Online Piracy
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Three-strikes piracy deterrent not for S'pore
News Anti-piracy law won't be implemented in Singapore as existing laws are sufficient, and will also be difficult to implement, say industry watchers.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Regulations, environmental scan, Sledgehammer, Survey, Piracy, Music, Singapore, intellectual property, e-mail
Has online piracy reached tipping point?
News news analysis Across the globe, copyright owners are on the offensive and say jobs and future of intellectual property are at stake. Can they do anything about it?
Tags: Piracy, Copyright, Entertainment Company, Grokster Ltd., Music, P2P, entertainment, Advertisement, YouTube Inc., antipiracy
Does Pirate Bay verdict spell trouble for Google?
Insight perspective Pirate Bay outcome could have wide and lasting implications for the likes of Google and YouTube, says legal expert.
Tags: Piracy, Copyright, Digital rights management (DRM), Web sites, Google Inc., Napster Inc., Video, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, YouTube Inc., File-sharing
European IT chief backs Net neutrality
News In a speech made to a global forum on Internet governance, the EC's Viviane Reding says the Net neutrality debate is a 'political question to be answered by the people'.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Security, Net Neutrality, Internet economy, British Broadcasting Corp., network, European Commission, online piracy, Internet
US Congress looks abroad to curb piracy
News Entertainment industry representatives tell the U.S. Congress it should urge other countries to adopt better intellectual property protections, or it may want to consider working with ISPs as Europe has.
Tags: Copyright, Piracy, Piracy, Video, Intellectual Property Right, entertainment, intellectual property, Canada, online video, job
IBM develops system to allow legal swapping of digital music
News IBM Corp, the world's largest seller of computers and related services, said it developed a system that allows users to legally pass on digital music to their friends.
BSA: Asia remains a piracy hotbed
News Despite heightened anti-piracy efforts, bootleg software is still used by the majority of Asian users, a new report revealed.
Music4Nothing.com sings the blues
News Internet music company Music4Nothing.com is hunkering down for the long haul, slashing staff and scouring for alternative revenue opportunities in a sluggish music market.
Malaysian record industry to track Napster via Songbird
News The Recording Industry Association of Malaysia (RIM) said it will use a new search tool called Songbird to track songs offered via the Napster service.
BitTorrent enters enterprise market
News The peer-to-peer company has forayed into the enterprise market with content delivery service, targeted at businesses that use streaming video, large downloads or games over the Web.
Tags: Peer to peer
S'pore-based Music4Nothing.com sings the blues
News Internet music company Music4Nothing.com is hunkering down for the long haul, slashing staff and scouring for alternative revenue opportunities in a sluggish music market.
EU votes against disconnecting file-sharers
News Two reports from the European Parliament argue that if file-sharers of copyrighted material are not trying to make money from their actions, they should not be criminalized or thrown off the Internet.
Tags: Copyright
Music industry blames Net for some revenue woes
News The record industry pours a little more fuel on the online piracy fires, blaming a steep decrease in CD singles sales in 2000 on unauthorized Internet downloads.
Music industry blames Net for some revenue woes
News The record industry poured a little more fuel on the online piracy wars Friday, blaming a steep decrease in CD singles sales in 2000 on unauthorized Internet downloads.
Box office hits pirated over Web
News Three current films are among the most-pirated films over the Web, according to MediaForce.
