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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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?
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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»
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»
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»
