Tag: Piracy
France plans to cut off pirates' internet access
There will be computers burning in France over this.
New French rabble-rousing President Nicolas Sarkozy has revealed plans to ban those found guilty of sharing copyrighted files from using the internet.
There will be a “three strikes…
Prince swears purple murder against The Pirate Bay, sues illegal site in three different countries
Having worked his purple magic on YouTube and asked for over 2,000 unauthorised videos to be removed, Prince is now working down his hit list, by targeting The Pirate Bay next.
We heard a few months ago the short purple-clad one had a bee in his Raspberry Beret bonnet about all his music videos being illegally shared on sites such as these, and even Prince-themed products on eBay. Needless to say, he doesn’t just dish out idle threats, that Prince character.
Prince is showing he can walk the walk as well as talk the talk, and has prepared a lawsuit against The Pirate Bay, the renowned…
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails urges Australian fans to pirate his CDs
Angry-man there, Trent Reznor, from Nine Inch Nails (and that brilliant duet with, cough, David Bowie), can be officially renamed as Piratey-man. Yes, Piratey-man. I’m sure his HARDCORE SCREAMINESS would appreciate the new nickname. Following on from his outburst in China last week where he urged Chinese fans to download his music for free, he’s taken his pro-piracy attack to the sunny beaches Down Under.
During a concert in Australia, he spoke out against Universal Music Australia who are pricing his latest album at $30. “Has the price come down? [crowd: no] Well you know what that means. Steal it. Steal away. Steal, steal and steal some…
Raging Prince out to get YouTube, eBay and The Pirate Bay!
Oh dear, let’s hope good old Prince doesn’t “pull a Metallica” and make the whole world hate him.
The musical legend, who makes most of his money selling music direct to fans online rather than through the traditional record label route, remember, is teaming up with web legal specialist …
Aussie arrested for pirating 'The Simpsons Movie'
A poor Australian man was made the scapegoat of the entire internet piracy scene on Friday, when police raided his home.
The film’s maker 20th Century Fox teamed up with Aussie piracy experts…
Opinion: Kids use age-old excuse — "everyone's doing it" — to justify media piracy. So what's new?
Andy Merrett writes…
I’m sure it’s the classic excuse for why kids and teenagers do pretty much anything their parents (or indeed, The Law) don’t want them to.
“But everyone else is doing it.”
Passing over the classic teacher retort “Well, if everyone else was jumping off a cliff [auditioning for a part in “Lemmings the Movie, perhaps?], would you” (oops), that seems to be the reasoning for kids who copy and distribute music, videos, or software over the Internet.
It has to be a lot less dangerous – at least physically – than jumping off that metaphorical cliff.
A study from the European Commission — which is seriously official and, therefore, must be true — found that a large number of kids knew that what they were doing was illegal, but still did it because they saw both their peers and their parents doing it.
The EC calls this an “implicit form of authorisation”.
I just call it kids wanting the latest music and being too poor to buy it. It could be laziness. Or the possibility that most albums contain mainly crap music and they want to make a mix tape of decent tracks.
Miivii: the illegal P2P movie downloads service from the people who want to prosecute you for illegal P2P movie downloads
Now here’s a strange story. A new site called MiiVii.com seemed like a dream for file-sharing internet users. It offered a bunch of big films free to download, as well as software to speed up the process. Whatever would the movie industry make of it?
How to stop movie pirates? Military night-vision goggles, of course
Let’s be honest: the Fight Against Movie Piracy isn’t going to be won by a few officious cinema ushers shining torches down the aisles trying to spot anyone with a DV-camcorder in their lap. So what to do?
