Scriptwriters in Germany have published a letter directed to the internet, pirates, greens, and left-wingers, targeting them over copyright and their stance towards it. More...

Despite worldwide music revenues growing faster last year than in 2010, a new industry report indicates that music piracy is increasing too - 1 in 4 global web users acquired music illegally in 2011. More...

A new investigation of BitTorrent activities shows that a number of IP addresses belonging to major Hollywood studios have been used to download pirated movies and more from BitTorrent sites. More...

Australians now face the possibility of having their ISP disconnect or suspend them from the internet if they pirate films or music online, reports The Age. And with The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) claiming... More...

With the nominations of the Oscars named just a few days ago I wondered how many of the movies nominated have actually been seen by people at home rather then the cinema in the form... More...

Karma, no matter what you do it will come back to bite you where it hurts the most. Up to 20,000 pirates who thought they would get away without paying for iWork '09 have... More...

Adult entertainment company Hustler is finding it hard to find users who are sharing their films or videos online, so they have gone to a third party to find the users sharing them... and that... More...

When we reported about the leak of a BuckCherry track last week, and specifically the band's response to it, we hinted that this could be a covert form of self-promotion. Indeed, after a few days... More...

Six of the UK's biggest net providers have agreed a plan with the music industry to tackle piracy online. The deal, negotiated by the government, will see hundreds of thousands of letters sent... More...

One of the popular reasons given for sometimes-sluggish game sales on the PC is piracy. If people can get the game for free, why would they pay for it? Go to any popular torrent site... More...

This teenager hacked into the outfit charged with protecting companies like Sony, Universal, and Activision from online piracy—the most daring exploit yet in the escalating war between fans and corporate giants. Guess which side is... More...

Eric Wilkinson, the producer of the independent film "The Man from Earth", wrote an email to RLSlog in which he thanks them for the free promotion they gave him. "In the future, I will not... More...

Pirates of the Caribbean Online has been released to the public from the beta stage. Set sail on the vast blue waters of the Caribbean in search of adventure, fortune, and fame in the... More...

Microsoft on Monday said that it is taking action against groups that sold copies of Windows and Office discounted for academic use to regular users. The Redmond, Wash., software maker has filed nine lawsuits and... More...

n a case of a malware purveyor attacking pirate file-sharers, security vendor Sophos has warned of a bizarre Trojan horse which has been distributed on Japanese peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. The Troj/Pirlames-A Trojan horse has been... More...

Yesterday a Neowin member linked to a DIGG article that was sourcing this website with a screenshot of a supposed key generator for Windows Vista. Since last night it has been updated and the poster... More...

Brandon Drury and Luke Sample, the owners of EasyDownloadCenter.com and TheDownloadPlace.com, are currently being sued by several Hollywood studios. How does Google fit in? The two men said in sworn statements that Google received $809,000... More...

AS MICROSOFT kicked off the global launch of its long-awaited Windows Vista, the software giant's new operating system also hit the streets of China - in pirated form. In an electronic market in the southern... More...

At CES 2007, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced the massively multiplayer Pirates of the Caribbean will be coming later this year. The title will be available thanks to the redesigned Disney.com website that is aimed... More...

35 days before Windows XP was officially released, a pirated key, called the "devils0wn", began circulating around the web which allowed users to run a pirated copy of the operating system. Since then, the key... More...

Microsoft is preparing 55 legal actions worldwide against sellers on auction sites who are hawking illegal copies of the company's software, the company said Tuesday. The actions are a mix of lawsuits and criminal... More...

Microsoft said Wednesday that it plans to clamp down hard on piraters of its next-generation operating systems, crippling both Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" if users fail to activate their copies within 30 days.... More...

Users running illegal copies of Windows XP are being offered discounted purchase prices Recently in the DailyTech labs we had a test bed machine that was giving us "this copy of Windows is not genuine"... More...

Microsoft and eBay are working together tostop the sale of pirated software on the online auction site. The companies said in a statement that over 21,000 suspect software saleswere removed from the eBayUK site between... More...

A recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing has revealed that Apple now considers Linux a potential market challenger. Apple's K-10 form – a review of its past financial year for the SEC – reveals... More...

Two men have been convicted for piracy over peer-to-peer networks in the first case of its kind in the US. The pair, William Trowbridge from New York and Michael Chicoine of Texas, were running central... More...

