Piracy news in the home entertainment industry.
A new report from The NPD Group that found there were nearly 17 million fewer CD buyers in 2008...More>>
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MPAA Sues Streaming Sites 30 Jul, 2008
The Motion Picture Association of America has filed separate copyright infringement lawsuits...More>>
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CDSA Taps Wallace For Anti-piracy Efforts 10 Sep, 2008
The Content Delivery and Storage Association (CDSA) has named Peter Wallace director of antipiracy...More>>
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ESCA Confab Reveals Europeans Slower to Adopt Blu-ray 2 Oct, 2008
PRAGUE, Czech Republic — The European DVD market, like that in the United States, is essentially...More>>
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Blogue From Prague 2 Oct, 2008
Editor in chief Stephanie Prange sounds off from the ESCA Europe conference.More>>
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Warner Banks on VOD to Slow Video Piracy in South Korea 8 Oct, 2008
Warner Bros. in the coming weeks will bow select new movies online before their DVD release in...More>>
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WTO Cites China for Piracy Lapse 14 Oct, 2008
The World Trade Organization has faulted China for not prosecuting individuals who produce smaller...More>>
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Warner Using Streams to Combat Piracy in China 4 Nov, 2008
In an attempt to beat Chinese movie pirates at their own game, Warner Bros. has struck a deal with...More>>
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Sony Releases Blu-ray in China 19 Nov, 2008
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is hoping to avoid another format war, this time in China, by...More>>
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New Macbook Copy Protection Miffs Consumers 20 Nov, 2008
Software meant to discourage piracy included on new Macbooks may actually hurt sales of iTunes...More>>
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EMA Publishes Standards for Point-of-Sale Activation Technology 1 Dec, 2008
The Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) has published threshold standards for “benefit...More>>
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RIAA Halts Strategy of Suing Individual Music Downloaders 22 Dec, 2008
The Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) decision Dec. 19 to abandon its years-long...More>>
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No ‘Dark Knight’ in China 29 Dec, 2008
The year’s biggest box office blockbuster, <i>The Dark Knight</i>, will forgo a theatrical...More>>
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CDSA Taps Dyson 5 Jan, 2009
Linda Dyson, who’s been with Sony Music Entertainment International since 1989, will head up the...More>>
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Traffic Stop Nabs Pirated DVDs 28 Jan, 2009
A routine traffic ticket stop Jan. 26 in Williams, Calif., resulted in the arrest of three men...More>>
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WTO Sides with U.S. in China DVD Piracy Claim 29 Jan, 2009
In a major victory for Hollywood studios, the World Trade Organization this week ruled in favor of...More>>
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Conference Touts Packaged Media's Resolve 3 Feb, 2009
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — The economy in tatters outside, only half of the ballroom full inside,...More>>
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BitTorrent Site The Pirate Bay Faces Trial in Sweden 25 Feb, 2009
Four men behind the BitTorrent downloading site The Pirate Bay are on trial in Sweden, with a...More>>
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Piracy Lurks Larger 26 Feb, 2009
While the industry and market wring their hands regarding the economy and downturn in packaged...More>>
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MPAA: RealNetworks ‘Destroyed’ RealDVD Data 6 Mar, 2009
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said RealNetworks has deliberately stonewalled...More>>
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