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22 July, 2011

Hollywood shuts down video-on-demand site

The US film industry dodges a bullet in the growing battle over online film distribution, shutting down another movie-streaming service Read more

7 June, 2002 by Stefanie Olsen

HP product fuels fears of movie piracy

The Hollywood hills are shaken... Read more

20 August, 2001 by Chris Holbrook

Pioneer debuts "world's first" DVD-R and RW PC drive

But will re-writeable DVDs aid peer-to-peer movie piracy Read more

16 November, 2000 by Graeme Wearden

Hollywood heads to court over movie-swapping

...than with the recording industry, though, big bucks are at stake in movie piracy. The MPAA estimates that the average cost of making, marketing and... Read more

5 November, 2004 by Declan McCullagh

UK sets up DVD piracy task force

...government have decided to set up a new body charged with tackling movie piracy, it was announced on Monday. The taskforce will be chaired by... Read more

19 August, 2003 by Jo Best

New P2P tools mean quicker downloads

The latest P2P tools - such as eDonkey and BitTorrent - allow Internet users to download larger files more efficiently, which worries the music and film industries Read more

27 May, 2003 by John Borland

File-trading future in hands of court

...or indicated they were well aware of the existence of music or movie piracy on the networks. "This is Napster," said Russell Frackman, the lead... Read more

3 December, 2002 by John Borland

New technology to block camcorder pirates

At last, an end to pirated videos with the bottom of the screen obscured by somebody's head Read more

10 October, 2002 by Evan Hansen

Xbox mod chip delivers 'homebrew software'

...MP3 phenomenon that has polarised the music industry or to the emerging movie piracy threat. For starters, using the mod chips requires disassembling the Xbox... Read more

29 May, 2002 by David Becker

DivX plots course to block pirates

...DivX format, a video-compression technology that has long been associated with movie piracy. Fraunhofer is one of the companies behind the MP3 audio format... Read more

5 April, 2002 by Gwendolyn Mariano

Box office hits pirated over Web

...theoretically be used to copy DVDs. MediaForce's list "demonstrates that online movie piracy is a very real threat to the movie production industry, especially... Read more

11 July, 2001 by Gwendolyn Mariano

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