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About that piracy is killing the movie business argument

Piracy is killing the movie business - that is the argument that the movie industry is using to try and force draconian copyright laws down our throat on a global level with things like ACTA. For every ... continue

About this movie piracy thing killing the industry…

Every time you turn around some movie exec or entertainment lobbyist is proclaiming how all the talk of free and evil people downloading illegal copies of movies is killing the movie business. Yet it seems that just as quickly ... continue

Microsoft could face legal action over mass Xbox 360 bannings

Last week, Microsoft started rocking its banhammer in a big way, permanently banning 1 million Xbox Live users from the online gaming service for playing on a modded Xbox 360. But was Microsoft's choice to ban 5% ... continue

Microsoft unleashes banhammer on 1 million Xbox Live players

Cries of frustration, anger and grief rose up from parents' basements across the land as a million Xbox Live players found themselves cut off from the service in an anti-piracy blitz by Microsoft. Microsoft describes the number of ... continue

Anti-piracy group raises the surrender flag

While it may be a long time before we see this type of thing happen in the US and Canada the people of Denmark can look forward to one less anti-piracy agency trying to sue everyone in ... continue

Tucker Max says it’s cool by him to pirate his movie

For those who might not know who Tucker Max is here’s a little background. Tucker is a 34 year old who has fame and fortune by recounting tales of his real-life drunken antics and ... continue

It’s okay for Lily Allen to pirate but anyone else is scum

There’s a number of great posts today about the whole music piracy nonsense. However none come close to show the hypocrisy of the music business’s so-called war against piracy than the whole Lily Allen ... continue

Talk Like a Pirate Day 2009 gets its own World of Warcraft party

Don't think you'll have to pull away from your monitor and Cheetos to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft will have its very own celebration of the special day, ... continue

Yarr! Celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day with free copy of Monkey Island

Ahoy, me hearties, etc. In case you weren't aware, September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Celebrated since 1995, I've already lived through enough ITLaPDs to find the whole affair rather tedious and memesy. On the ... continue

Batman PC game features anti-piracy glitch

Holy anti-piracy measures, Robin! Batman: Arkham Asylum is out on the PC later this month, and will include some interesting copy protection measures, if the experiences of an early pirate are anything to go by. Eidos forum member ... continue

Ubisoft delays … pretty much every Ubisoft game we wanted

Mega-publisher Ubisoft has delivered its latest sales report for the fiscal first quarter of 2009-10 (that's April through June), revealing a hefty loss: they're down by slightly over 50% on the same period a year ago, to ... continue

Yet another band says thank you for pirating our song

Just last week I posted about the second largest aquarium in the world and how cool it was. Well it turns out that the song by Barcelona used in the video had been pirated. ... continue

Is there finally light at the end of the dark music industry tunnel?

The music industry in general likes to paint all young music listeners as nothing more than downloading pirates out to destroy the music business as we know it. They have been labeled as the ... continue

Piracy down, streaming up in the UK

Where are your lawsuits now, music industry? Piracy was down by roughly a third in the UK in 2008, but streaming was way up in the same period. Savvy UK teenagers are using sites like Pandora, YouTube, Grooveshark ... continue

German court hits Rapidshare with $34m fine

Rapidshare has been fined $34m and ordered by a German court to proactively seek out copyright infringement on its servers. German royalty collectors GEMA filed suit againist Rapidshare requesting that 5,000 tracks managed by GEMA be removed from ... continue

Lily Allen claims music pirates killing new talent

Lily Allen, not exactly well known for her mental capacity, has attacked fans that spend millions of seeing her perform live, but don't pay for her music online. According to Allen, internet piracy is depriving the music industry ... continue

French three strikes law struck down

France’s highest constitutional authority has struck down legislation that would have seen internet users banned from the internet if caught pirating content. The French "Hadopi legislation" passed in May with the support of the music industry. The legislation, ... continue