Rampant physical piracy in China has forced some entertainment companies and musicians to -- gasp -- innovate and come up with new ideas to make money there. Last year, Warner ...
It's the Holy Grail of the movie download business. Movies straight from the Internet to your TV, none of that watching the flick in your straight-back chair while peering at ...
Students sharing music and movies on campus networks may soon face stiffer penalties as the result of a U.S. Senate resolution calling on universities to do more to eliminate illicit ...
A 47-year-old Providence man faces deportation after he was convicted of selling pirated movies and music, the attorney general's office said.
Sidikiba "Marcus" Magassouba was arrested in September and again on ...
Hollywood stars are being forced to take pay cuts as the major studios are pulling the plug on big-budget projects.
With last year's box office takings down 5.2 per cent and ...
In an effort to combat the incessant waves of talking points and media spin that invariably cloud the issues of file-sharing and intellectual property rights, the Electronic Frontier Foundation ...
A few days ago a new Chinese law went into effect that establishes fines for those that distribute pirated copies of music, movies, and software over the internet. ...
Wurld Media, Inc. the creator of the legitimate peer-to-peer (p2p) service, Peer Impact, announced today that select movies and television titles from Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. Entertainment are ...
A former freelance film critic for the Boston Herald and past president of the Boston Society of Film Critics is to be sentenced in October after pleading guilty in a ...
Sony Corp. Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer said movie studios are starting to favor its Blu- ray DVD, which can store high-definition films and other media.
Sony, the world's second-largest consumer ...
More evidence that Hollywood's MPAA paid a hacker to illegally break into the Torrentspy dbase has come in a new court document.
Last month Torrentspy's US lawyer Ira Rothken alleged the ...
A month after accusing the Motion Picture Association of America of conspiring to commit data theft, the operators of a file search engine presented more details regarding the alleged relationship ...
The following is an excerpt from the Pirate Bay blog page:
For those of you who haven't followed the Swedish news, a quite funny (or tragic) thing has surfaced: Apparently, on ...
Recently at the Georgia Institute of Technology, researchers completed a prototype device that locates digital cameras in a certain area and renders them unusable. They say this technology could be ...
Piracy in China cost the film industry $2.7bn (£1.5bn) in 2005, according to a study by a major global movie body.
Around 93% of all films sold in China are pirated, ...
I caught this little item from the Washinton Post today quoting losses from online file sharing.
"The intellectual property industry and law enforcement officials estimate U.S. companies ...
The EFF has put out a hilarious (scary?) new video showing what might happen in the future if the entertainment lobbies are successful. The time to act ...
Motion Picture Association President Dan Glickman locks horns with Electronic Frontier Foundation's John Perry Barlow over big media's war with the internet.
"These are aging industries run by aging men, and ...
A Sony executive in charge of the company's technology strategy believes that the music industry is not making headway against music pirates, despite the industry's extensive efforts to halt piracy. ...
(pdf) The MPAA's vision of file sharers. All in red because apparently we are all going to burn in hell or something.
MPAA's Pyramid of Piracy
About the MPAAThe Motion Picture ...
