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EU Drafts New Bill of Rights for Internet Users November 05, 2009 
EU lawmakers and governments agreed on new rights for Internet users Thursday, aiming to protect them from arbitrary crackdowns on those who illegally download music and movies on the Internet. EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding said a deal was reached after EU governments agreed to EU parliament demands to balance measures against illegal downloaders with a broader set of rights for telecom users.
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Swedish Exchange Keelhauls Would-Be Pirate Bay Buyer September 10, 2009 
The would-be buyer of Swedish file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay has been kicked out of the smallcap stock exchange Aktietorget for misleading the market, the Swedish trading platform said Wednesday. Aktietorget said Global Gaming Factory X breached its transparency principles by saying the financing of The Pirate Bay acquisition was secured.
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Battling the Buccaneers of Beijing August 15, 2009 
American companies counting on a favorable trade ruling against China to boost sales of CDs, DVDs, books and video games will need a crackdown on rampant piracy before they can reap big benefits. Chinese incomes are lower than in the United States, and the quality of pirated entertainment there is quite good, making legal goods a tougher sell.
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WTO Presses China to Lower Barriers to Media Content August 13, 2009 
China said Thursday it might appeal a major World Trade Organization ruling that told Beijing to ease restrictions on imported movies, music and books in its latest trade dispute with Washington. The Commerce Ministry insisted Beijing does not hamper imports of media products, despite Wednesday's decision by a WTO panel of experts that it violates free-trade rules.
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Court Doesn't Buy Consumer Rights Argument in RealDVD Case August 12, 2009 
A federal judge has barred RealNetworks from selling a device that allows consumers to copy DVDs to their computer hard drives, pending a full trial. Walt Disney, Sony and Universal Studios, among others, filed suit against Seattle-based RealNetworks in 2008, saying its RealDVD device is an illegal pirating tool.
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Piracy, Open Source and the Shrinking Space Between August 06, 2009
There's a rumor that honor exists among thieves, but outside of Robin Hood, no one considers them a bunch of do-gooders. Yet there may be a bright side to their shadowy work, at least in terms of enterprise software. It could very well be that they will drive the prices down.
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Tea Parties, Pirate Ships and a Kayak: A Summer at Sea July 02, 2009 
For seven months, a New York Times reporter named David Rohde was held prisoner by Taliban kidnappers. However, you wouldn't learn that from reading The New York Times -- or even Wikipedia, for that matter. In addition to other news organizations, the Times reportedly asked Wikipedia not to publish information on the abduction.
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Pirate Bay Decides to Join the Navy June 30, 2009 
He may still have an eye patch, a peg leg and a funny hat, but is a pirate still a pirate if he writes you a check before plundering your ship? How long would Robin Hood keep his band of merry men intact if they took from the rich -- and charged the poor a redistribution fee for access to those riches?
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China Scrambles to Repair Crumbling Green Dam June 15, 2009 
For years, China's government has kept the country's Internet surfers on a very short leash. Censors attempt to block any content considered immoral, which could be anything from pornography to politically charged blog posts. Its latest plan is to order the installation of filtering software directly into all personal computers.
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BSA's $53B Global Piracy Tab Grossly Inflated, Argue Skeptics May 12, 2009 
Software piracy dropped or remained steady in scores of countries across the globe in 2008, but the worldwide rate still rose, thanks to rising piracy in emerging markets, according to a report for the Business Software Alliance released Monday. As usual, the report contained an ever-controversial estimate of what the BSA terms "losses" from software piracy: $53 billion.
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Pirate Bay Swashbucklers Convicted in Swedish Court April 17, 2009 
The music industry cheered as a Swedish court on Friday found the four proprietors of The Pirate Bay guilty of copyright law violation. The Pirate Bay is a torrent tracker site in Sweden that helps users find and download files used to swap movies, music, TV shows, games, books and software via BitTorrent file-sharing applications.
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Google Music Service Could Take Wind Out of Chinese Pirates' Sails March 30, 2009 
Google has launched a new music search service in China in conjunction with Top100.cn, one of mainland China's top Internet music sites. The new Google Music Search provides users with links to free, legal music downloads. Google, Top100.cn and several major American record labels will share revenue generated from online advertising.
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Are ISPs the Music Industry's New Guns for Hire? March 26, 2009 
There are reports that Cox and AT&T have begun cooperating with the Recording Industry Association of America's new antipiracy strategy -- first announced in December -- of targeting illegal file-sharing activities through Internet service providers instead of through the courts.
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Apple's Saber-Rattling, Capitol Hill's Ruckus, Big Blue's Silence January 31, 2009 
Apple may have just thrown a big bucket of cold water all over the Palm Pre love fest, courtesy of the U.S. Patent Office. The company has officially secured the rights to the technology behind the distinctive multifunction touchscreen found on the iPhone and the iPod touch -- it's what gives you the ability to pinch and spread your fingers to zoom in and out of a photo or a Web page.
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Warning to iWork Pirates: Here There Be Trojans January 23, 2009 
Mac security firm Intego sounded the alarm Thursday on a trojan horse it spotted hiding in pirated copies of Apple's iWork '09. Since then, several more security solution providers have responded. On the surface, the trojan -- OSX.Trojan.iServices.A -- might seem relatively benign. After all, only those who stole a copy of iWork '09 can get it.
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'We Didn't Want to See the Future': Q&A With Ex-Sony Lawyer Steve Gordon December 03, 2008 
In 1999 at a Sony Music corporate meeting, the room was filled with Sony executives and attorneys from across the globe. At one point, one of the Sony attorneys gave a presentation on two music services. One was the Sony music service and the other was a tiny, fledgling service. The Sony service required users to go through multiple layers of Web sites in order to get to the songs they wanted.
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