Sony Corp., one of the largest videogame developers and console manufacturers in the world, said that Internet piracy has now grown into uncontrollable proportion to the point that it has become the Playstation Portable’s (PSP) biggest problem. “The growing problem of piracy has become the PSP system’s biggest problem. It affects everyone, from the biggest [...]

United States legislators on Wednesday condemned the alarming levels of digital piracy in five countries, saying that their governments failed to crack down copyright violators and has allowed the continued proliferation of illegal materials on the Internet. Among the Top 5 copyright violators were China, Canada, Mexico, Spain, and Russia, the US Congressional International Anti-Piracy [...]

A new study released by World Internet Project (WIP) on Monday showed that “very few” Internet users in Australia are willing to pay or buy digital music and film copies. The study also revealed that “a fewer” number of Aussies would pay for online newspaper articles. The WIP-funded survey was conducted in Australia by the [...]

LimeWire “Guilty” of Copyright Infringement, Unfair Competition – US Judge Citing the recent ruling of the United States Supreme Court against online music service Grokster, a US District Court judge on Tuesday ruled versus LimeWire and its owner Mark Gorton, saying that the file-sharing website was found “guilty” of copyright infringement and unfair competition. In [...]

Washington DC-based legal outfit US Copyright Group (USCG) is now finalizing hundreds of thousands of potential lawsuits against BitTorrent file-sharing users for upload “Hurt Locker” on the website. However, many of the complaints, according to legal experts, would be much like the “John Doe” lawsuits of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has [...]