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At long last Sony is doing something to revamp its PlayStation Portable handheld gaming device. A new model was announced; it is called the PSP-3000 and aims to update the hardware of the console by offering an improved LCD screen and a built in high definition microphone. The new model will apparently be available i... |
21 August 2008
02:58 GMT |
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The Entertainment Software Association is sending word that it is hiring a new general counsel in the person of Kenneth Doroshow, who is a veteran of the Recording Industry Association of America. At the organization, Kenneth served as the head of the litigation department, which sought to go after all those who infr... |
21 August 2008
02:32 GMT |
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A 24-year old man in Oakland, Florida, was convicted to 15 months in prison and is forced to pay $415,900 for pirating and distributing at least 76 video games, most of them belonging to Nintendo. Kifah Maswadi developed an online business and used to sell "Power Player" consoles to which he added a "present" - at le... |
18 August 2008
11:31 GMT |
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Earlier today I wrote a report about how piracy hampered the PC sales of Devil May Cry 4 and that was the moment when I realized that this is probably the most debated topic when it comes to PC gaming: piracy. According to game developers, that's the main reason behind their departure from the old PC systems to ... |
1 August 2008
20:16 GMT |
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One of the main issues when it comes to PC games is piracy - that's the general reason why developers prefer to go for the safer consoles - which is something a bit strange, since piracy on the Nintendo DS is a huge problem, too, but tons of games keep being released on the handheld. Indeed, production prices ar... |
1 August 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Revolution for DS or, as it is better known - the R4 chip, is the biggest enemy of the Nintendo DS game developers, since it allows the use of pirated software. Its popularity is so big that, according to studies and surveys, about 90% of the DS games in the United States are pirated! In other words, it costs the ind... |
29 July 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Microsoft claims that it has seen what the company referred to as very good results in fighting Windows piracy with Windows Vista, although it has failed to elaborate on the subject. At the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2008, Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President, Online Services & Windows Business Group, indicate... |
28 July 2008
07:28 GMT |
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Six major Internet providers from the U.K. - Virgin Media, Sky, Carphone Warehouse, BT, Orange and Tiscali, along with entertainment organizations, have signed an agreement that is meant to stop illegal downloads in the country. The British Government is a co-signer of the agreement whose main purpose is to offer leg... |
24 July 2008
09:05 GMT |
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Despite its often too-good-to-be-true price, from very low to completely free, pirated software comes with a hidden tax which manages to take a consistent toll, Microsoft revealed. A whitepaper titled "The impact of software piracy and license misuse on the channel" by IDC and sponsored by the Redmond company along w... |
10 July 2008
11:15 GMT |
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Pirated software has grown to become the ugly face of the software industry, hurting not only the vendors and their environment of partners, but also end users. Whether it's made available on the black market via bootlegged media, through peer-to-peer file sharing networks, or sold and installed as genuine solut... |
10 July 2008
08:22 GMT |
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Peter Moore, the head of EA Sports and former Microsoft corporate vice-president, has updated his official blog, explaining why the company is "against" PC game development. We already had a few hints on that - these are mostly the same reasons why everybody ignores PC systems as game platforms: piracy, piracy and a ... |
4 July 2008
13:06 GMT |
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In the United Kingdom there are thousands and thousands of people who have broadband Internet access and share music online. This is not exactly legal, nor is it something the BPI agrees with. The British music industry is taking charge of the situation and the first step it is going to take is to send illegal music... |
3 July 2008
03:50 GMT |
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Starting July 1st, Spain residents looking to acquire an iPod (or other media players) will be forced to pay a special anti-piracy tax because of the gadgets' abilities to record, copy or store audio and video files. Billboard.biz is reporting that the "digital canon" tax has arrived 18 months after its schedule... |
25 June 2008
17:21 GMT |
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Microsoft's online validation tools designed as anti-piracy mechanisms are increasingly applauded by the company for contributing to identify pirates of its software products. The Redmond giant has made available both the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) and the Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) to protect its flag-... |
10 June 2008
06:54 GMT |
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Valve had a mini-summit in Seattle today and detailed a few of their plans for the future. We are thrilled and now we feel the love. We also understand that all those who kept saying that digital distribution is the future are slowly starting to have a point. Because of various reasons. Let's check a few of them... |
30 May 2008
04:10 GMT |
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A research conducted by the Business Software Alliance revealed that Armenia has the highest piracy rate of all the countries in the world with no less than 93 points in 2007 and 95 in 2006. Armenia is followed by Bangladesh and Azerbaijan, with 92 points each. According to findings published by BSA, the global pirac... |
29 May 2008
04:28 GMT |
