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'Three strikes' law is 'naive', says UK ISP
The large UK ISP TalkTalk is making a strong point today, calling the Lord Mandelson-backed Internet Piracy bill (three strikes law) "naive," ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/19947.cfm - 16 October 2009

Radio show cries foul on '7 million pirates' claim in UK
When a recent report from the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property - a UK government advisory board - claimed seven million people ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/19209.cfm - 5 September 2009

Pre-release music uploader arrested
The IFPI and the City of London Police and the Intellectual Property Office have this week arrested a 33 year-old man for allegedly being part ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/18280.cfm - 24 June 2009

BPI involved in two major piracy busts in UK
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has been involved in two anti-piracy operations in the UK. The trade group cooperated with the Scottish ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/17647.cfm - 18 April 2009

UK download sites back new 'MP3 Compatible' logo
HMV, Woolworths, 7digital, Digitalstores, Tescodigital, Tunetribe, and Play.com have all agreed to promote a new "MP3 compatible" logo that ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/15873.cfm - 6 November 2008

'UK Music' group created to fight piracy
The umbrella group UK Music has been created today to establish a unified anti-piracy position. The new group will be releasing a program ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/15781.cfm - 27 October 2008

'Three strikes' plan is struck down
The European Parliament has once again voted against the proposed "three strikes" plan on unauthorized files sharers that would ban three time ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/15522.cfm - 28 September 2008

Jammie Thomas gets new trial against RIAA
A federal judge has declared a mistrial in the case of Jammie Thomas, the Minnesota woman who was found guilty of sharing 24 songs via P2P app ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/15500.cfm - 26 September 2008

OiNK uploaders charged with infringement
Almost one year after authorities shut down the private torrent tracker OiNK, the site's administrators and a few alleged uploaders have been ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/15391.cfm - 11 September 2008

UK ISPs are handing over personal details of 'pirates'
The two large UK ISPs BT and Virgin Media have admitted they have turned over the personal details of thousands of alleged pirates after the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/15349.cfm - 7 September 2008

Two OiNK uploaders cleared of all charges
Two former uploaders for the music torrent tracker OiNK have been cleared of all charges today after being arrested in the UK earlier this summer. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14958.cfm - 30 July 2008

Virgin denies it will disconnect 'pirates' from the Internet
Virgin Media has denied recent reports that it plans to disconnect 'pirates' from the Internet for unauthorized file sharing and instead is ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14684.cfm - 4 July 2008

BT wants to cut off pirate's Internet
BT, the largest broadband service provider in the UK, has begun threatening "pirates" with disconnection from the Internet if they are found ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14640.cfm - 28 June 2008

BPI CEO gets defensive about Virgin Media partnership
Last week BBC writer Bill Thompson attacked the deal Virgin Media made to send out letters on bealf of the UK's equivalent of the RIAA, the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14506.cfm - 17 June 2008

Virgin and BPI send letters to suspected pirates
Virgin Media ISP and the British Photographic Institute (BPI) have begun sending out a fresh batch of letters to customers who they suspect ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14383.cfm - 6 June 2008

British police arrest 6 former OiNK users
The British authorities have confirmed that at least 6 former users of the torrent site OiNK have been arrested, more than the single user that ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14338.cfm - 3 June 2008

Carphone Warehouse will not comply with 'three strikes' copyright plan
Carphone Warehouse has revealed that it has no intention of cooperating with the record industry's BPI or the UK Government in a plan to disconnect ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13550.cfm - 7 April 2008

Ringleader in £5 million counterfeiting scam gets sentenced
Farhat Nissa, 35, was today sentenced to four years and six months years in prison for her role in a £5 million music counterfeiting operation, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13488.cfm - 2 April 2008

Virgin Media gives pirates "three strikes and you're out" alternative
After last month's "three strikes and you're off the Internet" announcement in the UK was made official, it seems the large ISP Virgin Media ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13452.cfm - 31 March 2008

Four found guilty of conspiracy to infringe copyright in UK
Earlier this month, four men were found guilty in a £5 million illegal operation in South East England. The pirate CD traders had imported professiona...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/13348.cfm - 24 March 2008

