Piracy

SMB Fined £18k For Unlicensed Software Use

Fine is on top of £81,000 in extra licence purchases

12 years ago

BPI Wants More File-Sharing Sites Blocked

Fenopy, H33t and Kickass Torrents could be gone before Christmas

12 years ago

Pirate Bay Cloud Move Protects It From Police Raids

Move to the cloud should improve both reliability and security

12 years ago

Letters From Microsoft Accuse BBC Of Copyright Infringement

Automated software thought number 45 was owned by the Windows developer

12 years ago

ISPs Say Ofcom Is Underestimating Cost of Digital Economy Act

TalkTalk, BT and EE say fighting piracy costs more than you think

12 years ago

Japan Updates Piracy Laws With Threat Of Prison

Up to two years in confinement for “knowingly” downloading a single copyrighted file

12 years ago

Portuguese Prosecutors Say File Sharing Is Legal

Anti-piracy organisation's bid to block file sharing backfires in Portugal

12 years ago

Google Removes Autocomplete From Pirate Bay Search

Google no longer auto-completes the search term for Pirate Bay web domains as it steps up its copyright clampdown

12 years ago

Most File-Sharers Can Be Easily Monitored, Study Finds

The majority of pirates can be tracked within three hours of starting a download

12 years ago

Cambodia To Deport Pirate Bay Co-Founder Gottfrid Svartholm

Gottfrid Svartholm is to be deported but he might not be going back to Sweden, where he faces jail

12 years ago

Cambodia Cops Arrest Pirate Bay Co-Founder

Gottfrid Svatholm could be sent back to Sweden to serve jail time

12 years ago

US Feds Shut Down Pirate Android Apps Sellers

US and Europe take the fight to dealers of knock-off Android apps

12 years ago

Virgin Handed Court Order To Block Newzbin

Virgin becomes last of the major UK ISPs to block access Newzbin

12 years ago

BSA: Cloud Piracy Rife In Developing Countries

Many businesses in developing countries are sharing cloud service log-in credentials, potentially breaking the law, BSA says

12 years ago

The Pirate Bay Ban Fails

The peer-to-peer sharing traffic is back to its pre-ban levels

12 years ago

Kim Dotcom Offers To Stand Trial In US

Megaupload founder happy to face copyright charges if he gets freedom, money and a place to live

12 years ago

YouTube Audio Ripping Website Takes On Google

Owner of the YouTube-mp3.org ignores “cease and desist” letters from Google and launches public campaign against the search giant

12 years ago

ACTA Banished From Europe In Parliament Vote

ACTA finally dies after most MEPs reject it in a European Parliament vote

12 years ago

Google Says Fight Online Piracy By Following The Money

Google says advertisers and payment platforms help pirates do business

12 years ago

Julia O’Dwyer’s ‘Terrible Battle’ With The UK Government

Richard O'Dwyer's mother talks with TechWeekEurope about her fight to keep her son in the UK, following a positive week…

12 years ago

Megaupload Founder’s Mansion Search Warrant Was “Invalid”

New Zealand police had no right to seize everything in sight, a judge rules

12 years ago

SurfTheChannel Piracy Platform Owner Found Guilty

Hollywood undercover agents involved in what may be the biggest UK copyright fraud case to date

12 years ago

Ofcom Brings Back “Three Strikes” Online Piracy Measures

The watchdog tells ISPs to keep a list of illegal file-sharers...

12 years ago

Yorkshire Company Punished For Using Unlicensed Software

Business Software Alliance gets £6,500 in settlement fees

13 years ago

European Trade Committee Says No To ACTA

INTA recommends that MEPs reject controversial treaty in next month's vote

13 years ago

BT Starts Blocking The Pirate Bay

BT becomes the sixth major UK ISP this year to block The Pirate Bay but there's plenty of ways to…

13 years ago

FBI Accused Of Illegal Conduct In Megaupload Case

Seven hard drives of evidence obtained by the US agents were not supposed to leave New Zealand, lawyers claim

13 years ago

O2 Porn Sharers Set For Legal Rogering From Ben Dover

O2 customers who have illegally downloaded Ben Dover's material can expect something nasty in the post

13 years ago

Dutch Parliament To Reject ACTA And Its Lookalikes

Motion D66 tells the government to scrap the controversial agreement

13 years ago

Sky Cuts Off Pirate Bay Access

Another ISP blocks access to the Pirate Bay, but three still have their door open to the file sharing website

13 years ago