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Articles about piracy (0-50 of 405)
- Recent Version Of The Dsi R4
By: lewesmichaela | - Piracy is a huge pertain for the gaming industry these days as it is not limited to the Pc platform, where it received the highest levels, but to almost all platforms, including the Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii or the PlayStation Portable. Nintendo's tiny handheld, Dsi R4 made no exception as pirates easily found that inserting an R4 flash card into the first slot was everything you needed to do in order for the Dsi R4 to execute pirated application or homebrew applications.
With t ...
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- Free Download Game For Psp "€" Where And How To Download Free Psp Games
By: Alex Power | - Are you looking for free download game for PSP ? Do you know that free PSP download sites are illegal, once your IP is detected by the authority they could charge you with software piracy. Furthermore, free PSP games download sites are full of malicious spyware and virus, if you are using any home or free anti-virus edition you are probably not going to detect those sophisticated spyware and virus. So I urge you to avoid downloading free PSP games before any consequences occur.
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- Looking For The Best Video Streaming Hosting
By: Gen Wright | - Video streaming requires enormous space and bandwidth, well over what any other form of web hosting will need. Security is also essential, as public or commercial videos are as prone to piracy as private videos are to violation. To ensure that your videos are viewed smoothly and without interruptions by everyone who wants to watch them, it is crucial to choose a good video streaming host.
However, there is one major hurdle in the process. Video streaming hosting is a highly expensi ...
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- Online Money Service
By: davenjacks | - The occurrence of credit card fraud and other forms of piracy has risen since the inception of the internet. This is as a effect of people using their credit cards and debit cards on unsecured websites. However, you should never rely on a website to safeguard your information. You can take the required steps to make your online purchases that much secure by registering for a virtual credit card. A virtual card, is simply a card that can be used to do online purchases but not for making point of ...
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- Nintendo Wii's Good And Bad
By: zwee | - Why it is good - A hacker's delight - now, while I do not condone piracy, it is still one of the major factors when buying a console in India. But more importantly, a few simple hacks can get you to derive a lot more out of Nintendo Wii that you ever thought possible.
Neither the Xbox 360 nor the PlayStation 3 are particularly welcoming towards piracy. While Microsoft's console, the Xbox, can be cracked to play pirated disk, it does void the warranty; and with the probability of Red ...
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- Other Hardware Features Of Nintendo Wii
By: zwee | - DVD-ROM - The Nintendo Wii utilises a simple, slot-loading DVD-ROM as its optical drive. The illuminated drive accepts both Wii DVDs as well as GameCube game disks.
Given the low graphics requirements of Nintendo Wii, most of the games designed for the system fit on simple 4.5 GB DVDs, thus leading to a lot of piracy for the system's titles.
Surprisingly, though, the Nintendo Wii cannot play back DVD-Video or DVD-Audio disks. Nintendo was apparently not looking at making this ...
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- Dish Network Piracy
By: Michael William | - Dish network piracy is an issue that has been on the minds of the providers since the whole thing came into being. These pirates tap the satellite TV signals on air and use them to re-transmit these signals to consumers in an illegal way. This is a flourishing industry now, with more consumers opting to watch dish TV instead of cable. The situation starts to hurt direct satellite TV providers because most of them are able to afford to offer dish network services only because they have a customer ...
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- A X64 Software Protector For Developers Saw The Light
By: Jose Sogiros | - Due to an ever present security risk for software developers, shareware programmers simply need to protect their programs to secure their income. Estimates on how much money is annually lost from cracking and illegal use of software vary big time. But the point is that money is lost, not just money, it is your (the developer) money that is lost. Hence, you need to take steps to protect your programs from being used illegally. In order to create the best defense, one needs to know the enemy. Howe ...
Tags: software, protection, cracking, piracy, compression
- How Bad Is Piracy?
By: Anand Tyagi | - It is true that anti social activities always run and keep pace with development and goodness in the world. With each and every development in technology, of any sector, some other method arises to cope with it and discover some loop hole in it. Some people believe that this is necessary as it keeps a balance in the developing world and its future.
If we somehow reach the brink of development, with no critics to criticize it or break it, we might consider it as end to everything. ...
