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“That new app on Google Play looks awesome! Oh wait…it costs $2.99…no problem, I’ll just search for the APK and sideload it.” It is that kind of attitude that has lead to the loss of over $63.4 billion in software
Sony has a been forced to remove PSP titles from the PlayStation Store in an attempt to close security holes in the PS Vita. The problem creating titles, Motorstorm : Arctic Edge (named Raging Ice in Japan) and Everybody’s Tennis,
A higher regional court in Hamburg, Germany has reportedly ordered file sharing service RapidShare to screen pirated content from its site. This decision reflects those of a number of lower courts that have ruled that the site does not
The music streaming service Grooeshark is in the News again as around 30 music right holders have won a case, with the outcome being that Danish ISP ’3′ would have to block all traffic to Grooveshark. The court sees Grooveshark as a
A ruling passed by the England and Wales High Court has stated that both users as well as operators of The Pirate Bay have violated copyrights of music labels.
A new study, conducted by reseachers from University of Minnesota and Wellesley College, showed that there was very little, almost no correlation between illegal file-sharing facilated by BitTorrent and United States box office revenues.
Looks like Megaupload has some more on its head to deal with. Thursday saw new charges filed against the website and its co founder Kim Dotcom, increasing the range of accusations and giving additional details that could damage Megaupload’s defense.
Only a few weeks ago, the worlds largest torrenting site, The Pirate Bay, switched their domain name from .org to .se to prevent US authorities from being able to restrict the site. RIAA vice president, Mitch Glazier has spoken in
Just after Christmas I was browsing through my Facebook feed, and something on the official Microsoft Social Networks Feed page (or Microsoft Feed) caught my eye. It was an application that Microsoft proclaimed to be “the best free YouTube Downloader tool”.
A voluntary action by its founders saw the BitTorrent search site BTjunkie.org shut down permanently. The mounting pressure on them rose as fellow torrenting and file-sharing websites faced heavy legal action with their ultimate end being with either arrests, and/or
Over a year ago, The Pirate Bay had shut down its tracker and a Pirate Bay insider had then told that they are moving away from Torrent links and it seems it is going to happen now. Beginning today, The Pirate Bay will
We all know that all the big guns at the Web are opposed to the SOPA but we haven’t see any of them taking a step against it. Well that’s about to change for sure as Reddit have announced that
Breaking news over the last couple of days has been that ISP’s across the Netherlands have been restricting access for its users to ThePirateBay.org. ISP’s ‘XS4ALL’ and ‘Ziggo’ have been ordered by the courts to block its users from accessing
Microsoft corporation today accused the Comet Group PLC for creating and selling more than 94,000 counterfeit copies of Windows recovery discs. The alleged counterfeits were sold to customers who had purchased Windows XP and Vista-loaded PCs and laptops.