OiNK's bail date extended
Still after three months since the police shut down OiNK, Alan Ellis, the admin of OiNK, is in custody. Today, for the second time, the bail ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12812.cfm - 5 February 2008

Parliament considers changes to U.K. copyright law
Members of the U.K. Parliament spent much of today discussing a document outlining some changes to copyright law. While many of the items discussed ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12436.cfm - 9 January 2008

UK IP Minister thinks CD ripping should be legal
Though the record labels would have a heart attack if anyone sanctioned the ripping of music files from a compact disc to your hard drive, it ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12426.cfm - 8 January 2008

Dutch court fines Bollywood pirates
A Dutch court has handed out fines up to €15,000 to several Rotterdam shopkeepers for selling counterfeit Bollywood material. Three of the defendants ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12164.cfm - 15 December 2007

The Pirate Bay promises to bring back OiNK
Last week, OiNK, the large pre-release music torrent tracker was shut down by English and Dutch authorities and its owner arrested. In response, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11607.cfm - 28 October 2007

OiNK, a private torrent tracker, gets raided
OiNK, the extremely popular private torrent tracker has been shut down and its owner’s home raided by both UK and Dutch police. According ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11565.cfm - 23 October 2007

Reactions to UK Government decision on copyright term extension
The International record industry reacted to a recent decision by the UK Government not to press the European Commission to extend the term ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10554.cfm - 30 July 2007

Unauthorized music downloading at all-time high
According to a new report by Entertainment Media Research, unauthorized music downloading is at an all-time high and the piracy is set to continue ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10543.cfm - 30 July 2007

AllofMP3.com speaks to p2pnet
P2Pnet's Jon Newton recently had contact with Russian MP3 site AllofMP3.com. Record companies accuse AllofMP3 of illegally selling music downloads ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9977.cfm - 3 June 2007

CD WOW to pay £41 million in damages
Online retailer CD WOW! has been ordered to pay £41 million in damages to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the largest damages award ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9889.cfm - 29 May 2007

AllofMP3 calls IFPI raid a publicity stunt
The Russian music download store AllofMP3 called out the IFPI today, claiming their recent raid was made as a publicity stunt. The accusations ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9834.cfm - 24 May 2007

AllofMP3.com voucher system targeted
In the ongoing effort by the music industry to squash Russian MP3 download site, AllofMP3.com, Police have raided and shut down an online voucher ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9792.cfm - 21 May 2007

CD-WOW! ordered to pay damages for music imports
CD-WOW!, the second largest online music retailer in Britain, may have to pay millions of pounds for importing CDs from Asia. Besides the damages, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/9049.cfm - 20 March 2007

Six jailed for piracy offenses in UK
Six men has been handed jail sentences for piracy offenses in the United Kingdom. The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) claims that ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8233.cfm - 13 December 2006

British government wants to get tougher on piracy
The British government commissioned a report entitled The Gowers Report which serves to modernize current copyright infringement laws to match ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/8203.cfm - 6 December 2006

Tiscali refuses to reveal 'music pirates'
Internet Service Provider Tiscali has swiftly responded to allegations from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) that it allowed its customers ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7744.cfm - 12 July 2006

British ISPs urged to deny access to file sharers
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has given an official letter to both Tiscali and Cable & Wireless requesting that they suspend some ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7737.cfm - 10 July 2006

BPI cleared to sue AllofMP3.com
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has been cleared to sue popular Russian music download site AllofMP3.com in London's High Court. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7715.cfm - 3 July 2006

Anti-DRM group to take on RIAA
The self proclaimed arch-nemesis of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the group collectively known as DefectiveByDesign ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7694.cfm - 23 June 2006

BPI wants Apple to license FairPlay
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has called upon Apple Computer Inc. to take steps toward interoperability by licensing its FairPlay ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7637.cfm - 7 June 2006

IFPI changes tone in attempt to save its image
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is behind thousands of lawsuits against file sharers around the world, but ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7473.cfm - 15 April 2006

BPI wants copyright extension in Europe
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is demanding that the period of copyright protection applied to music tracks be almost doubled. Currently ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7465.cfm - 13 April 2006

BPI claims file-sharing decline in UK
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has claimed that illegal file sharing of copyrighted music has cost the British music industry around ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7446.cfm - 5 April 2006

