Welcome to another installment of Who’s on Crack where we look at companies that have crossed a line from smart marketing to “hey pal, you’ve got to calm down.” This week, we’ve got a a host of companies that are pushing the boundaries of sanity and we suspect controlled substances are to blame. Let’s get more »

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 controversial torrent hub and community ThePirateBay.com has been hit by a series of attacks led by malware researcher Ch Russo. The attack has led to the exposure of the user database for the site. Now, with over 4 million usernames and emails in his possession, Russo has said that groups like the RIAA and more »

The Pirate Bay in its current form is just a a few days away from being handed over to its new owners and with that a complete archive has been uploaded and made available (via torrent file) for download. According to the anonymous person who posted the file, he just wants to make sure the 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.”

Windows 7 is certainly getting a lot of attention recently as Windows users try to forget about the mistakes of Vista and focus on the next OS. It seems every major release of the OS has appeared on torrent sites before ever appearing out in public. There’s always a lot of speculation as to when more »

Well if you are the pirating sort, maybe you can make use of the handy dandy new The Pirate Google Bay site, since you can now nab Windows 7 RC1 (Build 7100) on your favorite torrent site. Many were watching and waiting for this release, and it’s now been leaked, with an undisputed authenticity. Although, more »

When, oh when, are they gonna learn it is pretty much senseless to even attempt to hunt down the pirates? Right or wrong, P2P file sharing happens. And suing the creators of the popular Pirate Bay isn’t gonna stop it. And now, in a rather obvious attempt to support that fact, someone went out and created a The Pirate Google Bay. And you have to appreciate how bright and colorful they made their ship!

The Pirate Google Bay is a custom Google search made to find torrent files. They say right on their home page that:

“Please Note: This site is not affiliated with Google, it simply makes use of Google Custom Search to restrict your searches to Torrent files. You can do this with any regular Google search by appending your query with filetype:torrent.”

But slapping the “Google” name right on there sure makes it sound all official like, eh? Ahhhh….I can see a lawsuit against Google brewing anyway. That one should be entertaining. I mean, even a recent article in Forbes magazine said that Google itself is an incredibly efficient torrent tracker. That’s not any big secret.

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 »

Let’s face it, everyone loves Facebook, even if the new layout is bothering 1.7 million users or so. But I don’t like how other websites give the option to post whatever you do there on your Facebook profile for all your friends to see. So usually, I don’t even bother with these special site features, more »