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When most people believed that the popular Ukrainian file-sharing website ex.ua had the same fate as Megaupload after being closed down by local authorities with its domain name and servers seized, it turns out that the site’s administrators managed to unlock the domain and resumed work.
According to Kyiv Post... |
3 February 2012
03:21 GMT |
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Piracy is one of the biggest long-term problems for the video game industry but for Rovio, the company that created the hit Angry Birds concept, the phenomenon has a number of upsides that can, in the long term, help the popularity of its products. Mikael Hed, a leading executive working at Rovio, told the audience ... |
31 January 2012
17:51 GMT |
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The imminent Xbox 360 launch of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings has prompted some fans of developer CD Projekt RED to contemplate a future where the company will mainly develop for home consoles and leave PC gamers behind in their piracy infested world. But developers working on the action role-playing game say th... |
30 January 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Digital Rights Management software packed in current PC games is nowadays employed by companies just to please shareholders and investors, not to actually try and combat piracy, at least according to Fredrik Wester, the CEO of Paradox Interactive.
DRM and other such anti-piracy problems have been criticized from all... |
24 January 2012
19:31 GMT |
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The owners of file-sharing websites are taking drastic measures to make sure they don’t end up just like Megaupload and its owners, blocking their sites to certain countries and even limiting their functionality.
After the world and other file-sharing websites witnessed the power of US law enforcement agencies... |
23 January 2012
05:20 GMT |
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After the web was set ablaze due to the restrictive anti-piracy measures taken by Ubisoft with its recent Anno 2070 strategy game, the company has finally made changes to its digital rights management (DRM) software, in order to avoid imposing awkward limitations on owners of the title.In case you’re not aware ... |
20 January 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Mega file-sharing and hosting site MegaUpload is dead, at least for now. In a coordinated effort, law enforcement authorities have seized several domains belonging to the company, raided data centers that were hosting the sits and arrested several employees. Authorities also seized goods and bank accounts belonging t... |
20 January 2012
05:14 GMT |
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Microsoft is one of the companies that oppose the passage of the SOPA bill, the Redmond-based software giant has confirmed. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) - aka House Bill 3261 or H.R. 3261 – was introduced in the United States House of Representatives in late October last year. The bill would result in ... |
18 January 2012
04:09 GMT |
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It seems that the 'danger' has passed, after losing much of its momentum in the past few weeks, the White House has dealt a final blow to the much-maligned SOPA bill, by saying that it, which means President Barack Obama, will not support a bill that "reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity r... |
16 January 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Nvidia has released a statement regarding its position on the Stop Online Piracy Act, saying that, while it opposes piracy, the law proposal isn’t the right way to fight such a phenomenon.
The whole gaming industry has been rocked by the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill currently in discussion at the U.S.... |
13 January 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Ubisoft’s notoriously restrictive digital rights management (DRM) system strikes again, as Anno 2070 now requires owners to activate the game every time they make a change to their computer’s hardware configuration.
Anno 2070 was released late last year on the PC as a new installment in Ubisoft’s l... |
13 January 2012
10:12 GMT |
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Finland’s Copyright, Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC), the organization whose website was taken down the other day by Anonymous Finland for ordering one of the country’s largest ISPs Elisa to block its account holders from accessing The Pirate Bay (TPB), claims they received a bomb threat from A... |
11 January 2012
09:09 GMT |
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Anonymous Finland took down the official website of the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (antipiracy.fi) and the one belonging to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (ifpi.fi) after the former organization obtained a court order that forced one of the country’s biggest IPSs to ... |
10 January 2012
09:48 GMT |
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Epic Games, the developer behind massively successful franchises like Gears of War or Unreal Tournament, not to mention the ubiquitous Unreal Engine technology, has revealed its stance on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), saying that it doesn’t support the bill in its current form.
SOPA is a bill currently up... |
9 January 2012
03:09 GMT |
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The controversial YouHaveDownloaded service was utilized to appoint another French government institution whose members were caught downloading illegal content from torrent sites.
After 250 of their 65,000 IP addresses were identified as being used to share all sorts of content, from games to adult movies, the Fren... |
3 January 2012
09:49 GMT |
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While 2011 was a big year for the gaming industry, with many great games being released and selling very well, there were still pirates who chose to download illegal copies instead of buying them. Now, their actions have been counted and a top 5 with the most pirated games has been made for each major platform - the ... |
3 January 2012
06:17 GMT |
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Wanting to stop Internet users from pirating their latest movie, Indian movie company Reliance Entertainment managed to obtain a court order which forces the country’s Internet services providers (ISPs) to block some of the largest international file-sharing sites, including Megaupload.
