Piracy Stories for 2010

Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months 165
Call of Duty: Black Ops the Most Pirated Game of the Year 5
Crookes, RIAA, MPAA, ICE — 'Linking Is Publishing' 369
MegaUpload Dares RIAA To Sue Them 255
RIAA, MPAA Recruit MasterCard As Internet Police 421
Pirate Bay Defendant Aims For Sweden's Supreme Court 98
DHS Seized Domains Based On Bad Evidence 235
Microsoft Kills Office Anti-Piracy Program 233
Why Money Doesn't Motivate File-Sharers 633
Vuvuzelas Blare On Pirated Copies of Music Game 320
DOJ Ramping Up Crackdown On Copyright-Infringing Sites 366
Single Software Licence Shared 774,651 Times 446
EMI Using Rapidshare To Market Music 81
Google To Block Piracy-Related Terms From Autocomplete 275
Torrent Users Fight Back 238
Operation Payback Shuts Down IFPI Site 376
DHS Seizes 75+ Domain Names 529
Pirate Bay Trio Lose Appeal 234
RIAA Now Blames Journalists For Its Piracy Trouble 367
Pirate Party's North American Debut 178
MP3Tunes 'Safe Harbor' Court Challenge Approaching 94
Witcher 2 Torrents Could Net You a Fine 724
UK Law Body Targets RIAA-Style Settlement Letters 95
P2P Litigation Crippled In DC District Court Ruling 114
Oregon Senator Seeks To Block COICA 81
Anti-Piracy Lawyers 'Knew Letters Hit Innocents' 240
Senate Panel Approves Website Shut-Down Bill 390
Georgia College's New Policy — Reporting All P2P Users To the Police 421
LimeWire Lives Again 278
Porn Maker Sues 7,000+ For Copyright Infringement 374
Analyzing Amazon's E-Book Loan Agreement 214
Considering a Fair Penalty For Illegal File-sharing 728
Jammie Thomas Hit With $1.5 Million Verdict 764
Prepare To Be Watched While You Watch a Movie 433
Comic Sales Soar After Artist Engages 4chan Pirates 305
Pirate Parties Plan To Shoot Site Into Orbit 301
Sony Gets Nasty With PSBreak Buyers 246
Pirated Software Could Bring Down Predator Drones 123
Big Media Wants More Piracy Busting From Google 186
Irish ISP Wins Major Legal Victory Against Record Companies 96
US Negotiators Cave On Internet Provisions To ACTA 80
BT Seeks Moratorium On Internet Piracy Cases 71
Anonymous Knocks Out Ministry of Sound Website 240
Anti-Piracy Lawyers Caught Pirating Each Other 131
US Copyright Group — Lawsuits, DDoS, and Bomb Threats 365
Torrent-Only Movie Denied IMDb Listing 207
Android Software Piracy Rampant 510
British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law 121
UK ISPs Profit From Coughing Up Customer Data 59
Other Tech the Senate Would Have Banned 264
US ISP Adopts Three-Strikes Policy 280
In France, Hadopi Reporting Begins, With (Only) 10,000 IP Addresses Per Day 376
Copyright License Fees Drive Pandora Out of Canada 254
Supreme Court May Tune In To Music Download Case 339
New Legislation Would Crack Down On Online Piracy 350
DDoS From 4chan Hits MPAA and Anti-Piracy Website 318
BSA's Latest Piracy Claims 'Shockingly Misleading,' Says Geist 277
HDCP Master Key Is Legitimate; Blu-ray Is Cracked 1066
UK ISPs To Pay 25% of Copyright Enforcement Costs 255
Microsoft To Issue Blanket License To NGOs 255
Microsoft Complaints Help Russian Gov't Pursue Political Opposition Groups 249
Film Industry Hires Cyber Hitmen To Take Down Pirates 457
Pirate Bay Down; Police Raids Across Europe 325
ACTA Text Leaks; US Caves On ISPs, Seeks Super-DMCA 246
Hurt Locker File-Sharing Subpoenas Begin 376
