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May 24

Code from Kazaa is resurrected in nefarious scheme to block pirated content

Who remembers Kazaa? It was only a few years ago that Kazaa and Napster were running the Internet with peer-to-peer file sharing networks. Then things got crazy as the RIAA and others cracked down on file sharing networks, and life changed for all of us. Now the same people who helped create and share pirated content, are working on software that will block it, and the way it will be done might get you upset and thinking this has bullshit written all over it.

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May 17

Uh oh, a porn company is suing Tumblr for $5 million

Anyone that uses Tumblr knows that there is a certain level of porn in your stream. Of course you have the choice to follow these users that post it or not, but sometimes it just happens. Or you could go hard, and check out the Tumblr porn tag search for loads of pornography (NSFW). It’s mostly spam, but again, many legit users post porn to the social blogging site and in a new lawsuit from the Perfect 10 porn company, they aren’t happy about the copyright infringements and are suing Tumblr for a lot of money.

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Apr 30

Aw snap, The Pirate Bay gets blocked by ISP’s in the UK

It wasn’t a good day for the file sharing site The Pirate Bay. According to the BBC, The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK Internet Service Providers from a ruling by the High Court in the United Kingdom.

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Apr 25

Anonymous is building Anontune, a social music discovery platform

Anonymous, the hacker group that you probably have heard of by now is doing something different to cause a disruption. Anon is trying to disrupt the music business, in a similar fashion as Napster or Limewire did as it’s predecessors, however not exactly in the same way making sure not to break any copyright sharing laws, which they need to be very careful of. Anon is building what they call Anontune, which will be a social music aggregation and discovery service.

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Apr 16

The age old debate that code can be stolen may finally be resolved

For years it has been debated that code can be stolen, therefore if it can be stolen, you can be prosecuted for stealing other peoples code or work in a court of law. Also in a similar token, if you can steal code, then it should be able to be copyrighted. In a recent court ruling, this may have all changed.

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Mar 29

Megaupload founder says the military and govt had thousands of accounts

Not only did Kanye West like Megaupload, so did the U.S. Military and the U.S. Government. They loved it so much, that the founder of Megaupload is now talking about it trying to clear his name saying that they had well over 15,000 accounts on the site that was taken down in January on a huge copyright indictment from the federal government.

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Mar 20

No effin way, this is awesome - Pirate Bay’s hovering server drones

Pirate Bay is going to put new meaning into the word innovation. As most may know, and if you don’t, Pirate Bay is website that enables it’s users to share media via BitTorrent. Often times, the media is copyrighted and illegally being shared. Pirate Bay is constantly under attack for it, in every sense of the word. So they are thinking of new ways to defend it’s sharing platform that are, let’s say out of this world.

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Feb 20

The Oatmeal illustrates why piracy is so successful

Piracy is a big problem. So much so that recent times on the web have become turbulent from national online strikes to combat legislation that impedes innovation and Internet freedoms in the name of protecting copyright laws, to the shut down of websites that contribute to piracy and many others closing their virtual doors in fear of what may happen to them.

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Jan 31

EFF is trying to help MegaUpload users retrieve legitimate data

If you are one of the MegaUpload users that had files uploaded to the site before the federal indictment and shut down and have lost complete access to those files, there may be something you can do about it to get those files back.

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Jan 27

Tweets still must flow, even if some are censored

What the heck is happening to the Internet? It seems lately that it’s going to hell in a hand basket. Sure the Internet has always been a place where volatile things can happen, but it could be avoided on an individual basis. Now it appears the places that we come together as a community to interact and socialize in places that have become sacred is evolving and changing at a rapid pace and is veering out of control.

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Jan 23

FileServe, X7, UploadBox join the ranks of others in wake of MegaUpload scandal

Ever since the MegaUpload shut down, the file sharing and cyber locker world has been rocked and turned upside down. Every day more and more sites appear to be completely shuttering their services or scaling back ten fold in attempts to avoid what happened to MegaUpload.

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FileSonic and Uploaded.to forced to make changes after MegaUpload shutdown

After the MegaUpload FBI shut down last week, it seems other file sharing sites have been left shaking in their boots. Just today, two sites have made huge changes to their services.

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Jan 19

FBI shuts down MegaUpload file sharing service

Wow, on the heels of the SOPA protest which is heavily related to online piracy, today come to find out the FBI has just shut down the major file sharing service MegaUpload. Seven people from the online service have been charged by the FBI, and as of this writing, the entire website is offline.

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