1 day ago by Zach Epstein

The recent federal takedown of notorious file-sharing service Megaupload was initially seen as a huge victory for owners of copyrighted music and movies, but new research shows this may not be the case. Federal prosecutors successfully shuttered the service last month and arrested seven men associat ...

BGR: The Three Biggest ... - bgr.com · Rank: 148 · 9556 references

1 day ago by emkwan

The recent federal takedown of notorious file-sharing service Megaupload was initially seen as a huge victory for owners of copyrighted music and movies, but new research shows this may not be the case. Federal prosecutors successfully shuttered the service last month and arrested seven men associat ...

EMKWAN - Geek Lifestyle ... - emkwan.com · Rank: 80,437 · 7 references

2 days ago by Cheezburger Network

funny graphs - Untitled Graph by: Bendyrulz

GraphJam: Music and Pop ... - graphjam.memebase.com · Rank: 3,654 · 5342 references

16 days ago by Daily Duranie

P is for piracy, for today anyway. This is a subject that we've not really tackled much of here on Daily Duranie. During John's panel discussion yesterday at DLD it was brought up rather briefly, but long enough to find that piracy and illegal downloading doesn't keep John up at night. He doesn't se ...

The Daily Duranie - dailyduranie.com · 1 reference

18 days ago by Darren McCarra

FileSonic has disabled its public file sharing service in the wake of MegaUpload's very public shut-down late last week. Instead, users are limited to only being able to retrieve files that they have uploaded themselves.

The Sociable - sociable.co · Rank: 7,881 · 175 references

21 days ago by the Chick Tech Geek Squad

I get why our offline & Internet Big Brothers want to shut down websites that stream ripped content. It’s stolen goods yo. We all know this, and at some fundamental level of all our consciousnesses we know it’s wrong. We’ve all seen that “it’s wrong to steal a purse” commercial. Put in Geek Context ...

Chick Tech - All Things ... - chicktech.com · Rank: 66,113 · 2 references

21 days ago by Daniel St.Pierre

Earlier today, the US government shut down MegaUpload.com, a world leader in file-sharing websites, for allegedly violating international and federal laws, including but not limited to piracy and intellectual property theft. I Praise God for this arrest, and site shut down. A short while ago, New Ze ...

Daniel St.Pierre - cybergenica.com/blog · 6 references

26 days ago by Jess

I’ve been thinking about this recently–and a tweet from a reader reminded me that not everyone knows as much about this biz as I do. To keep this serious topic light, I shall periodically break up the Wall O’ Text post with LOLcats. So. I’ll give you the short version first: Piracy is bad for (most) ...

jesshaines.com Blog - jesshaines.com/blog · Rank: 46,101 · 26 references

35 days ago by Terri Bischoff

Yesterday Elysia Gallo, the senior aquiring editor for Witchcraft, Pagan and Magic books for Llewellyn, was alerted to a site that had several Llewellyn titles available for free download. As a response, she wrote one of the best blog pieces I've read about pirating books and who it really hurts - t ...

Under Cover of Midnight--A ... - midnightinkbooks.blogspot.com · 2 references

36 days ago by Elysia

Today I got five emails from authors all alerting me to a website that had 32 of our books and an equal number of other publishers’ book on it, scanned in and uploaded as PDFs for anyone to freely download. If it sounds like harmless sharing to you, please read this post and educate yourself on pira ...

Llewellyn Unbound - llewellyn.com/blog · Rank: 25,758 · 94 references