The growing problem of illegal file-sharing and digital piracy, which has long hounded the music and movie industries, is now threatening to affect the e-Book business as well.
One of the best examples of the impending threat to e-Books is the illegal file-sharing of Dan Brown’s novel “The Lost Symbol,” which was earlier released in September.
The [...]

Joel Tenenbaum, a graduate student of the Boston University who was ordered to pay music labels some $675, 000 over copyright infringement charges, has asked a judge handling his case to grant him a new trial and to reduce the amount of damages imposed earlier by the jury.
It will be recalled the Tenenbaum was ordered [...]

U2 frontman Bono has called on authorities to implement a tougher control over the proliferation of illegal downloading on the Internet, saying that file-sharing over peer-to-peer networks has a devastating effect on intellectual property rights owners and other creators of “cultural products”.
The Irish rock star stressed that it is the music industry that has become [...]

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said on Monday that Swedish music labels have now started to track down illegal file-sharers using an Internet Protocol that is considered unlawful, adding that it has already filed several lawsuits at the Stockholm district court.
IFPI Swedish chapter has asked the court to make users’ ISP address [...]

In a bid to control Internet contents being provided in the country, the Chinese government has shut down hundreds of video sharing websites, including links that allow downloading of films and television series.
In a Chinese newspaper report, popular websites offering video sharing has been ordered to be deleted or closed down by regulators in the [...]

Following massive “losses” in the music industry due to blatant piracy on the Internet, moviemakers are now bracing themselves for more losses as web connection in the rest of the civilized world continue to get faster.
The warning came after music labels cried foul over the continuous proliferation of online piracy, which according to experts, could [...]