Billions of dollars are lost each year to online piracy, which stifles the ability of writers, songwriters and others in the creative arts to earn the royalties they are due and drains profits from legitimate manufacturers.

...mandate better security for critical infrastructure. Both areas are contentious. Fresh from blocking legislation on Internet piracy, some net purists are denouncing provisions that would make it easier for companies to tell each other, and the...

...that the theft robs their own creative industries of badly needed revenue. ''A lot of governments don't think Internet piracy is a real problem, because they think their Internet industries are so undeveloped,'' said Sean Mok at the Hong...

...biometrics data for Internet or other use." This last statement represents the committee's efforts to head off Internet piracy -- the possibility of sneaking a video camera into the games, or getting a bootleg copy from insiders and then distributing...

...take the pulse of Americans and write a book. We were halfway through our first schooner of ale when the subject of Internet piracy arose. This writer called it information "sharing." I called it "stealing," and within a flash we had nothing...

...DISCONTENT: Record companies and book publishers can expect to lose about $4.6 billion over the next five years due to Internet piracy, according to a survey of 50 entertainment companies conducted by Internet research firm Forrester Research Inc...