‘Out of control’ piracy set to cost world £9bn by 2015 Somali pirates are earning more than 150 times their country’s national average wage in what has become a multimillion-dollar business, a new study reveals. Read more on…. Click Here to Read More

Dutch will try 9 Somalis in the Netherlands for piracy and violence against soldiers AMSTERDAM – The Dutch Justice Ministry says the Netherlands will prosecute nine of 16 Somalis captured after a gunfight in the Gulf of Aden this month on charges of piracy and violence against marines. Read more on The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada…. Click Here to Read More

Net piracy: prove innocence or face fine People who breach copyright through illegal file-sharing could be fined up to $15,000 or have their internet connection cut off – and the onus will be on them to prove they are not guilty.The entertainment industry hopes the law… Read more on The New Zealand…. Click Here to Read More

To students, music piracy and shoplifting are worlds apart College undergrads in a new study said they thought shoplifting was immoral, but also weren’t motivated to follow laws governing digital music piracy. Read more on Science…. Click Here to Read More

Internet piracy laws to be rushed through Parliament is preparing to pass new internet copyright rules into law. Read more on Newstalk ZB via Yahoo!Xtra…. Click Here to Read More

RSAF team to battle piracy in the Gulf of Aden THE Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) has, for the first time, deployed a Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) Fokker-50 Maritime Patrol Aircraft (F-50 MPA) to boost international counter-piracy efforts in the Gulf of Aden. The aircraft, to be based in Djibouti for three months, will conduct maritime air surveillance to provide the multinational Combined Task Force (CTF) 151 with an enhanced … Read more on Straits…. Click Here to Read More

Study Finds That Piracy Has Zero Effect on Music Sales A study of the music industry by leading financial body the London School of Economics concludes that filesharing has not contributed to the collapse of the music business in any way and suggests industry chiefs are lying when they say it has Read more on…. Click Here to Read More

Shippers face tough times with rising oil prices, low rates, piracy SINGAPORE, April 8 (Reuters) – Rising fuel prices, tumbling freight rates, piracy and now radiation fears will make this year one of the most difficult in decades for the maritime industry, forcing some shippers out of business.Despite unprecedented global demand for oil and commodities, freight rates for tankers and dry bulk carriers have remained near multi-year lows as a flood of new vessels … Read more on Manila Bulletin via Yahoo! Philippines…. Click Here to Read More

Old Media Says Google Will Destroy Film & Music SirWinston writes “A Daily Mail editor has written perhaps the most Luddite attack on Google ever, reading just like a 19th-century manifesto against looms and factories. ‘Google has become a global predator ruthlessly gobbling up potential rivals such as YouTube and ‘stealing’ the creative work of writers, film makers and the music industry… Google has granted these piracy sites a licence to … Read more on…. Click Here to Read More

Should we license digital piracy? Instead of punishing illegal file-sharers, maybe we should sell them a licence to steal. Read more on The Mark News via Yahoo! Canada…. Click Here to Read More