According to TorrentFre... |
28 December 2011
08:29 GMT |
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While making a movie about the hard rock band called The Angels, a filmmaker from Sydney was shocked after he discovered that his newly purchased Seagate 1.5 terabyte hard drive contained pieces of malware and tons of pirated movies. According to The Sidney Morning Herald, Darryl Manson purchased an allegedly new ha... |
23 December 2011
06:49 GMT |
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After they’ve been discovered as illegally downloading copyrighted materials from torrent sites, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) representatives came forward to deny the allegations, stating that a third-party vendor is actually behind the addresses.
At the time, they were found to have downlo... |
21 December 2011
09:14 GMT |
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Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) decided that the three-strike anti-file sharing mechanism utilized by the Eircom ISP raised privacy concerns and ordered the practice to be stopped.
On the other hand, to make sure copyright holders won’t be upset, the Irish government is preparing to set up ... |
20 December 2011
09:52 GMT |
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The now famous YouHaveDownloaded websites, which monitors 20% of the public BitTorrent downloads, helped identify two other organizations that normally shouldn’t be involved in such practices. The first copyright infringer is the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), one of the companies that&rsquo... |
19 December 2011
03:09 GMT |
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CD Projekt Red, the developer of The Witcher 2 role playing game, has started demanding money from video game pirates that illegally downloaded its title, threatening them with a lawsuit if an agreement isn’t reached.The Witcher 2 was released at the beginning of the year and, since then, CD Projekt Red estimat... |
16 December 2011
05:46 GMT |
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Nicholas Sarkozy, the president of France and one of the most powerful men of Europe, was busted today after journalists from a French news site, armed with Élysée Palace IPs, took a peak to see what has been downloaded from the president’s residence. If the three-strike piracy law adopted by Fr... |
15 December 2011
11:02 GMT |
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The recently released website, Youhavedownloaded.com, turned out to be a great opportunity for piracy supporters to prove that even those who fight long and expensive battles against copyright infringers don’t always obey the rules they make.
After obtaining the IP-ranges of some major Hollywood studios, the g... |
14 December 2011
08:39 GMT |
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A newly released Russian website makes sure that all the individuals who download from BitTorrent website are monitored, their identities, or at least their IP’s being published online for anyone to see, along with the actual files they have downloaded.
YouHaveDownloaded.com is a site that monitors 20% of all ... |
14 December 2011
03:25 GMT |
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Martin S., a 27-year-old man, the one considered to be the “main admin” of the defunct Kino.to movie streaming portal, was sentenced to 3 years in jail, the authorities confiscating his house, a car and bank accounts.
Many individuals were arrested, some of which were already imprisoned, for running the ... |
12 December 2011
07:50 GMT |
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The controversial case in which the owners of the popular hip-hop blog DaJaz1 got back their domain from the authorities without any explanation attracted the attention of a US senator who wants answers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on why the process was handled in such a clumsy manner.
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10 December 2011
06:22 GMT |
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After seizing a number of sites that were considered to be run by copyright infringers over a year ago, the authorities returned one of the domains to its rightful owner without any explanation.According to TorrentFreak, most of the domains confiscated at the time were hip-hop blogs, among which the popular Dajaz1.co... |
9 December 2011
11:17 GMT |
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While other companies decide to cripple their PC games with obnoxious DRM (Digital Rights Management) software to prevent piracy, developer Croteam and publisher Devolver Digital decided to add a special kind of anti-piracy method in their recent Serious Sam 3: BFE, in the form of an unbeatable giant red scorpio... |
9 December 2011
05:11 GMT |
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Law enforcement officials from Germany, Switzerland and Hungary raided a few locations that they believed to belong to a couple of piracy groups that were known to leak as many as 2,600 motion pictures, some of which even before they were officially released.
