The United States formally joined the 46-nation Council of Europe in waging war on cybercrime and urged other governments to do the same. State Department...

Microsoft has sued an anonymous computer hacker whose free program allows users to copy digital movies and songs by bypassing a software protection built into...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced 20 lawsuits against resellers allegedly engaged in the distribution of infringing software and software components. The lawsuits, filed against 20 defendants...

DVDs will soon be tracked with embedded radio transmitter chips to prevent copying and piracy, according to the company which makes movie discs for Warner,...

Broadcaster Sky has suspended its broadband movie download service after a Microsoft security patch on Windows Media's digital rights management (DRM) was cracked. Broadcaster Sky...

A 26-year-old California man who pleaded guilty last December to criminal copyright infringement charges was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison for his...

New legislation that threatens Internet pirates with jail terms of up to five years took effect in Russia, as Moscow presses its drive to join...

Identity Systems will soon roll out software that lets media companies from music to movies search through unstructured text on the Internet to identify piracy...

Fed up with continued piracy of DVDs and software, a Chinese city is offering retailers the chance to swap fake discs for real ones, a...

Microsoft filed 26 federal lawsuits against companies suspected of dealing in pirated copies of its lucrative Windows and Office computer software, a release said. Microsoft...