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Unmasking A Digital Pirate On Amazon

A Kuwaiti national using fake names and selling others' copyrighted stories in the Kindle Store sheds light on black hat hacker forums--and the theft, taboo sex, and swindles festering in the recesses of Amazon.READ»

The 3-D Printing Pirates Who Could Render SOPA Meaningless

We're slowly moving to a world where printing 3-D objects will be common. At which point one could steal real-object IP as well as movies and music. READ»

Anonymous #OpMegaUpload Attacks Justice Department, MPAA, RIAA

This evening, hours after Megaupload was busted by federal authorities, Anonymous began a massive retaliatory attack that forced the websites of the Justice Department, the U.S. Copyright Office, the MPAA, and the RIAA offline.READ»

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SOPA: A Mega, Meta Mashup Of News

We sifted through the news covering the SOPA protests to bring you the mother of all news roundups, with virtually every line gleaned from somewhere else.READ»

Water Cannons! Lasers! Sonic Weapons! Fighting Somali Pirates With Science

Oh, and also walls of stinky, skunky-smelling water! Take a look inside the crazy (and lucrative) world of anti-Somali pirate technology.READ»

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Obama's Twitter Townhall, AP To Open N. Korea Bureau, N. Korea To Open Photo Exhibit In NYC

The White House takes to Twitter for a townhall. Plus: AP news agency would be the first permanent Western-run photo and text bureau ever to operate in the North Korean capital and 100,000 reasons to buy an iPad. Breaking bits from our news-obsessed editors, updated all day. READ»

Somali Pirates Go High Tech

Pirates off the Horn of Africa are turning to a sophisticated mix of weaponry, jerry-rigged GPS devices, and ingenious hacks of shipping-industry databases to hunt down prey.READ»

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iFive: Facebook's iPad App, Spotify In U.S., Sony Ericsson's NFC Phones, Slowing RIM Sheds Jobs, Streaming Movies A Felony?

432 years ago today Sir Frances Drake claimed a land he called "Nova Albion" for England. You may know it better as California. Will anything as historic happen today? Here's the early news:READ»

Goodbye, Video Bootlegs: Future iPhones May Stop You From Filming Movies And Live Performances

Drop that iPhone! An Apple patent application is stirring controversy because it suggests future iPhones may automatically prevent filming or photography of films in the theater and of stage performances. Is a Phish concert still a Phish concert if no one's there to record it? READ»

How Viral PDFs Of A Naughty Bedtime Book Exploded The Old Publishing Model

The party line on piracy is that it's bad for business. But what to make of the case of "Go the Fuck to Sleep," the "children's book for adults" whose viral-pirate PDF launched the book to the number-one spot on Amazon.com a month before its release? READ»

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iFive: LimeWire Pays Out For Piracy, Square Hires Apple Engineer, Cisco's Worst Job Cuts, Sony's Sales Suffer, Winklevii Sued

Friday! iFive's speedy news summary! (Today seems like a good day for gratuitous exclamation points!)READ»

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iFive: Nokia Slashes Workforce, Amazon Cloud Data Loss, YouTube Movies Delayed, iTunes Cloud To Cost, Mobile Ads Work

A lot has been happening in the world already today--find out exactly what in our early news roundup:READ»

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iFive: Ceglia vs. Facebook, AOL Shutters DownloadSquad, Bing Hits 30% of Searches, Netherlands Chases Pirates, Nokia Staff Cuts

As the saying goes: "There's no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." Similarly events that make news keep happening. So here's our early summary of that news.READ»

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HTC Outsells Apple, Time Warner's Cryptic iPad Release, Mark Cuban's Android App, and More...

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.READ»

Baidu, Accused Globally of Aiding Piracy, Acts to Quash It in China

The U.S. Trade Representative's Office has listed China's leading search engine Baidu as a key member on its list of global counterfeit-assisting services. Today Baidu reacted to some of these complaints by issuing anti-piracy tech for its e-book system.READ»

Paramount Movie World Premiere on BitTorrent: PR Stunt or the Future?

The world premiere of Paramount Pictures "The Tunnel" will happen in a few months, but not in a theater--it's going to be released on BitTorrent, for peer-to-peer distribution. Yup, that's the same tech video pirates utilize.READ»

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Can Congress Force Google to Remove Pirate Sites From Search?

Would this constitute censorship? Untangling the thorny issues at the heart of the current Congressional hearings. READ»

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iFive: Twitter Not for Sale, Schoolboy Credit Fraud, EU Raids ebook Publishers, China eBook Piracy, Russian Rocket Woes

iFive is here to help jump-start your Thursday with a quick glance at the early innovation news:READ»

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iFive: Baidu Promotes Piracy, Penthouse Goes 3-D TV, Windows 8 for Tablets, Gmail Error Fixed With Tape, Twitter Ads Regulated

Tuesday's rocked around again, so let us help you get to grips with the early news: here's iFive.READ»