After years of fighting “online pirates”, the chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) will step down and take a new role in charity program for refugees from different parts of the world.
In an interview at a convention attended by theater owners, Dan Glickman announced his impending resignation as a chairman of MPAA [...]
A new report released by UK-based research firm Consumer Focus on Monday showed that millions of iPod, MP3, and computer users are unaware of violations they are committing when they “format shift” compact disk contents into their music players.
According to the report, at least 17 percent of adult users were not aware of the violations [...]
A new study conducted by the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, Canada showed that doctors are unwittingly sharing information about their patients while they use peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing websites.
The study also showed that computers in hospitals and homes are easily vulnerable to P2P file-sharing attacks, citing various software needed to be installed to [...]
The Joint Select Committee on Human Rights on Monday cried foul over the British government’s approach to the Piracy or Digital Economy Bill, saying that it could breach rights of millions of Internet users.
In a statement, the committee, which is composed of influential ministers of parliament, said that the government’s Digital Economy Bill needed more [...]
Online micro-blogging website Twitter.com on Tuesday urged its users to immediately reset their account passwords following massive phishing attacks, which has stolen thousands of usernames and passwords through fake BitTorrent sites.
The announcement came after Twitter technicians discovered plans of massive phishing activity to millions of user accounts in their website. The technicians noticed a sudden [...]
Australian human-rights groups on Tuesday expressed fear over the possible takeover of Internet Service Providers (ISP) with regard to the web content access and control in the country, citing the highly anticipated verdict of the Federal Court over Internet piracy on Thursday.
The Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), a group established to protect the civil rights of [...]
United Kingdom authorities on Friday said that music labels and movie studios should bear at least 75 percent of the cost for the continued abolition of illegal file-sharing websites on the Internet.
UK Treasury Minister Stephen Timms said that since copyright holders will be the major beneficiaries of the campaign, they should contribute some 75 percent [...]
A US District Judge in Minnesota has “drastically” reduced the amount of penalty imposed against a local woman found guilty of illegally sharing music files over peer-to-peer file-sharing websites. The judge has reduced the “monstrous and shocking” amount of nearly $2 million dollars to only $54, 000.
In his decision, US District Judge Michael Davis said [...]
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 [...]