McAfee has produced a six-part online film that highlights the constant fight between criminal hackers and the security experts who go toe-to-toe with them, while highlighting the story of one victim who was caught in the middle. The Tech Herald was offered the chance to view all six parts, and after two screenings, this was money well spent on education.
Napster.com has cut the price of its online music streaming service to US$5 a month from $12.95, and threw in five song downloads for customers in a move to better compete with rival iTunes.
The Los Angeles-based company gained notoriety in the early years of music downloading with its free browser-style music swapping service, but following copyright lawsuits emerged as a subscription-based service.
The music industry scored a hollow victory against the world’s largest music piracy website last month, a report warns on Thursday.
Just weeks after a Swedish court found the four men behind the Pirate Bay guilty of promoting copyright infringement, illegal file-sharing is rampant as ever, according to PRS for Music, which collects royalties for UK songwriters and publishers.
The highly anticipated movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" debuts today in theaters, but many fans have already seen it. The online leak of a pirated, unfinished version of the 20th Century Fox film a month ago sent federal authorities springing into action and stoked a heated conversation within the entertainment industry about digital piracy.
Piracy of upcoming films is not new, but the theft of "Wolverine" is especially troubling for an industry concerned with a stalled economy and the financial bottom line.
A British hacker who has been fighting extradition to the U.S. for the past seven years is getting support from some well-known musical backers.
David Gilmour, singer and guitarist for the iconic English rock bank Pink Floyd, has already recorded a song for an upcoming CD that's now being put together to support Gary McKinnon, 43, according to Janis Sharp, McKinnon's mother. McKinnon is an admitted hacker who in 2001 broke into computer systems in the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA and the U.S. Army.
In its most recent bid to make YouTube more attractive to advertisers, Google is introducing new sections to the online video site that will be reserved for TV shows, movies, and other professional content. The general design of YouTube will remain, as will the guitar-playing teens, break-dancing babies, and other homemade movies that make up the bulk of the site. Yet the cleanly organized menus and sleek video player of YouTube’s new pages look to be Google’s response to the success of Hulu, the startup video site jointly owned by News Corp. and NBC Universal.
News Corp like all major Hollywood studios takes the crime of piracy very seriously. Nor will the Fox parent company tolerate it if its employees don't. Especially after a stolen, early and unfinished work print of 20th Century Fox's big summer blockbuster X-Men Origins: Wolverine was put onto the Internet illegally this week in a major scandal that the FBI is now investigating. So there was universal shock on Friday when long-time "Fox 411" freelance columnist Roger
Hulu has apparently taken steps to thwart nontraditional browsers from accessing its video content by using JavaScript to encode and decode HTML sent to the browser. The move is clearly an attempt to prevent third-parties from displaying the site's video streams outside of approved Web browsers, but Hulu is already doing a poor job of trying to outsmart developers and hackers.
IMDb founder Col Needham said the massively popular movie database has set as its major goal for the future to add one-button streaming for all of the 1.3 million titles it indexes. Obviously, the vision is a long-term one, Needham acknowledged, and it faces hurdles from the slew of content owners who control the vast library of titles the Internet Movie Database provides information about, but as a leading movie-oriented site, it's a very important goal to articulate in public.
The modern-day pirate doesn't sport a patch or walk with a limp. His weapon of choice is an unassuming, pizza-sized satellite dish that can literally harpoon signals from space – and provide lucrative and illicit profit.
And it's happening across the country. The Canadian Motion Pictures Distribution Association estimates that the total loss to the industry from satellite piracy in 2001 alone was about $1 billion – and that number is likely far higher today.
