Tagged: Piracy & News
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Will paid-for music streaming services win the hearts of Irish music lovers? News
10.05.2012 Online music streaming is all over the news this week, so we talked to Mark Foster, Deezer’s MD for the UK and Ireland, to see what all the fuss is about and ask why some... -
UK High Court orders ISPs to ban The Pirate Bay News
30.04.2012 The UK High Court has ruled that internet service providers (ISPs) must block file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. -
Google’s Sergey Brin warns of demise of open internet News
16.04.2012 Google co-founder Sergey Brin has hit out against giants such as Apple and Facebook, as well as the rising threat of governments trying to control people’s web access, resulting... -
Sound, vision and fury News
12.04.2012 Ongoing debates about digital media, copyright reform, piracy and internet freedom are just ‘raindrops’ in a much bigger flood that is about to hit the internet.Tags: Copyright, ACTA, SOPA, Innovation, Piracy, Legislation, ISP, Illegal Downloads, Copyright Infringement -
Security firm warns of malware risks in pirated software News
05.04.2012 Internet users have been warned against downloading illegal versions of software because many cracked programs carry a malicious payload designed to infect computers. -
Megaupload CEO Kim Dotcom succeeds in bail attempt News
22.02.2012 US authorities have failed in their quest to keep Kim Dotcom, the founder and CEO of the file-sharing site Megaupload, behind bars in New Zealand. The site is alleged to have... -
Megaupload founder denied bail in New Zealand News
25.01.2012 Kim Dotcom, otherwise known as Kim Schmitz, the founder of the file-sharing site Megaupload, that the FBI swooped in on last week, has been refused bail in New Zealand as he has...Categories: Web 2.0, Software, Search, Online Business, Internet, Intellectual Property, Government, eCommerce, Consumer Tech, CIO -
The week in gadgets News
23.01.2012 A look at gadget happenings, as Filesonic stops file sharing after the Megaupload arrests, the White House opens a Google+ page and the world’s largest video-game controller is... -
FBI shuts down Megaupload, charges seven people News
20.01.2012 The FBI has charged seven people with running an “international organised criminal enterprise” through file-sharing site Megaupload and other related sites. Meanwhile, Anonymous... -
SOPA: Obama admin wants to protect internet’s architecture News
16.01.2012 The Obama administration has weighed in on the side of protecting the internet’s openness and architecture in the controversial debate around the Stop Online Piracy Act. At the... -
Microsoft suing UK retailer Comet for allegedly selling counterfeit CDs News
04.01.2012 Microsoft is suing UK electronics retailer Comet, claiming it created and sold more than 94,000 counterfeit Windows Vista and Windows XP recovery CDs to customers. -
The first casualty of the SOPA war is the internet itself News
23.12.2011 The internet industry as we know it – from the US perspective – is in the middle of a damaging civil war thanks to the deep divisions caused by the Stop Online Piracy Act.Categories: Servers, Security, Multimedia, Media, Internet, Hosting Services, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
SOPA and PROTECT IP will censor web, warn top tech CEOs News
15.12.2011 Google’s Sergey Brin, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, the Huffington Post’s Arriana Huffington and many others have signed a letter warning that the Stop Online... -
If SOPA is passed Reddit will close News
21.12.2011 The controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) deliberations will begin again in earnest today in the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, but one potential...Categories: Multimedia, Media, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
Kazaa, Morpheus founders sue tech giants over cloud patents News
13.12.2011 Patent wars have hit cloud computing, as PersonalWeb is suing tech giants such as Google and Amazon over cloud tech infringements. PersonalWeb's CEO is the founder of P2P... -
AF asks Government to extend film tax break, stop online piracy News
17.11.2011 The Audiovisual Federation (AF) has called on the Government to extend the film tax break until 2020 and to implement measures to protect the industry from online piracy. -
Silicon Valley giants join forces to fight internet piracy laws News
15.11.2011 Google, Facebook, Yahoo! and other internet giants have joined forces in an attempt to appeal against US lawmakers enacting anti-piracy legislation that could force the internet... -
Pirates punked as KOOBFACE targets Torrent P2P file sharing News
18.08.2011 The notorious KOOBFACE botnet, known for maliciously targeting popular social networking sites, is now propagating via a torrent peer-to-peer network through Trojanised shared...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Security, Networking, Enterprise, Computers -
Eircom MusicHub to have Jedward album a week before launch News
13.07.2011 Eircom has scored a bit of a coup, landing the exclusive rights to play pop duo Jedward’s forthcoming album Victory on its MusicHub online music store.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Games/Entertainment, eCommerce, Apps -
Court in Finland orders ISPs to disconnect file sharers News
30.06.2011 In what could be a sign of what could happen here once changes to copyright laws are made, a court in Finland has issued orders for ISPs to disconnect three subscribers from the...Tags: Copyright, Illegal File-sharing, Piracy, The Pirate Bay, UPC, Eircom, Richard Bruton, Broadband, ISPs, Music