A co-founder of Pirate Bay has decided to make a radical career change and stand in the 2014 European Parliament elections in Finland.

Ian Burrell talk to the Swedish MEP who wants free music and movie downloads to stop internet users being criminalised

Not for the first time, Richard Littlejohn got a bit confused and mixed up "ideas" with "format"

In a bid to stop people downloading their new title for free, the Klug brothers created a version of their Game Dev Tycoon game that would virtually bankrupt anyone who tried it. Jamie Merrill reports

Fine could be as high as £2.6bn if competition rules were broken

TV pick of the week: Tomorrow's World: A Horizon Special

For Sourabh Ghosh, it was nothing less than a matter of life or death.

Health activists have welcomed a decision by India’s highest court not to grant a patent to a drugs manufacturer in a case campaigners say will help safeguard the ability of people around the world to afford life-saving medicine.

Glance at a photograph of George Petherbridge in his 1950s Bristol Rovers heyday and he appears old before his time. The expression is watchful, almost anxious, and when seen taking to the pitch in the flesh at Eastville – Rovers' much-missed former headquarters, now the site of a vast convenience furniture store – the 5ft 4in Devon-born winger might have seemed a vulnerable figure, especially in comparison to the full-backs charged with marking him, often muscular hulks who appeared capable of eating him alive.

The Italian Foreign Minister quit today after his government returned two marines to India to face trial for killing two fishermen.

Outlook It's not often that shares in Arm Holdings finish the day in negative territory, although the fall is understandable enough. Its chief executive Warren East caught more than a few people on the hop by announcing his resignation.

Amazon has over 3,000 negative reviews of latest Sims game

Opponents call the motion a "horrendous attack on our fundamental freedoms of speech and expression"

New game slated for October release, and promises Caribbean pirate adventures