Gotta love it. They used the Louis Vuitton trademark, a bag, in a movie without permission.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/26/1829238/warner-bros-sued-for-pirating-louis-vuitton-trademark

He left a wireless router open and apparently someone downloaded a movie that's being tracked. It was linked to his IP address, and it was cheaper for him to settle than fly cross-country to DC where the suit was filed.http://www.seattleweekly.com/content/

And it was commissioned by the ??AA and for some reason was never published. Hummm. Makes one wonder.http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/movie-industry-bins-report-proving-pirates-are-great-consumers-

They break down how a band can sell 1 million albums and still owe the record company $500,000. I've read some stuff like this before, it's unbelievable ( Read more... )

Basically, they've bought extreme access to some lawmakers to get a bill introduced saying that there are illegal disc pressing plants (where music CD's and movie DVD's are made) that are churning out a Sagan or two of illegal pirated material and costing Hollywood a Sagan or three, and this law will allow law enforcement to raid pressing plants ( Read more... )

They have a much more clever plan than simply seizing the domain name, which only works for .com and a couple others. Those crafty pirates simply registered a non-US domain and they were back in business ( Read more... )

They found that YouTube viewings after a series had stopped airing boosted sales but hurt rentals. Kind of odd. Sadly, the original report is only in Japanese, so kinda difficult to study. Fortunately the article is in English ( Read more... )

"The New York Times reports that Russia selectively pursues software piracy complaints from Microsoft in order to suppress the opposition - confiscating computers for evidence, searching offices, and the like. Microsoft lawyers usually back the authorities in such cases, even when cases such as that of the environmentalist group Baikal Waves, ( Read more... )

German firm Medien Patent Verwaltung claims that in 2003, it revealed a new kind of anti-piracy technology to Warner Bros. that marks films with specific codes so pirated copies can be traced back to their theaters of origin. But like a great, hilariously-ironic DRM Ouroborus, the company claims that Warner began using the system throughout Europe ( Read more... )

"'After spending a year studying how piracy and illegal counterfeiting affects the United States, the Government Accountability Office says it still doesn't know for sure.... The GAO said that most of the published information, anecdotal evidence, and records show that piracy is a drag on the US economy, tax revenue, and in some cases potentially ( Read more... )