No More Pirated Content on YouTorrent
	The fight against the BitTorrent websites encouraging and enhancing the download of pirated content is famous now and it seems there are signs of success. Although the reasons for doing this were not explained too well, YouTorrent, one of the most appreciated BitTorrent search engines, is now getting more legal than anytime before, as its owners have decided to index only licensed content. "Due to the uncertain nature of ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 04:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 10 Popular Pirated Movies of 2007
	It's well known the fact that the underground market has grown a lot, especially when talking about P2P downloads where the BitTorrent industry was often brought in the spotlights due to legal fights with copyright holders. However, it's obvious that some people choose to download pirated movies, music and games even with poor quality, functions and features. That's why the folks at Wired, in collaboration with Big ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 05:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yet Another BitTorrent Website Shuts Down Its Servers
	It's well known the fact that media companies around the world have started a powerful campaign against the BitTorrent websites that encourage and enhance the distribution of pirated content, so such a piece of news shouldn't amaze anybody. However, when hearing about another BitTorrent service that bit the dust, most people want to know its name because giants like TorrentSpy already went offline after being involved i ... [read more >>]
	07 April 2008, 17:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pirates of the Caribbean Online New Content Announced
	Fans of the Pirates of the Caribbean Online should find it most appealing that Disney Onlin ... [read more >>]
	28 December 2007, 07:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Buy Pirated Software and Get $500 for Legitimate Content
	In case you have been the one of the numerous victims out there who have bought pirated application from famous auction website, you now have the chance to take your money back. 'How?' it's the first question that may come in your mind. Well, the Software & Information Industry Association launched the 'Don’t Get Mad, Get Even' campaign that allows the victims of software pirates to get their money ba ... [read more >>]
	21 December 2007, 10:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Users Not Afraid of Software Piracy
	A recent study conducted by market researcher TNS reveals that 38 percent of the Britons connected to the Internet think that downloading pirated content from the web is not as serious as stealing from a store. According to Web User News, the TNS study also revealed that UK Internet consumers 'didn't like the idea of being watched online' just like it happens in some other countries. Take the example of China where the autho ... [read more >>]
	20 December 2007, 05:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Symantec: Pirating Our Software Brings Us $21 Million
	Symantec, that famous security company that built so many powerful technologies, was awarded $21 million in damages after the United States District Court for the Central District of California, in Los Angeles, CA, ruled in the favor of the security company. Back in 2006, Symantec filed a complaint against ANYI, SILI, Yee Sha, and their affiliates, accusing them of trademark infringement, copyright infringement, fraud, unfair com ... [read more >>]
	20 December 2007, 05:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Genuine Is Your Windows?
	The counterfeited software has always represented a problem for both software companies and consumers and the phenomenon is getting stronger nowadays. It appears that pirated technologies are available even in retail stores, which makes the fight against such software almost impossible. According to "PC World", there were cases when users bought Windows, but when trying to install it, the Windows Genuine Advantage tech ... [read more >>]
	07 December 2007, 04:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How To Lose All Your Money Due To Pirated Software
	Everybody knows that it's illegal to install pirated or unlicensed content on your system especially if you're a company based on computer activities. That's why it's always recommended to buy licenses and pay for the software you install or else you may get caught and forced to pay a huge fine. But how do you get caught and who decides if you must be fined or not? Well, it's the Business Software Allianc ... [read more >>]
	26 November 2007, 06:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Police Hunting Movie Pirates
	Several Hollywood studios including Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox International started a legal battle with Jeebo.com and a Shanghai Internet cafe after it was reported that they are involved in pirated content distribution. According to Xinhua, the studios are claiming that Jeebo.com provided access to illegal copies of several movies such as X-Men 2 or Pirates of the Caribbean 2 while the Internet cafes enhanced this acce ... [read more >>]
	26 November 2007, 05:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Illegal Downloads To Be Banned In France
	The French authorities seem to be prepared to launch a campaign against the illegal downloaders in the country as they want to stop the distribution of pirated music and videos. According to Financial Times, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to create a special government body which will be responsible for blocking these illegal downloads. But what's more interesting is that the authorities want to remove the access to the Int ... [read more >>]
	23 November 2007, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Games and Porn Pirates Finally Arrested
	Two males, aged 33 and 28, and a woman, 22-year-old, were caught by the Welsh police being accused of distribution of pirated content such as music, movies, games and pornography. The authorities expect an important decrease in the pirated market after the arrest of the three pirates as they were the top providers of illegal content for the UK industry. The two men were released on bail but the investigation will continue as the ... [read more >>]
	22 November 2007, 09:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The BitTorrent Download – Friend And Foe (At the Same Time)
	The BitTorrent downloads are very popular nowadays because all the users interested in this way of saving files from the web can take movies, games and music in no time. But this doesn’t necessarily mean that all the content available through BitTorrent are legal and the users are allowed to download it with no risk. It’s well known the fact that numerous BitTorrent websites were shut down due to pirated content published on its ... [read more >>]
	15 November 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Simpsons Pirate Arrested and Fined $888
	The Simpsons, one of the 2007 movies which brought impressive revenues for Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, got a 21-year-old Australian into trouble after he pirated the movie and attempted to distribute it on the web. Jose Duarte was first arrested in August and today he was finally fined $888 which is a pretty small penalty when we think that some other pirates spend years in jail for similar actions. In fact, the Australian' ... [read more >>]
	14 November 2007, 03:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pirated Websites Closed, Users Heading To Court
	The battle against the users and websites that infringe copyrights continues with a new case in Minnesota after several companies, all of them members of the Recording Industry Association of America, filed a lawsuit against a Kazaa user. As Wired reports, the companies, including Virgin Records, Warner Bros. Records, Sony BMG and others, demanded $3.9 million in damages because Jannie Thomas distributed no less than 1,702 files ... [read more >>]
	01 October 2007, 06:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nintendo Wii Hacked! Modchip to be Available Soon
	Yeah sure, you'll mod your console to play the backups you made to your original CDs and DVDs... Who buys this excuse nowadays? Mods are as illegal as downloading games and playing them on your hacked console... However, the illicit gaming industry can't be stopped from evolving, f ... [read more >>]
	01 October 2007, 03:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Underground Community Crushed by the Law
	Software, video games, DVD movies and MP3 music files, all available online, most of them before commercially available to the general public. Does that sound good to you? I don't know, but it sure is illegal! And that was all Eli El's business – he was a 40 year old hacker involved in one heck of a large pirated software distribution operation. Isn't that a mouthful? Through the warez scene, he distributed (illega ... [read more >>]
