Mininova ordered to clean up all pirated content from its site
Mininova is one of the most popular torrent search engines on the web.
The service has just lost a major lawsuit in the Utrecht District Court.
The court has ordered the service to remove all pirated media content from the network within a period of [...]
RapidShare fined for copyright infringement in Germany
German courts have found RapidShare guilty of copyright infringement.
The web based file sharing service has been fined $34 Million. The money goes to GEMA which is the German body responsible for collecting copyright-related fees for distribution to member artists.
GEMA said in a statement about this victory: “The judgment [...]
The Pirate Bay found guilty
This is good news for all the media companies around the world who have been targeting peer to peer sharing networks.
The Pirate Bay has been found guilty of breaking Sweden’s copyright law. They did that by allowing web users to freely download copyrighted content from the web.
The courts have also [...]
Microsoft told to pay Uniloc in patent infringement case
Microsoft has lost a patent battle and has been asked to pay $388 million in damages to Uniloc Inc.
Uniloc specializes in developing technologies aimed at preventing piracy of software applications.
The company had claimed that Microsoft was infringing on their patents in Windows XP and some Office programs.
Paul [...]
Microsoft targets pirate users in China with Black Screen
Microsoft delivered a new software through its Windows Genuine Advantage Program in China.
Chinese users who were on pirated copies of Windows operating system were then greeted with black screen which wiped out information on the monitor.
This update is designed to turn the screen black after every 60 [...]
Motion Picture Association sue Shenzhen Xunlei Networking Technology
Motion Picture Association members have now filed a lawsuit against Shenzhen Xunlei Networking Technology service in China.
The lawsuit is related to copyright infringement and MPA members are seeking damages and legal fees in excess of 7 million renminbi.
They are also demanding that the company accepts in a public [...]
SIIA targets software sellers on eBay
Software & Information Industry Association has said in a statement that since they have failed to get eBay to take action against the sellers of pirated software on the online retailing site, they are now filing lawsuits against them.
The association has now filed as many as nine lawsuits against the [...]
Microsoft: Vista Piracy less than XP
Software giant Microsoft has stated that as per their research piracy of the Vista OS is much less compared to the pirated installations of Windows XP.
One of the primary reasons behind this is the anti piracy measures taken by the company to protect the recently launched Vista OS.
However, these measures [...]
