Score one for the MPAA.
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted to make illegal video streaming a felony. The proposed law still has to go through to the full Senate for voting before you start having to be more careful about where you’re clicking.
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Since Apple announced its new iTunes Match service on Monday, many have been wondering what will be the legal status of the songs they “upgrade” using the service. Here are some answers.
Q: How does it work?
A: For $24.99 a year, Apple will scan your music collection, note which songs you have, and upgrade each to a high quality …
Reports are trickling out that the world’s most notorious file-sharing website, the Pirate Bay, is being blocked by various internet service providers in North America. TorrentFreak.com says that Comcast users here in the U.S. are unable to access the site, as are “many Rogers users in Canada.”
I’m a Comcast subscriber and I can …
The Mounties are sick of playing copyright police.
According to a 2006 diplomatic cable between Canada and the U.S. that recently came to light through WikiLeaks, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officially express “skepticism” about movie piracy via camcorder users, and believe that their time would be better spent chasing down real …
Retro gaming download site Good Old Games specializes in titles from the bygone days of computer gaming, including classics like Planescape: Torment. The games they offer harken back to a time before onerous and even malicious DRM (digital rights management) measures were implemented on PC games to try and prevent piracy.
But GOG PR …
If you live in California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New York or Texas, then congratulations: Your state is among the six responsible for almost half of all suspected cases of software piracy in the US, according to the Business Software Alliance.
The BSA says those six states are behind 49.3% of all piracy reported to its …
The majority of people don’t have qualms about downloading material illegally, according to a new Danish study by the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit that looked at today’s moral standards.
Seventy percent of people surveyed said they saw nothing wrong with illicit file sharing as long as no one was making a profit. Sadly, my grade …
This week, the Motion Picture Association of America released its annual Theatrical Market Statistics Report for 2010. The headline? Box office worldwide set an all-time high of $31.8 billion, an increase of 8 percent over 2009. Lest you get too giddy, however, here’s MPAA interim CEO Bob Pisano to rain on your parade. “[T]he …
With online gaming rapidly growing, the problem of piracy seems to be increasing as well. The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), which represents the U.S.-based Entertainment Software Association (ESA) among others, says that 33 countries are not adequately protecting against IP violations and proposed that these …
Movie and television makers looking to make your fortunes through online distribution, beware: Users may be willing to pay for their entertainment, but a new study suggests that they’ll only do so as long as it’s the right price – one that’s far lower than what’s currently being asked.
A PriceWaterhouseCoopers study shows that, while …
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. …
At around 10PM EST last night, WikiLeaks was no longer accessible at the wikileaks.org web address. That’s the end of that, right?
Wrong.
The site is still accessible through several alternate domain names (wikileaks.ch, wikileaks.dd19.de, wikileeks.org.uk, to name a few), all of which point to its machine-readable IP address: …
