Fed raid pounces on equipment for digital piracy
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Continuing a crackdown on digital piracy, federal agents on Wednesday raided five locations housing equipment used by elite hackers to exchange unauthorized copies of blockbuster films and popular music.
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I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
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The world's biggest electronics firms are working on systems to stop digital content being pirated.
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Back in Napster&#39;s controversial days of illegal file-swapping, Metallica led the charge against digital piracy that was running rampant on the site. Fast-forward a few years and witness the rise of individual recording artists once again taking action against illegal use of their musical masterpieces.
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WASHINGTON - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized computers, software and equipment as part of a probe into the illegal sharing of copyrighted movies, music and games over an Internet &#39;peer-to-peer&#39; (P2P) network, Attorney-General John
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You'd think catching movie pirates would be as easy as preventing anyone with a camcorder from entering a movie theater. Or throwing a net over Johnny Depp's house. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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Hollywood sues hundreds of files sharers and hobbles hardware in war on piracy.
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Device features two optical drives and a 160GB hard drive for storing content.
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Controversial plan could force file swappers to face criminal charges.
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The FBI broke up two movie piracy rings Wednesday that authorities said specialized in sneaking digital camcorders into theaters and shooting hit films, then duplicating and distributing millions of bootlegs worldwide.
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Federal authorities conducted six searches Wednesday in an attempt to disrupt a network used to trade copies of movies, software, games, and music.
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Let's see if digital pirates are willing to watch ads to get music.
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The cat-and-mouse game continues between Microsoft and a group of hackers intent on breaking the copy protection technology on its Windows Media files. This time, an individual has cracked the latest DRM scheme employed by Microsoft.
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Net law professor Michael Geist takes a close look at the contested world of camcorder piracy.
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One of the big guns of the Wild West days of freely downloading music and movies over the Internet is going straight.
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BitTorrent is a wonderful way to download files with greater reliability than other conventional means, but of course that means that it is used greatly for piracy... apparently.
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Restrictive hardware and convoluted rights management crimp consumer choices.