Tagged: Piracy & News
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Political pirate Rickard Falkvinge is out to prove a point News
16.04.2013 A fortnight ago, when the third season of fantasy TV series Game of Thrones was broadcast, digital pirates around the world illegally downloaded the episode more than 1m times –... -
Paid downloads unpopular as Irish youth consume majority of TV content online News
20.03.2013 A survey conducted last week by youth charity SpunOut.ie reveals how young people in Ireland are consuming TV. That is, most commonly, without the traditional TV set, and for... -
Infected pirated software will cost consumers and businesses billions this year - study News
06.03.2013 Consumers will spend 1.5bn hours and US$22bn this year identifying, fixing and recovering from the impact of malware embedded in pirated software, while global enterprises will... -
Weekend news round-up: Google expansion, no more remote working at Yahoo!, Pope to leave Twitter News
25.02.2013 In our round-up of some of the top tech news from the weekend, Google plans to expand its HQ, Yahoo!'s CEO puts the kibosh on remote working, and will the Pope shut down his... -
Mega, Kim Dotcom’s new file-sharing site, already has half a million users News
21.01.2013 In less than a day, Kim Dotcom claims that his new file-sharing site has already reached 500,000 registered users following a PR spectacle to mark the site’s launch in New Zealand. -
Businessman pleads guilty to stealing US$100m worth of software News
08.01.2013 A businessman in China has pleaded guilty to selling stolen software from US tech giants to 325 black market buyers in 61 countries worldwide.Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Digital Media -
Project X tops list of 2012’s most pirated movies News
02.01.2013 TorrentFreak has issued a list of the 10 most shared movies on BitTorrent in 2012 and Project X, a found footage comedy about an out-of-control house party, has come out ahead... -
Nine-year-old’s Winnie the Pooh laptop seized in anti-piracy sting News
22.11.2012 In a clear case of anti-piracy measures gone mad, a nine-year-old Finnish girl’s Winnie the Pooh laptop has been seized by Finnish police over alleged copyright infringement... -
Free lectures look at how psychology and technology interact News
18.10.2012 The Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire (IADT) is hosting two free public events as part of the Innovation Dublin 2012 festival next week, offering an insight... -
Japanese law threatening jail terms for illegal downloaders comes into effect News
01.10.2012 Earlier this year, as a result of lobbying from the music industry, politicians in Japan voted to change the legislation around illegal file sharing to impose prison terms of up... -
UPDATED: Gottfrid Svartholm, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, arrested in Cambodia News
03.09.2012 Gottfrid Svartholm, co-founder of contentious file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, has been arrested in the Cambodian capital city of Phnom Penh, at the request of the Swedish...Categories: Legal, Intellectual Property -
Google’s new search algorithms crack down on piracy, but YouTube is unscathed News
13.08.2012 On Friday, Google announced an update to its search algorithms that will roll out this week. This update now takes copyright infringement into account, and sites found in...Tags: The Pirate Bay, Piracy, YouTube, Algorithms, Search, Google, Copyright Infringement, Copyright -
NZ judge delays Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom’s extradition hearing until 2013 News
10.07.2012 A New Zealand judge has delayed the extradition hearing of Kim Dotcom – the founder of the file-sharing site Megaupload – until March 2013, as a result of legal complications,... -
Google clamps down on YouTube-to-MP3 conversion site News
19.06.2012 Google intends to rain legal hell on a popular website that converts YouTube videos into MP3s because it violates YouTube’s terms and conditions.Categories: Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
ACTA rejected by three EU committees News
31.05.2012 All three EU committees advising the International Trade Committee have today rejected the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the treaty to put a stop to... -
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.