Topic - piracy

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Media, Internet

Pirate Bay Four: Guilty

After a nine-day trial, the four founders of peer-to-peer site Pirate Bay are sentenced to a year in prison and a hefty fine.
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Computers, General news, Communications, Internet, Finance

Global Tech Briefs: Weather, Fines, Diamonds

A brief summary of technology news around the globe.
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Media, Internet

Music Bigs Sue China's Baidu

Universal, Sony BMG, and Warner file suit against China's No.1 search engine over music downloads.
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Media, Internet

TechSpin: The Downloading Battle Heats Up

The music industry’s zeal to punish file sharing runs up against a European court’s concerns about privacy.
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Media, Communications, Internet

U2 Manager Blasts Internet Providers

Rock band manager urges ISPs and governments to disconnect those involved in illegal downloading.
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Media, Internet

Global Music Sales Dropped 10 Percent in 2007

Fast growth of digital sales can't match even faster decline in CDs purchased.
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Computers, General news, Internet

Microsoft Hopes to Beat Pirates in Vista Update

Software beast plans to disable the two primary methods used by software pirates to illegally copy Windows Vista software in the next major update of the operating system.
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Media, Internet

Studios File Suit Against Movie Piracy Sites

The MPAA files suit on behalf of major studios in a move against two web sites it claims are letting Internet users view pirated films.
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Internet

Universal Music Ditches DRM

Vivendi's Universal Music Group, the world's largest music label, says it will test the sale of songs from artists such as Amy Winehouse, 50 Cent, and the Black Eyed Peas without copy protection in order to gauge possible effect on market.
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Internet

Red Herring Software Report

Red Herring's software news briefs for the week of March 05, 2007.
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Computers

Vista Pirates Sail China

Microsoft focuses on piracy battle in China.
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Media

Sony BMG Settles CD-Copying Suit

Music company will pay $750,000 to consumers in California over anti-piracy software.
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General news

Policing P2P Music

Jonathan Friend wants to stop his peers from stealing music and movies online.
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Finance

VCs Back Pirate Killer

Attributor picks up $10 million-plus to identify unauthorized content use on the web.
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Internet

BitTorrent Ouster Rumors Quashed

BitTorrent CEO Bram Cohen just fine, thank you.
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Media

Digital Music Sales Soar

Tower Records is toast. iPods are everywhere. Go figure.
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Computers

Microsoft to Cripple Vista Pirates

Redmond giant plans to lock out features from unlicensed Vista OS users.
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Media

Kazaa Pays Up in Piracy Case

Sharman Networks says $115-million settlement with entertainment industry sets stage for collaboration in the digital age.
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Communications, Finance

Microsoft Files Piracy Suits

The No. 1 software maker files 26 lawsuits against alleged software pirates in the U.S.
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Finance

FastStats: Social Network War

MySpace, Bebo battle it out; PC software piracy rate unchanged; defining the mobile TV audience.
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