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RSS pirateWindows Vista proofed against video piracy
News PCs won't be the only ones with reinforced pirate-proofing. Microsoft is building unprecedented levels of safeguards against video piracy into the next version of its Windows operating system, Vista. For the first time,... [31 Aug 2005]
P2P right for businesses?
News Gartner said many companies are developing peer-to-peer architectures, and while the focus at the moment is on the use of such technologies to distribute pirate versions of copyrighted material, awareness of the... [28 Jun 2005]
Teen music pirate to see mum in court
News A 14-year old music pirate could be about to send her mum to court. Emily Price was caught in the third wave of anti-piracy action by music industry trade body the BPI and landed with a £2,500 bill for her file-sharing... [21 Jun 2005]
Dr Who 'leaker' gets the sack
News According to the BBC the culprit was identified by the Canadian Broadcasting Company, an international partner of the Beeb, although it is not clear whether the alleged pirate worked for that company or another... [29 Mar 2005]
Music pirates shun peer-to-peer for iPod-to-iPod
News Nevertheless, legal downloading is putting its pirate cousin in the shade in terms of growth. As legal music downloading takes off as never before, music pirates are shunning peer-to-peer services in favour of using... [24 Mar 2005]
What security breach could cost you your job?
News Third biggest concern (cited by 22 per cent of respondents) is their existence of pirate materials on the network, such as MP3 files or illegal software. IT bosses are fearful of losing their jobs in the event of a... [15 Mar 2005]
Pirate software users pay up €4m
News The fines imposed by the courts for the use of dodgy software ranged from €10,000 to the €300,000 imposed on an a firm of architects that was found to be a prolific pirate-software user. Last year, European businesses... [07 Mar 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Little sympathy for the music industry
Comment And the surveys that show large numbers of people are downloading music have rarely asked a further critical question - are the downloads pirate copies or are they downloads of the very large amount of material that is... [25 Jan 2005]
Leader: Still lots to learn from online music pirates
Leader While no one can deny it's good for the industry to see music fans switching to legitimate sites instead of pirate ones, it seems a little cloying that music execs are proclaiming downloads 'A Good Thing'. [20 Jan 2005]
1000 per cent rise in legal music downloads fails to kill pirates
News Younger people, too, seem to prefer the pirate route - only one in two of 16-29 year olds are aware of legal means to buy their music online. Digital download sites are springing up like mushrooms - but the pirates... [20 Jan 2005]
Fujitsu-Siemens to pay €12 for pirate PC users
News Fujitsu-Siemens has been ordered by a German court to pay a levy every time one of its computers is sold in the country, as part of a 'tax on piracy'. The judge ruled that since the company's PCs could be used for copying material - and... [04 Jan 2005]
Spam-happy shoppers love stolen software
News Ironically it is the very Trojans which can come bundled in with pirate software that help create the networks of compromised machines abused by spammers. Shoppers are still willing to buy products advertised in spam... [10 Dec 2004]
Microsoft sues eight resellers over dodgy stickers
News As well as discovering a trade in Asia for making bogus labels, Microsoft found some dodgy resellers removing the labels from genuine products and adding them to pirate copies. Recently, it announced it will replace... [02 Dec 2004]
Get free copy of XP from Microsoft - if you have a pirate version
News Hilton also said that anyone found with the pirate programme won't suffer legal repercussions but their suppliers might. Microsoft has announced what it hopes will be a new attack on piracy - the Redmond-based giant has... [24 Nov 2004]
Beware Santa bearing pirate software
News It's not the jovial fat man coming down your chimney you should look out for this Christmas, it's the policemen knocking on your front door - that is if you have bought any software which could be from an illegal source. [17 Nov 2004]
