Italy’s Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) has uncovered a network of illegal reception of pay-TV platform Sky Italia, with 26 people denounced for “alleged fraud” following an investigation. Police in Vallo della Lucania near Salerno were able to trace the scam, carried out throughout most of Italy, which allowed, via single pay-TV subscription and an […]
Data from copyright-holders show Singapore has one of the highest incidences of online digital piracy in the Asia-Pacific region, Law Minister K Shanmugam has told the nation’s Parliament. On average, it is estimated there are more than 300,000 cases of illegal downloading each month, the worst among 15 countries in the region, he said. Shanmugam […]
The UK government has been given the green light to implement the Digital Economy Act after the final legal challenge by BT and Talk Talk was thrown out at the Court of Appeal. The two ISPs lost their appeal against last year’s judicial review of the government’s anti-piracy legislation on all but one ground. The […]
MPAA Chairman and CEO Senator Chris Dodd has suggested that universities should play a role in educating students as to the importance of IP rights and reiterated his belief that the technology and entertainment communities need to work together to address issues of legal access to content. Speaking at the National Association of Attorneys General […]
Sony has confirmed a number of Michael Jackson tracks have been stolen after its website was hacked. In 2010 Sony Music paid $250 million to the late singer’s estate for a seven-year deal for the rights to his remaining songs. The singer, who died in June 2009 at the age of 50, had recorded unreleased […]
A Canadian media conference has been told that piracy is a good thing as illegal downloading secures indie producers more business and markets for their product. “We’re really coming to a place right now where piracy and file sharing is actually doing what it’s supposed to do: It’s showing new markets, it’s taking the content […]
Following the lead taken earlier in the week by the Chief Executive of parent company Time Warner, Warner Home Entertainment Group President Kevin Tsujihara has reiterated Warner’s intentions to persuade consumers to convert physical content into digital files, managing their movies online and steering them away from cheap rentals and piracy. Addressing delegates at the […]
Time Warner Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes has defended the autumn 2011 launch of digital movie technology UltraViolet, led by the Warner Bros. studio, stressing the importance of launching early rather than waiting for further improvements. Speaking at the Deutsche Bank Media and Telecommunications conference in Palm Beach, Bewkes said the reason the studio didn’t wait […]
The European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, has just released its latest IRIS plus report – Answers to Internet Piracy – which offers an analysis of the what is being done to combat piracy in Europe, with a special focus on Russia, recently named in a priority watch list by […]
US retail giant Wal-Mart Stores is in discussions with companies behind the UltraViolet (UV) common file format and digital rights authentication ecosystem to provide an in-store service that will assist customers in registering DVDs they already own, reports The Wall Street Journal. UV has some 800,000 household accounts in the US since the first UV-enabled […]