piracy
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Australian Government Employees Are Pirating Movies And Porn Via BitTorrent
Stealing office supplies is one thing, but using the office internet connection to download pirated movies, music and porn is something entirely different, especially if you’re a member of the Australian Public Service. Here are just a few people we caught downloading copyrighted material using State and Federal government connections. There’s everything from movies to…
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BitTorrent’s Trying Hard To Get Friendly With The Entertainment Industry
Torrenting, it’s the tool of thieves and pirates, right? The evil protocol no honest person should ever dare touch? Not quite, but it’s got that reputation with some, and it’s trying hard to shake it. According to BitTorrent’s executive director of marketing Matt Mason, they plan to take it all the way in the other…
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Police Raid A Kid To Confiscate Her Winnie The Pooh Laptop
It was just another typical weekday morning in a normal Finnish family home. It was only 8am, and parents and children were going through their usual routine. Then there was a knock at the door: it was the police coming to seize the Winnie the Pooh laptop of the resident nine-year-old pirate.
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Megaupload’s New Website Me.ga Has Already Been Shut Down
Kim Dotcom has been hyping up Megaupload’s new website Mega for so long that it seemed like a given that the file sharing site would come back bigger and badder. But it doesn’t look likely because Me.ga has already been shut down by Gabon, a small country in Africa that controls the .ga domain.