#piracy

The math is pretty straight forward. It was likely the most widely-downloaded camcorder recording of a movie ever. Following the thinking of the MPAA,...

France made waves in the P2P industry by implementing a controversial graduated response program in 2010 that was designed to reduce the amount of illegal...

One of the most compelling reasons for the rise in piracy over the past decade is the cost. We have the option of buying songs or movies from certain...

Today is SOPA Blackout Day to oppose the bills currently being proposed in Congress, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect-IP Act (PIPA). You may have...

Halloween is approaching, and boy do we have a treat for you. It appears that not only are pirates the most used costume during Halloween, but they are...

In what appears to be another shocking attempt to constrain and limit the functioning of the internet, US lawmakers are currently pushing an MPAA-backed...

ISPs in the United Kingdom are making money from the process of anti-piracy groups taking legal action against copyright infringing customers. When a...

The Pirate Bay is down this morning after reports of raids across Europe. According to thinq.co.uk, police in up to 14 countries raided locations...

So Google is pitching a YouTube pay-per-view service to Hollywood studios that would enable video rentals for five bucks a pop. That's not... so bad, I...

Two big studios have joined forces to tackle a problem facing the industry. Which is great news, except they're working on the wrong problem. Warner Bros...

If you're looking for iTunes, Amazon, or other digital releases of Pink Floyd's material this month, you'll be appalled and dismayed to find that anything...

What are you downloading right now? Don't give me that face. Few people don't hit the torrents. I've got season 2 of TNG queued up as we speak - and I...

For the less trendy (and the less British) among us, I'll come right out and say it: The Ministry of Sound is not an official government body, it's just a...

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The entertainment industry has embarked in an all-out war against piracy around the globe, with the hopes of scaring would-be pirates from illegally...

In one of its funnier nose-thumbings at the enemies of its pirate creed, the file-sharing site Pirate Bay put up an amusing LOLcat to tell us all that...

Like an unwanted pack of rats, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has fought a dragged out battle against the illegal distribution of...

Canada is one of the top five countries responsible for piracy around the world, along with China, Mexico, Russia and Spain, according to the...

Here's an odd one. Seems Germany is now fining users who fail to protect their wi-fi networks. Why? Oh, you're gonna love this. Said a Karlsruhe court,...

An ambitious, if not entirely business-savvy entrepreneur has a great idea for a business: buy The Pirate Bay and re-imagine it as a legal content...

The Digital Economy Bill that recently passed in the UK and is being pushed upon many other countries around the world. It has some very discouraging text...

The Spanish government is quite unique as far as copyright laws are considered: it is completely legal to upload and download copyrighted material as long...