piracy (page: 6)
A Canadian man who was accused of running streaming websites allowing users to watch The Simpsons and Family Guy illegally online, has been fined $10.5 million in statutory and punitive damages.
According to a new research report published by Tulane University Law Professor Glynn Lunney, illegal file sharing has helped lead to more hit music for record labels and artists.
'Game of Thrones' was the most pirated TV show of the year, not unexpectedly.
Classic holiday film Home Alone was 2013's most pirated in the genre.
Two years after the popular private tracker Swebits closed down, one of its uploaders has received a suspended jail sentence, 160 hours community service and a massive $652,000 damages award.
Once havens for piracy, ranging from Asian soup operas to the latest Hollywood blockbuster, China's largest Internet video companies Youku, Baidu, Sohu and Tencent have all begun cracking down on the unauthorized video.
The U.S. Government has agreed to pay $50 million to a software company after it emerged that its software had been copied onto thousands of systems without licenses.
The MPAA has released its annual “Best Practices to Prevent Film Theft” for movie theater owners, and as expected the trade group wants theaters to use extreme measure to avoid camera-based piracy.
A group of Chinese companies including major video hosts Youku, Sohu and Tencent's v.qq.com have joined together for a $48.9 million lawsuit against market leading search engine Baidu.
Internet Service Providers must block 21 more websites linked to Internet piracy, according to a court order in the UK.
'Breaking Bad' finale set a record for most pirated downloads in its first 12 hours of availability online.
The RIAA and MPAA have begun distributing new research about the perils of piracy on the entertainment industry, trying to get Congress to take a second look into potential legislation on the matter.
AT&T, one of the ISPs that participates in the Copyright Alert System and its six-strikes system for copyright infringers, will in some cases terminate your account entirely if you are a repeat offender.
Police in the United Kingdom are to take on the issue of intellectual property violation in a renewed effort against criminals who profit from piracy.
The Radio Times website has gotten caught up in the middle of an anti-piracy effort aimed at blocking providers of live streams (or links) of football games.
A number of years ago, the French government enacted a new law that would punish repeat offenders for piracy violations.
The Spring saw Game of Thrones beat out all others.
The English Premier League is to request a court order forcing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block access to a Sweden-based sports streaming website.
HP and Samsung have teamed up to fight Windows OS piracy in China.
A judge in the United States has sent a Chinese national to prison for operating a huge software piracy operation.
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