Millions of pirated discs are destroyed
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CHINA BEIJING -- Chinese law enforcement agencies destroyed nearly 13 million pirated compact discs, DVDs, and computer software yesterday in the government's latest campaign to curtail rampant theft of intellectual property, state media reported. The destroyed items were confiscated in the first half of an ongoing 100-day nationwide campaign against piracy, the Xinhua News Agency said. Police seized the items ...
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Public file sharing via BitTorrent has taken several severe blows recently. Find out where the industry will be attacking next and read the note from Suprnova.
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DRM software stops digital files from being copied and has already seen heavy investment from Time Warner, Microsoft and Sony. Before the buy-out in April, the majority owner of ContentGuard
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A multimillion-euro software piracy ring has been broken following synchronized raids in Athens and London yesterday, Attica police said.
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They start with a single stolen file and pump out pirated games and movies by the millions. Jeff Howe from Wired magazine looks at the 'topsites' that are terrorizing the entertainment business.
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Tussle over next-generation DVD format could alienate consumers.
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UK users will be able to replace pirated versions of Windows that they have purchased. Software pirates&#39; increasing skill at creating counterfeit versions of Windows XP has prompted Microsoft to introduce
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Blockbuster gears up for an ill-fated digital download service.
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There is a reason people still buy CDs  more than they do digital albums. Actually there are several,  but viruses that come along with music via peer-to-peer sites  (P2P) and a concern over digital rights management (DRM) aren't  the only culprits.
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Chinese law enforcement agencies destroyed nearly 13 million pirated compact discs, DVDs and computer software Saturday in the government's latest campaign to curtail rampant theft of intellectual property, state media reported.
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Here are the five most common disc-burning errors and how to avoid them.
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After a two-year investigation, U.S. law enforcement officials have disrupted one of the largest software piracy operations in the United States with the arrest of 11 suspects in California, Washington and Texas. In the raid, FBI agents seized pirated applications valued as high as US&#36;87 million, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.
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Electronic storage will kill high-definition discs, says hard drive king's Bill Watkins. He's got other opinions, too.
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Damages of up to $30,000 (Â£16,300) per film are being sought by the Motion Picture Association of America in an unknown number of lawsuits filed against people caught illegally downloading digital copies of films.
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I'm guilty.  I'm a Software Pirate!  Not just one or two copies of DOS but probably hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of software.  Growing up my parents didn't have much money.  Certainly not hundred of thousands of dollars for me to blow on software.  I was curious and had a passion for computers that I couldn't control.  I simply wanted to learn and couldn't afford to pay for software.  Luckily I did this when I was a kid so hopefully I won't be prosecuted.  I also believe that everything I did was ethical.  I didn't take any money out of the hands of the software industry and I've already contributed WAY more to the industry than a few hundred thousand in software sales.  This is th ...
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What hope then for Vista toughness? Some, or maybe many, Microsoft volume license customers were told on Monday and Tuesday that their PCs were running pirated software.â¦
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Association seeks monetary damages from alleged film pirates.