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Article | 19/12/2007 MPAA wins copyright case against TorrentSpy
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has won a lawsuit against the operators of TorrentSpy.com, with the judge ruling in favor of the MPAA...
Article | 13/12/2007 The world in an iPod soon
In the foreseeable future, all the world's content will fit in the palm of your hand, according to Google, which made some fascinating IT predictions ...
Article | 13/12/2007 Cisco creates Entertainment Operating System
Cisco Systems made its biggest foray yet into the entertainment and social networking world by announcing plans late Tuesday for the Cisco Entertainme...
Article | 13/12/2007 Led Zeppelin clips may be hard to wipe off YouTube
YouTube's technology for finding videos posted without the copyright holder's permission may be useless to identify footage posted to the site from Le...
Article | 12/12/2007 Free MacBooks underpin live success for indie rocker
A little bit of chutzpah has gone a long way for one musician. Concert goers at last weekend's Homebake music festival in Sydney were the latest to fi...
Article | 11/12/2007 Exploit menaces media players from Microsoft, AOL
Attack code threatens popular media players from Microsoft and AOL, said a security expert who told Windows users to remove a buggy coder/decoder (cod...
Article | 10/12/2007 Attorney wants judge to reduce jury award in RIAA case
The attorney for a woman recently ordered by a Minnesota jury to pay US$222,000 (AU$253,108.86) in damages for violating music copyrights said Thursda...
Article | 10/12/2007 Multimedia sharing off limits on NAS drive
Concerned about piracy of multimedia files, Western Digital has disallowed the sharing of multimedia files on its 1T-byte network-attached storage dri...
Article | 7/12/2007 Porn treasure trove unearthed: Aussie pirates pay $1.35 million
A concurrent raid on two adult stores in Sydney has lead to the discovery of a large scale adult movie piracy operation, and has resulted in a payment...
Article | 7/12/2007 Sony claims high def lead as Toshiba targets retailers
The battle for HD supremacy notched up another gear this week with the Blu-ray camp claiming to have near-domination of local hardware and software sa...
Article | 5/12/2007 DOJ: $222,000 award in RIAA copyright case not excessive
The U.S. Department of Justice says a US$222,000 damage award in a music copyright infringement case won recently by the Recording Industry Associatio...
Article | 5/12/2007 Nokia to launch 'free' music download service
Nokia will launch a new service next year that allows people who buy certain Nokia phones to download music for free for a year after they purchase th...
Article | 3/12/2007 Oregon: Ground Zero in RIAA, alleged music pirates fight
Oregon is fast becoming Ground Zero in the contentious battle between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the tens of thousands o...
Article | 3/12/2007 EFF: US ISP continues to block P-to-P
Comcast continues to slow down customers' connections to some P-to-P (peer-to-peer) applications, using hacker-like techniques against its own subscri...
Article | 29/11/2007 Universal launches classical music download site
Universal Music Group (UMG) and its subsidiary Deutsche Grammophon (DG) is set to make the majority of its huge classical music catalogue available on...
Article | 28/11/2007 Lawsuit charges CRT makers with price-fixing
A class-action lawsuit was filed against six monitor manufacturers on Tuesday, alleging the companies of being a "global cartel" involved in price-fix...
Article | 28/11/2007 Samsung's dual-format HD disc player coming in December
Samsung looks ready to make good on its plan to release a dual-format Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD player in time for the year-end holidays.
Article | 24/11/2007 Hollywood studios sue China Web site, cafe over piracy
Major Hollywood studios fighting pirates over "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest" and other films illegally made available for download cou...
Article | 26/11/2007 French gov't plans to disconnect content pirates
The French government has a plan for cutting music and film piracy on the Internet: cut off the pirates' Internet access.
Article | 23/11/2007 Apple settles iPod lawsuit for US$10 million
Apple on Wednesday agreed to settle a patent dispute with Burst.com, ending two years of litigation.

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