Tags: Piracy, concept of piracy
- Frbiz.com Reports Potato Response To Piracy Web Called User Not Authorized To Delete Their Video
By: Frbiz | - Potatoes network is scheduled to formally call to the 60 million registered users to encourage the User to delete previously uploaded their own videos without authorization, to minimize the phenomenon of User upload infringing video production, which was seen as potatoes, net right after "Piracy door" response.
Potato net is station messages, news bulletins and other means, to send to support genuine call from User - "To dear customers a letter from potatoes." User comments a lot o ...
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- Sterling Silver Designer Cufflinks: It's Piracy At Silver-jewelry-wholesaler.com
By: staje | - Skull and Cross Bones, the figure of piracy on the high seas: this one--a frank treasure and the best rendition of a very common technique. No less than 32 Swarovski crystals, a case, adorn these little jewelry. Want more, a Vivienne Westwood rendition is on its way as sound as coil and summer are, for thats when theyre due 2008, Meantime diarise because at first glance youll buy. Nevertheless for now any designer of standing will be hard pressed to outdo Veritas on this ...
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- Everybody Wins Except Musicians?
By: Indiana Gregg | - A relatively new 'Pirate Party' has emerged out of Sweden in the last few years. This party, founded in Sweden, and currently under the leadership of Rick Falkvinge has gained some momentum having landed a seat in the European Parliament. However, what's really on their agenda?
So far, this group has used arguments about how you can't stop new technology and to some extent, I agree. Rick Falkvinge explains how new technology traditionally replaces dying industry. Here's their sketch ...
Tags: Piracy, Rick Falkvinge, Lily Allen, Radiohead, p2p, Mandelson, Zarkozy, Kerchoonz, Indiana Gregg, Bittorrent
- Quick Pirate Downloads
By: Linus Orakles | - The people are always interested in getting something free of charge. You can call it stealing or grabbing o the piracy, but the people always try to get the copy righted materials free of cost. The piratebay.org is the website where you can get all the copy righted materials as the free downloads. These copy righted materials include movies, music, software and many more other materials. What is this piratebay.org and what are these free downloads? Let us get more info about these in this short ...
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- Thai Law Consulting Firms Advise Caution With Piracy Laws
By: Gregory Smyth | - The US recently identified Thailand on the 'Special 301 list' - a list of the worst offenders for supplying and on-selling counterfeit and prated goods. Those on the list may be subject to trade barriers, including increased tariffs on goods exported to America, embargoes and other trade penalties. Naturally, the government sees it in the interest of the general public and the business community to crack down on counterfeiting. How, Thailand business law experts envision problems with the propos ...
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- The Conflict With Online Movie Bootlegging
By: Aydan Corkern | - Pirating used to be the only problem that movie producers had to worry about. You put out a DVD, someone copies it and sells it. New technology is stemming that tide. The problem now is online streaming of these movies. There are two ways to do this. You can get the movie illegally from a person to person software platform or just find an illegal site and queue up the movie. This streaming piracy has home theater manufacturers worries as well because their products have not been fully integrat ...
Tags: bootleg, DVD, piracy, online, p2p, peer to peer, file sharing, movie, theater
Social Web Results   Drive Against Piracy not that Easy « HappySing Shared By: moviepiracy - And since movies are getting older fast, producers are doing their bit to curb piracy and earn in all the ways they can. But the problem of piracy is...
 New Direction For NATO Must Make Alliance Relevant In Current Security Environment | IULREN.COM Shared By: iulren - NATO is rethinking its future... a process that could redirect the Cold War alliance toward contemporary security issues like cyberthreats and piracy,...
 Piracy Benefits Musicians, Hurts Their Labels? Shared By: jmgall - Aside from the fact that most research has found no direct link between piracy and a decrease in sales, those who take a better look at how the money...
 Lady Gaga Earns Slightly More From Spotify Than Piracy Shared By: greychampion - Piracy is without a doubt, truly evil. It doesn’t help the artists, it robs them of their rightful revenue and is such a poor basis for a business...
 How #chetanblocks Started « Hues of Life Shared By: huesoflife - @chetan_bhagat: Piracy kills publishers, esp domestic literature. Gives incentive writers to move westwards. Don’t do it if you care for Indian...
 Fantastic DJ app for iPhone stung by piracy | Digital Noise: Music and Tech - CNET News Shared By: darrishoskins - DJ Mixer Pro is an interesting and technically adept app, but getting music into your app requires a receipt from the iTunes Store. Read this blog post...
