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• Pirate Bay trial gets massive online coverage

  The eyes of the file-sharing community remained on Sweden on Tuesday as the trial of four men from The Pirate Bay continued in Stockholm.

• Pirate Bay trial to start on Monday

  The trial against four people involved in running The Pirate Bay, one of the most widely used BitTorrent trackers for music, movies and software, will start on Monday in Stockholm.

• Police arrest BitTorrent tracker operators in Brisbane

  The Australian Federal Police (AFP) yesterday arrested and charged two Brisbane men with money laundering offences linked to a BitTorrent tracker site. A $54,000 bank account belonging to one of the men was subsequently frozen.

• Police raid Sydney piracy ring in Australia's largest bust

  In what could be the largest piracy bust to date in Australia, NSW Police this morning seized an estimated 1 million DVDs and CDs in Sydney. The raids took place when police executed search warrants on four properties in Camden and one in the Green Valley area, uncovering the largest known cache of pirated music and Asian movies in Australia.

• Harvard professor challenges RIAA anti-piracy campaign

  A Harvard law professor has opened a new front in the battle between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and alleged music pirates by challenging the constitutionality of a statute being used by the industry group to bring lawsuits against alleged copyright violators.

• Vic police nab third player in national piracy syndicate

  Victorian Police have raided the home of a 62 year old man believed to be a prominent member of a national piracy syndicate.

• Alcatel-Lucent: Industry initiative will combat piracy

  Ease of use has driven "media-savvy" consumers to piracy when it comes to obtaining digital entertainment, but a new industry initiative has the potential to lure them back to legal methods, according to an executive at Alcatel-Lucent.

• Microsoft tweaks anti-piracy check for Windows XP

  Microsoft has updated software that verifies whether a copy of Windows is genuine in its Windows XP Professional edition, making it similar to the notification in Windows Vista and thus more persistently visible to users.