Sony reveals prices for Blu-ray
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has become the first major movie studio to give pricing details on Blu-ray Disc movie releases. The discs are ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7298.cfm - 8 February 2006

UK software pirates targeted
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has sued many file sharers in the UK that it accuses of uploading copyrighted music on P2P networks. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7265.cfm - 1 February 2006

BBC gets answers from Music Industry figures about digital music
The BBC has questioned some of the Music Industry's biggest players using the most frequent queries from users of the BBC News website. The ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7245.cfm - 25 January 2006

HD DVD drive to be released for Xbox 360
After much speculation around the subject, Microsoft has revealed that it plans to release an external HD DVD drive for the Xbox 360 later this ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7190.cfm - 5 January 2006

Crackdown on counterfeit goods in UK
Plans for a new multi-agency approach to tackling traders who sell counterfeit goods are being drawn up in the UK following a series of four ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7188.cfm - 4 January 2006

Songwriters & composers challenge BPI
British composers and songwriters hit back at the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) yesterday in the battle over royalties from music download ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7096.cfm - 3 December 2005

BPI criticises Napster and Apple for advertising on 'pirate sites'
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has criticised both Apple and Napster for advertising their legal music download services on websites ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6944.cfm - 14 October 2005

UK's National Consumer Council criticises BPI over lawsuits
UK consumer watchdog, the National Consumer Council (NCC), has criticised the music industry in the UK for its "heavy-handed" use of court action ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6913.cfm - 8 October 2005

Apple unveils iTunes phone and iPod Nano
Apple Computers has finally unveiled the much anticipated iTunes phone and also a brand new smaller iPod called the iPod Nano. Rumours had run ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6814.cfm - 8 September 2005

ratDVD updated to v0.75.1331
ratDVD, a tool that allows you to compress an entire DVD (keeping functionality and all extras etc..) into single .ratDVD file has been updated ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6758.cfm - 23 August 2005

BPI feels sorry for parents it sues?
A spokesman for the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), a body that represents music labels in the UK and International major record companies ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6747.cfm - 21 August 2005

HMV hopes to teach more people to download
As it prepares to enter the online music download market, retailer HMV has said it will attempt to educate more consumers on how to download ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6720.cfm - 11 August 2005

Five people to appear in court for sharing music in UK
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is to take its first court action against 5 file sharers it accuses to have been illegally distributing ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6693.cfm - 1 August 2005

Research firm attacks music industry downloading myth
From listening to the claims from the music industry for the past few years, it is easy to get an impression that all file sharers are thieves ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6674.cfm - 27 July 2005

Worldwide legal music downloads tripled
Figures released by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) have shown that legal music downloading has tripled worldwide. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6662.cfm - 21 July 2005

Legal music downloads way up in 2005
In the United States, the sale of legal downloads has jumped dramatically over the same period of last year. Between January 2005 and June 2005, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6643.cfm - 14 July 2005

UK music download milestone reached
So far in 2005, there have been almost double the amount of legal downloads in the UK than in the entire of 2004 according to the British Phonographic ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6628.cfm - 11 July 2005

Motorola to unveil iTunes phone at V Festival
It has been reported by The Sunday Telegraph that Motorola will unveil the iTunes phone at the UK's V Festival. The V Festival is a music festival ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6625.cfm - 11 July 2005

eBay removes Live 8 DVD auctions
Online auction giant eBay has been busy removing counterfeit Live 8 DVDs from its website. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) asked eBay ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6598.cfm - 5 July 2005

BPI sues MCPS
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has announced that it is taking MCPS (the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society) to the copyright ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6594.cfm - 1 July 2005

New campaign urges parents to check their kids' downloads
Children's Online Charity, Childnet, has launched a campaign to try to urge parents to check if their kids are downloading and sharing music ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6515.cfm - 10 June 2005

Introducing ratDVD: A new way to compress your DVDs
Would you like to be able to compress an entire 9GB DVD to 1 single file about 1GB-3GB (depending on the DVD and your settings) in size, keeping ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6481.cfm - 31 May 2005

UK court orders ISPs to hand over subscriber details of file sharers
The British Phonographic Industry scored another small victory today when a court ordered five ISPs to hand over the personal details of 33 ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6325.cfm - 19 April 2005

