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Swedish Supreme Court refuses Pirate Bay appeal

The Swedish Supreme Court will not hear an appeal from the founders of The Pirate Bay against prison sentences and fines imposed by the Swedish Court of Appeals, the court said on Wednesday.
Intel 's HDCP System Cracked By German Researchers

Intel's High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), which is its copy protection system for audio and video, has been cracked by a German research team using off-the-shelf products, to prove that there are flaws in its encryption.
Microsoft make Windows 8 preview available for download

Microsoft has made a preview of Windows 8 available to download.
Mac App Store host to pirate games, says Lugaru developer

The Mac App Store's carefully crafted reputation for raising the app walls high might be undermined with public allegations by Wolfire Games that Apple allowed another developer to pirate Wolfire's game Lugaru HD, and at a far lower price point.
BSA names travel firm caught using unlicensed software

A travel agent in Glasgow has become the latest company to be named and shamed as part of the Business Software Alliance?s recent blitz against unlicensed software use.
RIAA and MPAA fall victims to 4chan hackers

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) fell victim to the wrath of 4chan members this weekend. A series of coordinated DDoS (Distributed Denial-of Service) attacks against the media trade groups' websites temporarily brought them to their knees.
Pirated software costs world $51 billion, says study

More than four out of ten software applications in use around the world are unlicensed or pirated, an IDC study has calculated.
PSJailbreak hacker claims Playstation 3 copy protection broken

In the four years since Sony's PlayStation 3 has been with us, it's never been hacked to play pirated games, until now, that is, if claims by hacker group PSJailbreak prove true.
YouTube wins Viacom copyright case

Viacom's US$1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google's video-sharing site YouTube has been dismissed by the court, ending for now an acrimonious legal battle between the companies that has been going on for more than three years.
Microsoft wins piracy battle against Chinese firm

Microsoft won a Chinese court case over pirated software used by a local insurance company, scoring a point in its ongoing fight against intellectual property violations in China.

Latest Features

A $500,000 bet on Internet security

Longtime cloud security advocate Philippe Courtot believes he has identified the Achilles' heel of cloud security, and he wants to protect it.
Why be a Pirate? Use open source software instead

Close to half of all computer users around the world tend to get their software illegally and business decision-makers are no exception.
Six ways to cool your data centre efficiently and cheaply

Many data centres are up against the maximum electric power available to them from their utility. Others are facing management challenges: the amount of time to deploy new capacity and to manage existing capacity and systems. And gains made by virtualising and consolidating servers are often lost again as more gear is added in.
Kinect: Microsoft's unexpected hit

Microsoft introduced a peripheral device for gaming in November called Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360. The product turned out to be a braindead simple-to-use, innovative and completely new user interface. It became the fastest selling consumer electronics product in history, and has now sold more than 10 million units.
Google cracks down on copyright violations

Google is cracking down on parasites that use its services to steal the intellectual property of others.
If this is copyright, I'd rather be wrong

Last week was a bad one for Internet pirates - as well as for those who believe the companies that make billions of dollars by distributing content shouldn't dictate copyright law for the rest of us.
35 years of Microsoft

The year is 1975. Gerald Ford is in the White House, South Vietnam falls, Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in the "Thrilla in Manila" world championship boxing match, the late-night comedy show NBC's Saturday Night (later called Saturday Night Live) debuts, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest sweeps the Oscars, and Captain & Tennille's "Love Will Keep Us Together" and Glenn Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" top the music charts.
Mobile developers get ready for 4G data explosion

With 4G networks due to hit the mass market over the next two years, some application developers are looking at ways to exploit the new high-speed connections to improve their apps' performance and capabilities.
Smart grid makes us vulnerable to hacks and terrorism

What can harm you most? That for which you are least prepared. Given the level of denial within power companies that are gearing up for the smart grid, I'd say we can expect a lot of harm to be heading their way.
Reader's top stories of 2009

This year has seen tumultuous events shake the world. The economic crisis, the lingering effects of the recession, natural disasters, war and revolution. With all of that going on, it seems like our readers needed a little light relief.

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Featured White Papers

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