New CD copy-lock technology nears market
A new kind of copy-protected music CD will likely hit U.S. shelves early next year, as record label SonyBMG experiments with a technology created by...
U.S. Officials Raid Stores, Arrest 2 in Game Piracy
Federal authorities raided three Washington, D.C.-area video game stores and arrested two people for modifying video game consoles to play pirated video games, a video...
Kazaa the biggest piracy system, courts told
Five major record companies have told courts that developers of the file-swapping technology Kazaa have produced the biggest music piracy system ever seen.
The companies...
Pirate-for-genuine XP trade
BRITISH owners of pirated copies of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system can trade them in for the real thing as part of a bid by...
Microsoft, Time Warner, Thomson Partner In Anti-Piracy Software Firm
French technology company Thomson SA said Monday it has agreed to join Microsoft and Time Warner Inc. as a partner in ContentGuard... a move expected...
MPAA unleashes first wave of piracy lawsuits
Taking a page from the RIAA's playbook, the MPAA has fired off a wave of lawsuits against alleged movie swappers.
One of the lawsuits apparently...
Greek, British police break illegal software ring
Greek and British police in a joint operation cracked a multimillion illegal software sales ring, arresting two people and seizing thousands of pirate hi-tech software...
Wave of HDVD Piracy Strikes China
Pirate DVDs that can hold more movies and TV shows than traditional DVD discs have become such a threat to China's video products market that...
Digital Piracy: Global Scourge or New Paradigm?
The U.S. Trade Representative has called digital piracy a "global scourge." Software piracy totaled $20 billion in 2003. Meanwhile millions of songs a month are...
Trio of new games victim of piracy
A MONTH before the video game's scheduled release in the US this coming Tuesday, illegal copies of the hot sci-fi action title Halo 2 were...
