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UK's 'Three Strikes' Piracy System Faces Yet More Delay
Forbes  Jun 6  Comment 
The UK government has admitted that there's still no immediate prospect of implementing its 'three strikes and you're out' warning system for users suspected of making illegal downloads.
French Appear Ready to Soften Law on Media Piracy
New York Times  Jun 2  Comment 
The law was announced four years ago as one of the toughest enforcement programs anywhere, but its threat to cut off Internet access may be about to fade away and be replaced by a fine.     
Finally, Some Objective Figures On Games Piracy
Forbes  May 15  Comment 
Last year, a report from the Entertainment Software Association of Canada claimed that a whopping one-fifth of computer games in the US and Canada were pirated. It was just the latest in a series of assertions from the industry that file sharing...
Daft Punk Fights Piracy With Convenience, Streams Entire “Random Access Memories” Album Days Before Release
TechCrunch  May 13  Comment 
After weeks of teasing, endless itty-bitty leaks, and about a zillion radio plays of the one track they'd released so far, the entirety of Daft Punk's new Random Access Memories has just hit iTunes, days before the official release. "Why would...
Netflix: "We Kill Piracy!"; BitTorrent: "Yeah, So, About That Piracy Thing?"
Forbes  May 8  Comment 
Last week, the Chief Content Officer of  Netflix, Ted Sarandos, claimed in an interview with stuff.tv that whenever Netflix launched in a new market then traffic via BitTorrent in that same market drops. He was clearly inferring that the mass...
Online film piracy trial stalls
The Australian  May 6  Comment 
A PROPOSED trial to help Hollywood movie studios catch online copyright infringers has flat-lined after six months of inaction.
Beijing Piracy Crackdown Boosts Legal Video Sites
Forbes  May 3  Comment 
A new crackdown on Chinese websites that traffic in pirated material is coming as welcome news to China's struggling online video sharing sector, where companies are still struggling to find success in a tough market. But while it's easy to blame...




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Digital piracy is the unauthorized reproduction and distribution of electronic and audio-visual media. The advent of digital media and analog/digital conversion technologies, especially those that are usable on mass-market general-purpose personal computers, has vastly increased the concerns of copyright-dependent individuals and organizations, especially within the music and movie industries. While analog media inevitably loses quality with each copy generation, and in some cases even during normal use, digital media files may be duplicated an unlimited number of times with no degradation in the quality of subsequent copies.

The advent of personal computers as household appliances has made it convenient for consumers to convert media originally in a physical/analog form or a broadcast form into a universal, digital form (in a process called ripping) for location- or timeshifting. This, combined with the Internet and popular file sharing tools, has facilitated unauthorized distribution of copies of copyrighted digital media.

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