News October 2013 News Archive

Netflix says theater owners are stifling innovation and killing the movie industry, theater owners says Netflix are the ones responsible ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 19th October 2013 ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 27 October 2013 ... Read more ...

MPAA's updated list removes isoHunt (for obvious reasons), but perennial favorites like The Pirate Bay remains ... Read more ...

Netflix adds more subscribers and manages to overtake HBO in the US ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 12th October 2013 ... Read more ...

Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan says piracy has helped to show, but also hurts people who work on it ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 20 October 2013 ... Read more ...

isoHunt will be closing within 7 days, after owner Gary Fung throws in the towel and agrees deal that will see $110m in damages being "paid" to the MPAA ... Read more ...

A new website aims to highlight the lack of legal options when it comes to the most pirated films on the Internet ... Read more ...

New reduced release window for international markets fails to prevent downloaders swarming to pirated episodes of the new season of The Walking Dead ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 5th October 2013 ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 13 October 2013 ... Read more ...

City of London Police may have demanded registrars to break ICANN regulation in suspending and seizing Torrent domain names without due process ... Read more ...

From next month, you'll be able to view YouTube videos offline thanks to new DRM that expires downloads after 48 hours ... Read more ...

MPAA criticizes London School of Economics brief that exposed the one-sidedness of the copyright debate in the political arena ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 28th September 2013 ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 6 October 2013 ... Read more ...

Internet users were breaking bad over the Breaking Bad finale, with half a million copies of the final episode downloaded in the first 12 hours alone ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 21st September 2013 ... Read more ...

The prestigious London School of Economics and Political Science has released a policy brief urging the UK government to ignore the dire predictions made by the copyright lobby, and instead embrace the sharing culture behind the piracy phenomenon ... Read more ...