A controversial global pact to battle counterfeiting and online piracy was dealt a new setback Thursday as a key European Parliament panel rejected the deal. full story ![]()

THE Attorney- General's Department is attempting to revive an industry agreement to tackle online piracy.
news.com.au (3 months and 3 days ago)

The Xbox 720 has received some not so flattering rumors over the past few months, and the biggest one is the always online feature it supposedly will require from gamers, which is apparently going to help prevent piracy on Xbox...
examiner.com (2 months and 8 days ago)

Forgive us if we sound a little wearied by this whole thing, but once again empirical research has found that neither piracy nor legal streaming hurts digital music sales. This study is a little different - the European Commission's Institute for Prospective Technological Studies used behaviour-based data from over 16,000 European internet users to work out whether visits to...
techradar.com (2 months and 6 days ago)
Beijing police have arrested 11 suspects in a case involving a major online provider of high-definition film downloads. The scale of piracy was described by authorities as "unprecedented."
china.org.cn (15 days ago)
An Afghan-led peace deal with the Taliban is needed to secure the future of Afghanistan after British troops leave, a group of MPs has said.
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An attorney at the Pittsburgh firm Bernstein-Burkley compared the terms of the lease with area standards, and examined councils concerns.
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Two AGP members tried to snatch a copy of a Bill from external affairs minister Salman Khurshid when he rose to introduce it in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday noon leading to a scuffle with Congress MPs.
indiatimes.com (15 days ago)
May 16 - British Prime Minister David Cameron suffers a blow in parliament as a third of his own party’s MPs vote against him in protest at his stance on the EU. Simon Hanna reports.
reuters.com (6 days ago)
How do you stop piracy? Super Meat Boy developer Tommy Refenes has a simple answer: you don’t. He’s written an interesting blog piece where he argues that piracy is a fact of the modern gaming industry, but that’s it’s ultimately not harmful, and that digital rights management is just about the worst way to go about preventing it. Instead, he argues, respecting paying...
forbes.com (2 months and 5 days ago)

David Cameron's authority suffered a huge blow when more than 100 Conservative MPs defied him by voting for a referendum on the European Union.
independent.co.uk (7 days ago)
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