Topic: News

Major record companies have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Usenet.com claiming that the service sells access to content that includes millions of unauthorized music files and "touts its service as a haven for those seeking pirated content."

The West Cumbrian town of Whitehaven, an isolated port located on England's northwest coast, has become the first place in the UK to turn off the analog TV signal and embrace the digital future.

Promises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young hacker to betray former associates in the BitTorrent scene to Tinseltown's anti-piracy lobby, according to the hacker.

An Oakland environmental group, alleging that the popular iPhone contains a reproductive toxin that violates California law, has filed a lawsuit against Apple.

The BBC has delayed the launch of its iPlayer on demand internet TV application by months. In a bid to head off criticism from Mac and Linux users, they will get access to a new, more limited, streaming service.

Roxio has introduced BackOnTrack 3, a suite of applications that provides a straightforward way to safeguard critical documents on your media.

In yet another snub to anti-piracy efforts, infamous Swedish BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay has taken over IFPI.com, a domain formerly owned by the recording industry group by the same name.

Online video leader YouTube has rolled out long-awaited technology to automatically remove copyrighted clips, hoping to placate movie and television studios fed up with the Web site's persistent piracy problems.

Former Kinks singer Ray Davies has agreed a deal to give away his new album Working Man's Cafe with the Sunday Times newspaper.

Hackers have struck back against an iPhone software update from Apple that disabled unlocked phones. The iPhone Development Project has developed a method to install third-party apps and use upgraded iPhones on GSM networks other than AT&Ts, The Unofficial Apple Weblog reports.

Harry Potter fans should be pleased to learn that the upcoming DVD version of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" will include downloads of the movie for your PC and portable player.

While supply of components for use in half-height DVD burners has been running tight since the second quarter of this year, shortages have now extended to the DVD-ROM and slim DVD burner segments, according to industry sources in Taiwan.

Virtual explorers can now discover and watch YouTube videos while they traverse the globe.

Madonna has become the latest artist to buck the record industry by signing a $120 million record deal with concert promoter Live Nation.

The £126 price cut that Sony recently gave the PlayStation 3 (PS3) in the UK will have "minimal impact" on the high definition format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray. The HD DVD Promotion Group says that the real battleground is in standalone players and that "HD DVD is winning".

France's Albert Fert and Germany's Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for a breakthrough in nanotechnology that lets huge amounts of data be squeezed into ever-smaller spaces.

TiVo is introducing music to its mix of entertainment services, offering owners of the company's digital video recorders access through their TVs to the Rhapsody music service.

The Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo Music, Ian Rodgers, has given a presentation to some members of the music industry stating that DRM is dead, and if the RIAA insists on using it, they'll be out a partner in Yahoo.

Sony has unveiled a new updated internal Blu-ray burner for PC. The new drive doubles the write speed as compared to previous Blu-ray BD-R burners inside computer systems. The new BWU-200S Blu-ray burner cuts burn time in half allowing a full 50Gb BD-R disc to be burned in about 45 minutes. Previous drives were 2x drives and the burn time was around 90 minutes for a BD-R disc.

dvd-recordable.org is pleased to welcome a new sponsor in Internet Aquatics whose founders have 13 years' experience in the exotic fish retailing business - and aim to bring species such as snakeheads, reed-fish and knife-fish from a supply network as far afield as Thailand and Singapore to the world wide web.