Pinball game publisher Zuxxez decided to chase down British file sharers after discovering that illegal downloads of its best-selling Earth 2160 outstripped its retail sales 35 times, clocking up nearly one million pirate copies.

Corel have announced the release of Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus, according to the company the consumer DVD authoring package is the first consumer entry-level product to offer HD DVD burning capability and is also the first new product to be launched since Corel completed its acquisition of InterVideo and Ulead last December.

Apple and EMI have announced that iTunes is to sell large chunks of EMI's music catalogue free of digital rights management (DRM) software.

Nintendo has altered the circuit layout of its Wii games console in order to block the increasing use of modification chips (modchips). However, new-generation modchips capable of working with the revised Wii consoles may become available in less than a month, according to retail channels in Taiwan.

Not one to give up a fight easily, the HD DVD Promotional Group has announced that it plans to release over 70 HD DVD titles in the coming months. The news comes on the back of massive price drops in the US from Toshiba to boost sales of its range of players.

Diehard gamers around the world finally got their hands on new Sony Playstation 3 games consoles after midnight launches in Europe, the Middle East and Australasia.

In a complaint filed in New York federal court, the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) argues that the satellite radio operator's "XM + MP3" music service skirts copyright laws by allowing radio listeners to make permanent copies of on-air tracks through devices like the Pioneer Inno player without permission and without properly compensating songwriters.

Malaysian movie pirates have put a bounty on the heads of two sniffer dogs who busted a fake DVD ring with a seizure of discs worth about $3 million.

Sony has said that 220,000 PlayStation 3s will be available in the UK when the games console is launched on Friday.

Companies across Europe face criminal sanctions, including prison time for employees, if their networks, software programs or online services are ever used to carry illegally copied material such as music or film, according to a draft law from the European Commission supported by a committee of the European Parliament.

Samsung has unveiled four new drives at this years CeBIT, a 20x burner in both internal and external varieties, and a 4x Blu-ray burner, both internal and external.

Continuing their aggressive push to lower HD DVD player pricing, Toshiba has announced they will reduce the cost of both of their second-generation decks beginning April 1st.

Apple have said that it has begun shipments of its Apple TV product, aimed at solidifying its hold on the digital entertainment industry, and expanding its presence into the living room.

Toshiba will begin adding HD DVD drives to its mainstream laptop line-up, the Satellite series, in Q3, the notebook maker revealed last week.

The recently proposed "DVD Download" format that features the CSS copyright-protection software will not be compatible with all DVD recorders or PC burners, according to the DVD Forum.

In view of emerging OEM and ODM orders for 20x DVD burners, drive makers are preparing to start volume production in the second quarter of 2007 with the drive speed looking likely to be become mainstream.

Video-sharing website YouTube is to present awards for the best user-generated videos of 2006.

The HD-EP10, unveiled at CeBIT, has a similar look to its older brother but is made of standard DVD player plastic rather than the HD-XE1's bullet-proof, shiny metal, making it significantly cheaper. Crucially, it can output video at 1080p for the very best HD DVD picture quality.

Nero is set to unveil Nero Linux 3 at CeBIT in Germany. The new version of the burning application will add Blu-Ray and HD DVD data recording support as well as an improved graphical user interface (GUI) that is similar to the look and feel of the current Nero Burning ROM 7 edition.

Fengtao Software have released software that can bypass Advanced Access Content System (AACS) on HD DVD discs to copy the content.