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RSS piratesPirates won't stop film downloading being $977m industry
News While the MPAA announces its latest wave of action, a new report has claimed the film industry on the internet has a bright future, pirates or no pirates. Hardcopy piracy will still be the bugbear of the... [31 Jan 2005]
Pirates selling XP for £2 raided
News Software pirates in Singapore who were selling bootlegged copies of Windows XP for as little as £2 have been hit hard in a co-ordinated police raid on seven locations across the region. However, the lucrative world of... [09 Nov 2001]
Software pirates: To jail or not to jail?
Comment Costs are passed on to the consumers and we are all victims of the pirates. The handing out of stiffer, custodial sentences will send out a message to those pirates who think they can breeze through life... [04 Jul 2003]
Microsoft and eBay team up to stop software pirates
News Microsoft also has staff investigating any potential pirates selling their goods through the site. Companies who buy quantities of this software run the risk of being audited by the BSA (Business Software Alliance) or... [11 Jun 2004]
1000 per cent rise in legal music downloads fails to kill pirates
News Digital download sites are springing up like mushrooms - but the pirates aren't going away. The British Phonographic Industry - the UK equivalent to the IFPI - took its first action against pirates,... [20 Jan 2005]
Record labels' legal blitz hits 31 more music pirates
News The court order marks the second round of the BPI's action against music pirates. Music industry body the BPI has launched a fresh wave of legal actions against alleged file-sharers, nearly two weeks after it announced... [11 Mar 2005]
P2P pirates face more time in the slammer
News Internet pirates with pre-release movies in their shared folders will face stiffer federal penalties starting on Monday. The US Sentencing Commission on Wednesday approved an emergency set of rules that would boost... [21 Oct 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Of global warming and pirates
Comment Below you can see a graph from that site which shows the relationship between global average temperature and the number of pirates. If we believed the facts as presented we would start recruiting more... [26 Jul 2007]
Software pirates 'should be hung, drawn and quartered'
News It was silicon.com reader Jeremy Hall who said "software pirates should be treated as we did the eighteenth century pirates - hung, drawn and quartered". No doubt software pirates make... [09 Jul 2003]
Apple challenged by Linux and pirates
News Despite Apple's massive market share in the world of online music, Jobs and co perceive a variety of threats from emerging sectors, including the mobile companies and music pirates. A recent Securities and Exchange... [02 Dec 2005]
SMEs are worst software pirates
News The figures out today show that nine out of ten of the companies who settled with the BSA in 2002/2003 were small or medium-sized companies, with Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec being among the pirates' software of choice. [01 Oct 2003]
Kylie download debut foiled by pirates
News Kylie Minogue's latest single will be available for download weeks before it hits the shops, but online music pirates managed to start swapping the track even before its official internet release. From yesterday fans can... [30 Sep 2003]
Digital music boom: Thank the pirates?
News To reach its full potential, [the music industry] needs to get better control of peer-to-peer.it's restricting the growth of legal sales", adding: "You could almost say the pirates set the trend - it got a lot of people... [01 Dec 2004]
Gates hits pirates with strong arm mail shot tactics
News It comes complete with fake red pen marks highlighting a paragraph on the penalties that software pirates can receive. It's designed to raise awareness and protect customers from being duped by unscrupulous software... [29 May 2001]
Microsoft gives downloads to software pirates
News Microsoft is trying to get to know its pirates a little better. The software maker has launched a pilot program in which some visitors to the main Windows download page are being asked to let the software maker check to... [20 Sep 2004]