 File sharing in Sweden nears record high Shared By: copycense - Following a severe drop in the aftermath of Ipred, Sweden's new anti-piracy law implemented in April, illegal file sharing is once again on the rise,...
 DRM To The Disaster Again... May Prevent 3D Showing Of Avatar In Some Theaters Shared By: help2bring2 - One of the interesting things about the movie is that, yet again, it's showing why Hollywood... due to "piracy" as studio bosses keep insisting. Avat...
 NBC, Defender Of All Things Copyright, Copies Blogger's Post Without Permission; Removes Her Name When She Complains Shared By: techdirt - He was, of course, the main source for the propaganda "oh no piracy is killing the movie business" segment on 60 Minutes and as we all know, he's...
 AMZN Piracy Keeps Kindle From Chinese Market Shared By: samredlich - Many local publishers talked with... to beat local piracy, especially the infringement of the best sellers' copyrights, according to the executive.
- Dealing With Hdmi And Piracy
By: Aydan Corkern | - There are so many benefits to HDMI in your home theater. One of the features is that HDMI has the ability to protect your data from piracy. Using high bendwidth digital coy protection or HDCP to protect your system from pirates looking to steal your information or signal. HDCP is nothing more than an authentication protocol. What this means to the user who is not so technically savvy, each of your home theater devices has data to identify it as well as encryption data which is stored on the ex ...
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- A Short History Of Pirates & Piracy For Kids
By: Stanley Lewis | - You may be surprised to learn that piracy and pirates have been part of the world for thousands of years. Even during the days of the Egyptian pharaohs, there were instances of ships on the water that attacked other vessels. The word pirate actually comes from a Latin word; periato .... which means a "sea bandit".
Certainly the Romans and the Greeks had to deal with pirates when they began exploring the lands bordering the Mediterranean sea. The very first known definition for the ...
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- Pirating Movies For Profit
By: Aydan Corkern | - There are a lot of crimes out there, but the targets right now are not the violent ones. Cyber and rights management crimes take center stage everytime you get a DVD and settle into your home theater room. At the beginning of most movies, it reminds you that pirating is a crime and stealing movies is wrong. It shows some shady character selling DVD copies at a street stand. In reality there are a lot of people ripping DVDs onto their computer and burning them off for sale or just to give away ...
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- The Pros And Cons Of Digital Music Files
By: Aydan Corkern | - Very much has changed about the way businesses and people in society handle their work and personal business. With the introduction of advancements in technology, a great many improvements have been made that have benefited us and helped improve our quality of living. The internet, for example, has greatly revolutionized the way we retrieve information, and it has also expanded our ways of communicating with one another. What could only be done through landline phones can now be done over the co ...
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- Considering Product Activation? You Need To Think About These 10 Issues
By: Agilis Software | - Product activation is a popular approach for securing software licenses. However, software developers need to consider all the requirements for a capable activation system, from the license models they'll need to support to how they'll deal with the corner-case customer environments.
The basic activation process is typically as follows. Upon purchase the software vendor sends a unique product serial number to the user. When the user installs the application they are prompted to en ...
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- Why Product Activation For Software Is Becoming Widespread
By: Agilis Software | - Product activation is widely used by software vendors to protect their applications and enforce license agreements. While some users object to any form of license management, modern product activation systems are superior to other techniques from both the vendor's and the end-user's perspectives.
Software vendors use license management for a variety of reasons. They are often concerned about protection from piracy, and protection against users exceeding their agreed license terms ...
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- Buying Music Online - The Legal Option
By: Resa Fast | - When you think of music online, many people associate it with the downloading and piracy, but there are actually legal - and cheap - to find music online. Whether looking up a good online store that sells cheap CDs or you can find an online shop that sells music via download. Even though there are way to few places online where you can download music legally, it is still a very viable option. Given you do not have to break any laws and you can search for virtually any record made, buying your mu ...
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- Larbi Belrhiti Talks About Inova Interactive's Mmo, Piracy Age
By: Larbi Belrhiti | - Now living the swashbucklers life is only a click away on the web.
I recently sat down and spoke with the managing director of Inova Interactive, Larbi Belrhiti about his game Piracy Age. Piracy Age is a massive multiplayer online game where players take on the role of a pirate, manage a crew and, according to the site, reach absolute notoriety and fear on the seas, and use the means of terror and force to achieve it.
