Group battles for digital rights
An organisation committed to fighting for people's digital rights in the UK is celebrating its first birthday.
The Open Rights Group (Org) was founded last year on the back of an ...
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Stolen mobiles ‘will be blocked’
Around 80% of mobile phones will be blocked on all five UK networks within 48 hours of being reported stolen in future, industry leaders have pledged.
That pledge is part of ...
NBC Universal Downloadable Content Hits UK
Many people don’t realise that the majority of traffic on illegal P2P networks comes not from those hunting big budget flicks but rather users in search of the latest transatlantic ...
Crave Talk: Robberies rise, escape with your iPod
Just a week ago, Gamespot journalist Guy Cocker, who works in the same building as Crave, was mugged ten minutes away from the CNET offices here in central London. His ...
Indie labels want copyright shift
The UK's independent music labels want a change in the law so internet service providers (ISPs) become liable for illegal file-sharing by their users.
The Association of Independent Music (Aim) has ...
Tiscali snubs music industry demand for names
Internet service provider Tiscali (TIS.MI) on Tuesday rebuked demands by British music companies to reveal the names of some of its customers who allegedly used the network to share songs ...
British ISPs urged to lock out file sharers
The British music industry stepped up its campaign against illegal file sharing on Monday by demanding that two Internet service providers suspend 59 accounts it believes are being used to ...
Flowerburger Records Petitions UK Parliament to Stop P2P Lawsuits
In a gesture that mirrors a petition the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) is presenting to Congress, Flowerburger Records is circulating a petition requesting that the British Parliament and the BPI, ...
Movie downloads coming to the UK in July
Film downloads are finally coming to the UK, with support from Universal Pictures and Wippit, the music file-sharing site. The service will be enabled by the end of July with ...
(UK) Cinema detective to tackle piracy
The UK is to get a cinema investigator to tackle the crime of recording films in cinemas to be sold as pirate DVDs.
The investigator, a former police officer, will train ...
(UK) Law lords to rule on internet defamation
A TEST case comes before the law lords, Britain’s highest court, today that will determine how far newspapers and other internet publishers are open to lawsuits from people alleging that ...
UK to trial music downloads via DAB
Think you need an internet connection for music downloads? Think again. UBC Media Group, one of the UK's largest independent radio production companies, today launched a download service that delivers ...
UK a new piracy hotbed
Production of counterfeit digital goods is increasingly carried out within the UK, according to Intellectual Property Crime Group, a unit of The Patent Office.
In a report just published, the group ...
UK ‘Don’t sue p2p fans’ petition
The managers of Avril Lavigne, The Streets and Elbow are amongst those who've signed an online petition organized by Flowerburger Records naming the British music industry for suing fans who ...
