The final book in the Harry Potter series has been leaked to BitTorrent. A torrent with photographs of each page of the American edition of "Deathly Hallows" has shown up on multiple torrent sites.
A man from Baltimore in the United States has just been sentenced to 87 months in prison for infringing copyrights on more than 1,000 software programs including Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Mac OSX and Windows XP. The man, a 32-year-old, could potentially lose his freedom until close to his 40th…
Rather than punishing them with enforcement actions, software company Adobe says it now prefers to deal with pirates by converting them into paying customers. "Everyone is tired of the entire concept and term 'Anti-Piracy', even the term 'Content Protection' too," Adobe's Anti-Piracy chief Richard Atkinson says. Adobe believes that the…
After years of reading intellectual property law blogs from some of the greatest legal minds, I’m finally ready to admit that I was wrong. The fight against illegal copying is one that cannot be won. I can no longer deny the simple truth that it is ultimately futile to try…