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AS Profile While bigger and better TVs and home entertainment systems are bringing the experience of watching a movie at home ever closer to that of enjoying it in a cinema, Cameron is forging a new path: hoping to give viewers... [29 Sep 2009]
Copyright holders 'smiling' at sinking of Pirate Bay
News Reaction in the United States from those in the music and movie industries was tempered by the fact that the legal process has a long way to go. Piracy can sound romantic and glamorous but as this... [20 Apr 2009]
Google accused of helping P2P pirates
News Google has been accused of helping website operators who are being sued for enabling online movie piracy, court documents show. The search giant is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, which was... [13 Feb 2007]
BitTorrent to pimp the silver screen?
News The deal comes at a time when Hollywood is looking for a winning internet movie strategy. BitTorrent's announcement comes a day after Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, launched its own movie... [29 Nov 2006]
James Bond beaten by pirates
News It seems the British super-spy has met his match in the pirate community with two illegal versions of the movie being downloaded more than 200,000 times over the film's opening weekend. Versions of the... [22 Nov 2006]
AOL moves into movie downloads
News AOL is adding digital movie downloads from several studios to its video site and providing more on-demand TV shows. The company said on Thursday it has cut deals with several movie studios - Sony... [25 Aug 2006]
Hollywood ready for DVD burning
News Often accused of being anti-consumer when it comes to digital media, the movie industry now has plans to relax controls over how films are copied to DVDs. In the past, watching a movie downloaded off the... [11 Aug 2006]
Hollywood buddies up with Bram Cohen
News As a result, he has not been the target of lawsuits, although individual BitTorrent users have been sued for uploading movie files to others. In an event held at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, Cohen and... [23 Nov 2005]
Minority Report: Apple as media company - and why that's good for Macs
Comment The growing threat to movie studios from online piracy will increasingly force the hand of execs to make money from movies online. With the launch of the iPod, iTunes and the Mac mini, Apple has begun... [02 Sep 2005]
Techie fired over Grokster comments on BBC
News A British IT consultant accused by the Hollywood movie industry of running a BitTorrent file-sharing hub has been sacked by his employer after appearing on BBC 2's Newsnight programme last week to comment on the US... [04 Jul 2005]
US court hands out landmark file-sharing decision
News The US Supreme Court has handed movie studios and record labels a sweeping victory against file swapping, ruling that peer-to-peer companies such as Grokster could be held responsible for the copyright... [28 Jun 2005]
Is BBC trumping Hollywood with free video?
Comment I'm encouraging people in the movie industry to look at these technologies," Cerf says. Many technologies introduced in the last 20 years have had the potential for abuse, Cerf says, but DRM and digital watermarking... [19 May 2005]
US cracks down on peer-to-peer pirates
News File-swappers who distribute a single copy of a pre-release movie on the internet can be imprisoned for up to three years, according to a bill that President Bush signed into US law on Wednesday. The Family Entertainment... [28 Apr 2005]
'Protecting the public from piracy too expensive'
News That fragmentation would mean users would be unable to transfer music or movie downloads from one mobile to another after an upgrade, for example. The GSM Association (GSMA) - the über mobile phone trade group which... [04 Apr 2005]
Cheapo MP3 site investigated
News Record labels and movie studios have sometimes had difficulty persuading Russian law enforcement to deal with piracy problems. A Russian digital-music site offering high-quality song downloads for just... [23 Feb 2005]
