All the stories tagged with piracy
Study: Music Industry Unharmed By Illegal Music Downloads
03/20/2013, You know how some studies on the same topic seem to contradict one another from time to time? Is it good to have a glass of wine each day, or a cup of coffee? Well, here is one for the [...]
Game Of Thrones’ Director Is Not Worried About Piracy
02/27/2013, The common perception regarding piracy is that it hurts the sales of the product, i.e. music, video games, television shows, movies, software and etc. On the flipside there are developers and artists who fully embrace piracy, claiming that this helps [...]
Chinese Man Found Guilty Of Selling Pirated Software Worth $100 Million
01/08/2013, A Chinese businessman in the U.S. was found guilty of selling stolen software reported to be worth $100 million. U.S. officials say that the stolen software was to be used in programs related to space technology, defense, and engineering. The [...]
File sharers buy 30% more music than non-file sharers according to survey
10/17/2012, As far as music piracy is concerned, the common perception is that people who download don’t buy music. After all, if you can get it for free, why fork out money for essentially the same product, right? Well as it [...]
Appeals Court rules Jammie Thomas must pay $222,000
09/11/2012, Online file-sharing is considered illegal and an infringement of intellectual copyrights of the content that is being shared, if it is not available publicly and for free. However, very few cases related to online file sharing have surfaced in the [...]
Google Censorship List Now Includes Pirate Bay Domains
09/10/2012, Google has recently introduced a number of anti-piracy measures to discourage users from looking up pirated content online. While the search giant hasn’t removed the indexes of piracy sites from its search results, it is taking steps to ensure that [...]
Android is designed for piracy, developer says
07/25/2012, Scottish developer Matt Gemmell is saying that Android’s open source philosophy is designed for piracy from the ground up. If you’re taken aback by Gemmell’s statement, he has a lengthy post on his blog to explain his presumption. Gemmell says [...]
The Pirate Bay website might see UK ban
02/20/2012, Filesharing website The Pirate Bay might be closer to a shipwreck (read: blocked) in the UK after the high court ruled that the site actually breaches copyright laws on a large scale. Most of the bigwigs among the music industry [...]
Google adds more words to its list of piracy related terms
11/24/2011, Earlier this year it was reported that Google was censoring various piracy-related keywords from its autocomplete and instant services, with quite a number of file sharing websites being affected by the move. Well now, it looks like the search engine [...]
Siri requires piracy on non-iPhone 4S devices
10/12/2011, You might think that the Dev Team is almighty when it comes to making everything and anything work with your iDevice, but bear in mind that just like how Hal Jordan in the 2011 movie Green Lantern put it, “We [...]
Nearly half the world thinks it is okay to use pirated software
09/07/2011, The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has recently published a report saying that almost half the world’s PC users acquire software illegally and think that it’s okay to do so. It recently published on its blog: 47% of personal computers acquire [...]
1TB hard drive of pirated content is considered “art”
08/25/2011, As technology is starting to become integrated more and more in our daily lives, the line that separates art and technology is starting to blur. So much so we’ve started calling computers with top of the line specs to be [...]
India bans filesharing websites
07/21/2011, Well it was only just yesterday that we reported about how a 15 year old kid in Sweden got into legal trouble for downloading movies. He’s not the first and he will probably not be the last, but there seems [...]
