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Hackers lock Zeus crimeware kit with Windows-like anti-piracy tech
The newest version of Zeus, a do-it-yourself crimeware kit responsible for millions of dollars in losses by consumers and businesses, comes with anti-piracy provisions similar to those used by Microsoft's Windows, a researcher said today. And that's a

Microsoft awarded one-click purchase Xbox Live DLC content patent
Microsoft has been awarded a rather obscure, but altogether profitable patent relating to the purchase of DLC on the Xbox Live service. The official title of the patent is ??, and as usual, the description is less than clear in explaining what the patent

Poll Results: Does the activation process really decrease piracy?
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Internet piracy bill clears lords
Legislation to combat internet piracy, including internet bans for persistent illegal file-sharers, has cleared the Lords and now goes to the Commons where it will be rushed through before the general election. Peers passed Business Secretary Lord

Pirate Bay Legal Action Dropped In Norway
superapecommando writes 'Copyright holders have given up legal efforts to force Norwegian ISP Telenor to block filesharing site The Pirate Bay, one of the parties to the case said. The copyright holders, led by Norway's performing rights society TONO and

Spanish Court Declares P2P Link Sites, File-sharing Legal
Madrid - A Spanish court has upheld its previous finding that a site aggregating links to downloads on file-sharing networks does not infringe copyrights, TorrentFreak reported. The judge in the case previously rejected Spanish copyright society SGAE's

Cumulus Strikes Deal In Aldav Web Radio Patent Suit
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Hackers lock Zeus crimeware kit with Windows-like anti-piracy tech
Ties do-it-yourself botnet software to a single PC using product activation code (0) (0) Top Stories Computerworld - The newest version of Zeus, a do-it-yourself crimeware kit responsible for millions of dollars in losses by consumers and businesses,

Coffee Break: AT&T Web services; U.K. beefs up piracy laws
AT&T bringing Web services to cheaper phones; Britain beefing up anti-piracy tactics.

Spanish Web Sites Protest At Govt's Piracy Plan
rid Almost 2,000 Spanish web sites have added their names to a list of sites that offer unauthorized downloads, as a challenge to the government's plan to approve legislation that will allow an intellectual property commission to ask a judge to close

Voice on the Net now legal
Telephone users in the UAE have cause for joy. Conversations need not take place through expensive calls alone. It is now legal to use voice-based applications on the Internet. In a significant policy shift, the Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRA) said on

Spanish Web Sites Protest At Govt's Piracy Plan
drid Almost 2,000 Spanish web sites have added their names to a list of sites that offer unauthorized downloads, as a challenge to the government's plan to approve legislation that will allow an intellectual property commission to ask a judge to close

FDA head targets 'tweens' in film piracy battle
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TPB Founder Compares Piracy to Sugar, Jokes About Courting Google Exec
Peter Sunde (alias brokep), the co-founder of the collapsed torrent giant The Pirate Bay, is a divisive figure in the tech community. Worldwide he has been found guilty of multiple criminal charges for giving people the ability to find torrents, both .

Pirate Bay legal action dropped in Norway
Copyright holders have given up legal efforts to force Norwegian ISP Telenor to block filesharing site , one of the parties to the case said.The copyright holders, led by Norway's performing rights society TONO and by the International Federation of the

'Disconnection threat no cure for illegal downloads - survey'
(DMEUROPE via COMTEX) -- UK ISP TalkTalk has warned that threatening to cut of internet access is unlikely to stop illegal downloading. According to a survey commissioned by the company, 80 percent of 18-34 year olds questioned in a survey of 2,003

ZeuS Crimeware Toolkit Features Sophisticated Piracy Protection
The creators of the ZeuS crimeware toolkit are taking unprecedented measures to protect their product from cyber-criminals who don't want to pay up a hefty price for it. Security researchers report that a complex hardware-based licensing system has been

Legal online music market still 'relatively small'
Revenues from legal music downloads increased for UK artists in 2009, though the industry still faces significant challenges, a group that represents musicians' interests has said. According to PRS for Music, which represents 65,000 songwriters,

How to Avoid Legal Online Scams
There are tons of illegal internet scams. Most are obvious, but some scams on the internet are legal and can take in the unsuspecting consumer. Looking out for these can be challenging, but if you know what to look for, and you make it a point to peruse

Pirate Bay legal action dropped in Norway
Copyright holders have given up legal efforts to force Norwegian ISP Telenor to block filesharing site The Pirate Bay, one of the parties to the case said. The copyright holders, led by Norway's performing rights society TONO and by the International

Disconnection threat no cure for illegal downloads - survey
(Telecompaper) UK ISP TalkTalk has warned that threatening to cut of internet access is unlikely to stop illegal downloading...

Disconnection threat no cure for illegal downloads - survey
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Trojan armed with anti-piracy control
The latest version of the Zeus do-it-yourself crimeware kit goes to great lengths to thwart would-be pirates by introducing a hardware The newest version with bare-bones capabilities starts at $4 000 and additional features can fetch as much as $10 000.

Legal Expert to Clarify French Online Gambling Laws
PARIS, FRANCE -- (Marketwire) -- 03/15/10 -- When it comes to gambling, France's legal system has always been an enigmatic entity. Constantly in flux, its laws change faster than the public can comprehend, leaving the majority of the online gambling

Patent settlements help Autobytel upgrade its Web sites
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@SXSW: Pirate Bay Founder On Piracy, Record Labels and More
- By Glenn Peoples, Austin, Texas Joining a SXSW panel via webconference from Sweden, Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde downplayed the damages of piracy and called for people to consider drastically different business models and smaller music companies.

@SXSW: Pirate Bay Founder On Piracy, Record Labels and More
March 14, 2010 - By Glenn Peoples, Austin, Texas Joining a SXSW panel via webconference from Sweden, Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde downplayed the damages of piracy and called for people to consider drastically different business models and smaller

India declares war on piracy - Zibb.com
Company: Village Roadshow Ltd. (VLRDY) KPMG information, communication and entertainment division head Rajesh Jain has compiled a survey of the Indian media sector. He notes that digital technology has transformed the "Bollywood" film industry, as larger