Piracy

How collective idiocy left the record companies in bits

Dec 9 2007:

John Naughton: When the history of our digital times comes to be written, one of the questions that will puzzle historians is why the record companies missed the significance of the internet

Why was someone arrested over the TV Links website?

Oct 25 2007:

Last week a 26-year-old Cheltenham man was arrested for alleged violations of Section 92 of the Trade Marks Act, but the law governing the case is not clear.

Police shut down website after two-year music piracy inquiry

Oct 24 2007:

British police have closed down what they claim is one of the world's largest music piracy websites after a two-year pan-European operation.

Sue the libraries - they're letting people get content on the cheap

Oct 18 2007:

Why hasn't the Recording Industry Association of America sued a library yet? As a means of getting music to rip, the local library is hard to beat. It's free, or very cheap.

P2P subverter sees emails leaked on net

Sep 20 2007:

Details of attempts to catch paedophiles and pirates are revealed as worker's Gmail account is hacked. Charles Arthur reports.

Musicians fight back, as alldigdown takes centre stage

Sep 17 2007:

Go figure: A new website will help musicians to protect their work from on-line piracy, writes Ben Dowell.

Prince seeks to 'reclaim the net'

Sep 13 2007:

Websites including YouTube, eBay and Pirate Bay have come under fire in an anti-piracy push by US star Prince. By Jemima Kiss.

How much should we pay to download a TV episode?

Sep 6 2007:

Inflated and inconsistent pricing means it's invariably cheaper to fork out for the DVD box set than go online, explains Charles Arthur.

Pushing the impossible

Sep 4 2007:

Movie studios believe they can create the perfect copy protection system. But it would be easier to break the speed of light.

Anti-piracy failure puts Windows users at a disadvantage

Aug 30 2007:

Unpopular validation comes under fire as as genuine copies hit by bug. Jack Schofield reports.

How three Swedish geeks became Hollywood's Number One enemy

Aug 25 2007:

The Pirate Bay directs 2m surfers to copyright-busting film and TV downloads every day. Bobbie Johnson meets the men who have enraged Hollywood.

From fingerprints to visual DNA

Aug 16 2007:

As YouTube faces a $1bn lawsuit, Danny Bradbury looks at how technology to identify copyright material is becoming more sophisticated to protect content owners.