The Inquirer is reporting that Microsoft have begun cracking down on pirate copies of Windows. The action comes as part of Microsoft's Genuine Advantage program, launched recently. The program asked users to validate their computer... More...

MMORPG.IT: A few months have passed since our last interview: how is the project going? Are there any major changes? FLS: There are a number of big changes that have happened. We... More...

"You won't believe this" says Marc Hudgins, one of the designers that work on the remake of Sid Meier's Pirates!, "But in 13 years of my work in the industry this is the best and... More...

A new version of Battlefield Pirates is now available for download, bringing this Battlefield 1942 mod to v0.3 Beta. Please be aware that this mod is probably a little different than what you're used to.... More...

Much rejoice there were when Microsoft's Barry Goffe announced that everyone (including the so-called "thief's") would be able to install Windows XP Service Pack 2. A few days later, A Microsoft spoke person said otherwise... More...

A University of Tulsa (UT) research team has patented software designed to prevent illegal downloading of music over the Internet. The new software sends illegal downloaders on a wild goose chase in a P2P pond... More...

Many people using pirated copies of Windows XP will get no help from Microsoft to make their PC safer. The software giant has decided that a forthcoming update to XP will not... More...

Sid Meier's Pirates! is among the most popular and loved titles in gaming history. Originally released in 1987, Pirates! received unprecedented critical acclaim for crossing multiple game genres to offer unique, unrivaled gameplay options. Pirates!... More...

When Tim Davis got caught trading songs, it made him semifamous. Davis, an artist who teaches photography at Yale, was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America last September and was featured in news... More...

Sony Corp will launch its popular PlayStation 2 game console in China next month, saying on Friday it must be "courageous" in the face of rampant piracy that has plagued the vast potential market. The... More...

A week after the German demo, there is now an English playable demo for Tortuga: Pirates of the New World (a.k.a. Pirate Hunter), offering another chance to try out this trading management strategy game by... More...

Riddle me this: What would you get if you crossed a BlackBerry with an iPod? The answer: The future of the music business. Let me explain. Imagine, if you will, an iPod as a wireless... More...

Hollywood sends enforcers with night-vision goggles into movie theaters and puts metal detectors outside advance screening rooms, but still the industry can't stop pirates from recording films and selling illegal copies before their theatrical debuts.... More...

Recently several bogus mp3 files meant to resemble the file attributes of songs from Madonna's new album "American Life" were flooded onto Peer2Peer networks for music pirates to download. When Madonna's fans went to listen... More...

Internet service providers determined to clamp down on file-sharing are fighting a losing battle, say analysts. Increasingly peer-to-peer (P2P) software, which allows surfers to share music and video files, is dodging... More...

The US Naval Academy has seized about 100 student computers that are suspected of containing unauthorized copies of copyrighted works. The students were in class on Thursday when the raid occurred, according... More...

File swappers have apparently tried and failed to use their technical wizardry to copy a pirated version of Warner Bros.' newest "Harry Potter" movie to the Internet before its Friday theatrical release. ... More...

AT&T Broadband is warning customers to secure their Wi-Fi networks after an unusual case in which a subscriber played an unwitting role in dispatching a pirated movie over the Internet, the company's spokeswoman said. ... More...

ReplayTV 4500: No Hacking, or Else - what eh? come on then... well - its seems theyll lock you out of your investment - a big downer! Heres what slashdot had to say... ... More...

While Columbia Picture's new "Spider-Man" movie was breaking box-office records over the weekend, Internet movie pirates were busily downloading free copies of the film on file-trading networks. By Saturday, pirated versions of... More...

Government backs tougher penalties for those who deal in illegally copied material, including software, as part of a counterfeiting crackdown The House of Commons has agreed to bring in significant changes to... More...

Thanks to nekrosoft13 for sending in this info. Video compression provider DivXNetworks has teamed with the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics to develop a system to protect digital video and audio from copyright... More...

Thanks Harold for this news that damns Microsoft in its efforts to combat piracy when it is now alleged to be practising what it preaches! hey read for yourself, its continued on "Read more" ... More...

Codemasters, a computer game company, has developed a new method for protecting games software from piracy. The system (FADE) takes a new approach and changes the way a pirated game works. ... More...