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UK Sets Up DVD Piracy Task Force
News The anti-piracy body will be responsible for assessing the extent of DVD and video counterfeiting and finding ways to tackle it. The British film industry and the government have decided to set up a new body charged with tackling movie piracy, it...
[August 19, 2003, 11:20]
DVD Jon Cleared Of Piracy
Talkback I guess one of the reasons for maneuvering the appeal results to Christmas is that the prosecutors knew they would lose again and either way, it would be drowned out in the holidy activies. However, too few articles point out the fallacy that DeCSS...
[December 23, 2003, 10:08]
Survey: One In Four Has Downloaded An Illegal Film
Talkback There has been a crackdown in many countries on the sale of multi-region DVD players, ostensibly 'to prevent piracy'. Whomever at the MPAA made the claim that 1 in 4 people on the internet have downloaded a movie clearly had no understanding of the...
[July 9, 2004, 11:19]
Norway Piracy Case Brings Activists Hope
News Internet and technology activists are hoping the acquittal of Norwegian programmer Jon Johansen in a digital piracy case signals a change in attitudes about copyright in the digital age. Before, courts just rolled right over when companies cried...
[January 9, 2003, 9:02]
Media Companies Demand ID Numbers For CDs And DVDs
News The proposal is contained in a five-point plan delivered to the European Union during a two-day piracy seminar in Madrid, under the auspices of the Spanish presidency of the EU. Other measures included in the proposals include, "genuinely deterrent...
[May 24, 2002, 17:44]
Movies On Web 'leaked From Studios'
News The findings support facts discovered by copyright owners in the fight against DVD and VCD piracy in Asia. According to statistics released by the Motion Picture Association, Singapore’s domestic DVD piracy losses in 2002 totalled $8m (£5m...
[September 17, 2003, 15:10]
Hollywood's War On Open Source: Don't Fence Me In
News What's more, DVD piracy rings throughout Asia can make counterfeit DVDs without ever cracking CSS. Therefore, the movie industry says it needs strong laws in order to prevent piracy -- laws such as the DMCA.
[February 28, 2000, 9:17]
Harry Potter At The Mercy Of Pirates
News Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," raising new questions about Hollywood's anti-piracy plans. The issue was pushed under a spotlight recently when Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, D-S.C.introduced a bill that would force computer and consumer...
[June 21, 2002, 10:41]
New DVD 'ripper' Pre-empts DMCA Ruling
News Semaan explained that Studio 321's DVD X Copy software contains four anti-piracy measures that are explicitly designed to stop people using it for producing pirate movies. Semaan is adamant that his company's software does not advocate piracy...
[July 9, 2003, 9:17]
ECTS: Copying CDs Just Got Harder
News Californian firm, Macrovision, Friday announced its SafeDisc anti-piracy solution for CD-ROMs that, says UK managing director David Simmons, "has yet to be broken. Sony DADC is also showing off its anti-piracy technology.
[September 7, 1998, 10:34]
Free Speech Victory For DVD Crackers
News In this case, the DVD Copyright Control Association, an industry group aimed at fighting DVD piracy, claimed that Johansen and anyone who posted the code was illegally spreading trade secrets. Hollywood studios have contended that software that can...
[November 2, 2001, 10:12]
Think Napster -- Only For Movies
News Information on DVDs is encrypted to prevent piracy, but that encryption was cracked last year, opening the door for piracy. Enter DivX, which came into use in the video piracy arena sometime in February.
[May 12, 2000, 15:27]
Hollywood's Lead Lobbyist Steps Back From Limelight
News We have made some strides, particularly with analogue and disc piracy. Over the years, you've seen a great deal of change in technology, both in terms of piracy technology and in terms of the actual technology used in the creation and distribution...
[June 23, 2004, 10:40]
Inside The Online Movie Underground
News Piracy is about money, power and politics, according to Moore. One trading group calls itself QASF (an acronym for quality ASFs), another group flouts anti-piracy laws by calling itself LASF (for leached ASFs).
[May 15, 2000, 16:19]
Box Office Hits Pirated Over Web
News Movie piracy is going to be a "massive, massive problem" in the coming months, he added, as tools that convert movies from DVD format into a viewable, pirated format become easier to use. The announcement underscores Hollywood's susceptibility to...
[July 11, 2001, 12:03]
New Technology To Block Camcorder Pirates
News Cinea, the company Schumann co-founded after Divx folded in 1999, is close to unveiling a beta for its Cosmos digital cinema security system that will help movie distributors keep track of how their products are used while protecting them from...
[October 10, 2002, 16:41]
Sony Mod-chip Lawsuit Leaves DVDs In The Clear
News Watts said the case was first and foremost about piracy, "with arguments bolted on about imports. Nobody would pay £25 to £45 for a game, said Judge Jacob, so piracy became the main factor for consideration.
[January 25, 2002, 17:29]
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]
Hollywood, Software Firms Aim At Pirates
News The MPAA's charges are part of the group's "Tactics for Auction Piracy" (TAP) initiative, a response to what the MPAA estimates was a near doubling last year in the number of auction sales devoted to pirated films.
[February 28, 2003, 7:56]
Singapore Cracks Down On Cartoon Piracy
News A new industry association will be launched next week to curb video compact disc (VCD ) piracy -- but mainly of a single genre of movie. Preliminary details suggest that the new body -- the Anti-Video Piracy Association (AVPA) -- will focus on...
[July 28, 2003, 10:10]
