San Francisco court considers legality of backup DVD Copies
On Thursday, May 15, a federal court will consider the legality of software that enables backup copying of digital video disks (DVDs). Judge Illston of...
Piracy drives down global music sales
Global music sales fell 7 per cent last year to $32bn amid rampant illegal internet downloading and CD copying, according to new industry figures released...
Software producers rewarded for information about piracy
A software industry association yesterday tripled its top reward for turning in software pirates. From now until the end of May, the Business Software Alliance...
Copyright is only half the answer...
Storage IT Toolbox reports "...As the Consumer Electronics Association joins 25 other companies & organizations in expressing their support for the Digital Media Consumers Rights...
RIAA: Music shipments down 11.2% in 2002
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) continued to fault piracy and poor economic conditions for waning recorded music shipments, down over 11 percent last...
Norwegian appeals court to hear "DVD Jon" case
A Norwegian appeals court has agreed to hear the prosecutor's appeal of the case against Jon Johansen. Johansen is a Norwegian teenager acquitted of criminal...
CD market sags, piracy faulted
Shipments of music CDs dropped 8.9% last year vs. 6.4% in 2001, according to the RIAA 's 2002 year-end statistics compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers Llp. Additionally,...
Battling Piracy: Business students suggest if you can't beat them, do it better...
Recording and movie publishers cannot defeat Internet intellectual property theft by peer-to-peer networks such as KaZaA and other Napster successors, but they can beat them...
The PAN Network introduces Digital Interactive Fingerprinting (DIF) as a solution to online music piracy
The PAN Network, the birthplace of online digital audio, has recently announced the availability of a new system for the detection, deterrence, and the prevention...
File-sharing and CD burning remain steady in 2002
Americans continued their file-sharing and CD burning activities last year, and teens continued to download music from file-sharing networks in record numbers, according to Ipsos,...
