Dozens of Game Sharers Targeted in Anti Piracy Sting Operation

A camcorder version of hit movie The Avengers (Avengers: Assemble in the UK) showed up online a week before the official release in the US and was promptly downloaded over half a million times. Despite this mammoth download...

Direct download site RapidShare has restricted the download speeds of its free accounts in order to thwart pirates, ensuring that if you want to download illegally, you'll have to pay for it. There's been a lot of upheaval in the...

The CEO of Riot Games has spoken out against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), saying that it threatens the current state of the internet and game replays. "These bills are a misguided attempt to curb the illegal piracy of...

The greater Internet community seems to be heading in two different directions over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The act, revealed in late October, is facing mass criticism over the fact that it will essentially...

Popular online file sharing platform Hotfile has filed a lawsuit against Hollywood studio Warner Bros. for allegedly abusing its anti-piracy tool. Hotfile is used by millions around the world to store their files and even share...

Andrew Crossley's much-vilified ACS:Law may have been wiped from the face of the earth, but the spectre of 'speculative invoicing' is alive and well. The highly dubious practice, which in some cases results in technophobic...

The only way to stop piracy is to cut prices. That's the verdict of a major new academic study that reckons copyright theft won't be halted by 'three strikes' broadband disconnections, increasing censorship or draconian new laws...

George Hotz, the guy being sued by Sony for publishing the private key required to develop a custom firmware for the PS3 console is seeking donations to help him in his fight against the Japanese giant. Hotz  - also known...

Piracy is bad. That - with a certain amount of paraphrasing, we'll admit - is the conclusion of a new report from market analysts IDC. Hardly surprising, given that the sponsor and co-compiler of the report is the Business...

Nintendo won a landmark case in UK courts, with a High Court ruling that a copying device, that allows users to play pirated games, is illegal in the UK.The Court has ruled that the R4 Magicard used to copy and play Nintendo...

Despite being widely criticised by the media and the legal establishment, at least one UK law firm intends to continue sending thousands of threatening letters to Internet users. ACS:Law plans, according to the Guardian, to send...

An hysterical study released by the International Chamber of Commerce warns that 1.2 million people will soon find themselves out of work as a direct result of copyright theft. We hesitate to use the word 'piracy' because...

Dismissing the calls from UK copyright groups about restricting the internet users caught downloading copyrighted material illegally, Carphone Warehouse's chief exec Charles Dunstone asserted that the move would do no good except...

A Polish mother of two has been told to pay more than £16,000 in a ruling that could possibly spell the end of the judicial system's apparent leniency towards online file sharers. Isabella Barwinska is the first person to...

The raid was carried out at a weekend computer fair in Bradford and involved the seizure of counterfeit software and machinery to 'chip' games consoles. Chipping a console makes it possible to play pirated games on it by...