Piracy is a crime, right? In an attempt to condemn piracy, several studies have been conducted in order to gauge the affect illegal downloads have on entertainment sales over the years. An anonymous source from the GfK Group, one of the largest marketing companies in the world, revealed in a recent study that internet pirates more »

A recent study gauging “moral fiber” has shown that 70% of the general public find internet piracy to be socially acceptable. As it turned out, of the folks that were polled, 3 out of 4 claim that selling an illegal product for profit is unethical. This brings up some interesting questions regarding the characteristics of more »

As if internet piracy wasn’t enough, electronics, robotics and mechanical engineering superstar Mike Senese has upped the ante in the world of piracy by replicating vinyl records. With a seemingly easy eight-step process, you can begin making copies of your all time favorite records. The items you’ll be needing to perform this will be: a more »

A 2.8GB torrent containing the personal information of over 100 million Facebook users reared its ugly head onto a torrent site. Hacking extraordinaire Ron Bowes developed a web crawler program that accumulated data on all users on Facebook’s open access directory. These list is comprised of those Facebook users that have not changed their privacy 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 »

Russian BitTorrent tracker, Interfilm.ru, is being handed down a copyright infringement charge of $1.253 billion. The tracker, which is run by couple Ivan and Irina Podorozhnikovymi, was raided by the Russian Federation Ministry of Internal Affairs Investigation Committee (maybe we’ll call them the RFMIAIC for short) on May 26th 2009. The investigation committee claimed that more »

Here we have the rumor that will not die — Hulu is planning to offer a subscription service — and guess what — it could be coming “next week.” Seriously stop me if you have heard this before — oh wait — we all have. Heck I am not even a Hulu user, nor do more »

According to a source “with knowledge of the matter,” Hulu plans on expanding its service to numerous devices within the next couple of months. Two of these devices are rumored to be the Xbox 360 and the iPad. As it turns out, Hulu will charge only for “older episodes and other content,” while brand new more »

Q: You wouldn’t steal a car would you? A: I would if I could. This type of reasoning seems to be common amongst the teen and twenty-something crowd these days and for obvious reasons. The mere fact that we’re downloading your music or movie should be payment enough, right? Most artists make their money from 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 »