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Star Wars Film Clones Attack The Net
News Bootleg copies of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones have appeared on the Internet a week before the film's premiere in cinemas, according to a report in the LA Times. As a result of the publicity around Attack of the Clones, and its vast...
[May 10, 2002, 16:41]
Linux Community Snubs SDMI Hacker Challenge
News In the coming weeks, SDMI will try out a variety of security measures, with plans to eventually adopt a hacker-tested technology that will prevent people from playing bootleg songs on SDMI-compatible hardware.
[September 15, 2000, 7:50]
'Mod' Squad Hacks Away At Xbox
News With a mod chip soldered into the box, owners can play bootleg copies of games burned onto CD or DVD discs, or games designed for other geographic regions that normally would be blocked by the console's regional encoding system.
[June 19, 2002, 8:38]
Apple's Spat With Real Continues
Talkback Ha ha to Real - just a reminder that when you shop at Real, you're buying bootleg ipod goods - if you want the real (yea, get Real! gotta get it at the itunes. Same price. Better selection AND much simpler.
[December 15, 2004, 14:14]
Thailand's Cheap PCs 'force Microsoft's Hand'
Talkback How do they know people will be unloading Linux and putting bootleg of windows on their machines. Will the wonderful Gartner analyst please shut up! What will actually happen and what the Gartner group is afraid is losing the backing of all the...
[August 28, 2003, 14:02]
Microsoft: Pirate Software Will Not Be Supported
News Unlike its predecessor Service Pack 1 (SP1), SP2 can be installed on PCs running both original and bootleg copies of Windows XP, a Microsoft executive said recently. For example, soon after the firm released SP1, bootleg copies of Windows XP...
[May 11, 2004, 13:35]
DivX Plots Course To Block Pirates
News The partnership is part of DivXNetworks' ongoing struggle to put its bootleg history behind it and become a legal provider of video-on-demand and download services. Video compression provider DivXNetworks has teamed with the Fraunhofer Institute...
[April 5, 2002, 10:49]
Microsoft Starts Software Fraud Campaign
Talkback Or more likely its the most pirated as its the best on the market , you dont exactly see bootleg copies of Wordpefect going around Stealing a product because you cant afford is not a justification
[February 20, 2006, 13:04]
BitTorrent User Convicted Over Movie Sharing
Talkback They bootleg every movie on the market, many coming out before the original movie is even officially released. It seems everyone is missing the point here. Discussion is centered around form and not the content of the article.
[October 26, 2005, 1:28]
Microsoft Issues Bumper Patch Bundle
Talkback Logic says if your legal why worry and if your running bootleg your busted period. I quite frankly don't care what verifications Bill Gates and Co put out there . My OS is legal and genuine. The old saying goes if you aint doing nothin wrong you...
[February 9, 2005, 21:02]
Microsoft Proposes Chinese Piracy Amnesty
News Microsoft has extended its anti-piracy olive branch to China, offering users of bootleg copies of Windows a 50 percent discount on a legitimate version if they come clean on how they got their pirated copy.
[March 4, 2005, 8:45]
Pirated XP On Sale Already In Malaysia
News Pirated software and bootleg movies usually cost around $3. As if in tandem with the economic crisis, vendors have been dishing out huge discounts for these pirated versions, some starting as low as $1.50.
[September 24, 2001, 17:18]
Nuggets: A CD In 6 Minutes? Certainly Sir
News The SCSI-2 drive, christened the CDRW-12432s+, writes at 12x, which will give you a brand new bootleg, err. Nuggets, twice a day, every day (well, we do our best! Software, hardware and every gadget we can get our mitts on.
[February 1, 2000, 13:33]
Hackers Build Movie Player For Xbox
News The software allows modified Xbox consoles to play videos in the VCD format, commonly used for bootleg movie discs, and versions 3.x and 4.x of DivX, a controversial compression format used to swap videos over the Internet.
[June 12, 2002, 9:13]
Copy Protection Takes Stealth Approach
News The software can be installed from the bootleg disc and will appear to run normally, until the program reaches a point determined by the software publisher. Software makers have tried all sorts of heavy-handed measures to prevent illegal copying of...
[June 28, 2002, 12:06]
Software Fraudsters Escape Raid
News About one tonne of counterfeit goods were seized during the raid, including bootleg DVDs and CDs and fake designer clothing items. Trading Standards officers seized £1.5m of counterfeit goods during raids at Wembley Market in London during November...
[January 6, 2006, 12:30]
DivXNetworks Gives Piracy The Boot
News The licensing deal is part of DivXNetworks' aggressive efforts to move past its bootleg history and provide a compression format for services such as legal downloads and video-on-demand. DivXNetworks said Monday that it has licensed its technology...
[February 6, 2002, 6:31]
Piracy Focus: Music To CD-ROM - No Problem
News Jollyon Benn of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said he was not surprised at the revelation, adding "at least one in three CDs (audio) are a result of either bootleg, copyright theft or some other form of piracy.
[June 16, 1998, 16:40]
Audiogalaxy In RIAA Crosshairs
News But many MP3 hunters, discussing the merits of various services on online bulletin boards, continue to say that Audiogalaxy remains the best place to find rare or bootleg tracks. The Recording Industry Association of America on Friday filed a...
[May 27, 2002, 6:43]
Google Accused In Copyright Case
News It cited unnamed sources saying the defendants also alleged that Google AdWords salespeople suggested they buy keywords including "pirated" and "bootleg movie download", and that a Google employee corroborated their sworn statements in a...
[February 13, 2007, 8:43]
