A proposed amendment to India's Cinematograph Act suggests that camcorder pirates in India should face up to three years in prison and pay fines up to $14,000 if they distribute copyrighted content.
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Skull & Bones - the upcoming open world pirate game inspired from Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - gives a taste of multiplayer naval combat in a new gameplay trailer shown by Ubisoft at E3 2018.
With the release of Zoo Tycoon Ultimate Animal Collection, the video game piracy group claims to have trumped the five layers of DRM protection included with content published via the UWP platform.
The hacking entity, TheDarkOverlord, has leaked its second TV series. This time it was ABC's Steve Harvey's Funderdome episodes 1-8. In April, it leaked season five of Orange is the New Black.
Pirates are in the crosshairs, targeted with thousands of takedown notices over the leaking of the first four episodes of the latest season of HBO's popular TV series, Game of Thrones.
According to a new statement from Microsoft, the company isn't actually looking to upgrade pirated Windows versions to a licensed Windows 10. Instead those who upgrade will remain unlicensed pirates.
Terry Myerson, head of the Windows team, has officially stated that even pirated versions of Windows will be able to upgrade for free to Windows 10, in an effort to "re-engage" users.
Tumblr appears to be censoring anything related to or tagged with the term "torrent" in searches, and banning users under a new strict "three strikes" policy in an attempt to rid the site of pirates.
The Pirate Bay is back online with a few changes; the site's logo is changed as well as the staff. The site is not fully functional yet but will probably be restored to its original form soon.
Last week several Oscar-nominated movies leaked online. The producer of Leviathan has decided to invite people who downloaded the movie to donate to a good cause, instead of going after them in court.
The YTS torrent site has announced that it will continue working on the Popcorn Time app, after its original creators decided to stop development due to questions about its legality.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Late last week, Microsoft published a post on the Microsoft SMB community blog announcing that using any "hack" to install Windows 7 from upgrade media is not necessarily "legal" - and that users do not...
Microsoft has confirmed via its Genuine Windows Blog that only those Windows users running genuine, validated copies will be able to download and install the new Microsoft Security Essentials software. The Director of Microsoft's Genuine...
In a PC gaming world filled with DRM and CD key checks, Zeno Clash, a new first person shooter/fighting hybrid from independent gaming development studio ACE team, has taken a new approach. Appearing on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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"...
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...
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...
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...
