Recent Posts Tagged With 'piracy'

• Congress OKs $30M in Anti-Piracy Resources

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 15:35 in piracy

  The funds include $20.0 million in state and local grants to further the use of high technology in order to thwart Internet piracy, $8.0 million for the FBI to use to hire new agents and $2.0 million for Department of Justice IP prosecutions.The Holl...

• Is Britain Readying a Supremely Armed Pirate Hunter?

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 13:06 in piracy, intellectual property, u.k., uk labour party

  An story on BoingBoing cites a British Labour Government source that such a move may be underway. The article, noticed by GPer DarkSaber, reports that changes could be introduced to the Digital Economy Bill, which would enable the Secretary of State ...

• Law Firm Sniffing Around Xbox Live Class Action Suit

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 16:09 in xbox 360, xbox live, piracy

  A law firm that specializes in consumer class action lawsuits is probing the recent purging of Xbox Live accounts in what may be a setup for future litigation.Inc Gamers noticed that AbingtonIP currently has a form on its website asking those affecte...

• Age Ratings, Anti-Piracy Subject of UK Digital Economy Bill

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 10:10 in piracy, u.k., uk labour party, bbfc, pegi, politics & legislation

  A few details regarding Britain’s Digital Economy Bill were touched on this morning as part of the Queen’s Speech to Parliament, in which the monarch outlines the coming legislative agenda.Among the forthcoming actions will be a mandatory...

• Report: 600k Accounts Banned From Xbox Live

  Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 13:59 in Microsoft, xbox 360, xbox live, piracy, modders, mod chips

  Microsoft has once again taken out its ban stick, this time in an effort to prevent modified Xbox 360s from accessing Xbox Live.A story on GamesIndustry.biz estimates the total number of banned accounts at around 600,000. Total Xbox Live accounts num...

• Console Modder’s Appeal Tossed in UK Court

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 11:08 in piracy, u.k., court cases

  A UK man found guilty in 2008 of installing mod chips into Xbox, PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and GameCube consoles has seen an appeal of his conviction denied.Christopher Paul Gilham sold the hacked consoles, which enabled users to play counterfeit ga...

• Mounties Get Their Men, ESA & ESAC Approve

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 13:49 in Canada, piracy, esa

  The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and the Entertainment Software Association Canada (ESAC) have issued public kudos to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and York Police for the pair’s latest efforts against the sale of pirated...

• France Passes Hadopi Law, EU Kills Amendment

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 10:05 in france, piracy, u.k.

  In light of France officially approving a tough, three-strike law against illegal downloaders, the European Parliament has exorcised an amendment to its Telecoms Package that would have made it more difficult to disconnect pirates from the Internet.F...

• Game Publishers File Suit Over DS Cartridges

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 09:17 in piracy

  Capcom has joined Nintendo and 53 other game publishers in a lawsuit against the makers of the R4 flash cartridge for the Nintendo DS. The reason for the suit is that the R4 can be used to store copies of pirated DS games.The action is going after fo...