video piracy
Teenagers losing interest in illegal file-sharing as streaming starts to flow
News Music Ally's figures appear to suggest that these new models are at least partially responsible for fighting piracy. Unlike email and static web pages, which can handle network hiccups, voice and video... [13 Jul 2009]
Does Pirate Bay verdict spell trouble for Google?
Comment Piracy does not suddenly become acceptable because it is on the internet. Similar to Napster, The Pirate Bay site did not host audio and video files, but instead included links to material hosted... [28 Apr 2009]
Irish ISP to ban illegal music downloaders
News The industry successfully beat Napster's song-swap service in court but music piracy continued to cripple the business, sending CD sales plummeting. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) last month... [02 Feb 2009]
Security and Streaming Media - How to Secure Your Video and Protect Your Revenue
White Paper Come learn about the vulnerabilities and the ways one can protect the system against intrusion and content against piracy. As more and more popular applications come on the market such as streaming video... [22 Oct 2008]
Piracy-Free Video Distribution With Microsoft Windows Media Technologies
White Paper The challenge was how: DVDs, video CDs and tapes would require an expensive sales channel and also pose piracy problems; streaming video would exclude millions of dial-up customers. Now,... [06 Oct 2008]
Legal Eye: Europe's copyright controversy
Comment The European Commission is to consult on changes to the copyright levy, a surcharge on devices that hold music or video to compensate artists for potential piracy. Rumblings from the EU about the... [18 Jun 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Licensed to bill
Comment Software piracy may well be a very bad thing. Microsoft has said it alone is losing £250m annually in the UK from piracy. There is a lot of talk about the awfulness of software piracy... [07 May 2008]
Hillary Clinton talks tech
News Strong copyright protections and efforts to stem piracy are critical to ensuring that our technology industries remain competitive in the global market. Would you support changing the DMCA to permit Americans to make a... [03 Jan 2008]
Upwardly Mobile: Why mobile DRM must die
Comment Since the Apple-EMI announcement, the naysayers have been shouting that it will mark the return of piracy. But what of video, games and the like? The brave new world of DRM-free music is in its infancy... [01 May 2007]
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. Last week News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch questioned YouTube's business model and the new CEO... [13 Feb 2007]
Piracy, patchy broadband hurting online content industry
News Piracy, the uneven adoption of broadband and the slow take-up of 3G mobile are all barriers to the growth of Europe's creative online content industries. Piracy is siphoning off potential revenue and... [29 Jan 2007]
BitTorrent to pimp the silver screen?
News Eric Patterson, BitTorrent's general manager of consumer services, said: "We come to the table with a solution to piracy. In February, BitTorrent will launch a video store where customers can download... [29 Nov 2006]
Turning the Tide: Why new strategies are urgently needed to counter the surge in online video piracy
White Paper Now that millions of ordinary, non-geeky families are routinely downloading TV shows and movies without a second thought, digital piracy has clearly gone mainstream. These people don't see themselves as criminals. [18 Oct 2006]
Copyright tussle looming over online video?
News Opponents say the treaty would go far beyond targeting so-called "signal piracy". The proposal also embraces the legality of technological protection measures, which means there would be nothing to stop controversial... [06 Sep 2006]
AOL moves into movie downloads
News For the Hollywood studios, faced with digital piracy of their products, it is an acknowledgment of the need for online distribution. AOL is adding digital movie downloads from several studios to its... [25 Aug 2006]