Piracy Age was released this month (March 2009) a ...
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- Fbi Reports Upon Crime On The Internet Thriving In Recession
By: Jeff Ryan | - Today, whether you talk about the IT industry, real estate, or any other business group, topics revolving about the recession are prevalent nearly everywhere except one. Unfortunately, it happens to be the field of internet crimes.
Recently, as per the reports generated by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) ( controlled by the National White Collar Crime Center as well as FBI), here are some mind boggling facts and figures about internet crimes in past 12 months.
Fir ...
Tags: Crime On The Internet, internet crime, internet fraud, internet piracy, internet
- The Fast Paced Development Of Technology And The Challenges This Presents To The Legal System
By: Andrew Frowen | - The process of law making is notoriously long and drawn out, with Bills taking months or even years to pass into to law. In the realms of computer crime, where technology develops apace, this sometimes means that the law is left flagging dangerously behind.
An area where law particularly struggles to keep up with technology is in the prevention of breach of copyright by illegal distribution of intellectual property via the internet. For example, copyright law has struggled to ke ...
Tags: computer forensics, computer forensic analysis, computer crime, technology, piracy
- Hire A Private Investigator For Safe, Professional Investigations
By: Chris Robertson | - Do you have a runaway teenager? Do you need to investigate to find a witness for a legal court case? Are you trying to resolve a worker compensation matter, or collect information for anti piracy or fraud? Unfortunately, these situations and others do come up occasionally and only thorough investigations can help resolve these matters. It's occurrences like these when the services of a private investigator may help.
A private investigator (a.k.a. private eye or PI) is someone who ...
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- Only Fools Use Freeware
By: Johnson Philip | - I live in a fast-growing town in Kerala, India. Fast-growing also means a town loaded with computer-fans. Even the janitor in our church seems to consult a computer before he sweeps so that he can cover the whole are in minimum sweeps and also to to decide upon the the latest ergonomical strokes of the broom to obtain maximum cleaning with optimum effort.
Without doubt, almost every computer-user here seems to be loaded with the latest version of MS Word, Photoshop, Video editing software ...
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- Warez And The Crack Factor Of Internet Piracy Can Piracy Law Stop Crack Addiction?
By: Stephen Watson | - Warez often originates from hackers that crack a code for the thrill of the challenge. But crackers, those in the hacker world who crack and profit from software piracy, have capitalized on the efforts of hackers and their cracked codes successfully building a billion dollar international underground economy. This underground community of cracker pirates thrives on international software and Internet piracy.
Litigators, copyright holders, and media giants are wo ...
Tags: Copyright Infringement, software piracy, warez, internet piracy, piracy law
- Software Piracy And Internet Pirates Going To Prison
By: Stephen Watson | - Software piracy gave a sharp awakening to copyright infringement counsels around the world. Software piracy law efforts backed by the SIIA (Software and Information Industry Association), the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), the Business Software Association (BSA) and of course Microsoft, are running fast and furious to intimidate internet pirates and quash any and all efforts of internet piracy, software piracy and copyright infringement on software, music and film. Efforts a ...
Tags: Copyright Infringement, software piracy, warez, internet piracy, piracy law
- Internet Piracy Of The Nations: Piracy Law Treaty Negotiations
By: Stephen Watson | - Internet piracy disrupts economic growth across the continents. How nations react to Internet piracy could well define the future economic health of a nation. Piracy laws and copyright infringement laws have reached global attention - and international treaties continue to grow that seek to give credit to the originator and encourage economic gain while still promoting freedom, progress and education.
Copyright laws have existed for centuries but have been weak in internationa ...
Tags: Copyright Infringement, software piracy, warez, internet piracy, piracy law
- Fighting Music Piracy On College Campuses
By: Jill Moss | - When the parents of today's young people were in school, sharing music was a slow process. They had to copy songs from a vinyl record or a cassette using a tape recorder.
Today friends can share the latest hits at the speed of light over the Internet. Peer-to-peer networks make file sharing easy -- and, in many cases, illegal.
Five years ago, the Recording Industry Association of America, the R.I.A.A., launched a major effort to catch music pirates. Piracy violates ...
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- Music Piracy And The New Musician
By: Lionel.Wayne | - Today click-and-download technology presents a greater threat to the music recording industry than all other past music-delivery technologies combined.
