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Microsoft slaps firms with piracy lawsuits
News In filing these lawsuits, we hope to curb the amount of unlicenced and counterfeit software on the market and keep illegal software from finding its way into the hands of unknowing consumers and businesses," Mary Jo Schrade, senior attorney at...
[June 16, 2005, 9:35]
Hollywood heads to court over movie-swapping
News Until now, the MPAA's member companies were content with a campaign that pressured universities to curb peer-to-peer piracy, sought new laws from Congress, targeted operators of peer-to-peer networks with civil lawsuits, and tried to convince...
[November 5, 2004, 7:48]
Canadian music industry readies lawsuits
News The Canadian music industry is going to court to seek the identities of 29 online file-swappers, in preparation to filing lawsuits similar to those that have targeted hundreds of US computer users. The information gained from those requests would...
[February 16, 2004, 9:25]
The record labels' new target: users
News Record labels hell-bent on strangling unauthorised music copying on the Internet are considering widening their legal efforts to include lawsuits against individuals, according to industry sources. The Recording Industry Association of America...
[July 4, 2002, 8:12]
Protesters target anti-piracy directive
News Civil-liberties groups are engaging in a last-minute attempt to alter a controversial intellectual-property law that they claim would lead to a flood of frivolous lawsuits against consumers and small businesses.
[March 8, 2004, 10:40]
More piracy suits from Microsoft
News The lawsuits are the latest of more than 100 filed by the Redmond, Washingtion-based company in recent years, accusing mostly small resellers of distributing counterfeit or unlicensed versions of popular Microsoft software such as Windows 95 and...
[April 9, 1999, 9:16]
Microsoft to announce 'Global Anti-Piracy Day'
News As part of the event, Microsoft is highlighting recent efforts against counterfeit software in 49 countries, ranging from the filing of lawsuits in the US to a seminar for journalists in Pakistan. Microsoft plans on Tuesday to announce 'Global Anti...
[October 21, 2008, 9:17]
Entertainment execs: Learning to live with piracy
News The conference took place as bitterly contested Internet copyright lawsuits are being fought out in courtrooms on opposite coasts of the country. An upsurge in Internet piracy is forcing the entertainment industry to grapple with an uncertain...
[August 3, 2000, 13:49]
Global piracy purge nets 200 PCs
News Separately, the RIAA has filed nearly 2,000 individual lawsuits against alleged file-swappers in hopes of scaring people away from using peer-to-peer software such as Kazaa. In the past 24 hours, working closely with our foreign law enforcement...
[April 23, 2004, 8:30]
RIAA draws civil liberties opposition
News The Recording Industry Association of America is facing a legal challenge to its anti-piracy tactics, even as it announces that it has reached settlements in dozens of lawsuits against individuals. The subpoenas led to hundreds of lawsuits, filed...
[September 30, 2003, 12:40]
Inside the online movie underground
News There are no file-sharing Web sites that could be subject to digital piracy lawsuits like the ones facing Napster. Moore sees irony in the twin piracy lawsuits filed against Napster by Metallica and Dr.
[May 15, 2000, 16:19]
Peer-to-peer battle gets personal
News Until now, the entertainment industry has relied on civil lawsuits aimed at companies, not individuals, to limit widespread copyright infringement on peer-to-peer networks. Part one, as previously reported by ZDNet UK News, appears to widen legal...
[August 13, 2002, 15:44]
Justice Dept cools on suing swappers
News It's designed to curb peer-to-peer piracy by threatening individual infringers with civil lawsuits brought by the government. The Pirate Act has raised alarms among copyright lawyers and lobbyists for peer-to-peer firms, who have been eyeing the...
[August 24, 2004, 11:45]
Kazaa plays on despite threat of fines
News Purveyors of the technology, known as peer-to-peer networking, have drawn a flurry of lawsuits from copyright holders who allege their products are nothing more than an open ticket to piracy. Nearly a week after a court-ordered deadline to...
[December 21, 2001, 10:13]
Music industry sounds off on CD burning
News In addition, the industry has filed lawsuits targeting peer-to-peer file-swapping services including Audiogalaxy and the distributors of Morpheus, Kazaa and Grokster. CD burning contributed to a surge in music piracy across the globe in 2001, with...
[June 12, 2002, 12:22]
Box office hits pirated over Web
News The Motion Picture Association of America has filed a handful of lawsuits aiming to stop illegal downloads of films, including a high-profile case that charged an online hacker magazine with posting code that could theoretically be used to copy DVDs.
[July 11, 2001, 12:03]
Microsoft launches massive antipiracy campaign
News These have led to 17 civil lawsuits being filed in 15 countries. The automated search tool is reviewing sites seven days a week to determine whether they are involved in illegal piracy. Microsoft claims to be responding to a surge in software...
[August 3, 2000, 10:44]
Record labels put the brakes on CD copy locks
News Last year, news that record companies were planning to add technology to CDs that would block people from making copies or MP3 files -- and in many cases might even prevent playback on computers -- sparked considerable controversy online, and even...
[September 3, 2002, 13:28]
Antipiracy foes reach agreement
News The other principles include: greater public awareness of copyright laws, satisfying "consumer expectations," civil lawsuits and criminal prosecutions against pirates, and opposition to "government mandates".
[January 15, 2003, 11:21]
US agency wants more cash to fight file sharing
News In an extensive report released Tuesday, senior department officials endorsed a pair of controversial copyright bills strongly favoured by the entertainment industry that would criminalise "passive sharing" on file-swapping networks and permit...
[October 13, 2004, 9:30]