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One of the largest criminal music piracy cases in the United States has ended with 25-year old Barry Gitarts being convicted of copyright infringement. The man, who was part of the so-called Apocalypse Production Crew, was found guilty by a jury last week in the Eastern District of Virginia. The APC was an online pir... |
28 May 2008
08:34 GMT |
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The Canadian Recording Industry Association, also known as CRIA, decided to take attitude against the growing number of BitTorrent services in the country and requested Moxie Colo, a local BitTorrent hosting service, to shut down four websites. According to TorrentFreak, the anti-piracy group has also demanded the ho... |
28 May 2008
04:38 GMT |
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The MPAA anti-piracy battle continues with another pirate caught: Edgar Rubio Corazon, a 26-year-old living in Mexico, has been arrested and sentenced to six years and six months in prison for storing and selling pirated content on the Internet. The man has also received a fine of 428,400 pesos after he was found gui... |
23 May 2008
09:13 GMT |
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MPAA started the battle against pirate websites a few years ago; in the recent few months, the results of its impressive campaign have come to life. After the $110 million fine received by TorrentSpy, the Motion Picture Association of America recorded another win against Cinematube and Showstash, two websites also ac... |
23 May 2008
06:54 GMT |
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The recent anti-piracy efforts made by organizations around the world closed lots of websites suspected of piracy, but also brought a large number of lawsuits against them. WikiSubtitles, the web service which creates subtitles with the help of the community, joined the club a few days ago as it was taken offline due... |
21 May 2008
02:50 GMT |
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We all know that Asian countries don't really dig the Xbox 360 because of various reasons and it seems that is going to continue, no matter what Microsoft does. However, the fact that the company is also having problems in India comes as a surprise for us - a surprise Microsoft doesn't seem to want to hit t... |
20 May 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Although Mininova is the most popular BitTorrent service on the web, this doesn't stop the copyright organization to go after the website and force it to remove copyright infringement torrent files. For those of you who don't know, Mininova is way more popular than The Pirate Bay, being placed on position n... |
20 May 2008
02:20 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is no longer a stranger to the court because it's probably one of the websites which recorded the largest number of lawsuits, most of them filed for piracy. Well, add one more complaint to the list because Websheriff, a copyright organization, prepares to sue the BitTorrent website for publishing ... |
19 May 2008
07:21 GMT |
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A study conducted by media watchdog Ofcom, the Office of Communications, revealed that 77 percent of children in the UK download files from the Internet, including here music and movies, through file sharing applications, but are not aware that, sometimes, such actions are illegal. However, from those kids who do kno... |
16 May 2008
17:16 GMT |
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has an interesting method to find and catch potential pirates, turning to the same file-sharing applications that are currently used by them, The Chronicle reports. According to the same source, the organization made a demonstration on how the employees manage to i... |
15 May 2008
10:28 GMT |
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Although software piracy loses ground and is declining in most countries of the world, due to the fast growing computer industry in the countries with high piracy rate, the worldwide piracy rate reached the 38 percent milestone, the Business Software Alliance revealed in a new report. According to the findings, the l... |
15 May 2008
03:57 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned consumers to exercise caution and be wary of what it referred to as "high-end" pirated products. According to the Redmond company, end users and small businesses are the most likely to fall victim to counterfeiters dealing with high-quality bootlegged software. Illustrative examples of high-end p... |
12 May 2008
10:23 GMT |
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The Icelandic copyright organizations that sued the country's largest BitTorrent tracker suffered another defeat after the court decided that there were no legal grounds in the case against the service. According to Ben Jones of TorrentFreak, the administrators of the website plan to reopen it on May 16, althoug... |
12 May 2008
05:23 GMT |
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Recently, IFPI, an organization that fights for copyrights and struggles to stop illegal file sharing, announced that it had started a campaign supposed to help teachers, kids and parents reduce this phenomenon. At that time, the copyright organization said it would distribute numerous booklets to kids, explaining th... |
12 May 2008
04:12 GMT |
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Although the court ruled that TorrentSpy must pay a fine of $110 million to MPAA and some of you thought that the lawsuit was finally over, it seems like the dispute will continue because the BitTorrent website decided to appeal the decision. According to AFP, a TorrentSpy lawyer said they would appeal the court ruli... |
9 May 2008
05:34 GMT |
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The fight against movie and software piracy has just recorded another win as the MPA along with the help of other organizations, including here the Malaysian Federation Against Copyright Theft, managed to shut down an illegal DVD facility located in Kajang, Malaysia. According to a press statement signed by the MPAA,... |
9 May 2008
03:35 GMT |
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Although it happens in various countries in the world, a Romanian pirate thought it could never happen to him: Kiss Adalbert Daniel, 28-year-old, was found guilty of possession with the purpose of distribution of pirated materials and received a sentence of five years and six months in jail. Beside that, the pirate h... |
8 May 2008
06:06 GMT |
