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 PlayStation 3 'hacked' by iPhone cracker
Posted by maximus on Monday, January 25 @ 19:07:02 GMT (429 reads)
A US hacker who gained notoriety for unlocking Apple's iPhone as a teenager has told BBC News that he has now hacked Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3).
George Hotz said the hack, which could allow people to run pirated games or homemade software, took him five weeks.
He said he was still refining the technique but intended to post full details online soon.
The PS3 is the only games console that has not been hacked, despite being on the market for three years.
"It's supposed to be unhackable - but nothing is unhackable," Mr Hotz told BBC News.
"I can now do whatever I want with the system. It's like I've got an awesome new power - I'm just not sure how to wield it."
Sony said it was "investigating the report" and would "clarify the situation" when it had more information.
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Amazon's Kindle has copyright protection hacked
Posted by maximus on Wednesday, December 23 @ 11:25:41 GMT (452 reads)
An Israeli hacker claims to have broken the copyright protection on Amazon's Kindle e-reader, reports say.
The hack will allow the ebooks stored on the reader to be transferred as pdf files to any other device.
The hacker, known as Labba, responded to a challenge posted on Israeli hacking forum, hacking.org.
It is the latest in a series of Digital Rights Management hacks, the most famous being the reverse engineering of iTunes.
The Kindle e-book reader has been very successful since it was launched in the US in 2007.
Amazon hopes to have sold a million devices by the end of the year.
It leaves it to individual publishers whether they want to apply DRM but books in its main proprietary format .azw, cannot be transferred to other devices.
It did not immediately respond to the news but it is likely it will attempt to patch its DRM software.
DRM has long divided opinion. While rights holders regard it as a crucial tool to protect copyright, consumers tend to hate it because it limits what can be done with content.
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Lawyers target thousands of 'illegal' file-sharers
Posted by maximus on Friday, November 27 @ 16:20:10 GMT (460 reads)
Around 15,000 suspected pirates may soon get legal letters accusing them of illegally sharing movies and games.
ACS:Law plans to send notes to the accused in the new year offering a chance to settle out of court for "several hundreds of pounds".
A lawyer who has defended people who have received similar letters described it as a "scattergun approach" that would catch "innocent people".
ACS:Law said it was "unaware" of anyone who had been wrongly sent a letter.
Andrew Crossley of the firm told BBC News it was acting to "eradicate" sharing of its client's products.
"We give them opportunity to enter into compromise right at the start to avoid having to deal with it [in court]," said Mr Crossley.
If it went to court and the lawyers were successful, he said, damages "would run into several thousands of pounds".
But consumer group Which? said that it had heard from around 150 consumers who had been "wrongly accused" in similar cases.
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Gang sentenced for UK bank trojan
Posted by maximus on Tuesday, November 17 @ 08:37:56 GMT (485 reads)
A British court has sentenced four men to prison after they admitted they used sophisticated trojan software to steal almost £600,000 from bank accounts and send it to Eastern Europe.
London's Southwark Crown Court on Friday imposed sentences of as much as 4 and a half years on the men. According to IDG News, they used a trojan known as PSP2-BBB to stealthily monitor victims' browsers. It inserted special fields into banking pages that asked for sensitive information and then sent it to the criminals when the user complied.
To give it the pages air of legitimacy, they bore the logo of NatWest, according to other news reports. The gang used a stable of money mules to transfer the funds to countries including Ukraine, which is also the location of a computer server that was used in the scam.
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Pirate Bay retrial call rejected
Posted by maximus on Saturday, June 27 @ 20:18:15 BST (390 reads)
A Swedish court has thrown out a request for a retrial by the four men behind The Pirate Bay website.
The four were found guilty of promoting copyright infringement in April and face jail sentences and hefty claims for damages.
The Pirate Bay's lawyers called for a retrial when it emerged that one of the judges in the case belonged to several copyright protection groups.
The Swedish court said the judge's affiliations did not bias the case.
The Svea Court of Appeal said Judge Tomas Norstrom should have declared that he was a member of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and the Swedish Copyright Association before the case went to trial.