Developer Demands Pirate Bay Not Remove Torrent 203
RIAA President Says Copyright Law "Isn't Working" 473
Halo Reach Leaked To Filesharing Sites 160
Ikatako Virus Replaces Victims' Files With Pictures of Squid 105
Music Festival Producer Pre-Sues Bootleggers 422
DRM-Free Game Suffers 90% Piracy, Offers Amnesty 795
Google Adds Licensing Server DRM To Android Market 184
Sometimes It's OK To Steal My Games 438
UK Courts Rule Nintendo DS R4 Cards Illegal 254
Major Flaws Found In Recent BitTorrent Study 167
Study Finds 0.3% of BitTorrent Files Definitely Legal 321
US Targeting China In New Anti-Piracy Drive 99
Swedish Pirate Party Launches ISP 356
Latest Version of ACTA Leaks 87
DRM vs. Unfinished Games 462
UK Royalty Group Wants ISPs To Pay For Pirating Customers 289
Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? 1115
US Pirate Movie Site DNS Seizure Fail 343
A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars 973
Colleges Risk Losing Federal Funding If They Don't Fight Piracy 285
Swedish Pirate Party To Run Pirate Bay From Parliament 288
Feds and Hollywood Seize Domains of Movie Pirates 181
The Pirate Bay's Founding Organization Shuts Down 107
Experts Say ACTA Threatens Public Interest 107
White House Cracks Down On Piracy & Counterfeiting 323
Special Master Appointed In Jammie Thomas Case 147
FSF Starts Anti-ACTA Campaign 173
LimeWire Sued Again, Publishers Seek $150,000 Per Song 168
Uwe Boll, Other Filmmakers Sue Thousands of Movie Pirates 284
RIAA Says LimeWire Owes $1.5 Trillion 510
Study Claims $41.5 Billion In Portable Game Piracy Losses Over Five Years 316
Ofcom Unveils Anti-Piracy Policy For UK ISPs 234
The Hurt Locker Producers Sue First 5,000 File-Sharers 861
Blizzard Boss Says Restrictive DRM Is a Waste of Time 563
Warner Bros. Accused of Pirating Anti-Pirating Tech 228
China Rejects US Piracy Claims As "Groundless" 302
The Pirate Bay Sinks And Swims 347
Why I Steal Movies (Even Ones I'm In) 753
Rockstar Ships Max Payne 2 Cracked By Pirates 340
Court Grants RIAA Summary Judgment Motions vs. Limewire 170
Mpeg 7 To Include Per-Frame Content Identification 273
Nintendo To Take On Piracy In 3-D 249
Estimating Game Piracy More Accurately 459
Court Allows Unmasking of P2P Downloaders 244
Avatar Blu-Ray DRM Issues 376
US Says 4.3 Billion People Live With Bad IP Laws 229
FBI, DoJ Add 35 Positions For Intellectual Property Battle 140
EU Piracy Estimates — Just How Inaccurate? 124
File Sharing Remains a Perk of College Life 288
Feds Question Big Media's Piracy Claims 261
IsoHunt Told To Pull Torrent Files Offline 392
Warner Brothers Hiring Undercover Anti-Pirates 443
Newzbin Usenet Indexer Liable For Copyright Infringement 168
Rapidshare Trying To Convert Pirates Into Customers 227
P2P and P2P Links Ruled Legal In Spain 265
Cisco's New Router — Trouble For Hollywood 335
Pirate Bay Legal Action Dropped In Norway 223
Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down 634
The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work 1027
Aussie Film Industry Appeals ISP Copyright Case 137
Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! 650
Nintendo On the Hunt For More Scalps 232
Sony Joins the Offensive Against Pre-Owned Games 461
Bach Launches Updated MP3 Format 279
App Store Piracy Losses Estimated At $459 Million 202