While Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 did launch with support for upscalers like DLSS 3 and XeSS, it does not feature ray-tracing. That will change with a patch this week, bringing ray-traced graphics to the game, but there's a catch – ray-tracing will only be shown in the pre-game …
Read More »Anti-piracy group sued by fan-subbers in free speech claim
In an about face from the usual reporting we do on anti-piracy lobby groups, BRIEN, a Dutch organisation is being sued by the Free Subtitles Foundation, a group that creates fan-made subtitles for movies. Its claim, is that what it does is protected by freedom of speech and it wants …
Read More »U.S. spent $350 million+ on lobbying for TPP in the last year
The Trans Pacific Partnership is a trade deal much like the TTIP which currently threatens to affect medicine prices, copyright law and consumer privacy in the UK and elsewhere. It affects much of the Pacfic island nations, the Western coast countries of South America and North America, with politicians trumpeting …
Read More »Swedish ISP continues to refuse Pirate Bay block
Even though it barely seems to be operational these days, The Pirate Bay is the most iconic torrent search site in the world and is frequently cited by media lobby groups as a URL that ISPs should block – often with the courts backing that decision. While some ISPs might …
Read More »Police claim big impact on piracy, have you noticed a difference?
The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), set up late last year to help the authorities in the UK tackle online piracy and file sharing, has hailed its efforts over the past nine months as impactful, stating that with the help of media lobby group FACT (the British arm of …
Read More »MPAA, studios file suit against Megaupload to cover bases
Movie studios and lobby groups have been gunning for Kim Dotcom for some time. In conjunction with the New Zealand authorities and FBI, they spied on him before and after his arrest in January 2012 and since have been pushing to have the man extradited to the US. However with …
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