Ahoy ye bilge-sucking landlubbers, and welcome to International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Yarrr, that be right: Monday September 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day, a celebration of all things piratey - or at least, piracy as ...
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The illegal download of video games, movies and music has run rampant on the internet since the moment "Napster" entered our vocabulary and now ISPs are attempting to fight the practice by punishing downloaders in a new ...
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I have to say, if you're going down for torrenting a movie, you could have probably been sued for something far better than The Expendables.
Perhaps the US Copyright Group wants to add insult to injury by threatening ...
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Piracy is out of control and ruining the world as we know it, or at least ruining the business models of the anally retentive entertainment industry.
So the solution - pick out a bunch of countries that don't ...
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Sony has warned any PlayStation 3 owners running "unauthorised or pirated software" on their system that they'll be banned from using PlayStation Network or digital streaming service Qriocity. As in, banned for good.
The PS3 was hacked at ...
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Neil Gaiman is probably best known for his graphic novel The Sandman but he is listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one of the top ten living post-modern writers. As well as writing science fiction ...
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Because hackers won't already be tempted enough to crack the Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo has gone on record as claiming the 'heyday of piracy' is over. The company has also said the 3DS is 'probably one of our ...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops is getting its fair share of end-of-year awards, but here's one gong it probably didn't want: 2010's Most Pirated Game. After 2009, that's two in a row for the series!
While Black Ops ...
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Michael Jackson: The Experience on the Nintendo DS has a novel way of preventing piracy: vuvuzelas.
These horrific sounding instruments gained worldwide fame during the 2010 World Cup, and now those who pirate Ubisoft's game can relive those ...
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Although prison terms for founders of the Pirate Bay were reduced in a recent appeal, a judge upped fines in the case by two million dollars for a total of 46 million kronor- less than the 120 ...
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F1 2010 maker Codemasters has had it up to here with people pirating its games. What can it do to combat it? Company CEO Rod Cousens has an idea! And it's terrible!: release only half a game, ...
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According to Ernesto over at TorrentFreak it seems that Iranians have full access to all of the best software you could possibly want. Not only do they have access but that access is to a government sponsored ...
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OMG Twitter has a bug.
OMG Facebook has a security (or privacy, or arrogance, or whatever gets everyone's panties in a bunch on any given day) problem.
OMG Apple is going to fail because Android is selling more phones ...
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Nearly a year ago, a German court slapped filesharing site RapidShare with a $34m fine and ruled that the site must proactively root out pirates and prevent instances of copyright infringement in a suit filed by German ...
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I've never been a big user of BitTorrent but just as there are illegal uses for it there are just as many legal ones. however if what the team at TorrentFreak has discovered is true you may ...
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TorrentFreak has blogged about a vacancy originally posted by Warner Bros. UK, seeking an "anti-piracy intern" on that side of the pond.
If you like stealing content but have a secret narc side, you can apply up until ...
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Who would have thought. I mean really we're talking about pirates here - of the Somalia kind - and one would think that this is the last place that you would some kind of business model but ...
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For some time now, Nintendo has been railing against the R4 mod cartridge for its Nintendo DS console. This cart allows users to download DS games to a mini-SD card, and then play them, via the R4, ...
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An Aussie gamer who illegally uploaded a copy of New Super Mario Bros. Wii has been ordered to pay maker Nintendo AU$1.5 million ($1.3 million) in what many are calling a landmark decision for game companies. James ...
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What is it with big buck musicians and record companies, are they all just brain-dead and think that by blaming everything on music piracy that it justifies their stupidity and lack of any understanding of how to ...
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If there is one thing that 2009 will go down in the history books for it will be regarding two things. The first is the all out assault against piracy around the world by the movie industry ...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 enjoyed critical and commercial success on a grand scale this year, but it also earned a more dubious honor: the most pirated game of 2009.
While the first-person shooter shifted a record-breaking ...
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