Scots are the biggest customers for pirate DVDs in the UK, with one in three owning counterfeit discs. Around 25% of consumers admit they would buy illegal copies of Hollywood movies and TV shows if they could save money. More than a third claimed not to know piracy was illegal despite regular police raids on market stalls.

"once someone has purchased a great deal of protected music for an iPod then if their next player is not manufactured by Apple this music could become inaccessible to them."   The All Party Internet Group's public inquiry into Digital Rights Management (the software which dictates how you can and cannot use a piece of digital content) today published their 30 pa…

  A security guard who used hundreds of false identities to sell pirate DVDs on an internet auction site has been jailed for six months. An investigation by the Federation Against Copyright Theft and eBay revealed the distribution network involved the United States and Australia as well as the UK.

  Copyright laws governing the UK’s creative industries are outdated and need to be radically overhauled to fit in with today’s modern and digital society, says the National Consumer Council. The NCC declaration is targeted at the former editor of The Financial Times, Andrew Gowers, who is currently reviewing the UK’s intellectual property framework.

  An English court has ruled that DragonSlayer Films must get clearance from Experience Hendrix to obtain rights for any Hendrix film it wishes to make. The court has apparently found in favour of the late musician's family, apparently shutting down prospects for a Jimi Hendrix biographical film.

  Hollywood's major movie studios lost $6.1 billion (£3.3 billion) in revenues in 2005 to illegal videos, DVDs and Internet downloads, which is about 75 percent higher than previous estimates, the studios' representative said.

  The biggest pirate DVD factory ever to be discovered in the UK has been closed down, stopping an operation that could churn out 60,000 illegal DVDs every day. Altogether 300 film titles were discovered, from the latest animation feature, Ice Age 2 – due in UK cinemas tomorrow - to pornography films featuring bestiality.

The latest entertainment craze to sweep the internet has got the film and television industries worried. Thousands of amateur video clips, rare footage of music concerts and home-made film spoofs are now being uploaded every day to the video-sharing website YouTube for the enjoyment of millions of web users around the world.

Could it be that America's leader in the global fight against movie piracy is a pirate too? That's what documentary director Kirby Dick alleges. He says the Motion Picture Association of America made a bootleg copy of This Film Is Not Yet Rated, his angry broadside against the organization's film rating system.