuits - 22,000 Defendants Dismissed

posted by: Sean F, 22:48 EST, Wed October 5, 2011

Mass copyright lawsuit sees mass dismissal, as The Hurt Locker producers complain that ISPs aren't helping them to identify users quickly enough

News Icon Copyright Lawsuits Come To Australia

posted by: Jason F, 13:59 EST, Tue October 4, 2011

Mass copyright lawsuits comes to Australia, with Exetel boss revealing approaches by firm Movie Rights Group to seek the details of up to 9,000 Australians

News Icon Canada's DMCA, Ripping Now Illegal, "notice-and-notice", And Hollywood Is Happy

posted by: Sean F, 16:06 EST, Sat October 1, 2011

Canada is set to reform its copyright laws, to bring in US style anti-circumvention rules which would take away existing consumer rights when it comes to copying and backing up copy protected content they've legally purchased

News Icon Swedish Survey Shows Legal Streaming Services, Like Spotify, Is A Piracy Killer

posted by: Sean F, 14:57 EST, Thu September 29, 2011

While the music industry is still concentrating on legal and technical ways to stop piracy, legal streaming services like Spotify seems to have had the most success against piracy by competing directly with pirates

News Icon $10 Music Piracy Fine - The Answer To The Piracy Problem?

posted by: Sean F, 13:49 EST, Mon September 26, 2011

New anti-piracy firm only asks $10 to settle copyright disputes, but that may be $10 too much given what the firm can actually do if you don't pay up

News Icon Diablo III Single Player Beta - No Pausing Crippleware?

posted by: Sean F, 17:01 EST, Sat September 24, 2011

Early beta version of Diablo III shows the worst aspects of the "always-on" DRM Blizzard decided to use for the upcoming game, with no ability to pause the game, and the high probability of losing unsaved progress due to Blizzard's own flaky servers

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