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Christian Engström
AS Profile The issue of piracy has never been more hotly debated, especially with the recent legal case around the Pirate Bay file-sharing site. So it is apt that the deputy chairman of the Swedish Pirate Party,... [08 Oct 2009]
£1.49bn: The price of pirate desktop software in the UK
News Software companies lost £1.49bn to piracy in the UK last year - and that's before the impact of the economic downturn. More than a quarter of the desktop software installed in the UK last year - 27 per cent - was pirated according to the... [13 May 2009]
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 Both copyright holders and some Pirate Bay supporters see opportunities to promote their causes as a result of the verdict handed down Friday in the Pirate Bay file-sharing case. I would like to tell the... [20 Apr 2009]
Corporate IT at risk from knocked-off electronics
News According to trade body UK Electronics Alliance (UKEA), millions of pirate electronic components ranging from CPUs to memory are in danger of being used by businesses and the public sector. Corporate IT systems are at... [28 Jan 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. With the festive season looming, here are silicon.com's pick of the presents you might want to... [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 Meanwhile Italy's deputy prosecutor Giancarlo Mancusi has ordered the country's ISPs to block access to notorious Swedish file-sharing site Pirate Bay. In the latest development, users attempting to access the... [03 Sep 2008]
Steve Ballmer on a future in the cloud
News But when it's [available at] $15 a month, per user, there is no reason to pirate. The future lies in the platform in the cloud, according to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer. During his keynote yesterday at... [10 Jul 2008]
Photos: A snapshot of what HP's got up its sleeve
Photo You register the device with your character - in this case a pirate - and it responds as you (or your character) enters virtual areas which have been set onto the physical world. HP Labs focuses on research and... [09 Jun 2008]
Illegal file-sharing: Gov't says enough is enough
News Almost half of respondents (45 per cent) admitted to buying illegal discs, while 18 per cent said they've offered a pirate disc to someone else. The government has unveiled plans to tackle illegal file sharing along with... [22 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.12.07
Round-Up Meanwhile, an equal and opposite reaction to Microsoft's bold claim is that piracy rates are so much lower for Vista because nobody actually wants to pirate it. "For every action, there is an equal and opposite... [07 Dec 2007]
Photos: IBM lifts the lid on web 2.0 tech
Photo By taking information from various databases, QEDWiki allows the freight company create a mash-up to locate ships, see what the weather is like in the vicinity of the different vessels and monitor pirate activity in the... [07 Aug 2007]
Minority Report: Macs gaining enterprise cred
Comment First and foremost is the Mac brand, which is founded to some extent on an anti-corporate image - the pirate flag flying above the Cupertino office where the first Mac was designed is a potent and enduring image. [19 Jul 2007]
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 digital music - but... [02 Apr 2007]
