The music, movie and television industries are teaming up with Internet service providers to fight piracy, but in a rather lenient way.
People who illegally download movies and music may soon face more than just empty threats from their Internet service providers.
Remember that huge anti-piracy initiative targeting all the people who illegally downloaded The Hurt Locker? Well, that was just a small part of a much larger crackdown happening across the country.
Voltage Pictures, the studio behind director Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker from last year, is apparently pursuing legal action against 24,583 BitTorrent users for illegally downloading the video game-esque war thriller.
Nintendo claims that the new 3DS will have the most sophisticated anti-piracy software out there (and is smartly remaining mum on the details). Not that it really matters though: Nintendo UK general manager David Yarnton told CVG that because of an influx of laws against piracy, the “heyday” of buying illegal games is pretty much over. ”There’s [...]
Did Warner Bros. steal technology designed to make it harder for people to steal movies? According to a new lawsuit, the answer may be yes.
