Computer Game Industry Launches Crackdown on P2P File Sharing

The three strikes scheme to combat piracy initiated as part of the Digital Economy Bill pushed through in the final days of the last government, will come into effect some time in 2014.  The system would see those discovered...

This summer sees the beginning of the Center for Copyright Infringement's (CCI) crackdown on Internet piracy, with major ISPs coming on board to monitor citizens that use peer to peer file sharing applications. Those found by the...

Mobile maker Ericsson's Director of Government and Industry Relations has called on European law-makers to change the way we are all allowed to consume digital content. Writing in the latest issue of Ericsson Business Review,...

Copyright holders and campaigners for reform today gave a cautious welcome to the Hargreaves review of UK intellectual property law, published today - but both sides point to a difficult path before any of the legal changes...

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...

The fact that both ACS:Law and MediaCAT have given up on chasing illegal filesharers could be seen as a victory for the hundreds of thousands who choose to download content without paying the copyright holders. As controversial...

The Digital Economy Act isn't tough enough to protect smaller software companies, UK anti-piracy outfit FAST claims, and the industry requires its own legislation to combat copyright infringement. The warning came at a meeting...

Hot on the heels of the discovery of the the PlayStation 3 private root key, and its subsequent leakage by iPhone hacker Geohot, the first custom firmware for the formerly inpenetrable console has been released. A code wrangler...

The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) and Irish Internet service provider, Eircom, have come to an agreement which will see them combine their efforts at hunting down illegal file sharers of IRMA's copyrighted songs.Despite...

Malware is exploiting confusion about digital anti-piracy rules in an attempt to extort money from Internet users, it has emerged. A new Trojan, which F-Secure is calling DotTorrent, pretends to be from a law firm and demands...

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has hit out at law firm ACS Law following its heavy-handed approach to file sharers. The ruthless law firm has sent out threatening letters to alleged file-sharers, asking for compensation...

The provision of appealing, legal online music services would be a more powerful incentive to stop illegal file-sharing than the proposed cutting off of internet access, copyright-infringing downloaders have told a think...

A report published by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP) posits that around seven million UK citizens download illegal content worth as much as £120 billion a year. This sum, of course, as MCV UK...

Academics have analysed the requests received by Google for copyrighted material to be removed from the internet and found that almost a third of requests may be unwarranted and over half of link removal demands came from...

Business and technology consultancy Detica today urges the UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) to shift the focus of its consultation process away from enforcement when considering legislative...