Tag: Piracy
Ed Sheeran is UK's most pirated artist, Drake tops US list
A new study into music piracy patterns has revealed singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran as the UK's most pirated artist. We thought the UK had more refined musical taste! The new research, published by Musicmetric, also reveals Drake as the most pirated…
O2 forced to give 9,000 porn pirates' details to smut baron
Over 9,000 O2 broadband customers caught illegally downloading pornography will have their personal details handed over to a major porn baron pressing for a settlement payout, it has been revealed today. Ben Dover, the pseudonym for British porn actor,…
Pirate Bay taking to the skies to avoid authorities
The Pirate Bay are considering moving their servers into the sky aboard low-orbit, unmanned drones in an attempt to thwart the ground-based authorities looking to close the file sharing site down. Looking to harness the power of super-small PCs like…
The Pirate Bay stops hosting torrents, but may prove even stronger as a result
The Pirate Bay have announced that they will no longer be hosting torrent files, and will instead now focus on providing file-sharers with magnet links. Though one would assume torrent files are the bread-and-butter of the service, this new…
Wikipedia announce 24 hour blackout to protest SOPA/PIPA piracy bills
Wikipedia have announced that they are to "blackout" their immensely popular web encyclopedia on January 18th in protest against proposed anti-piracy acts in the US. After 72 hours of discussions between 1800 Wikipedia members, the decision to fight against the…
Microsoft suing retailer Comet for selling pirate Windows CDs
Now here's an unexpected and downright criminal move from struggling electronics retailers Comet. They're being accused by Microsoft of producing and selling some 94,000 forged copies of Windows Vista and XP recovery discs out of a factory in Hampshire. Microsoft…
"Three strikes" policy for web pirates will start in 2013, say Ofcom
Ofcom are to being a "three strikes" policy for those repeatedly commiting acts of piracy across the web from 2013, should their plans be met with approval they revealed today. The initial plan was set in place over a year…
When is a 1TB hard-drive not a 1TB hard-drive? When it's a $5m art installation
How much is a 1TB hard-drive worth? £50, £60? How about $5 million? That's exactly the price of the "5 Million Dollars, 1 Terabyte" art installation at the Art 404 gallery. The piece is made up of a 1TB…
Is iTunes Match a pirate's charter? Or a way for record companies to snoop through your music collection?
First up, great to see Steve Jobs back at work yesterday. I am sure everyone in the world wishes him well. As for the slew of new announcements at the WWDC, well some are clearly more interesting than others. The…
LimeWire get $105 million bill from record labels
The long-running court case between P2P file-sharing service LimeWire and a handful of record labels has concluded, resulting in a bill of $105 million worth of damages to be paid by LimeWire. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), representing…
