Category: Piracy

  • High court forces BT to block file-sharing website

    Hollywood film studios won a landmark UK high court ruling on Thursday forcing BT to block access to an illegal file-sharing website accused of operating “on a grand scale”. (See The Guardian, Mark Sweney & Josh Halliday for full article).

  • Apple’s iCloud Making Music Pirates Pay

    Apple CEO Steve Jobs “…unveiled a system that might finally get music lovers to pay for the songs they got through less-than-proper means… …Aside from offering to freely distribute new and old iTunes purchases on all of a user’s devices, the Apple impresario unveiled “iTunes Match,” a $25-a-year service starting this fall that will scan…