Bootlegging: The Dark Side Of The Force
News Lucasfilm this week reportedly put hundreds of Internet service providers on notice that it won't tolerate the online proliferation of bootlegged audio and video files from the soon to be released "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace" movie.
[May 4, 1999, 9:58]
RealNetworks: Keep E-music Simple, Stupid!
News The music industry's efforts to control downloadable music may be fueling the frenzy for bootlegging software like Napster, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser said Wednesday. The end of Prohibition stopped bootlegging cold -- that and the fact that...
[May 25, 2000, 8:42]
A: Blu-Ray, B: HD-DVD, C: None Of The Above
Blog The one thing that will surely finish off the studios, record labels and their pals isn't piracy, peer-to-peer file transfer or bootlegging. It's always been thus, of course, but piracy, peer-to-peer file transfer and bootlegging over the Net have...
[August 22, 2007, 17:28]
Canada: Downloading Music Is Legal
Talkback If it wasn't for bootlegging music (making recordings of tapes and handing them out), garage bands, like Metallica would NEVER have gotten recognized and gained any attention. It's great that downloading music is now legal.
[April 5, 2004, 23:50]
Will The Real Eminem CD Please Stand Up?
News That figure comes care of Gracenote, a company whose window into computer users' listening habits offers a sobering look at the changing patterns of Internet piracy and traditional music bootlegging. The online versions and bootlegging could serve...
[May 29, 2002, 10:30]
Streets Of SimCity Demo
Downloads You can also take on opponents in an urban free-for-all while skidding, bootlegging, and blasting away. In Streets of SimCity, you've got a city to cruise or bruise through. If you're already acquainted with SimCity 2000, the game in which you plan...
[March 27, 1998, 3:18]
BSA Offers £10,000 Bounty For Software Pirates
News Microsoft, the world's largest software house, has launched a variety of initiatives to stamp out own software bootlegging. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is offering £10,000 reward for information that helps catch companies guilty of using...
[November 3, 2000, 13:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Not that this always works: as a bootlegging photographer of my acquaintance points out, very few of these people know that most of these cards use standard filing systems and undelete has no problems with them at all.
[January 23, 2004, 12:55]
Can Bertelsmann Stop CD Copying?
News Intellectual property is at risk from rampant bootlegging, file sharing and CD burning, and music is only the first medium to fall victim at the costs of royalties to artists, revenues to labels, and jobs to the industry," Pete Jones, chief...
[April 9, 2002, 8:45]
DivXNetworks Gives Piracy The Boot
News DivXNetworks said Monday that it has licensed its technology, a video compression format most closely associated with the online piracy of Hollywood movies, to the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics.
[February 6, 2002, 6:31]
