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Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 21st January 2012

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

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 14th January 2012

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 7th January 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

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

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

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

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

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"

Samsung and Amazon jump on the UltraViolet bandwagon, while Netflix may be going the other way

Spending on Blu-ray, digital media up in 2011, as overall consumer spending dipped slightly, The Digital Entertainment Group reveals

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 31st December 2011

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 24th December 2011

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 17th December 2011

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

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

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 10th December 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

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

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

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 3rd December 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)

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

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 26th November 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

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

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 19th November 2011

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 12th November 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

It's that time of the year, and apparently the UK is also celebrating Thanksgiving this year with their own Black Friday sales, this post highlights the best Blu-ray deals for bargain hunters

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

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

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

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 5th November 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

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 29th October 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

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

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

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"

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 22nd October 2011

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

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

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 15th October 2011

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 8th October 2011

One in five in the United States are watching web content on their TVs, via services like Netflix and Hulu, and devices such as game consoles and Blu-ray players

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

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

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 1st October 2011

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 24th September 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

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

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

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

A new report suggests that DVD recorders (and players) may be on the way out, but this does not spell the end for the DVD disc itself

Amazon launches Kindle Fire, an Android based tablet that could threaten the iPad 2's status as king of the tablets.

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 17th September 2011

You can now convert all your 2D YouTube videos to 3D, thanks to a new feature added this week by the video sharing website

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 10th September 2011

In Italy, MPs seek to introduce a law that will blacklist users and prevent them from going online based on a single allegation of copyright infringement, while just a single allegation is putting the Swedish Film Institute in big trouble, as their IP address has been caught pirating films

Lobbying efforts have intensified in the last quarter as the RIAA, MPAA, and even RapidShare, spend millions to get politicians to support their agendas

Hotfile strikes back at one of the Hollywood studios that has sued the file hosting company for copyright infringement, by claiming Warner Bros. abused Hotfile's anti-piracy tool and tried to profit from removing files, including legal ones, it did not even own

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 3rd September 2011

BREIN wants PayPal and other payment providers to cease providing services to websites that it alleges are offering pirated movies, while also asking payment providers to help identify the operators of such websites - all without having to go through the normal legal process

The MPAA says that every pirate that stops downloading would otherwise spend $1,000 per year buying legal stuff, and that 13% of all American adults are movie/TV pirates

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 27th August 2011

Wikileaks provides details of law enforcement tactics in taking down piracy topsites, including getting content holders to provide re-release content to gain trust of topsite operators

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 20th August 2011

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A monumental court decision in the UK means rights holder can now force ISPs to block access to websites that are offering pirated content

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 16th July 2011

A new study seems to show that, in contract to conventional wisdom, piracy actually leads to better quality content, and that tougher copyright law enforcement may not help with reducing piracy

A new proposal by a British royalty collection organisation will see websites offering pirated content marked with a "red tick"

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 9th July 2011

Disney is set to delay the release of the "DVD only" edition of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides', and completely ditches the "Blu-ray only" edition

Over 18 million incidents of piracy has been recorded under the French "three-strikes" monitoring program, but only 10 are facing sanctions after reaching their third strike

Panic over Sony removing ability to play HD games over component cable is unfounded, but owners of new PS3s may find HD Blu-ray won't work over component anymore

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 2nd July 2011

Blu-ray 3D discs sales have topped 3.5 million in the U.S., but half of the discs were "given away" with hardware

UltraViolet licensing has begun, as the new format that aims to tie together the physical and digital is set to take off later this year

The economic argument for tougher copyright laws may have been dismissed by a new report showing the huge contributions of copyright fair use to the US economy. The PROTECT IP act could actually cost jobs.

Blu-ray will beat DVD by 2014, but digital is the future, says consulting firm Futuresource