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Illegal-software Crackdown Targets Glasgow
News A crackdown will be targeted at companies in Glasgow after the city was pinpointed as being a hotspot for illegal software. But now the BSA is investigating 41 firms after a 20-fold increase in reports of alleged illegal software in the city during...
[February 8, 2008, 8:23]
Users Face Prosecution If Email Is Illegal
News A case, presently under review by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), illustrates that users could face prosecution for possession of illegal data on computers, even if they are oblivious to its existence, or have not been involved in its creation.
[November 27, 1998, 14:32]
Rival Supplier Reports BT For 'illegal Subsidy'
News All-optic broadband supplier Vtesse has reported BT to the EC as receiving an 'illegal subsidy' because the rates on its network are calculated in a different way to those of its competitors. And what the Valuation Office does is illegal under EU...
[April 16, 2004, 8:40]
US DVD Importers Ruled Illegal
News A prosecution brought by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) ruled that the importing of Region 1 DVDs through a third party distributor is illegal and effectively blocks British consumers from the thousands of titles that are still...
[January 19, 2000, 14:46]
Judge Rules DVD-copying Program Is Illegal
Talkback DVD's get scratched just from being dropped yet it is illegal to make a backup? What a disgusting insult to civil liberties. The movie industry has far too much control over governments. It's disgusting that we cannot even backup stuff we...
[February 23, 2004, 16:11]
ISPA Says 'Click' Will Make Illegal Use Of Net Easier
News BT's Click project could encourage the proliferation of illegal content on the Internet according to the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) which has now lodged a written complaint with the telecoms watchdog, Oftel.
[July 13, 1998, 15:50]
A Year Ago: ISPA Says 'Click' Will Make Illegal Use Of Net Easier
News BT's Click project could encourage the proliferation of illegal content on the Internet according to the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) which has now lodged a written complaint with the telecoms watchdog, Oftel.
[July 13, 1999, 6:22]
SMEs 'blind' To Illegal Software Risks
News The UK's small businesses are blind to the risks of illegal software, and especially to the dangers posed by viruses, according to the Business Software Alliance. UK member committee chair of the BSA, Ram Dhaliwal said: "It's clear from the...
[April 20, 2007, 12:24]
BSA Alert Over Illegal Software On Online Auctions
News Online auctions selling illegal software worth more than $8m (£4m) have been detected and closed down during the first half of 2007. Anti-counterfeit software body the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represents the likes of Adobe, Apple...
[October 3, 2007, 8:53]
Illegal Transmitting
Talkback On one page of the book it tells you how to make an illegal transmitter, it transmits up to 5 metres! I have been illegally transmitting over fm for about 10 years now probably more. There was a kit you could buy in shops, the electronics teachers.
[November 1, 2006, 13:32]
Software Stops Illegal Song Trading
News If built into file-trading programs such as Kazaa or Morpheus, it could help block large numbers of illegal trades, the record industry group said. Network-security company Palisade Systems this week will launch software that can identify and block...
[April 21, 2004, 15:20]
Trade Group: P2P Not Illegal Or Immoral
News The entire theme of the copyright community is that downloading off the Web is both illegal and immoral," Shapiro said, according to the text of his speech. The music-industry sponsored Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) and several movie...
[September 18, 2002, 8:02]
Judge Rules DVD-copying Program Is Illegal
Talkback This is little to late, 321 may have to stop selling DVD copying products but i have come across many illegal copies of these at computer fairs. The offender has been promptly ejected and reported and it still goes on.
[March 8, 2004, 14:50]
Wrong Path Events: Exploiting Illegal And Unusual Program Behavior For Early Misprediction Recovery
White Papers A wrong-path event is an instance of illegal or unusual program behavior that is more likely to occur on the wrong path than on the correct path, such as a NULL pointer dereference. This paper proposes a mechanism to leverage unexpected program...
[May 8, 2007, 0:00]
Ofcom Admits Illegal Wireless Problem
News Ofcom has confirmed that a number of illegal high-speed wireless networks are operating in the UK in violation of its own regulations. Ofcom is aware that there may be illegal 5.8GHz systems operating in the UK," said an Ofcom spokesperson.
[April 20, 2004, 12:15]
Judge Rules DVD-copying Program Is Illegal
News After eight months of deliberation, a San Francisco federal judge has ruled that software company 321 Studios' popular DVD-copying products are illegal. Illston wrote that federal law made it illegal to sell products that -- like 321 Studios...
[February 23, 2004, 7:50]
Survey: One In Four Has Downloaded An Illegal Film
Talkback This is stupid, the movie industry (escpecailly in the US, which means it will all prob happen here in a couple of years) are sighting the threat of illegal downloads as reason why we should all give up control over our own computers and films we...
[July 9, 2004, 10:37]
Auction Sites Implicated In Illegal Software
News The Business Software Alliance (BSA) claimed a major victory in its ongoing battle against piracy Thursday, recovering tens of thousands of pounds worth of illegal software in a raid last week. We estimate that up to nine out of ten software...
[November 23, 2000, 15:22]
Government Hacking Illegal Say Experts
News This news follows speculation by encryption expert Brian Gladman last week that the 1990 Computer Misuse Act could make it technically illegal for the authorities to routinely hack into computers, even with a search warrant.
[November 30, 1999, 15:41]
House Of Fraser Fined For Illegal Software
News Department store House of Fraser is among three companies to have settled with the Business Software Alliance for using illegal software. Euro Car Parts paid £7,500 and Internet media company Prominent Pages paid £20,000, both for illegal use of...
[May 15, 2002, 11:22]
