News July 2011 News Archive

Ubisoft says Ubi DRM has helped to reduce piracy rates, but stay silent as to whether the controversial DRM scheme has helped to raise or even lower sales ... Read more ...

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

A bug in the Windows 7 built-in Blu-ray burning tool causes failures if users try to use up the full capacity of these discs ... Read more ...

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

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 ... Read more ...

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

Sony's own insurance company is suing the company, claiming the policy Sony purchased does not cover any claims related to the PSN hack ... Read more ...

Jammie Thomas-Rasset receives the lowest yet figure for total damages the single mother needs to pay the RIAA for downloading 24 songs ... Read more ...

The FBI is finally taking action against hackers from the hacktivist group Anonymous, but these latest actions seems to have only spurred members of the group into ramping up their hacking activities ... Read more ...

Does piracy really matter? Team Meat, developers of the hugely popular Super Meat Boy, says it doesn't matter at all, and might even help sales ... Read more ...

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

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 ... Read more ...

Grandma sued by Chicago law firm for downloading porn on torrent networks, and threatened with $150,000 fine if she doesn't charge $3,400 to her credit card to settle the lawsuit ... Read more ...

Recently released submissions from Google in regards to New Zealand's new copyright laws show that the tech giant is concerned about the "presumption of guilt" in these new changes ... Read more ...

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 ... Read more ...

Spotify is set to launch in the US, and you can already sign up to request an invite. Is this the end of music piracy as we know it? ... Read more ...

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 ... Read more ...

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

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

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 ... Read more ...

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. ... Read more ...

Hotfile has received both good news, and bad news, in their fight against the MPAA over copyright infringement claims ... Read more ...

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

Law professors from the most prestigious law schools around the United States have come out fighting against the proposed PROTECT IP copyright act, which will give the government the power to seize and block "bad" websites ... Read more ...

It's not three-strikes, it's five-strikes, and all the major ISPs in the US have signed up to help the MPAA and RIAA police the Internet ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 25th June 2011 ... Read more ...

Hulu's launch of their Facebook Connect feature bombs, as users report being able to access other user's accounts due to programming error ... Read more ...

FilmOn founder Alki David's lawsuit against CNET has been voluntarily dismissed, but maybe only because David may plan to add more plaintiffs to the lawsuit that claims CNET and CBS helped to facilitate piracy by offering LimeWire for download ... Read more ...

The MPAA tries to use recent headlines to say that pirated movie downloads may be endangering the entire Internet ... Read more ...

Is Sony bringing out the PS4 for a surprise 2012 launch? Taiwanese sources say that not only is this true, the PS4 will copy Kinect's gaming system too ... Read more ...

Three New Yorkers have sued Sony for neglecting to properly secure customer data, and not listening to warnings that its own security staff had given in relation to flaws in the security system ... Read more ...

Film producers wants to prove that it is possible to use BitTorrent networks to promote films and gather funding before the theatrical release ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 18th June 2011 ... Read more ...