New US law would allow music-sharing sabotage
The entertainment industry could be given new powers to deliberately sabotage internet music and movie file-sharing services, under proposed US legislation. Californian Congress representative Howard...
Global report shows disc piracy 50% up despite sharp increase in enforcement actions...
Global sales of pirate music discs rose nearly 50% to an all-time high of 950 million units in 2001. The total world music pirate market...
IFPI seizes blanks destined for piracy
Spanish police (Guardia Civil) have launched Western Europe's biggest ever crackdown on blank CD-R discs, which were largely to have been used in the production...
Record companies look for answers as CD burning, file-swapping threaten industry
A new technology lets people copy music for free. Lawsuits are filed. Music sales dip. The viability of the recording industry is in doubt. The...
Media firms lobby piracy controls to EU!
Every CD or DVD manufactured in the European Union would have to carry code designed to help track down pirated discs if proposals by media...
"Fair Use" is getting unfair treatment
To hear the entertainment industry tell it, a wave of digital piracy threatens to destroy the future of movies, records, and other media. While the...
Valenti comes to Cannes to push for worldwide alliance on movie piracy
As digital cameras and projectors revolutionize the movie business, governments around the world must band together to crack down on a growing side-effect of the...
Russia seeks to fight music piracy
Russian and international music industry leaders said Wednesday they are joining forces to fight piracy of compact discs in Russia that is costing companies hundreds...
U.S. official call on Ukraine to do more to protect copyrights
The U.S. Embassy in Kiev and a Ukrainian copyright protection organization appealed to the government on Friday to strengthen efforts to solve copyright violations. There...
A Bad, sad Hollywood ending?
Forget about Bill Gates, folks. The biggest enemy of free software may be Senator Ernest F. Hollings. Legislation introduced in March, 2002, by the South...
