Comment: IAA Urges Companies to Step up Anti-Counterfeiting Efforts

The International Authentication Association (IAA) has urged manufacturers of branded goods to continue and even increase their investment in anti-counterfeiting strategies and technologies

WED 19 NOV. 2008 |Featured in: News

Comment : Digital piracy consultation is out of tune with the needs of the entertainment industry

Business and technology consultancy Detica today urges the UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) to shift the focus of its consultation process away from enforcement when considering legislative options for addressing illicit peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing

THU 13 NOV. 2008 |Featured in: News

Youtube Bags Deal With X-factor Producer, FremantleMedia

Youtube has signed an agreement with Fremantlemedia to distribute its content and share advertising revenues generated by the Youtube channels on the video website

TUE 11 NOV. 2008 |Featured in: News

Apple Signs Peace Agreement With Clone Maker Psystar

In a move to avoid the costly legal process, both Apple and Psystar have agreed to engage in a mediated settlement of their ongoing dispute over Psystar’s open computers that are shipped with preinstalled Mac OS X

MON 20 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Youtube Takes Down McCain Video After Receiving DCMA Notices

The Republican US presidential candidate John McCain has alleged YouTube of responding too hastily to the copyright violation notices served on them and removing his campaign videos from its site

FRI 17 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

iPhone App Maker Sues Carling Maker Over iPint Virtual Beer Software

iPhone app developer Hottrix has a filed a lawsuit, worth GBP7.1 million, against Molson Coors Brewing and Beattie McGuinness Bungay for copying its “iBeer” application for creating their own “iPint”

THU 16 OCT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Comment : Adobe crackers' approach on Clickjacking is positive

Security Firm Fortify Software says that an informal agreement by the software cracking community to temporarily cease open discussion of the Adobe Clickjacking flaw is a positive move for the IT security industry

TUE 23 SEPT. 2008 |Featured in: News

Computer Game Industry Launches Crackdown on P2P File Sharing

Yesterday's news of the successful prosecution of a 30-year old mother of two for illegally sharing file seems to have embolden the rest of the industry to pursuit UK-based casual pirates

WED 20 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

£16000 Fine For Mother Spells Trouble For UK P2P File-sharing

A Polish mother of two has been told to pay more than £16,000 in a ruling that could possibly spell the end of the judicial system's apparent leniency towards online file sharers

TUE 19 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News

Court Decision Means Open Source Licenses Are legally Enforceable

Open Source may to be synonymous with "free as in free beer" but it doesn't mean that one can do what ever they want with the code and go unpunished

FRI 15 AUG. 2008 |Featured in: News