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Not so quick with the BitTorrent piracy killing the box office argument.

From the very first movie that was downloaded from the Internet the entertainment industry has been yelling and ranting about how the nasty evil Internet was killing the movie business and taking food out of the mouths ... continue

Neil Young: Piracy Is The New Radio

Before Napster, musicians used to have their music stolen from a device even more devious than the computer. The dreaded radio. Legendary singer Neil Young says that he isn't worried about digital piracy because it's just a ... continue

Microsoft And Adobe Take Down File Sharing Service In Ukraine

It seems this is the month of shutting down file sharing sites. Microsoft and Adobe have filed to take down ex.ua, a file sharing service in the Ukraine. The site has been shut down after a six ... continue

Megaupload User Data Gets Saved, At Least For Another 2 Weeks

Megaupload who recently got shut down due to claims of piracy, copyright infringement, and money laundering, had the chance of all its user's data deleted this week. Fortunately, they've received an extension, but not for long. Why the ... continue

Megaupload User Data May Be Deleted This Week

Megaupload, the notorious file hosting service that was abruptly shut down recently due to piracy and claims of money laundering, is taking another hit in the eyes of it's once users. Data could be deleted this week ... continue

The next battle over copyright and trademark is coming fast and it’s going to be huge

As we deal with the morning afterglow of our success in making Congress rethink the whole SOPA and PIPA, even if only temporarily, the push against all things meant to supposedly protect copyright and trademark laws continues ... continue

Megaupload Founder Had 18 Vehicles Seized, Rather Ironic License Plates

Megaupload, a file hosting service, was recently shut down due to piracy. The founder, Kim Dotcom who's real name is Kim Schmitz, was arrested, as were several executives. Authorities seized Kim's property including 18 vehicles under the belief ... continue

Megaupload Founder Hid From Police Inside Panic Room

When New Zealand based Megaupload was shut down this week it sparked outrage from the likes of hacktivist group Anonymous but the real trouble lay with website founder "Kim Dotcom" who had his home raied by New ... continue

Atari, Ubisoft and more going after German pirates

The Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt RED recently came under fire for the aggressive, strong-arming, borderline blackmailing tactics employed by a firm it hired to go after pirates of their game. The developer received so much flak, ... continue

TVShack Founder Will Be Extradited to US, Judge Rules

Richard O'Dwyer has never set foot in the United States but a British Judge has just ruled that he may be extradited to the United States to face copyright charges stemming from his piracy site, TVShack. O'Dwyer's site ... continue

The Witcher 2 dev CD Projekt RED ceases pursuing pirates

Last month, developer CD Projekt RED confirmed in a statement to PC Gamer that the company was going after pirates of The Witcher 2, and was going after them rather aggressively. Now, it looks like the developer has ... continue

Madonna Fan Arrested Over Song Leak

A Madonna fan from Spain has been arrested in connection with the leaking of a Madonna single that is not due for release until 2012. 'Gimme All Your Luvin'' will be the lead single from Madonna's next album, ... continue

Congress just as bad at piracy as those they want to push under the SOPA bus

I still remember the old adage that my parents tried to stuff down my throat as a kid when they were trying to get me to stop doing something while they themselves were doing it - do ... continue

Television 2011 and the top 10 most pirated television shows

I just finished getting my own copy of the recent comedy show that Louis CK put on and then made available via the web for the amazing price of $5; and you know what .. it was ... continue

CD Projekt RED going after The Witcher 2 pirates

Late last month, CD Projekt RED estimated that upwards of 4.5 million people pirated The Witcher 2 since the game was released earlier this year. CD Projekt did release a DRM-free version over on GOG.com, but that doesn't ... continue

Oh those wacky Canadians and their wanting to legalize file-sharing

In a move sure to drive more than a few music business mogul running and screaming it seems that the Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC) has come out and said that they think that legalizing file-sharing might ... continue

Anti-piracy group BREIN caught ripping off music

Oh let the laughter ensue raucously on this one folks. Seriously how ridiculously stupid do you have to be to not only steal music from the very people you are suppose to be representing, and protecting, but then to get ... continue

I Am Alive probably won’t be coming to PC, piracy to blame

It's pretty clear at this point that Ubisoft considers piracy on the PC platform to be a considerable problem, and they are undeniably right - it is a problem. Their solution, as many PC gamers are aware, ... continue

Some numbers and stats about online piracy [Infographic]

For as long as there has been software there has been piracy. From the earliest days of sneaker net floppy disks through to broadband speed web surfing piracy has been a fact of our computing life. The ... continue

Miramax CEO says piracy isn’t as much a danger as digital monopolies

If you listen to the garbage spewed forth by industry trade groups like the MPAA and the RIAA you would think that the music and movie industry is on the verge of collapse because of those nasty ... continue

Is the press finally catching on to the crap numbers spewed by anti-piracy trade groups?

Anyone who has been around technology for any length of time, and can actually think for themselves, will know that all those questionable studies quoted by groups like the anti-piracy lobby group AFACT are nothing but bull ... continue

Some of the craziest logic for fighting piracy

The Inquisitr Having been around the web for as long as I have you come across some really stupid arguments as government and old media companies fight piracy on the web but this one from the British ... continue