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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]
Illegal WEEE and Computer recycling/ export operations raided in London!
Blog A number of raids carried out by the Environment Agency over the past months have highlighted the illegal trade in hazardous electronic and computer waste, with the majority of non-working, totally obsolete equipment being destined for Africa.
[July 14, 2009, 16:05]
Illegal File Sharer and proud
Talkback yes im an illegal file sharer! i download, and upload files constantly, BUT! As far as im concerned im doing nothing wrong, and here's why. Mainly, i download games. When a company releases a new game they issue a "demo" to give you an idea of what...
[September 8, 2009, 15:50]
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]
EU earmarks €55m to tackle illegal web content
News The fight against illegal online content is set to get a substantial cash injection, following a vote on Wednesday in the European Parliament. The scheme, which will run from 2009 to 2013, aims to tackle "illegal content, promote a safer online...
[October 24, 2008, 14:57]
US sued over 'massively illegal' comms surveillance
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Bush administration on behalf of AT&T customers, to halt what it called the "massively illegal" surveillance of Americans' internet and telephone communications.
[September 19, 2008, 16:30]
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]
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]
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]
3G phone ads could be illegal
News Advertising on mobile phones -- crucial for companies investing in mobile technology -- may be illegal, according to the Data Protection Commission Thursday. Location-based advertising on broadband mobile phones would help telecommunications...
[November 24, 2000, 14:31]
Judge rules DVD-copying program is illegal
Talkback Maybe its about time they realised that the more they attack legitimate users, the more they are going towards more acts that are deemed 'illegal'. People will still copy DVDs for their own use, because they see it as morally justifiable.
[May 17, 2004, 22:11]
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]
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]
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
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]
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]
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]
Report: Some gov't databases almost certainly illegal
News A group of privacy and security experts has charted the proliferation of UK government databases and concluded that some of them could be illegal. The authors described 46 government databases and, in a press statement on Monday, labelled a quarter...
[March 23, 2009, 11:12]
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]
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]
