Mungo Jerry frontman hopes new anti-piracy tech stops artists losing out
Ray Dorset says band lost £23m in royalties but suggests fingerprinting software could help musicians
June 2024
Vinyl came back from the dead – and so did the bootleggers: inside the booming business of knock-off records
As LP sales boom in the UK, so has the illegal trade in poor-quality fakes. But the record detectives are fighting back
May 2024
‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
Ownership rights are buried in the fine print and downloading or buying physical copies may be the only ways to keep your favourites
September 2023
Four large US publishers sue ‘shadow library’ for alleged copyright infringement
The publishers are claiming unspecified damages from the file-sharing Library Genesis, which they say has distributed files illegally
May 2023
Illegal streaming gang jailed for selling cut-price Premier League subscriptions
Five men who made over £7m streaming football matches to tens of thousands of customers jailed for total of more than 30 years
March 2023
Music piracy in Italy was a major criminal activity – it should not be romanticised
‘I was the Spotify of the 1980s!’ The Italian pirate mixtape empire that brought pop to the people
February 2023
One in four Australians sharing their streaming video account, survey finds
Exclusive: Finding comes as Netflix prepares to crack down on users sharing login details outside their household
January 2023
Demand for Japanese manga bucks Australia’s downward piracy trend
With songs and movies readily available on streaming services, illegal downloads have moved to less-available media
December 2022
Risky online behaviour ‘almost normalised’ among young people, says study
EU-funded survey of people aged 16-19 finds one in four have trolled someone – while UK least ‘cyberdeviant’ of nine countries
October 2022
Booker prize winner urges people not to circulate pirated copies of his novel
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka spent seven years writing The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which won the prestigious award on Monday, and asks readers to honour the work put into it
March 2022
‘Embarrassing’: Russia scrambles to copy banned social media platforms
Rossgram, a substitute for Instagram, mocked as Russian PM announces policy of ignoring copyright
May 2020
Dishoom asks cookbook pirates to donate to charity appeal
After a bootleg of its recipe book was sent to ‘everyone and their nice auntie’, restaurant chain appeals to readers to buy copies or donate to Hospitality Action
April 2020
UK traffic to film and TV piracy sites up nearly 60% in lockdown
Figures mirror rise in legal streaming, while comedy and family shows thrive on TV
February 2020
Subscribers to multiple streaming services more likely to also be online pirates: survey
Lobby group says those paying for three or more streaming services are the most likely to illegally download content
January 2020
Saudi Arabia criticised over pirate TV service 'that airs Premier League'
EU says country has failed to halt BeoutQ, which reportedly also airs La Liga and Serie A
July 2019
World's football bodies urge Saudi Arabia to stop pirate TV service
Fifa, Uefa and Premier League ask Saudi government to clamp down on beoutQ
April 2019
Philip Pullman leads call for UK government action on ebook piracy
Pullman calls piracy ‘an offence against moral justice’ as authors including Kazuo Ishiguro and Margaret Drabble issue warning to business secretary Greg Clark
March 2019
'I can get any novel I want in 30 seconds': can book piracy be stopped?
As publishers struggle with ‘whack-a-mole’ websites, experts, authors and Guardian readers who illegally download books, assess the damage
January 2019
Internet Archive's ebook loans face UK copyright challenge
The Society of Authors has called on the website’s Open Library to stop making scanned books ‘unlawfully’ available to British readers
