Reports have emerged in the past few days of a successful hack against The Pirate Bay which 'liberated' the entire user database.

RealNetworks has given up its effort to sell the DVD backup product RealDVD and will refund its customers' money and pay the movie studios' legal expenses.

A U.S. District Court judge has enjoined RealNetworks from selling its RealDVD software that copies DVDs to the user's hard disk.

One deterrent to switching operating systems is the inability to perform tasks with a minimum of fuss. Unfortunately, for Linux, doing something as natural as playing a movie on DVD doesn’t just work out-of-the-box. The reason why not is the same reason the Nintendo Wii doesn’t play DVDs either.

RealNetworks has added a new countersuit in its battle with the movie industry over the company's RealDVD disc backup software.

As part of its court defense of RealDVD, Real Networks displayed in court a possible future product: a set-top box to hold ripped DVDs.

You might consider movie piracy a victimless crime, but some folk are now directly linking pirates to terrorists.

Although occurring in Sweden, the commencement of the trial of the four founders of The Pirate Bay will help to answer many of the murky legal questions regarding the legal standing of Torrent index sites.

The music industry is in deep dog-doo.  They just haven’t figured out which breed the dog is.  Or where it went!

Schemes are being hatched to make it harder and harder to download copyrighted material across the internet.  Seems they will be just as successful as the method to stop people recording CDs to tape in the “old days.”  And just as ludicrous.