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Article | 5/05/2011 China's Baidu launching free legal music downloads
China's largest search engine Baidu is preparing to offer free legal music downloads, as part of a push by the company to move away from its reputatio...
Article | 4/05/2011 US man pleads guilty to music piracy charges
A California man who participated in a so-called warez music-sharing group faces a sentence of five years in prison and a US$250,000 fine after pleadi...
Article | 29/04/2011 Lawsuit: Trial version of CAD software includes spyware
A trial version of a 3D CAD software package includes "phone-home" functionality that allows the vendor to contact downloaders months later and demand...
Article | 27/04/2011 Dropbox: A file sharer's dream tool?
The folks behind Dropbox have not been having an easy time recently. First it was suggested their PC client might be insecure, then changes in their t...
Article | 21/04/2011 US woman pleads guilty to selling counterfeit software
A Michigan woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge related to selling more than US$400,000 worth of counterfeit software on a website, the U.S. Dep...
Article | 7/04/2011 Judge in Oracle-Google case gets a lesson in Java
Lawyers for Oracle and Google gave the judge overseeing their Java patent dispute a tutorial on Wednesday that underscored the complexity of the case ...
Article | 7/04/2011 Lawmakers question if search engines contribute to piracy
Search engines should stop showing results for websites that infringe copyright and sell counterfeit products, or be held accountable, some U.S. lawma...
Article | 6/04/2011 Yahoo unhappy over Italian court's ruling on search
Yahoo is unhappy with a recent ruling in an Italian court that ordered the company to remove links from its search engine that lead to pirated copies ...
Article | 1/04/2011 China's Baidu to compensate songwriters for music downloads
China's largest search engine Baidu said it will start paying an agency representing songwriters for every music download on the site, after years of ...
Article | 31/03/2011 Baidu's online library shrinks following piracy cleanup
China's largest search engine Baidu is deleting millions of documents from its online library platform, in response to growing criticism from a group ...
Article | 27/03/2011 RIAA thinks LimeWire owes $75 trillion in damages
The music industry wants LimeWire to pay up to US$75 trillion in damages after losing a copyright infringement claim. That's right . . . $75 trillion....
Article | 23/03/2011 Google Books settlement proposal rejected
A proposed agreement drafted by Google, authors and publishers to settle their yearslong copyright litigation has been rejected, a major setback to Go...
Article | 18/03/2011 Android violates Linux license, experts claim
Google's Android mobile operating system's usage of the Linux kernel may violate open source licensing with a misappropriation of Linux code that coul...
Article | 17/03/2011 Baidu's online library accused of piracy by Chinese authors
An online library operated by Chinese search engine giant Baidu is drawing criticism that its becoming the next online hotbed for pirated works.
Article | 16/03/2011 iiNet calls for 'independent umpire' to police copyright
Australian Internet service provider iiNet has proposed the establishment of an independent body to police copyright infringement by Internet users.