Online music storage firm MP3tunes files for bankruptcy

11 May, 2012, 11:50 am IST Web services

Online music storage firm MP3tunes Inc filed for bankruptcy in a U.S. court, following its prolonged run-in with music publishing giant EMI Group over copyright ... More

The Pirate Bay goes down for some upgrades

20 Mar, 2012, 1:37 pm IST Rossi Fernandes General

The Pirate Bay was down for a bit and while some might have thought that they were being shut down, they ... More

China opposed to U.S listing Taobao as market for piracy

19 Jan, 2012, 5:01 pm IST General

China is "greatly concerned and strongly opposed" to the United States' listing of Taobao, the country's largest consumer e-commerce website, ... More

White House sides with Internet firms in SOPA protest

18 Jan, 2012, 5:14 pm IST Anuradha Shetty General

In what could prove to be a major force on the side of all the Internet firms fighting against the SOPA and PIPA bills, ... More

UK student faces U.S. extradition in copyright case

14 Jan, 2012, 2:24 pm IST General

A British student will learn on Friday whether he is to be extradited to the United States for breaching U.S. copyright law. More

Paid Version of uTorrent Coming Soon

16 Jul, 2011, 11:28 am IST tech2 News Staff Software

The infamous files sharing application, uTorrent, is likely to be releasing with a paid variant. More

Spring Xbox 360 Dashboard Update Makes Life Difficult for Pirates

20 May, 2011, 7:47 pm IST tech2 News Staff Xbox 360 3 Comments

Re-flashes the DVD Drive to the original firmware. More

Grooveshark Writes Angry Open Letter to Music Industry

20 Apr, 2011, 3:00 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Xbox 360 2 Comments

Apple and Google are copied on this letter. More

Recording Industry Says Limewire Owes Them $ 75 Trillion

25 Mar, 2011, 10:18 am IST Siddharth Basrur Xbox 360

Recording industry claims that the actual and punitive damage amounts to anywhere between $400 billion and 75 trillion. More

Sony Might Introduce Blu-Ray Serial Keys for PS3 Games

21 Jan, 2011, 3:16 pm IST Sriram Gurunathan Gaming

Gamers all over the world shed tears. More

U.S. Says Targeting China in New Anti-Piracy Drive

22 Jul, 2010, 12:28 pm IST Reuters

The United States will make China "a significant focus". More

U.S. To Target Foreign Websites in Anti-Piracy Push

23 Jun, 2010, 11:06 am IST Reuters Windows

The U.S will go after foreign websites that pirate American music and movies as part of a new national strategy to stop sales of counterfeit and pirated goods. More

Software CEOs Seek Help vs China Software Piracy

09 Jun, 2010, 11:26 am IST Reuters

The chief executives of 12 software companies -- angered by what they say is China's failure to fight software piracy -- are meeting with lawmakers and Obama administration officials to pressure China. More

Pirated Windows 7 Generates $100,000 in India

04 Nov, 2009, 12:48 pm IST IANS

About 50,000 pirated DVDs of Microsoft Windows 7 are estimated to have been sold here since the official launch on Oct 22. More

Hong Kong Online Movie Pirate Loses Appeal

19 May, 2007, 4:59 pm IST Reuters

A Hong Kong man, believed to be the first man convicted of downloading pirated movies using BitTorrent file-sharing technology, lost his appeal on Friday in the territory's highest court. More

Software Piracy In India Drops By One Percent: Study

19 May, 2007, 1:33 pm IST IANS

India recorded a one percent drop in software piracy last year but this was lower than the rates achieved by China at four percent and Russia at three percent. More

Autonomy Opens New Front in War on Piracy

05 Apr, 2007, 5:22 pm IST Reuters

Autonomy Corp. unveiled software on Wednesday that scours the Web to detect copyrighted video, giving media companies new power to combat illegal uploading of TV programs on sites such as YouTube. More

MS Cracks Down on Student Software Piracy

04 Apr, 2007, 2:00 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan

Microsoft files nine lawsuits and issues more than 50 legal notices to companies trafficking illegal software. More

Russian Court Dismisses MS Piracy Case

15 Feb, 2007, 7:26 pm IST AP

A Russian court on Thursday threw out a criminal case against a school principal accused of installing pirated Microsoft software in school computers. More

China Shuts 205 Web Sites Over Piracy

08 Feb, 2007, 12:39 pm IST Reuters Services

China closed 205 Web sites in a crackdown on Internet piracy. More