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November 1, 2021 | 14:00

Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

October 27, 2021 | 12:05

SilentiumPC Regnum RG6V TG Case Review

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

October 21, 2021 | 09:43

China claims 'massive evidence' in DRAM price-fix probe

Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron facing big fines.

November 20, 2018 | 11:07

UMC, Fujian Jinhua indicted for alleged Micron tech theft

Companies face $20bn in fines.

November 2, 2018 | 11:16

Conservative Party pledges to take control of the UK's Internet

Aims for a Chinese walled garden approach.

May 22, 2017 | 11:21

Dutch government moves to outlaw pirate downloads

Proposals would make pirate downloads as illegal as uploads.

April 12, 2011 | 16:04

BitTorrent Seeders: Driven By Profit?

IMDEA researcher Michael Kryczka says that 66 per cent of torrents originate from just 100 seeders.

February 16, 2011 | 07:28

Apple moves to ban jailbreaking

Apple is making moves with the US Copyright Office to make jailbreaking - the process of modifying an iPhone to run third party applications - illegal.

February 17, 2009 | 10:03

Norwegians told to keep shtum on file sharing

The Norwegian Consumer Council has issued a statement telling ISP customers not to admit to copyright infringement.

April 4, 2008 | 08:45

Piracy 'sales' charts revealed

Indie website RockPaperShotgun has done a breakdown of the top ten pirated games and the number of downloads for each.

March 6, 2008 | 10:36

Illegal downloaders to be cut off by UK ISPs

The UK Government has drafted plans that would demand ISPs to ban users that illegally download music and films.

February 12, 2008 | 14:31

WD MyBook locks your media files

Western Digital 1TB MyBook NAS adds overly restrictive DRM to deny access to the video and music you legally own, when you try and play it from outside your home network.

December 10, 2007 | 14:33

46 percent of children can buy M-rated games

An American study has just been released which shows that almost half of all children trying to buy an M-rated game are able to do so.

November 22, 2007 | 10:17

UK police shut down illegal pig site

Police in Middlesbrough have arrested the man behind Oink.me.uk, one of the world's biggest illegal music file sharing sites.

October 23, 2007 | 12:35

Chinese anti-piracy alliance formed

A group of Chinese gaming companies have formed a new alliance, called OGAAP, to try and combat computer game piracy in China where game piracy is especially bad.

September 17, 2007 | 10:24

Pirate DVD factory raided in The Netherlands

A manufacturing plant that was making 900 illegal copies of movies an hour was raided by Dutch police earlier this week.

September 14, 2007 | 12:40

Illegal music downloads hit record levels in UK

Amid an ever increasing amount of lawsuits in the US, UK citizens are downloading more unauthorised music then ever before.

August 1, 2007 | 12:54

Child abuse in Second Life?

German police begin a search in Second Life regarding rumours of child pornography rings.

May 14, 2007 | 11:22

Google accused of helping pirates

Google is coming under fire from Hollywood after the company is believed to have helped websites responsible for offering illegal film downloads.

February 15, 2007 | 12:40

US Senator thinks iPods can kill you

Senator Carl Krueger wants to ban iPods on the streets of New York because he believes that they're the cause of an increasing number of fatal accidents in the city.

February 8, 2007 | 08:53

EU presses for Intel anti-trust charge

European Union investigators have recommended that EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes should formally charge Intel on the grounds of illegal business tactics.

January 18, 2007 | 07:26

Mum beats RIAA

A mother has called the RIAA's bluff and stood up to their legal bully-boy tactics. The RIAA fails to provide any concrete evidence and gets slapped by a US court.

July 17, 2006 | 11:03

Music industry to sue Yahoo! China

The music industry is expected to sue Yahoo! China after allegedly providing users with links to pirated music.

July 4, 2006 | 11:52

Swedish Maritime office goes after Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay is set to come under attack from the Swedish Maritime Administration after a police report was filed on June 16th.

June 27, 2006 | 11:06

RIAA does it again, sues family with no computer

Yes, you read that right. Apparently you can continue to file share whilst not owning a machine. Plus, some new proposed legislation we're all going to love.

April 25, 2006 | 16:31

MSI MPG Velox 100R Chassis Review

October 14 2021 | 15:04