Music piracy exists in 3 different planes:
Illegally mass-manufactured pirate music CDs
Illegal copies of legitimately purchased music CDs
Illegally downloaded digital copies of recorded music
A recent research study on the economic impact of music piracy (Institute for Policy Innovation, ...
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- Why Not To Support Piracy
By: D Pal | - The blue screen of death. Any computer user is familiar with it. Most of these crashes occur when you are using a pirated or cracked version of windows. This turns particularly fatal when you are using it in conjunction with pirated anti virus and other pirated software.
You should be cautioned that these pirated software have important files integral to proper running of a software missing. Moreover these crackers provide you cracks with the intention of stealing valuable data fr ...
Tags: piracy, windows, internet
- Tougher Anti Piracy Laws To Cause A Stir.
By: Alan Arnott | - Software Piracy Law. Hard - working software resellers attempting to make an bona fide income are now facing a conflict with software pirates that's hotting up.
New Battle against Piracy
Hard - working software resellers attempting to earn an bona fide income are nowadays coming to terms with a conflict with software pirates that seems to be getting more ardent every day; this is caused by burning, ripping, mod-chips and and p2p technologies that let software pirate ...
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- Can I Get In Trouble If I Backup Wii Games?
By: Dominico Hastings | - Make sure you have the answer to this question before attempting to backup or copy your game.
If you own the game and are just making a backup for safety purposes, what can be the harm right?
However, making it legal to copy or backup games also poses the problem of abuse by pirating games.
The internet is a prime example of the abuse of this privilege.
For the honest gamers who simply want a backup in case of accidental damage, this is ...
Tags: Nintendo Wii, Nintendo, Wii, Games, Video Games, Legal Issues, Law, Copyright, Piracy, Electronics, Technology, Multimedia, Hobbies, Hobby, Fun
- How To Avoid Software Piracy At All Costs
By: Joseph Jordan | - Like electronic identity theft, computer viruses, and the spread of other computer crimes, software piracy is on the rise. The problem with software piracy is that software costs make this illegal activity appealing to the end user. After all, who is it going to hurt? Rich software companies? This article investigates software piracy as a whole and the impact that it has on the computer using industry.
The most vulnerable victims of software piracy are software businesses or indep ...
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- What Is Theft?
By: Incbizz | - This week I read an article that really stopped me in my tracks. It related
an incident where the writer of the article found out that one of his
employees had stolen a packet of toilet tissue from the store cupboard and
fired him. The employer cited that if the employee had stolen a packet of
toilet tissue then he did not know where the stealing would stop. The article
went on to say that the same employee had come to him years later and thanked him and i ...
Tags: protect your downloadable digital products, effects of online piracy, solutions to online piracy, stop online refunders
- Microsoft Is King Of Computer Software
By: Andy Tao | - Software was all complicated when it initially stormed the market. Only computer nerds were associated with it, but a lot of things have changed today. Thanks to Microsoft, they have made everything very simple for users. Software has also evolved a great deal when it comes to daily usage.
A lot of things in the software field happened only because of Microsoft. Even though there have been many competitors in the field, they have ruled the roost. They have been least perturbed by ...
Tags: Microsoft, computer, software, hardware, software piracy, software market, bill gates, server, buy software, buy hardware, shopping, hostgator, hostga
- The Cons Of Using The Internet
By: Andy Tao | - Though the internet has enabled us to function every day without any hassles, there are still some cons to consider about this medium. First there is the content on the internet. There is so much unlimited content, that anything can be availed through this. There are no limitations to the age groups using them as well. Today there is endless number of people using the internet for various negative reasons.
One very common activity is the use of spyware and adware. This allows anyo ...
Tags: internet, www, world wide web, internet safety, spyware, virus, adware, computer, internet abuse, piracy, adult content, online music, software, start
- The Dark Side Of The Net Pays Dividends
By: Prophet of Profit | - Now I'm not talking Blackhat SEO a popular theory being pondered on by people who have not much to risk; who have sites related to pretty much junk, in for the quick click buck.
I'm talking about an old secret method of marketing that you likely have never even heard of. I know you've seen it, its called p2p marketing. Sometimes its referred to as Viral Marketing. For Viral Marketing to work you need something cool that people will automatically forward to all their friends, alot of co ...
