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Swedish police claim major internet-piracy bust
News Swedish police on Friday reported making a major internet-piracy bust. The seized server contained 65TB of digital data, consisting of films, TV series, computer programs and the music equivalent of 16,000 movies, according to the Antipiracy Agency...
[March 10, 2009, 13:46]
Internet firms uneasy about anti-piracy measures
Talkback I have many, many friends on the Internet. I downloaded music also,the quality was alright, But I also bought at least 100 or more CD's a year. We all agreed to give the RIAA exactely what they want. Don't purchase anymore CD's Zero, mox nix.
[August 15, 2003, 5:11]
Broadband Britain at risk from Internet piracy
News The UK's broadband boom is likely to falter unless more progress is made towards combating digital piracy, the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) has warned. In a report published this week, the BSG urged both government and industry to develop...
[July 24, 2003, 16:33]
Piracy down, streaming up, internet 'broken'
Blog Music Ally's figures appear to suggest that these new models are at least partially responsible for fighting piracy. However, a move to streaming could have implications for the functioning of the internet.
[July 13, 2009, 11:26]
Yahoo! shows tougher line on piracy than child porn
News Internet piracy is given a higher priority, by Yahoo! An undercover anti-piracy operation revealed thirteen user-created chatrooms on the Yahoo.com site to be providing information on how to circumvent encryption techniques adopted by satellite...
[March 7, 2001, 13:27]
Internet a 'moral-free zone', warns media chief
News The president of media giant News Corp.warns that the Internet has become a "moral-free zone," with the medium's future threatened by pornography, spam and rampant piracy. He said that the federal government must support technological and legal...
[August 21, 2002, 15:48]
Accused piracy leader pleads guilty
News The accused leader of an Internet piracy group known as DrinkOrDie could face up to five years in prison after pleading guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. Entertainment industry executives praised Sankus...
[February 28, 2002, 9:38]
Thousands under scrutiny as piracy ring shut down
News One of the largest Internet piracy rings in the world has been shut down in a police operation that resulted in the arrest of 181 people. Beth Scott, vice president of EMEA at the Business Software Alliance, said: "This case proves the very real...
[June 16, 2003, 14:45]
US fights to extradite Internet 'pirate'
News The lawyer of an Australian man under threat of extradition to the United States to face Internet piracy charges has warned that his client would find it tough to secure legal representation and access material for his defence should the US move...
[July 8, 2004, 9:45]
Entertainment execs: Learning to live with piracy
News An upsurge in Internet piracy is forcing the entertainment industry to grapple with an uncertain future, one where copyright protection and control over product distribution could be rendered obsolete.
[August 3, 2000, 13:49]
Mexico summit urges anti-piracy action
News The United States, China, Japan and other Pacific Rim nations have agreed to take more steps to curb Internet piracy and cooperate more closely on punishing cybercrime. The United States has passed laws to discourage piracy: the Digital Millennium...
[October 29, 2002, 9:18]
Three UK arrests in global piracy crackdown
News Officers from Britain's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) made three arrests on Thursday as part of an international crackdown on Internet software piracy. The operation specifically targeted an underground software piracy ring called Fairlight.
[April 23, 2004, 12:45]
'Operation Buccaneer' nabs suspected pirate ringleader
News The suspected leader of one of the Internet's oldest piracy groups has been indicted and his extradition from Australia is being sought, a US federal attorney said on Wednesday. A federal grand jury in Connecticut charged Hew Raymond Griffiths of...
[March 13, 2003, 8:27]
Antipiracy foes reach agreement
News Music and technology industry lobbyists signed a rhetorical peace accord at an event in Washington DC on Tuesday afternoon and pledged to work more closely to thwart Internet piracy in the future. They've used similar tactics to combat piracy...
[January 15, 2003, 11:21]
Aussie ISP in court over song-swapping
News In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the world, the Australian music industry has listed an Internet service provider (ISP) as a respondent in a court case involving music piracy. In my experience investigating Internet piracy...
[October 21, 2003, 15:25]
Code leak spurs Windows Server 2003 piracy
News A key code for installing Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 has leaked onto the Internet, a loss that could lead to widespread piracy of the software. With the release of Office XP in May 2001 and Windows XP about six months later, Microsoft added a...
[April 8, 2003, 7:28]
HP dragged through German courts over music copyright
News The case highlights the epidemic proportions of Internet music piracy and the difficulty of clamping down on it, according to one legal expert and could lead to copycat actions from other European countries.
[November 24, 2000, 16:25]
Anti-piracy team checks P2P sites
News The action was prompted by the high rates of Internet-based piracy in the region, which is beginning to rival more traditional methods such as illegal discs, said Jeffrey Hardee, BSA vice president and regional director, Asia Pacific.
[June 5, 2003, 10:18]
MP3 site 'just a search engine'
News Bal also denied an assertion by the head of Music Industry Piracy Investigations, Michael Speck, that Internet service providers derived revenue from illegal filesharing. On Tuesday, six large record companies took ComCen and Australian Stephen...
[October 23, 2003, 13:10]
Aimster unable to appeal
News The justices on Monday declined without explanation to hear the case, which would have been the first Internet music piracy dispute to reach the high court. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals said that Deep needed to do more than show that Aimster...
[January 14, 2004, 8:25]
