pirates
RSS piratesPirates 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]
Pirates 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]
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]
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]
Apple warns off OS-pirates with a poem
News Apple has gone all poetic in a warning to would-be software pirates. User sites have been reporting that the Mac maker has embedded a poem in a file likely to be discovered by software pirates attempting... [17 Feb 2006]
Tech pirates targeted in government's fraud crackdown
News The government has had enough of ripped off CDs, DVDs and software and has launched a crackdown on the pirates. Whitehall is putting in place its first "intellectual property crime strategy", designed to make bringing... [11 Aug 2004]
Harry Potter falls foul of pirates
News A lack of copy protection on the recently released Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone DVD means it can be easily copied by pirates. Warner Brothers, the entertainment giant behind the blockbuster, called Harry... [14 Jun 2002]
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]
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]
Peer-to-peer pirates face prosecution
News The US Department of Justice is prepared to begin prosecuting peer-to-peer pirates, a top government official said on Tuesday. By Declan McCullagh John Malcolm, a deputy assistant attorney general, said Americans should... [21 Aug 2002]
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]
BT accused of being 'music pirates' friend'
News Surprisingly, despite the assumption that file-sharing has accounted for a massive rise in piracy, and is by and large a phenomenon among the young, the artists who most commonly fall victim to the pirates are, with a... [17 Mar 2003]
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]
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]
Microsoft battles reseller pirates
News Microsoft has been fighting software pirates for years, taking a multi-pronged approach that includes action against pirates and tools that check licences on PCs. Microsoft is taking action against... [03 Apr 2007]
