It was bound to happen sooner or later. Sooner it is, as the first commercial UMD loader has been released, tested, and deemed functional. The game: Lumines (currently without sound). The catch is you’ll need a UMD (any game) in the drive, but the game data and loader are all stored on the memory stick.This [...]

Taiwan’s music industry suffered a setback yesterday when the Shihlin District Court found a local peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing operator not guilty of infringing intellectual property rights. In the nation’s first ruling on file-sharing cases, the court found that Weber Wu (吳怡達), president of Ezpeer — which provides a for-fee platform for subscribers to swap files [...]

Sweden has outlawed the downloading of copyrighted movies, games and music in an attempt to curb rampant piracy. About 10% of Swedes freely swap music, games and films on their computers, one of the highest rates in the world. With no law banning file-sharing, Sweden had become a hotbed of piracy where films, music and [...]

An extraordinary statement by the US government has sent shockwaves around the internet world and thrown the future of the network into doubt. In a worrying U-turn, the US Department of Commerce (DoC) has made it clear it intends to retain control of the internet’s root servers indefinitely. It was due to relinquish that control [...]