Tags: p2p, money, piracy, ebooks, marketing tactics
- Sterling Silver Designer Cufflinks: It's Piracy
By: patrick | - Skull and Cross Bones, the symbol of piracy on the high seas: this one--a real treasure and the best rendition of a very popular style. No less than 32 Swarovski crystals, a piece, adorn these little gems. Want more, a Vivienne Westwood rendition is on its way as sure as spring and summer are, for that's when they're due 2008, In the meantime diarise because at first glance you'll buy. But for now any designer of repute will be hard pressed to outdo Veritas on this one, unless of ...
Tags: cufflinks, designer cufflinks, simon carter, ian flaherty, timothy everest, vivienne westwood
- Uk Software Industry Takes Piracy Fight Online
By: Gold | - The UK software industry is taking its fight against software piracy to the Internet. The Federation Against Software Theft has begun trawling peer-to-peer traffic in an attempt to identify who is uploading and downloading software copies.
Quite how the system, codenamed Operation Tracker, works will remain a closely guarded secret, but its primary aim is clear: to find companies where software is being illegally downloaded. Although uploaders will be targeted if they are found to ...
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- Life Imprisonment For Copyright Fraud Could Be Enforced Soon
By: Chidi akomas | - The penalties for copyright fraud could soon be much severe. What would you think a reasonable punishment for pirating a copy of windows would be? A slapped wrist and don't do it again? A fine? How much though? Maybe about double the cost of buying it in the first place? Yeah, that sounds about fair.
On a related note what types of crimes do you think would merit a life sentence?. In America, legislation has been proposed that would mean certain kinds of copyright infringement co ...
Tags: copyright, law, infringements, software, piracy
- Digital Music Piracy A Case Study For Law Enforcerment Careers
By: Josh Stone | - Amidst all the huge media press devoted to the subject of the recording industry's difficulty in protecting their interest in the new digital age, one might wonder - who are these people who download music? What is their motivation? Presented here, a case study. This is a composite study which blends together the reported experiences of many music downloaders - the study is true to a large part of this set, but not accurate to any specific case, with names removed:
What follows is ...
Tags: law enforcement, career, security, police, music, piracy, digital music, theft, uniforms, riaa
- Media Piracy And Law Enforcement
By: Josh Stone | - Once upon a time, music played for free on the radio. And you could record a cassette if you wanted to, and you could listen to it as many times as you wanted to, and nobody thought you were a pirate if you shared it with your friends. In fact, this was seen as a way for new bands to break into the market; quite frequently receiving a mix tape would be motivation to buy the album of the band whose song was included.
What little concern there was over music piracy was restricted to ...
Tags: media, piracy, bootleg, music, industry, tape, cd, copy, radio, riaa, sony, dmca, copyright, law
- Computer Crime For Law Enforcement Professionals - A Glossary
By: Josh Stone | - One would be hard-pressed to come up with a segment more under-prepared for their challenge than law enforcement professionals faced with the task of policing the world of computing. Detective work was much simpler when everybody and his mother didn't have a computer. Herein, some basic terms to get you started.
HACKER: The meaning of the word hacker has been corrupted from its original intention. Originally, it meant somebody who was very good at programming. The members of the M ...
Tags: computer crime, law enforcement, hacker, cracker, security, botnet, phishing, piracy, identity theft
- The Danger Behind Peer-to-peer File Sharing
By: Migz Mon | - File sharing is very common nowadays. You can get a P2P (peer-to-peer) program for free, and soon start sharing stuff like music, videos and programs. We use these applications freely and most of us don't know the risks involved when using them.
Questionable reliability of files - Once we get our hands on a P2P program, we download everything we want like crazy. Favorite music, free softwares, as long as it is available, you download them. Hackers, attackers, or whatever, use thi ...
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- Ebay Issues New Digital Product Rules
By: Michael Nalbone | - Acknowledging higher demand for digitally delivered products, Mara Holian, from eBays Product Marketing team said that eBay is tightening the rules for egoods in an effort to "improve the way these items are bought and sold on eBay".
Sellers will now be required to identify digital items during the listing process and provide additional information about each product.
Listings for digital products will now include:
*System Requirements.
*Fi ...
Tags: ebay, piracy, ebooks, mp3s, illegal downloads, online auctions
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