	03 September 2007, 05:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows or No PC at All!
	sk0t has been arrested, fact which comes as quite a blow to torrent users all around the world. He was the one that uploaded Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith before its theatrical release, as The Register informs. Known under the name Scott McCausland in real life, he is the ex-admin of Elite Torrents BitTorrent tracker, of which I'm sure many of you have heard about by now. He has been trialed and sentenced. ... [read more >>]
	24 August 2007, 10:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Music Download Allowed, Russia Considers
	The man who is named by the international organizations fighting for the protection of the copyright a music pirate, Denis Kvasov, the owner of the famous AllOfMp3 website, can't be prosecuted for copyright infringement, a Russian judge said. What's most interesting is that numerous international copyright holders criticized the website for distributing their content and moreover, it recorded important amounts of money ... [read more >>]
	16 August 2007, 06:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Free Torrent Download For the Latest Harry Potter Book
	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, the latest book concerning the famous hero, is about to be released in this weekend in several corners of the world. But the very addicted fans now have an alternative. The latest J. K. Rowling's creation was leaked on the Internet by a user who managed to obtain a US edition on the book and photograph every page. The British edition of the book has 608 pages while the American version has no less ... [read more >>]
	18 July 2007, 04:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yesterday: Pirated Music Is Dead! Today: Pirated Music Is Alive!
	Yesterday, the Russian authorities proudly announced that they closed AllofMP3, a website that distributed pirated music although it sustained it offers only licensed content. Today, Computerworld interviews some old customers of the recently-closed website who mentioned they are still able to download music but not from the main page of the service. It seems like all the users were redirected to allTunes, a separated domain that ... [read more >>]
	06 July 2007, 08:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Police Involved In Pirated Software Distribution
	The Italian authorities managed to arrest no less than 35 persons due to Operation Crack, a special campaign started by the police in order to stop a criminal gang from distributing pirated software. According to IFPI, the shocking element of the investigation was revealed after the authorities arrested all the members of the gang and discovered that a policeman and an official from the Minister of Interior were also involved in ... [read more >>]
	05 July 2007, 05:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pirated Music? Not Anymore!
	The international music authorities finally managed to close a Russian-based website that distributed pirated music on the Internet. Actually, the owners of the website sustained the page was legal as they were paying royalties to ROMS, a Russian organization that works closely to copyright owners. According to MSNBC, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) didn't recognize ROMS as a legal organizati ... [read more >>]
	05 July 2007, 04:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No More Pirated Content on TorrentSpy
	Following the recent legal problems encountered by the famous BitTorrent website, the owners of the service decided to release a special function to fight against pirated content. FileRights, the new function, is meant to filter the search results to avoid pirated content from being indexed by the webpage. As you probably know, TorrentSpy serves as a search engine that provides instant access to thousands of pages, no matter if they contai ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2007, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Starts Removing Full Movies
	Following the recent reports that YouTube is offering full-length pirated movies, the parent company Google decided to take attitude and removed Sicko, one of the videos included in the complaints. The entire movie was divided in 14 parts because the online video sharing service allows only up to 10 minutes or 100 mb per clip. However, the removal might cause even more problems as the producer of the film is prepared to start an ... [read more >>]
	21 June 2007, 07:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Full-Length Pirated Movies Available on Google for Free!
	Some time ago, several full-length movies were published on the popular Google Video although its guidelines are strictly prohibiting this type of content. Moreover, they were republished after the search giant's employees deleted them and renamed to hidden words to avoid identification. Today, a new movie was published on the video service and, even if it was already removed from the page, it was reuploaded with a different ... [read more >>]
	19 June 2007, 12:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Hacker Arrested By The FBI
	The FBI managed to catch the famous YouTube pirate who uploaded three episodes of "24" on the online video sharing service even before they were released by Fox. At that time, the Twentieth Century Fox officials sent a subpoena to the parent company Google to require more details about the user who uploaded the clips. The Mountain View firm said that the videos were published by a member using the alias ECOtotal with a ... [read more >>]
	05 June 2007, 16:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Ship of Blackbeard to Be Excavated
	10 years ago, researchers discovered a shipwreck just off the Atlantic Beach, in North Carolina and it was supposed to have belonged to the famous pirate Blackbeard. Now, archaeologists have announced that in three years, the shipwreck will be fully excavated. "That's really our target," says Steve Claggett, the state archaeologist. The ship sank in 1718, and scientists guess this was a French slave ship ca ... [read more >>]
	03 March 2007, 05:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia