According to the Business Software Alliance (BSA), nearly half of all cases of suspected piracy comes from these six states: Florida, California, Illinois, New York and Texas are five that you would probably suspect due to the high population, but it looks like Michigan has made it onto the list as well. More »

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10 popular websites that have illegally streamed live sports and pay per view events on the internet have been seized by US prosecutors. Apparently, these websites provided links to give uses easy access to other sites that host pirated, copyrighted telecasts from major sporting leagues and asscociations. According to Daniel Brazier, a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the websites were “used to commit and facilitate criminal copyright infringement and contain evidence of that crime”. More »

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Alright, iPhone OS 4 is not retail software, so this is technically not true piracy, but its beta version is available for free only to registered developers. In a case of real piracy, an early build of Windows 7 SP1 was shown a few days ago, and it has been disseminated to thousands via P2P networks (Torrents). More »

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A well-known Bit Torrent website, IsoHunt (30 million visitors per month), has been court-ordered to remove all .torrent files because nearly all of them contain copyrighted material. Gary Fung, also the proprietor of Torrentbox and Podtropolis, owns IsoHunt and has been in legal tussles over his websites for years. More »

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In 2007, the RIAA accused Jammie Thomas-Rasset of illegally pirating 2,000 tracks of music; only 24 of these tracks were went after by the recording companies. After the first ruling, the courts ruled that Ms. Thomas would have to pay $2 million dollars for piracy. More »

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Remember back in the good ‘ole days when you had to buy an entire CD just to hear the one song that you heard on the radio? Well, it’s back to the future where MP3s to your favorite songs are just a click away. But could these innocent downloads be hurting your favorite artists? CNN tells the story. More »

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The U.S. Government has nothing better to do than arrest college kids for modding their own game consoles. A 27-year-old CSU-Fullerton student was arrested after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency raided his home, then was charged with two counts of violating the Digital Millenium Copyright Act for modding his video game systems. More »

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