antipiracy

Antipiracy Bills Put on Hold in Congress

Peter Landers, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 20 at 9:11 am PT

Congressional backers of online antipiracy legislation called off their efforts Friday following a storm of opposition by Internet companies, effectively killing the bills in their current form.

Hollywood Loses SOPA Story

Erica Orden and Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on January 18 at 10:47 pm PT

The entertainment industry moved to counter growing opposition to antipiracy bills that seemed certain to be laws just weeks ago.

Service Is Our Motto

One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

– Gabe Newell, co-founder of videogame company Valve, which publishes Portal and Half-Life

Apple CEO Steve Jobs Live at D8: All We Want to Do is Make Better Products

John Paczkowski in D8 on June 1, 2010 at 5:45 pm PT

Much has happened since Apple CEO Steve Jobs last appeared on the D stage. At that time, in May 2007, the iPhone hadn’t yet arrived at market, the app ecosystem it would usher in was still gestating and the iPad was simply a long-running rumor.

Windows Genuinely Annoying

John Paczkowski in News on October 22, 2008 at 12:56 pm PT

Microsoft’s renewed antipiracy push isn’t currying much favor among PC users running pirated software. In China, a nation where 82 percent of all software is unlicensed, many are lambasting the company over its Windows Genuine Advantage program, which blackens the desktop backgrounds of PCs running unlicensed copies of Windows and pesters their owners with constant warning messages.

Right Said Fred, Men Without Hats Currently Unavailable for Comment

John Paczkowski in News on February 18, 2008 at 12:34 am PT

What do you get when you cross a cowboy, a construction worker, a biker, a soldier, an American Indian and a police officer? Why, the Village People, of course. But throw in a Web Sheriff and you’ve got a lawsuit: The aging disco group has teamed up with the U.K.-based antipiracy outfit to sue Swedish [...]

YouTube's New Billion-Dollar Lawsuit Pre-emption System

John Paczkowski in News on October 16, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

YouTube’s New Billion-Dollar Lawsuit Pre-emption System

John Paczkowski in News on October 16, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Well, Here Come YouTube's Video ID Tools. Guess That Means Godot Will Be Here Any Minute Now

John Paczkowski in News on October 16, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Google’s apparently finished “educating users about copyright law” and has moved on to the far more important business of making sure not to run afoul of it. After a year of delays and excuses, the company this morning uncrated an antipiracy system for its YouTube video-sharing site.

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