An Australian video tech firm has successfully tested a blockchain trial that could end up being a welcome relief for video creators and the fight against video piracy.

More than one-third of software in use on personal computers around the world today is unlicensed.

A film about entrepreneur and former MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom is up for best documentary at this year’s Asia-Pacific Screen Awards.

Remark Holdings will deploy artificial-intelligence-based object-recognition software to monitor content streamed via the Internet in China.

"The thieves who run pirate sites contribute nothing to Australia - they employ no-one and pay no taxes here."

Team Veredictum want to use their token, Ventana, to reduce film and video piracy by 80% over 10 years.

Centre Com Sunshine has joined the growing ranks of resellers paying up after being caught infringing Microsoft copyright.

“While punishment risk and penalty size reduce unlawful behaviour, they are not the only factors that do so."

"The UK High Court has overturned private copyright exceptions in a move that could see millions of ordinary people breaking the law."

After a raid by the Swedish Police on their Stockholm data centre, it only took a week or so for the Piratebay to bounce back.

According to Torrent Freak, Swedish police raided the pirate bay’s Stockholm datacenter confiscating equipment.

"watch this film when you want, where you want, on whatever platform you want".

Do we want to lose our New Zealand content and get fed on a diet of overseas tripe, or do we want to challenge the world with the amazing content we create here?

Nearly a quarter of New Zealanders have illegally downloaded content from the internet, despite knowing they should have paid for it.

Microsoft New Zealand has found no evidence of software piracy by retailers in the Dunedin area, becoming the first investigative sweep across the country to not discover any infringements.

Online auction trader OnlineSale Computers has been stung with $15,000 in penalties after admitting to hardloading unlicensed Microsoft software on PCs.

Microsoft is again warning consumers of the dangers of pirated software, after an Auckland online auction trader, OnlineSale Computers, was found to have been selling computers with unlicensed – or pirated – copies of Microsoft software.

Embedding counterfeit software with dangerous malware allows criminals to prey on computer users who are unaware of the potential danger.

The closing of a major online piracy site can increase digital media sales, with the Megaupload shutdown causing such in digital sales and movie rentals.

Evidently the evidence against Kim Dotcom and Megaupload is so substantial that he isn’t allowed to know what it is to prepare his defence against extradition.

In a tale that has nothing to do with RIANZ, a Rotorua karaoke king and intellectual property pirate has landed himself in jail by on-selling tracks made by someone else.

Internet user charged under the Skynet law for music piracy requests formal hearing in front of the Copyright Tribunal.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) are dead according to former Senator Chris Dodd.

New Zealand revealed as worst offenders for illegal downloading online