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CIO Jury: 'Cynical' licence audits under fire
News Members of IT user group the Corporate IT Forum are complaining that the number of audit demands are getting out of hand and are more about increasing revenue than actually tackling piracy. Ken Davis, head of IT at... [12 Jan 2007]
BitTorrent to pimp the silver screen?
News Eric Patterson, BitTorrent's general manager of consumer services, said: "We come to the table with a solution to piracy. Peer-to-peer company BitTorrent will begin distributing movies and TV shows for... [29 Nov 2006]
Turning the Tide: Why new strategies are urgently needed to counter the surge in online video piracy
White Paper Now that millions of ordinary, non-geeky families are routinely downloading TV shows and movies without a second thought, digital piracy has clearly gone mainstream. These people don't see themselves as... [18 Oct 2006]
Turning the Tide: Why new strategies are urgently needed to counter the surge in online video piracy
Now that millions of ordinary, non-geeky families are routinely downloading TV shows and movies without a second thought, digital piracy has clearly gone mainstream. These people don't see themselves as... [18 Oct 2006]
Copyright tussle looming over online video?
News The proposal also embraces the legality of technological protection measures, which means there would be nothing to stop controversial copy-prevention regimes such as the broadcast flag, designed to prevent digital TV... [06 Sep 2006]
AOL moves into movie downloads
News For the Hollywood studios, faced with digital piracy of their products, it is an acknowledgment of the need for online distribution. AOL is adding digital movie downloads from several studios to its video site and... [25 Aug 2006]
Hollywood ready for DVD burning
News The latest move by the DVD CCA fits with Hollywood's overall strategy to combat piracy by offering consumers a legal, inexpensive and convenient way to obtain digital movies so they won't bother to steal them. [11 Aug 2006]
Is BitTorrent moving into the mainstream?
News Long considered in Hollywood as part of an extensive and despised piracy tool kit, BitTorrent's file-sharing system will be used by Warner Bros to distribute films and TV shows starting sometime this... [10 May 2006]
Google set to push play on Video Store
News Google has avoided the stumbling blocks that have kept video-on-demand from the PC, including developing a monetisation model and methods that protect copyrights and prevent piracy, Chane said. Consumers will be able to... [09 Jan 2006]
Is BBC trumping Hollywood with free video?
Comment The Envisional survey released in April claims the UK and Australia are the biggest offenders, responsible for an estimated 18 and 15 per cent of total TV piracy respectively, with the number of illegal... [19 May 2005]
TV piracy: Lawsuits filed against net show swappers
News The trade association said piracy of TV programming is growing quickly online, and that shows are as important to protect as big-budget films. Continuing its war on internet file-swapping sites, the... [13 May 2005]
US cracks down on peer-to-peer pirates
News The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, approved by the House of Representatives last Tuesday, is the entertainment industry's latest attempt to thwart rampant piracy on file-swapping networks. It is not clear how it... [28 Apr 2005]
Dr Who 'leaker' gets the sack
News TV piracy, driven by the boom in se of BitTorrent software in particular is becoming a major concern for television studios with shows such as 24 and Star Trek among those most commonly cracked and... [29 Mar 2005]
Channel Five becomes UK's first telly download shop
News TV piracy is already rampant in the UK. The nation now accounts for one fifth of the world's TV piracy, according to a recent report. Channel Five fancies itself as the... [22 Mar 2005]
'PC tax' could replace BBC licence fee
News The green paper on the Charter review, published yesterday, suggests that TV piracy may force the BBC into changing how the licence fee is collected. The UK now accounts for one-fifth of global... [03 Mar 2005]
