Officials at the file-sharing site criticized a report by MarkMonitor that refers to RapidShare as a digital piracy site. – RapidShare has reacted harshly to a report characterizing the file-hosting site as a home for pirated content.
In a study released Jan. 11, researchers from MarkMonitor crawled the Web for sites offering counterfeit and pirated digital content tied to 22 high-profile brands. The results included 43…
A new report from MarkMonitor found 43 digital piracy sites combined for 146 million visits per day, or 53 billion per year. – New research from MarkMonitor revealed just how much traffic Websites selling counterfeit and pirated content can generate.
In a study, MarkMonitor searched the Web for sites believed to be
offering counterfeit and pirated digital content tied to 22 well-known
brands. The results were narrowed do…
A number of security loopholes in the applications listed on the Mac App Store allow users to download paid applications for free and repackage bootleg programs with malicious code. – Security oversights by Mac developers and Apple allow users
to pirate or modify applications downloaded from the Mac App Store, several
users reported on Jan. 6.
Less than 24 hours after Apple unveiled the Mac
App Store for the Mac OS X, reports emerged on various user forums,
including Pastebi…
Google will process copyright takedown requests for content on Google.com and Blogger within 24 hours in 2011. The changes follow YouTube’s Content ID protection scheme. – Google Dec. 2 said it plans to improve its copyright and piracy protection
procedures, including processing copyright takedown requests for content within
24 hours.
The search engine said it is building tools to improve the submission
process to make it easier for rights-holders to submit Digita…
A Belgrade daily writes that losses incurred by software piracy run into hundreds of millions of dollars, while police are “planning internet surveillance”.
At the same time, reports the Blic newspaper, the Serbian Tax Administration will set up a unit that will probe legality of software to tackle the problem of piracy.
A Texas man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for selling counterfeit software online. – A Texas man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for selling more than $1 million worth of pirated software via the Internet.
Todd Alan Cook, of Wichita Falls, Texas, was sentenced Oct. 29 and
received a fine of $599,771 in addition to the prison time. Cook
pleaded guilty to criminal copyright in…
SAP was unsuccessful in trying to obtain a gag order for Oracle’s attorneys, and Oracle was turned down in its attempt to delay the start of the trial by three days. – Two of the world’s largest enterprise application makers, Oracle and
SAP–embroiled in a software piracy lawsuit that begins Nov. 1–each
had court requests turned down by the presiding judge on Oct. 29.
SAP was unsuccessful in trying to obtain a gag order for Oracle’s
attorneys, and Oracle …
However, Oracle is trying to prove willful wrongdoing on SAP’s part to get a jury to order SAP to pay more millions of dollars in damages than SAP thinks is fair. – German database maker SAP AG admitted in a court brief to Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton of the U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., dated Oct. 28 that it won’t contest Oracle’s claim that it is culpable for copyright infringement committed several years ago by its now-defunct TomorrowNow unit.
The…
MarkMonitor has bought DtecNet to enhance its ability to fight online piracy. – Brand protection vendor MarkMonitor has acquired DtecNet to bolster its ability to fight fraud and piracy.
MarkMonitor, based in San Francisco, offers products and services to prevent brandjacking and online fraud. The acquisition, made for an undisclosed sum, builds on the existing relationship …
Attackers brought down sites belonging to the Motion Picture Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America and anti-piracy firm AiPlex Software. – A group of piracy advocates launched coordinated attacks on Websites belonging to the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America and anti-piracy firm AiPlex Software.
The attacks, which occurred during the past few days, temporarily knocked the sites offl…
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Google Android wants to fight against illegal piracy of Android Apps. So they launched a licensing service application that lets developers enforce licensing policies for paid applications. Such a license mechanism can prevent any unauthorized use of the applications.
U.S. lawmakers are demanding tough new measures to punish China for its failure to stop widespread piracy and counterfeiting of U.S. goods, ranging from music CDs, to software, to manufactured products. – WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers on
Wednesday called for tough new measures to punish China for its failure
to stop widespread piracy and counterfeiting of U.S. goods ranging from
music CDs to manufactured products.
quot;I think we ought to consider this economic terrorism, quot;
Represen…
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A new way to scan digital videos for copyright infringement
ONLINE video piracy is a big deal. Google’s YouTube, for example, is being sued for more than $1 billion by Viacom, a media company. But it is extremely hard to tell if a video clip is copyrighted, particularly since 24 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Now a new industry standard promises to be able to identify pirated material with phenomenal accuracy in a matter of seconds.
The technique, developed by NEC, a Japanese technology company, and later tweaked by Mitsubishi Electric, has been adopted by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) for MPEG-7, the latest standard for describing audio-visual content. The two existing methods do not do a very good job. One is digital “watermarking,” in which a bit of computer code is embedded in a file to identify it. This works only if content owners take the trouble to affix the watermark—and then it only spots duplicates, not other forms of piracy such as recording a movie at a cinema. A second approach is to extract a numeric code or “digital fingerprint” from the content file itself by comparing, say, the colours or texture of regions in a frame. But this may not work if the file is altered, such as by cropping or overlaying text. …
Software piracy cost technology companies more than US$50 billion ($68.8 billion) around the world last year, with Asia accounting for the largest share of losses, an industry report said Tuesday, reported AFP.
Global losses due to software piracy reached US$51.4 billion in 2009, with US$16.5 billion of this in the Asia-Pacific region, said the annual report by the Business Software Alliance, which has a base in Singapore.
Piracy, particularly in music, has become exceptionally easy, and because of the wide availability and accessibility of digital media, copyright violations have never been so widespread. Many people arent even aware if and when they are violating copyrights or illegally using intellectual property. A new Trojan is hoping to capitalize on this confusion. The Antipiracy Foundation Scanner is using increased attention on digital piracy as a pressure tactic for computer users everywhere.
The Pirate Bay was established in 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån (The Piracy Bureau) and has been acting as a separate organisation since October 2004. In total the site has 3,500,000 registered users and its purpose is to allow users to easily locate torrent files which are used by peer to peer file sharing programs to locate and download a whole host of information.
South Korea’s music industry succeeds in fending off pirates
CAN the battle against music piracy be won with sweeping new laws? In one country the answer appears to be yes. A year ago South Korea tightened copyright laws and allowed media firms to demand that warnings be sent to people who flout them. If they ignore three such warnings, their broadband connection can then be cut. This provided the model for “three strikes” laws subsequently passed in France and Britain. New figures from the South Korean branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) suggest the pioneering law has had an effect. Music sales rose by more than 10% in 2009, to $159m. In the music business any trend other than a decline is noteworthy.
It is a recovery from an extremely low base. South Korea is a leader in both broadband connections and piracy. In 2004 the American government put it on a watch list for failing to protect intellectual property. International media firms, which had been drawn to the country by the pan-Asian “K-pop” boom, wrote it off. …
South Korea’s music industry succeeds in fending off pirates
CAN the battle against music piracy be won with sweeping new laws? In one country the answer appears to be yes. A year ago South Korea tightened copyright laws and allowed media firms to demand that warnings be sent to people who flout them. If they ignore three such warnings, their broadband connection can then be cut. This provided the model for “three strikes” laws subsequently passed in France and Britain. New figures from the South Korean branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) suggest the pioneering law has had an effect. Music sales rose by more than 10% in 2009, to $159m. In the music business any trend other than a decline is noteworthy.
It is a recovery from an extremely low base. South Korea is a leader in both broadband connections and piracy. In 2004 the American government put it on a watch list for failing to protect intellectual property. International media firms, which had been drawn to the country by the pan-Asian “K-pop” boom, wrote it off. …
