Steve is an unapologetic pirate. The Auburn teen cops to downloading Japanese cartoons over the Internet, illegally, all the time. He could buy episodes of “Naruto” in the states, dubbed in English, but only from early in its run. He likes English subtitles better. He likes being up to date. Heck, Steve likes free.

Following an informant report, Taiwan’s IPR Police successfully uncovered copyright infringement via the Music King website on April 14, 2006. The Music King website was providing approximately 500,000 songs for illegal downloads, and had been about to collect fees from its membership of 100,000. International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and IPR Police investigations [...]

File-swapping software seemed in peril a year ago when the U.S. Supreme Court gave the entertainment industry a legal bullet: Its ruling reopened the door for lawsuits over programs used to share music, movies and other copyright files. The Supreme Court, reversing lower court rulings, said developers of such programs could indeed be held liable [...]

When “The Da Vinci Code” premiered in Moscow, Konstantin Zemchenko started his count. As the Motion Picture Association of America’s top pirate-fighter in Russia, Zemchenko’s operatives were monitoring the capital’s markets and street stalls for when the first bootleg copies would appear. His goal? A modest 10-day delay. In the worst pirate market in the [...]

Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Valley Village) on Friday called on the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to investigate allegations that pirated DVDs were being smuggled into Los Angeles by flight crews of the Russian airline Aeroflot. Berman said the call was in response to a Los Angeles Times article on Sunday that detailed [...]

Kingsoft Corp.’s English-Chinese dictionary program is used on most of China’s 60 million PCs. That’s the good news. The bad news: Kingsoft doesn’t make any money from it, because 90 percent of those copies are pirated. One by one, the Beijing-based software maker has seen its sales of such popular products destroyed after black market [...]

This is translated from Rasmus Fleischer of Copyriot, regarding the juridical aftermaths concerning the raid on the company PRQ, who had all their customers raided about a month ago. Some of their customers have had their equipment returned, some have not, and their own equipment, the equipment used for company administration, is still being held [...]