A pornographic film-maker has revealed plans to chase more internet users for compensation for pirating others' adult movies. The move follows a Court of Appeal ruling which overturned a previous block on Golden Eye offering its services to other rights holders. It keeps about 75% of all payments. Spokesman Julian Becker -- who funded the case -- said he now planned to travel to the US to offer to enforce local firms' copyrights in the UK. "I look forward to travelling to adult conferences in Los Angeles and Vegas in early January to offer Golden Eye's services to other producers," …

Following a groundswell of support in America for demands to expel Piers Morgan from the country and deport him back to the UK over his views on US gun controls, it seems that any return home for the chatshow host would not be greeted warmly by everyone. The White House has yet to respond to an online petition calling for the TV presenter to be marched to the nearest American exit, but it has not stopped UK citizens from launching a pre-emptive strike against any such move. The petition to "Keep Piers Morgan in the USA" had nearly 600 signatures …

The BBC won the Christmas Day TV ratings battle with the special episode of EastEnders averaging 9.4 million viewers, making it the most watched programme. In second place came ITV1's Coronation Street, which averaged 8.6 million viewers. The Queen's Christmas Day speech was the third most watched broadcast, with 8.3 million watching on BBC One and ITV1. In fourth and fifth were the BBC programmes Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special and the Royle Family.

The Guardian is the latest London newspaper that is trying to conquer the world. Despite the threat of strike action at home over plans to make up to 68 staff redundant, the loss-making paper has given the goahead for a new digital edition for Australia, following on the heels of its Guardian America operation. The hope at The Guardian is that costs in Oz can be contained by teaming up with a local investor - Graeme Wood, who backs the independent news website The Global Mail - and that it can generate new profitable revenues.

The big data hype continues, but one UK start-up is trying to use it to revolutionise traditional telephony in the same way Google did with the internet, says The Telegraph's Monty Munford. There is no doubt that 2012 was a big year for big data. A Google search or a cursory glance at the Twitter hashtag of #bigdata underscores how pervasive it has become; it is digital's DNA and it matters a great deal. According to Gartner Research, this is only the beginning. It reports that it drove $96 billion of global IT spending in 2012, a figure that will …

IT always loomed as one of life's great certainties, like death and taxes, that News Corporation and Fairfax Media would extend their print-media cage fight to other battlegrounds, where they could continue to slug it out. A year ago, a skirmish kicked off in the $1 billion property advertising segment when Fairfax took a half-share of Antony Catalano's MMP publishing venture with a group of high-profile Melbourne real estate agents, paying $35 million and injecting its Fairfax Community Newspapers' 32 suburban mastheads in Victoria.

This has been the year in which the British media has shone a spotlight on itself as never before, exposing sinister industry secrets that had remained hidden for years. The public, which no doubt assumed itself unshockable in this media-savvy age, now finds itself feeling gullible and betrayed. No part of the media has emerged from this year's scrutiny without its reputation being further diminished.

The UK government has amended the law so people can legally back up copyrighted content they have purchased. British residents can now make digital copies of music, movies and ebooks for their own personal usage without risk of reprimand. However, it remains illegal to remove the technical protection method (TPM) from any copyrighted content, so a barrier remains in place where a wealth of content is concerned.

The system, similar to the telephone preference service for landlines, would enable mobile users to register for free and block spam texts while allowing only those from firms they have approved. But the launch of the new system is being held up by a row over whether legitimate marketing firms or networks should pick up the GBP200,000 set-up bill and running costs of about GBP100,000 a year.

The U.K. Kindle Singles store, launched Friday, includes 250 titles - including many Kindle Singles from U.S. authors as well as new ones from popular British authors like Susan Hill, Sam Leith and Candia McWilliam. Most are priced between GBP0.99 and GBP1.99. Andrew Rosenheim, the former managing director of Penguin Press in the U.K., is the editor of the U.K. store. Byliner, which offers many of its e-singles through Kindle Singles, will also make those titles available in the U.K.