Piracy

CMA Competition Probe Into Music Streaming Market

British competition watchdog announces investigation into music streaming market, and issues recommendations for anti-virus industry

3 years ago

Tales In Tech History: Napster

Napster may have been shortlived, but its impact on the music industry was monumental

7 years ago

Leak Of CIA Hacking Secrets Serves As Alert To Close Security Gaps

ANALYSIS: Exposure of the CIA's hacking tools give an unsettling look at the capabilities of U.S. spies, but also a…

8 years ago

Google And Microsoft Agree To Music And Movie Piracy Crackdown

Search engine traffic will be reduced to piracy sites providing illegal downloads

8 years ago

Cisco Creates System To Clamp Down On Video Piracy

Bootleggers beware, as Cisco touts system to take down growing threat of pirated video content

8 years ago

Oculus VR DRM Is Cracked In Just 24 Hours

Virtual reality headsets at risk of piracy after DRM software is hacked to allow Oculus software to be ported to…

9 years ago

EU Court: Public Wi-Fi Owners Cannot Be Liable For Piracy On Unsecured Hotspots

Advocate General of the European Court of Justice says it is unreasonable to expect all public Wi-Fi to be secured

9 years ago

Kim Dotcom Extradition Begins In New Zealand Court

No escape from the long arm of the law? Extradition hearing for Kim Dotcom begins in Auckland

9 years ago

Sky Broadband Customers Hit By Speculative Piracy Letters

Are you a Sky broadband customer? Did you illegally download The Company You Keep? TCYK is relying on you to…

9 years ago

Illegal Pirate Downloaders Can Evade Detection For A While Longer

US judge says an IP address isn’t evidence enough to convict someone of downloading pirated content

10 years ago

Oracle And SAP Settle Bitter Software Piracy Lawsuit

The bad blood between bitter rivals Oracle and SAP may ease slightly after the settlement of a lengthy lawsuit

10 years ago

UK Police Arrest Man For Running Sports Streaming Sites

Intellectual Property Crime Unit protects the rights of sports broadcasters

10 years ago

Police Arrest Man For Running Blocked Torrent Site Proxies

PIPCU starts to “come down hard” on proxies that offer access to websites blocked in the UK, such as The…

10 years ago

Torrentz.eu Back Online After Defying UK Police

Polish domain name registrar complies with the takedown request, then changes its mind

10 years ago

UK Police Close Filesharing Search Engine FileCrop

Visitors to FileCrop will now get a message from the police, telling them the site is under investigation

10 years ago

UK ISPs Will Have To Issue Alerts To Suspected Pirates

Customers who infringe copyright will start getting warning letters in 2015, but there are no legal consequences

11 years ago

RightsCorp Wants To Bring Its Copyright Protection Methods To The UK

The US company is forcing ISPs to participate in the copyright crusade, but will this approach work in Europe?

11 years ago

Lord Younger: Intellectual Property Enforcement Will Get Tougher

Minister for Intellectual Property says UK leads the world in IP protection, but there’s always more to do

11 years ago

UK To Allow Copying Digital Media For Personal Use

The government appears to be fighting against restrictive DRM measures by relaxing copyright rules

11 years ago

Kim Dotcom’s Mega Valued At £108 Million Through A ‘Reverse Takeover’

The cloud storage service created by fugitive millionaire is set to go public on New Zealand stock exchange

11 years ago

Developer Reveals Details Of Ubuntu Torrent Search Tool

The ‘torrent’ scope will be included in Ubuntu by default, currently relies on the Pirate Bay

11 years ago

TorrentFreak News Site Blocked By Sky Porn Filter

More fury at filters blocking non-offensive websites

11 years ago

The UK Government Is Already Policing The Internet

The new intellectual property crime unit PIPCU uses threats, not due process, to get copyright-infringing domains off the Internet

11 years ago

New UK Police Unit Helped Close 40 Pirate Websites

PIPCU is fighting against copyright infringement by revoking domain names and putting pressure on advertisers, all without going to court

11 years ago

21 More Pirate Websites To Be Blocked By UK ISPs

BeeMP3, FilesTube and TorrentHound join the likes of the Pirate Bay on the copyright holders’ blacklist

11 years ago

New Police Unit Threatens Domain Registrars Over Piracy

Shut down websites we deem illegal or face the consequences, says PIPCU

11 years ago

MPs Slam Google Over Piracy ‘Promotion’

MPs "strongly condemn" Google "failure" over pirated material in search results

11 years ago

UK Launches Intellectual Property Crime Unit

PIPCU will handle everything from illegal downloads to fake Gucci bags

11 years ago

FACT Uses IBM Big Data Analytics To Track Down Online Pirates

The trade organisation credits the technology for eliminating in-cinema film recordings

11 years ago

1,700 Websites In Russia Go Dark In A SOPA-Style Protest

Popular websites stop their services for a day to highlight the possible effects of a new anti-piracy law

11 years ago