In the information age, software is an essential tool of production. It generates value for individual businesses and entire economies by boosting productivity and accelerating output. But does it make a difference whether the software is properly licensed or pirated?

Recent statistics suggest that 82% of people think it's acceptable to watch pirated TV shows, and the growing piracy rates back this up: the season premiere of Game of Thrones was watched illegally over one million times, compared to just over four million legitimate views, with foreign interest in the series being a large cause.

Piracy represents a truly unenviable quandary for the film and games industries, but their continual failure to grasp even the basic essence of the issue, or their customers, represents a far greater and more worrying trend.

The tiny Caribbean island of Antigua is to become a digital piracy haven after being given permission by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to launch a website that would distribute music, movies and software without compensating US copyright holders after a decade long saga of abuse by the US.

An internet pirate who made hundreds of thousands of pounds from his illegal download website committed contempt of court on the day he was sentenced ...

BPI Launches Fresh Attacks On Piracy Sites...

The Dutch Considerati think tank reported some time ago that there is still widespread  downloading in the Netherlands. But for an allegedly 'br...

More than 43 million albums and singles were illegally downloaded in the first half of 2012, a major study of piracy in the UK has revealed. Global...

The UK's court-enforced ban of the Pirate Bay has resulted in only a temporary dip in peer-to-peer filesharing traffic, a BBC report has found. The...

The civil damages regime in the UK needs an overhaul to stop software theft harming the economy, innovation and future job creation.

Ofcom has announced details of a massive crackdown on internet piracy after the government lost a High Court battle with ISPs. In its measures, pub...

O2 Broadband has become the latest ISP to block file-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) after a High Court order banning the site in the UK. The ...

Political hacking groups such as Anonymous were responsible for more than half of all records stolen through data breaches in 2011, a report has claim...

Controversial file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has faced more than its share of legal troubles over the past few years, culminating in prison sente...