What’s the most common phrase heard around the Gadgetell newsroom? Is it “I love tablets?”,or “that’s dope!” or “iPad!”? Answer: none of them, it’s “they are on crack.” This week we take a look back at the things that made us chuckle in the tech world. Assembled here are companies whose moves are so strange, more »

The Pirate Bay has been order to shut down in the Netherlands or face penalties. Last year, the anti-piracy group Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland (BREIN) sued the three founding members of the Pirate Bay citing that the website promoted copyright infringement and needed to be stopped. What’s worse is that the founders of the more »

Rumors have been flying that the troubled Pirate Bay may actually get sold to Global Gaming Factory X. The CEO of the company, Hans Pandeyatold, told the Swedish press today that his company’s acquisition of The Pirate Bay will with certainty go through. The company had announced plans back in June that it planned to more »

After a dramatic few months, it appears as though Pirate Bay may actually be shut down forever. As the operators scramble to find an ISP to host the site, the file sharing site has remained down after Black Internet, their former ISP, was forced to discontinue service to the Swedish based site. The company complied more »

I’m sure you’ve used Hulu, or at least are familiar with the site. Launched about two years ago by NBC and Fox, Hulu has become wildly popular with many as a favorite online TV service. This success, however, may turn out to be their Achilles’ heel.

Hulu has seen their name in the news plenty of the past five months or so especially. Back in January, the decision was made to pull most of the episodes of the very popular show “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” from their lineup. This obviously did not go over well with viewers. People complained (loudly!) on Hulu’s “Sunny in Philly” forum. We heard “Hulu blows” and the obvious “Off to the torrent sites.”

The Swedish courts handed down a landmark decision by finding the four founders of the wildly popular torrent site Pirate Bay guilty of hosting copyrighted material on their website. Along with being sentenced to one year in prison each, the company will have to pay an estimated $3.5 million to several defendants in the case, more »

Apparently it isn’t only pirates that do the attacking. At least not when it comes to Pirate Bay. They’ve found themselves under attack quite a bit as of late, and it doesn’t look like that is going to be abating any time soon.

Just last week, the trial kicked off in a landmark case against the four founders of the Pirate Bay site on accusations of breaking copyright law. The defendants, (Carl Lundström, Peter Sunde, Frederik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg), claimed that regardless of what happened in the case, the site would live on. They also didn’t seem too worried that their prosecutors would be successful. “What are they going to do? They have already failed to take the site down once. Let them fail again,” said Svartholm Warg in a quote from TorrentFreak.