Downloading music and films for free looks set to get a lot tougher - after the High Court granted an injunction requiring UPC and other internet service providers to block Pirate Bay.

Members of a group of young British computer hackers who masterminded sophisticated cyber attacks on major global institutions from their bedrooms have been sentenced.

A legal action has been launched aimed at blocking access by Irish internet users to the free file-sharing website Pirate Bay and related sites.

ROBERT Levine, one-time features editor at Wired magazine and former editor of Billboard, has written an excellent introduction, Free Ride: How the Internet is Destroying the Culture Business and How it can Fight Back, to the huge gap that divides media and technology counterparts.

A Swedish founder of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is to be expelled from Cambodia as soon as the country’s interior minister gives his approval.

A co-founder of popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been arrested in Cambodia at the request of Sweden, where he faces a one-year prison term for violating copyright laws, authorities said today.

MUSIC piracy will continue to cost the music industry here millions, a High Court judge said yesterday, after five recording companies failed to secure an injunction against internet service provider UPC aimed at clamping down on illegal downloading.

A LANDMARK High Court judgment has found that laws to identify and cut off internet users illegally copying music files are not enforceable in Ireland.

FOUR founders and financiers of filesharing site The Pirate Bay, who last year were sentenced to a year in prison, opened their appeal bid to get the verdict overturned in Stockholm yesterday.

FIVE major record companies have taken legal action against an internet service provider here in a further bid to stop illegal downloading of music which they estimate costs them and performers almost €20 million a year.

Eircom is set to block its internet customers from accessing the Pirate Bay website from the beginning of next month.

FOUR men behind the world famous file-sharing site Pirate Bay were convicted yesterday of breaking Sweden’s copyright law by helping millions of users freely download music, movies and computer games on the internet.

Four men linked to the popular Pirate Bay file-sharing site were jailed today after being convicted of breaking copyright law.

Prince is taking legal action to stop websites using copyrighted images after live photos from his UK concerts were allegedly published, a promotion company announced last night.