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The fight against piracy will reach new and unbelievable heights, since two of the most expected PC games to be released this year, Spore and Mass Effect, will require an online validation every ten days in order to function. Even though it seems, at start, a good decision and something that might put an end to PC ga... |
7 May 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Although file-sharing is not necessarily an illegal activity as long as you share your own files and don't infringe the copyright laws, some people get fined and are sent to prison for file-sharing. Such a case occurred some time ago when a 31-year-old Swedish file-sharer, Andreas Karlsson, was sent to court, be... |
7 May 2008
10:47 GMT |
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The fight against pirates who simply ignore the copyright laws records one more win as David M. Fish, a 26-year-old man living in Woodbury, Conn., has been sentenced to 30 months in prison after he was involved in multiple illegal activities. According to a statement signed by the Department of Justice, David Fish di... |
7 May 2008
05:53 GMT |
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With Windows Vista and the close integration of the Windows Genuine Advantage mechanism, Microsoft has taken an option to actively protect the operating system against piracy, on top of what activation has to offer. And while Service Pack 1 for Vista removed the Reduced Functionality Mode kill-switch from the latest ... |
6 May 2008
05:53 GMT |
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IFPI, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, makes new efforts in its fight against illegal file-sharing services announcing that it plans to sue a Swedish ISP which refused to support its move. Unfortunately, the name of the ISP was not disclosed. TorrentFreak reports that one of the local Intern... |
5 May 2008
06:53 GMT |
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An international campaign started by the British Phonographic Industry aims to teach kids around the world that downloading pirated content is not a good thing, BPI announced today. With the help of international music organizations, BPI will distribute special guides addressed to parents, teachers and students in 5,... |
30 April 2008
18:06 GMT |
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As part of their efforts to stop illegal file-sharing, the Motion Picture Association and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry have announced a new campaign that would attempt to convince the Chinese users that illegal file-sharing must be avoided. The two organizations will distribute 300,000 bo... |
25 April 2008
07:33 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is one of the most popular names on the web nowadays even if it comes from that side of the market which is often accused of piracy and copyright infringement. In fact, The Pirate Bay is one of the most attacked services as several copyright holders and anti-piracy groups have sued the BitTorrent track... |
25 April 2008
04:02 GMT |
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The short story so far: Warner Bros. and The Pirate Bay are the plaintiff and the defendant of a copyright lawsuit in which the BitTorrent website is accused of providing access to pirated material. Nothing new until now because we've seen lots of similar cases when BitTorrent websites were sued for infringing c... |
24 April 2008
02:30 GMT |
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MVGroup, a torrent tracker that has nothing to do with illegal material or copyrighted content, has gone offline due to what seems to be the error of the anti-piracy group that requested the host to shut down the servers. According to TorrentFreak, the BitTorrent website went offline a few days ago and it's stil... |
23 April 2008
04:25 GMT |
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The matter of copyright is one of the most popular news subjects these days, but what's more important is actually the fact that most articles talk about illegal downloading or pirated content. Today, another file-sharing related news reaches the web as the Seoul authorities have started, once again, a serious c... |
22 April 2008
05:57 GMT |
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It's well known the fact that file-sharing and especially websites or applications that enhance the distribution of pirated content, mostly affect bands and music/movie companies because this is what people use to download from the web. Because of that, copyright holders and media companies around the world file... |
21 April 2008
06:26 GMT |
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A "top executive" at NBC Universal hinted on Wednesday that the company would like to get back on that iTunes saddle, under one condition though: they want antipiracy measures "to help protect his business' revenue," sources inform.NBC Universal wants its TV shows distributed via Apple's service again. The ... |
17 April 2008
16:36 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay, the BitTorrent website which has been longly criticized for the content published on its page, prepares to release a complaint in order to demand for compensations from IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), an organization supposed to defend music artists' copyrights. To b... |
16 April 2008
04:43 GMT |
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Eric Ligman, Microsoft US Senior Manager Small Business Community Engagement, has come out guns blazing with sarcasm following reports of a Windows Vista Service Pack 1 loophole which permits end users to perform clean installations of the operating system instead of upgrades. The workaround is nothing new and repres... |
15 April 2008
08:02 GMT |
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Demonoid was one of the most popular names on the BitTorrent websites industry, with an impressive number of daily users that helped the page grow up. Although all these aspects predicted a successful future for the website, it was 100% different from what the administrators were expecting: Demonoid got shut down aft... |
14 April 2008
16:56 GMT |
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One of the most appreciated Wii games is, undoubtedly, Mario Kart Wii, just because it stars the short-legged plumber. If that's the case for you, too, you should know that only original Nintendo Wii consoles will be able to run the game - so, if you have a chipped one, you can say goodbye to it (and, most likel... |
14 April 2008
02:25 GMT |
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