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Update: Pirates of the Amazon Plugin Gone After Amazon Takedown Notice

December 5, 2008

UPDATE: Amazon has sent a takedown notice to the Netherlands students that created this plugin, and they’ve complied. The students said it was an “artistic parody” and a “practical experiment on interface design, information access and currently debated issues in media culture.” The plugin can still be found around the web.
You know all those Somali [...]

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Drop.io Drops New Homepage Design

November 24, 2008

Self-acclaimed “Simplest [place] to share online,” drop.io, has now apparently made it even simpler with a tightening up of their homepage design.
The new homepage hides a few unnecessary aspects in a hidden drop down menu under the file upload option.

Mashable

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Faced With Server and Bandwidth Costs, Torrent Search Engines Turn to Google

November 22, 2008

At least two BitTorrent meta search engines have chosen to host their sites for free on Google’s App Engine, which allows 500MB of data and up to 5mm pageviews/mo.
V0rtex and TorrentTab search larger BitTorrent sites like The Pirate Bay and isoHunt.
Is it just me or is it cool to see Google giving free roam to [...]

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Dude, Where’s My P2P: Torrent Sites Hijacked by China

November 8, 2008

For 48+ hours, any attempt to access the popular BitTorrent search engines VeryCD, Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay from within China would result in being redirected to Baidu.com, the large Chinese search engine.
The sites are no longer redirected and are now accessible.
The hijacks came right after a move by China to ban 10 video [...]

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Three Strikes Law For Illegal Downloaders Gaining Speed In France

November 3, 2008

A legislation that was introduced last year in France is gaining traction in France with an overwhelming majority in the French Senate.
The law will act as follows:

Users caught downloading illegal content will receive an e-mail warning from the their ISP. Strike 1
The second “strike” comes with a written letter in the mail warning them to [...]

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