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3,000 People Now Testing Pirate Bay's IPREDator
Posted by maximus on Thursday, June 25 @ 13:11:34 BST (476 reads)
Sweden: In an attempted comeback by The Pirate Bay it announced this past month it would be offering a VPN based anonymity service. This service will allow file-sharers to download content without leaving a strong data trail.
Having experienced many setbacks, such as millions of dollars in fines and a possible year of jail time the service still plans to be released. The service is now available to 3,000 Testers and another 180,000 in que.
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Pirate Bay founders found guilty
Posted by maximus on Friday, April 17 @ 11:49:22 BST (444 reads)
A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case.
Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail.
They were also ordered to pay 30m kronor (£2.4m) in damages.
In a Twitter posting, Mr Sunde said: "Nothing will happen to TPB, this is just theatre for the media."
Mr Sunde went on to say that he "got the news last night that we lost".
"It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before the official release."
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Nintendo asks US to address worldwide game piracy
Posted by maximus on Sunday, February 17 @ 15:45:45 GMT (220 reads)
Claims lost sales of $975 million in 2007
Nintendo of America has asked the US Trade Representative to
encourage governments around the world to take a more aggressive stance
to combat piracy of Nintendo videogames and systems.
The company specifically targeted China, Korea, Brazil, Hong Kong, Paraguay and Mexico as problem areas.
Nintendo filed its comments under a process in which the US Trade
Representative solicits input from the public to underscore specific
areas of concern.
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ESA teams with Motion Picture Association against piracy
Posted by maximus on Thursday, November 01 @ 06:49:53 GMT (170 reads)
Launches Operation Games Attack
The Entertainment Software Association is teaming with the Motion Picture Association to fight piracy in Malaysia.
The two groups have launched Operation Games Attack hoping to crush the production and distribution of illegal entertainment software in the Malaysian region, backed by local government.
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Nintendo pounces on global piracy outfit
Posted by maximus on Wednesday, October 24 @ 08:33:11 BST (222 reads)
10,000 illegal devices seized in Hong Kong operation
Nintendo and the Hong Kong High Court have crushed a global piracy outfit by seizing over 10,000 illegal devices that violate DS and Wii copyright and trademarks.
Game copying devices that connect to the DS and mod chips for the Wii were seized in a raid of Supreme Factory Limited, with French company Divineo SARL also named in the legal action initiated by Nintendo.
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ELSPA applauds Tory leader's stance on copyright theft
Posted by maximus on Friday, July 06 @ 07:32:21 BST (191 reads)
Wants to enter talks with political stakeholders
The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association has welcomed a call from Conservative leader David Cameron for a tougher stance on copyright theft.
Speaking at the AGM of the British Recorded Music Industry yesterday, Cameron said copyright theft occurs on a massive scale in the UK and has an impact on investment and innovation.
He also said that more should be done to educate people about the issue and change their perceptions.
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Nintendo offers praise for US Government
Posted by maximus on Wednesday, April 11 @ 09:49:28 BST (205 reads)
Platform holder supports action against piracy in China
Nintendo of America has declared strong support for US Government-led initatives to crack down on videogame piracy in China.
Every year, the US Trade Representative solicits views from companies about piracy in foreign countries as part of the Special 301 process. This year Nintendo gave evidence about piracy in China, Hong Kong, Brazil, Mexico and Paraguay.
According to figures quoted by Nintendo, more than 7.7 million counterfeit videogame products have been seized from over 300 Chinese factories and retailers during the last ten years.
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Trading standards gets GBP 5 million grant to combat piracy
Posted by maximus on Friday, February 23 @ 08:52:36 GMT (202 reads)
ELSPA welcomes Government decision
The department of trade and industry is to award trading standards officers more authority and a GBP 5 million Government grant in a bid to boost the campaign against videogame piracy.
As announced by DTI minister Malcom Wicks at the Intellectual Property Crime Group in London, trading standards and other UK agencies will be given new powers under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act.
From April 6, officers will be able to make test purchases, enter premises and inspect and seize goods and documents. Customs, benefit fraud teams, police, trading standards and industry investigators will co-ordinate their activities on an ongoing basis.
