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Hollywood film studios launched legal action Tuesday against Britain's biggest Internet service provider in a fight against online piracy, thought to be the first case of its kind in the country. http://phys.org/news228499808.html Technology Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:10:18 EST news228499808 Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has said rampant software piracy in China has eaten into his company's revenue in what is soon to be the world's top PC market, a report said Friday. http://phys.org/news225691036.html Technology Fri, 27 May 2011 05:30:02 EST news225691036 The US Navy is turning to the wisdom of the crowd to forge military strategy, inviting the public to join an online game in which Somali pirates have hijacked commercial ships. http://phys.org/news224856780.html Technology Tue, 17 May 2011 13:13:23 EST news224856780 US senators re-introduced a bill Thursday that would give the US authorities more tools to crack down on websites selling pirated movies, television shows and music and counterfeit goods. http://phys.org/news224478529.html Technology Fri, 13 May 2011 04:09:08 EST news224478529 Piracy cost the global software industry more than $20 billion in losses in the China market last year despite the increasing use of legitimate programmes, an official survey showed Thursday. http://phys.org/news224416613.html Technology Thu, 12 May 2011 10:57:05 EST news224416613 The Office of Naval Research (ONR) intends to launch on May 16 a new Internet wargame, recruiting a community of more than 1,000 players to collaborate on solving real-world problems facing the Navy. http://phys.org/news224160765.html Technology Mon, 09 May 2011 11:53:50 EST news224160765 Mozilla, the non-profit developer of the Firefox Web browser, is holding off on complying with a government request to remove a software tool meant to circumvent federal efforts at curbing Internet piracy. http://phys.org/news223922699.html Technology Fri, 06 May 2011 17:45:16 EST news223922699 New Zealand passed a law against online piracy Thursday which outlaws file-sharing and threatens repeat offenders with having their Internet access cut off. http://phys.org/news221985889.html Technology Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:00:02 EST news221985889 What's the difference between stealing a CD from a music store and ripping off music online? The music industry and law enforcers say that there is none: Theft is theft, whether it's physical or digital. http://phys.org/news221905471.html Other Sciences Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:24:45 EST news221905471 Democratic and Republican members of the US Congress pledged Monday to pass legislation that would give US authorities more tools to crack down on websites engaged in piracy of movies, television shows and music and the sale of counterfeit goods. http://phys.org/news221195630.html Technology Tue, 05 Apr 2011 04:50:01 EST news221195630 International piracy costs the shipping industry billions of dollars a year and leads to high-profile murders that make global headlines. Longstanding concerns over piracy have led to numerous international laws and conventions designed to keep pirates in check – but research from North Carolina State University shows that the tangled network of laws may actually be helping pirates escape justice. http://phys.org/news220094277.html Other Sciences Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:18:10 EST news220094277 (PhysOrg.com) -- Fines and tougher laws are likely to have little impact on the worldwide growth in piracy of movies, music, books and software, copyright experts have warned. http://phys.org/news219925338.html Other Sciences Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:22:36 EST news219925338 Dozens of popular Chinese writers have accused search engine giant Baidu of infringing their copyright and branded it a "thief" in the latest claims of piracy against the company. http://phys.org/news219469078.html Technology Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:38:08 EST news219469078 US agents have sidelined 10 websites they said were linking viewers to pirated telecasts of live sporting events including professional basketball, hockey, wrestling, and other sports. http://phys.org/news215980371.html Technology Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:50:01 EST news215980371 A study done at Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain) identifies and characterizes the users who upload contents on the main P2P piracy networks on Internet and points out the incentives that they find to carrying out this activity. http://phys.org/news215087870.html Technology Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:38:19 EST news215087870 With fresh data showing that Hollywood's crucial home entertainment market shrank yet again in 2010, six of Hollywood's biggest studios are rolling out plans for boosting online sales of movies and TV shows. http://phys.org/news213623413.html Technology Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:10:01 EST news213623413 Publishers in Japan demanded Tuesday that Apple stop selling pirated digital copies of novels by Japanese authors, including Haruki Murakami's "1Q84", in its online book store. http://phys.org/news211545738.html Technology Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:42:34 EST news211545738 (AP) -- Google has agreed to buy a company whose software is used to protect Internet video from piracy and make it play more smoothly. http://phys.org/news210762689.html Technology Sun, 05 Dec 2010 09:50:01 EST news210762689 (AP) -- China's government announced a new crackdown Tuesday on rampant illegal copying of products from software to music that is adding to tensions with Washington and other governments over trade and currency complaints. http://phys.org/news210336175.html Technology Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:20:02 EST news210336175 (AP) -- On the losing end of a $1.3 billion jury verdict for stealing a rival's intellectual property, SAP AG is facing the difficult decision about whether to double down - by appealing - or folding. http://phys.org/news209843151.html Technology Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:46:01 EST news209843151 A US jury has ordered a Minnesota woman to pay 1.5 million dollars for illegally downloading 24 songs in a high-profile digital piracy case. http://phys.org/news208111746.html Technology Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:49:25 EST news208111746 Experts from the University of the West of England, UK, are teaming up with Aralia Systems Ltd, a specialist security company, to take cinema piracy detection technology forward and develop software systems that will revolutionise market research data collection techniques. http://phys.org/news207821261.html Technology Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:08:00 EST news207821261 French Internet providers have begun sending email warnings to users caught illegally dowloading films and music under a new anti-piracy law, authorities said on Monday. http://phys.org/news205415620.html Technology Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:20:06 EST news205415620 University of Southern California student Elizabeth watched the season finale of HBO's lusty vampire drama "True Blood" along with about 5.4 million television viewers. http://phys.org/news204529048.html Technology Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:10:01 EST news204529048 A bill introduced in the US Senate on Monday would give US law enforcement authorities more tools to crack down on websites engaged in piracy of movies, television shows and music. http://phys.org/news204221650.html Technology Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:50:04 EST news204221650 US software giant Microsoft expressed concern on Monday over a report that anti-software piracy laws were being used to stifle dissent in Russia and announced steps to try to halt the practice. http://phys.org/news203613977.html Technology Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:50:22 EST news203613977 (AP) -- Belgian police say 10 people have been arrested in raids across Europe against hackers who put illegal copies of movies and television series on the Internet. http://phys.org/news203170283.html Technology Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:50:04 EST news203170283 Police shut down 49 servers and detained 10 people in a Europe-wide raid in 13 countries against an online film pirating network, the Belgian prosecutor's office said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news203095727.html Technology Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:40:01 EST news203095727 (AP) -- Starting this month, colleges and universities that don't do enough to combat the illegal swapping of "Avatar" or Lady Gaga over their computer networks put themselves at risk of losing federal funding. http://phys.org/news197225075.html Technology Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:45:05 EST news197225075 (AP) -- U.S. officials on Wednesday announced a major crackdown on movie piracy that involved disabling nine websites that were offering downloads of pirated movies in some cases hours after they appeared in theaters. http://phys.org/news197131735.html Technology Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:00:02 EST news197131735