It’s a common refrain when it comes to pirating online content from torrent sites, watching movies recorded illicitly in a cinema or accessing material via set-top boxes and sticks loaded with illegal ...

Who Should Pay for Music and Movie Piracy? Internet service providers have been the target of several lawsuits in recent years faulting them for user piracy. That may change depending on the outcome ...

The founder of file-sharing website Megaupload was ordered to be held in custody by a New Zealand court Monday, as he denied charges of Internet piracy and money laundering. Two other suspects were ...

Continuing the attack on China’s copyright pirates, authorities are cracking down on the use of Internet cafes to watch pirated films and imposing stiffer punishments for copyright infringement.

Vinton Cerf, one of the Internet's pioneers, and 82 other Internet inventors and engineers have signed an open letter to Congress protesting both a controversial piracy bill known as SOPA and related ...

WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders in the House and Senate retreated Friday on two controversial anti-piracy bills that had prompted White House opposition and a massive Internet protest. Rep. Lamar ...

LOS ANGELES — One in four Internet users has illegally downloaded a movie, and even more troubling for Hollywood is that people are attending, buying and renting movies less often, according to an ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The website of China's biggest Internet video company Youku Tudou Inc was once a haven for illicit Hollywood blockbusters and hit South Korean soap operas, until it realised piracy ...

The illegal reproduction and distribution of copyrighted material on the Web. See software piracy. On January 18, 2012, Wikipedia and thousands of other websites either went offline or displayed ...

A billion-dollar judgment in a piracy lawsuit involving a major Internet service provider could force ISPs to terminate more customer accounts and “punish the innocent and guilty alike,” advocacy ...