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Does Pirate Bay verdict spell trouble for Google?
Comment The Pirate Bay outcome could have wide and lasting implications for the likes of Google and YouTube, says lawyer Simon Levine. Last week's verdict that the four founders of The Pirate Bay file-sharing... [28 Apr 2009]
Copyright holders 'smiling' at sinking of Pirate Bay
News The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry expressed hope for new music downloading services to replace Pirate Bay. Both copyright holders and some Pirate Bay supporters... [20 Apr 2009]
Photos: Top 10 Xmas presents for the tech team
Photo Here's a USB hub which doubles as a pop-up Pirate game - handy for killing time while waiting for that system reboot. The original mini-laptop has an 8.9-inch screen, weighs just 1kg and comes with 12GB or 20GB of SD... [01 Dec 2008]
Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm
AS Profile Peter 'brokep' Sunde and Gottfrid 'anakata' Svartholm are two of the operators running Swedish website The Pirate Bay, the world's largest BitTorrent tracker. Throughout its history the Pirate Bay has... [07 Oct 2008]
Legal Eye: File-sharers under fire
Comment In the latest development, users attempting to access the Pirate Bay website are redirected to a site operated by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) which represents the interests of the... [03 Sep 2008]
Apple to sell DRM-free music through iTunes
News However, for those convinced of the value of DRM, selling songs without restrictions will encourage users to pirate music. Apple and EMI have announced they have taken the first steps towards DRM-free... [02 Apr 2007]
Record labels to sue Yahoo! China
News Nearly 90 per cent of all recordings are illegal in China and pirate music sales in the country total about $400m annually, according to the IFPI. Music industry group the IFPI has said... [04 Jul 2006]
Is BitTorrent moving into the mainstream?
News Another reason is that by offering the public a legal and inexpensive way to download video, the studios may feel they can remove the need to pirate content while the industry is still in its infancy, Gupta says. [10 May 2006]
Google squashes Napster buy rumour
News Google has emphatically denied the suggestion that it is looking to buy music-pirate-turned-legit-song-shop Napster. She said: "We have no plans to acquire Napster, nor do we have plans to develop a... [01 Feb 2006]
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... [21 Jun 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... [24 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... [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... [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. A report from music industry body the... [20 Jan 2005]
Microsoft snubs UK for Japan music launch
News The shops, which rent out music for a small fee, are often used by customers to make pirate copies of CDs on the cheap. This time, Microsoft is targeting the Japanese market and will officially open its... [14 Oct 2004]