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Replacing the Stick
Posted by maximus on Friday, February 23 @ 08:49:59 GMT (198 reads)
One of the most interesting things we read this week came from ELSPA's new director general, Paul Jackson (who has admittedly been in the job for several months, but after over a decade and a half with Roger Bennett at the helm of the trade body you'll forgive us if we absent-mindedly refer to Jackson as the "new" DG for quite a while).
He was discussing in broad terms the organisation's new approach to fighting piracy. Acknowledging the closure of the trade body's Evesham-based anti-piracy office and the decision to halve the number of investigative staff, Jackson talked about the vast changes taking place in "the landscape for the theft of IP" and the need to change how the industry responds to this.
Jackson is right, of course - the landscape of piracy is changing, not so much "rapidly" but at breakneck speed. Ironically many of the people whom ELSPA's anti-piracy measures have tackled in the past are being left behind by new developments in this sector just as much as ELSPA itself was.
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One in five fail Windows validation checks
Posted by maximus on Thursday, January 25 @ 09:27:53 GMT (247 reads)
WGA the dog
By John Leyden
More than a fifth (22 per cent) of Windows installations failed tests on their authenticity, according to figures from tests conducted using Microsoft's controversial Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool.
More than 512 million tests against WGA have been conducted since July 2005 resulting in a failure rate of 22.3 per cent, according to figures from Microsoft released on Monday.
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Microsoft tackles anti-copy hole
Posted by maximus on Wednesday, August 30 @ 08:22:28 BST (248 reads)
Microsoft has said it is working to close a breach of its technology that protects music digital files from copyright infringement.
A program called Fairuse4wm has been posted on the net and is said to be capable of bypassing Microsoft's Digital Rights Management (DRM) system.
It could spell problems for internet music shops, potentially enabling users to download unlimited files.
Microsoft said it hoped to deploy an update to fix the problem soon.
DRM is used to control people's access to digital data.
It is commonly employed on music downloading sites to restrict the use of music purchased and downloaded online to ensure copyright is not infringed.
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Industry to stop 'music cheats'
Posted by maximus on Monday, July 10 @ 21:24:42 BST (253 reads)
The recorded music industry's trade group has told internet service providers (ISPs) to freeze the accounts of customers who illegally fileshare.
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has written to Tiscali and Cable & Wireless asking them to suspend 59 accounts for "illegal filesharing".
Until now, the BPI has focused on individuals, rather than other firms.
The ISPs should now "put their houses in order and pull the plug on these people", said the BPI.
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UK court to unmask 'file-sharers'
Posted by maximus on Monday, January 30 @ 17:55:44 GMT (288 reads)
Ten internet service providers have been ordered to hand over the details of 150 UK customers accused of illegally sharing software.
The High Court order follows a 12-month covert investigation by the Federation Against Software Theft (Fast).
Among the internet providers are BT, NTL, Telewest and Tiscali.
Over the next two weeks, they are expected to provide the names, addresses and other personal details of the alleged file-sharers.
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Sony BMG to withdraw Rootkit CD's
Posted by maximus on Wednesday, November 23 @ 14:49:41 GMT (298 reads)
Following the backlash from all sectors of the industry Sony BMG has announced that it will recall millions of CDs containing it XCP copy protection software which exposes computers to hackers and viruses.
In a statement on the Sony BMG website the company said:
"You may be aware of the recent attention given to the XCP content protection software included on some SONY BMG CDs. This software was provided to us by a third-party vendor, First4Internet. Discussion has centered on security concerns raised about the use of CDs containing this software.
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Mac OS X 86 Retail sold in Bangkok market
Posted by maximus on Sunday, October 02 @ 19:36:17 BST (387 reads)
Always at the edge so far as copying CDs is concerned, the Bangkok market already sells a totally illegal version of Mac OS X 10.4 for PC. Pirates of course took advantage of the osx86project community discoveries, in order to sell versions they dare to call "Retail Edition", for 6€. They point out this version is for experimental use, which won't prevent the curious from buying it.
Perhaps Apple should wake up and smell the coffee? The main reason many people buy a MAC these days is not so much because of the hardware but more to do with the operating system used on it. OS X, if released in the mainstream by Apple would become a serious contender to Microsofts domination of the desktop computer market. And that....would definitly not be a bad thing.
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