CRUCiAL and iNSPiRED are the gangs targeted by the intern... |
8 December 2011
10:25 GMT |
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After a Russian news agency informed the world on the fact that Kaspersky is about to withdraw its membership from Business Software Alliance (BSA), Eugene Kaspersky, the man behind the renowned security solutions provider, came forward with a statement confirming the fact that his company doesn’t approve of th... |
7 December 2011
02:38 GMT |
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After being accused of copyright infringement by book publishers Elsevier and John Wiley & Sons, Chitika and Clicksor ad networks, that offered services to a site that displayed links to pirated e-books, were found not guilty by a United States District Judge. The whole issue started after the advertising networks w... |
6 December 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Hardware maker and video game publisher Sony Computer Entertainment has said that the proprietary memory cards that will be sold for the upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld are designed as a means to eliminate any potential for piracy on the device.Muneki Shimada, who is one of the developers working on the new hardwa... |
5 December 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Kaspersky, the world renowned security solutions provider, decided to break the partnership it had with Business Software Alliance (BSA) after the latter indicated its support for the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
According to TorrentFreak, BSA showed some concerns regarding SOPA, but that might only ... |
5 December 2011
08:42 GMT |
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Operation In Our Sites, launched by the Department of Homeland Security’s ICE unit, continues with the seizure of 11 Korean domain names that were allegedly related to movie piracy. According to TorrentFreak, the Department of Justice and the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement seized the domains as a result ... |
5 December 2011
05:33 GMT |
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Since the downloading of copyrighted content is an issue that puts pressure on governments worldwide, Swiss authorities decided to conduct a study to see if they should declare the phenomenon illegal. The results of the research revealed that there’s no need for such legislation since copyright holders are not ... |
2 December 2011
09:31 GMT |
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CD Projekt Red, the developer of The Witcher series, has just added its voice to the ongoing piracy debate that’s been rekindled recently, and says that developers and publishers should just forget about using harsh DRM (Digital Rights Management) software, as it’s going to be hacked in no time and just e... |
2 December 2011
03:14 GMT |
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Good Old Games, the digital distribution service focused on selling classic titles without any sort of DRM and with extra features, believes other game publishers need to stop believing that DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems will stop people from pirating their games, and just try to pack in more value into the... |
1 December 2011
03:12 GMT |
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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings might have been one of the most high profile launches exclusive to the PC this year but it seems that with popularity also comes great loss, because the developers estimate that more than 4.5 million people pirated the game.Marcin Iwinski, who is the Chief Executive Officer at CD Pro... |
30 November 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Piracy might be a big problem on the PC platform but the creators of the Serious Sam 3 first person shooter believe that the way to fight it is not with Digital Right Management measures but with very good gameplay.Fork Parker, who is the Chief Financial Officer working at Devolver Digital, told Destructoid that, &ld... |
29 November 2011
20:11 GMT |
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Hadopi, the French anti-piracy organization that was put in charge with handling the now famous three-strike law, is determined to attack piracy from another angle. More precisely, they want to go after the means utilized by illegal file-sharing websites and cyberlockers to fund their operations.
According to Torren... |
29 November 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Steam is the biggest player in the digital distribution market on the PC and it seems that the quality of service that has brought it to the fore of the pack also allows it to dismiss any real threat from the piracy phenomenon.
Speaking to The Cambridge Student, Gabe Newell, who is the leader of Valve, stated, &ldqu... |
29 November 2011
02:31 GMT |
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Last week Ubisoft Shanghai’s creative director, Stanislas Mettra, made some pretty harsh accusations against PC gamers and the ongoing piracy problem on that platform, but has now said that his words seemed a bit hard because English isn’t his native language.I Am Alive was resurrected by the team at Ubis... |
28 November 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Five of Australia’s largest Internet service providers, members of the Communications Alliance, revealed their anti-piracy plans which seem to replicate the three-strike law already implemented by other countries.Telstra Bigpond, iiNet, Optus, iPrimus and Internode plan on fully collaborating with copyright hol... |
28 November 2011
14:21 GMT |
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The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Center (CIAPC) filed a new lawsuit against The Pirate Bay’s administrators, demanding two more ISP blockades in Finland and compensation fees.
According to TorrentFreak, the Helsinki District Court w... |
28 November 2011
10:36 GMT |
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Piracy on the PC platform has once again become a talked about topic, thanks to inflammatory comments from Ubisoft, but Good Old Games’ Trevor Longino believes the industry can learn a lot from the mechanics of PC games piracy and from pirates themselves.Ubisoft once again baited PC gamers with some harsh comme... |
28 November 2011
04:08 GMT |
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United Arab Emirates authorities arrested a hacker after discovering that he hacked Xbox 360 consoles so they could be used to play pirated games.
According to ITP, he even set up a website on which he was offering pirated games but also his services as a professional console cracker, this being one of the clues tha... |
25 November 2011
04:33 GMT |
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Ubisoft has once again talked about the state of PC gaming and how the rampant piracy is seriously affecting the chances of seeing some of its new titles, like I Am Alive arrive on that platform.PC gaming has seen lots of growth in recent years due to the popularity of digital distribution services like Valve’s... |
24 November 2011
17:21 GMT |
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The European Court of Justice has put an end to a 7-year battle between an ISP and a music rights group, setting a precedent for cases where internet service providers are forced to spy on their account holders.
According to TorrentFreak, the Belgian music rights group SABAM was trying to make ISP Scarlet stalk thei... |
24 November 2011
10:36 GMT |
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Earlier this year, in an effort to appease copyright holders, mostly the music industry, Google started to apply some self-censorship to its searches. It started removing suggestions and auto-complete for things like "bittorrent," "torrent," "rapidshare" and so on.
The ham-fisted approach didn't really do much ... |
24 November 2011
07:11 GMT |
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