BPI threatening British file sharers again
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is once again attempting to warn British P2P users off sharing copyrighted music online. This time the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6212.cfm - 16 March 2005

UK Internet pirates settle out of court with BPI
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is delighted with the results it has gotten from its first wave of lawsuits which initially was launched ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6170.cfm - 4 March 2005

Bollywood DVD pirate gets 3 year jail sentence
Jayanti Amarishi Buhecha has been sent to prison for three years accused of being a major distributor of pirated DVDs of Bollywood films. He ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6124.cfm - 23 February 2005

UK music business sees record album sales
The UK Music Industry is celebrating its biggest ever year for album sales, reporting 237 million sold in the 12 months to September. The British ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5827.cfm - 26 November 2004

BPI wins court order against British P2P users
British Phonographic Industry, the UK equivalent of the RIAA, has won the first court round in its fight against British P2P users, when British ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5700.cfm - 14 October 2004

459 European P2P users sued
Music industry has taken its first major steps within Europe to clamp down the illegal music sharing over the P2P networks and 459 individuals ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5675.cfm - 7 October 2004

EasyMusic.com downloading service from EasyGroup
EasyGroup is partnering with UK music download service, Wippit, to launch Easymusic.com, a legal downloading service that will offer tracks ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5603.cfm - 17 September 2004

DVD Shrink v3.2 released
Super popular free DVD-to-DVDR software, DVD Shrink, has been updated to a new version. The new version, DVD Shrink v3.2, fixes couple of bugs ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5441.cfm - 25 July 2004

Official UK download chart goes live in September
British equivalent of the RIAA, British Phonographic Industry (BPI), revealed this week more information about their plans to launch the official ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5358.cfm - 28 June 2004

Half a million legal music downloads in the UK
According to the Britain's official record sales tracker, Official UK Chart Company, British consumers have bought already over 500,000 legal ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5291.cfm - 4 June 2004

DVD Shrink v3.1.7 released
After five beta versions the final 3.1.7 version of DVD Shrink has been released. Here's the changelog for this release:Added function to ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5074.cfm - 14 March 2004

DVD Shrink v3.1.7 beta 3 released
The fast development cycle of DVD Shrink goes on. The latest version is now DVD Shrink v3.1.7 beta 3, which adds various minor tweaks to the ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5023.cfm - 29 February 2004

DVD Shrink v3.1.5 released
Despite announcing earlier that the development of DVD Shrink (excellent freeware DVD-to-DVDR tool) will cease, new versions seem to pop up ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4967.cfm - 11 February 2004

CD Wow backs down -- no more cheap imports
Online retailer CD Wow has settled with the British Phonographic Institute (BPI) to stop importing cheap Audio CDs from Asia. The company was ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4897.cfm - 21 January 2004

DVD Shrink v3.1.3 released
Another update to DVD Shrink has been released. In addition to several bug fixes, the new version adds, for instance, some Nero burn options. ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4885.cfm - 18 January 2004

BPI warns British P2P users
Director of "British RIAA", the BPI (The British Phonographic Industry), warned British P2P users that it will start suing them if they keep ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4875.cfm - 14 January 2004

UK survey: P2P users buy more music
British study by Music Programming Ltd (MPL), suggests that P2P users buy more music. MPL said that 87% of its respondents who downloaded ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4256.cfm - 9 July 2003

easyInternet wont appeal its case
The British Internet cafe chain, easyInternet, wont challenge the High Court ruling that declared in January that its cafes violated copyright ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3972.cfm - 10 April 2003

DVD Shrink v1.03 released
Just couple of days after its first public appearance, the freeware DVD to DVD-R tool, DVD Shrink, has been updated to a new version. The ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3971.cfm - 10 April 2003

British music industry accuses BT of supporting P2P piracy
British music industry and its main watchdog, British Phonographic Industry, claims that Britains largest ISP, former government telco monopoly, ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3881.cfm - 17 March 2003

Internet café found quilty for piracy
easyInternetcafé chain has been found quilty of copyright infringement by British High Court. The chain allowed users to access music download ...
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/3748.cfm - 29 January 2003