Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Media and tech companies create Arts+Labs The battle between peer-2-peer websites and the music and movie industries is hotting up. ... Read New organisation founded to fight online piracy on Pocket-lint now
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
... people something that’s as easy as stealing and just as fun, that’s the biggest defense against piracy.” This concept that online piracy should be viewed as a competing business model is one that – much like the new music service – is not original, but rarely made by anyone with a name as big as MySpace’s. The common line of argument says piracy is against the law (which,...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
NEW YORK--The days when anyone, anywhere could post a funny clip from Saturday Night Live or The Office on YouTube and share them with millions of appreciative viewers are quickly disappearing. Executives at NBC Universal say they have found a "template" for protecting videos from online piracy. By the looks of things, they might be right. The company is seeing unprecedented success at...
DV Hardware (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor claims the music labels themselves are to blame for online piracy. Taylor said the quality of released music is so bad, no-one wants to buy it: Slipknot vocalist and frontman Corey Taylor has launched an attack on recording labels, saying that instead of spending their time chasing downloaders, they should use their resources to find bands that produce...
TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Slipknot vocalist and frontman Corey Taylor says it's time for the music industry to stop taking legal action against downloaders. He feels it is the labels themselves who are to blame for online piracy, since the quality of released music is so bad, no-one wants to buy it.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
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Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
A pensioner has been arrested in the North as part of an international operation against online piracy.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
A PENSIONER arrested as part of an international operation against online piracy was released on police bail yesterday.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
A pensioner arrested in the North as part of an international operation against online piracy was released on police bail today.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
... to combat the sale of pirated software and counterfeit goods via commercial Web sites and online auction sites such as eBay. Including the three pleas secured today, this initiative has obtained 32 felony convictions. The Department’s initiative to combat commercial online piracy is just one of several steps being undertaken to address the losses caused by intellectual property...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Partnership to market, sell and distribute Nexicon's GetAmnesty anti-piracy solution to the global music industry begins with the Frank Zappa music catalog MALIBU, Calif., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, Nexicon (Pink Sheets: NXCO), an emerging provider of next generation digital media protection and digital media business intelligence solutions, is pleased to announce the formation...
TechDigest (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
It would appear that yesterday's shaming of poor Isabella Barwinska was no one-off - some of the largest players in gaming are joining up to (try to) eliminate online piracy. Atari and Codemasters, who make half the stuff you've played during your lifetime, have joined Topware and another couple of companies in targeting P2P-using game pirates, and will, according to The Times , start...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
The music industry is struggling to gain foot-hold in the battle with online piracy. The options available for music lovers to grow their music collection digitally is tremendous and free. So much so that music companies and publishers have struck up agreements with some of biggest names offering digital music: iTunes, Last.FM., Amazon, Myspace, and Wal-Mart. While the options are appreciated,...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
... $1-billion lawsuit against YouTube and claims that it has lost hundreds of millions of dollars to online piracy, Moonves said "Any media company that doesn't acknowledge that the Internet is where you need to be -- that it's the fastest-growing, most innovative new place to get premium content -- is sort of out of the ballgame."
Journalista (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
... that are absolutely, totally, this-time-for-real uncrackable . Oops, wait a minute… In the end, online piracy will ensure that comics are never compromised across the board by copy-protection schemes. Even if one of the major comics publishers’ chief-high-mucky-mucks actually grows a pair and produces a downloadable format that they’re comfortable using to sell their product, at this...
