Piracy

Even the Pope is a software pirate

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 12:37pm

Avast is a popular anti-virus program that you can download and use entirely for free, with the company hoping that you'll like their product enough to buy a full license. Despite the try-it-forever price of $0, people still pirate the full version, and rather than freaking out about this, the company decided to just watch what happened as one particular license key got stolen like crazy.

Should online personal information erase itself over time?

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 5:09am

Right now, the data you find on the Internet is more or less eternal. Sites come and go, sure, but traces remain, and as long as there's someplace to store information that information will persist. Maybe it shouldn't, according to a Dutch researcher, as if data degraded over time we'd more security and less piracy.

Ubisoft's anti-piracy measures are anti-consumer, too

Kevin Hall

Monday, March 29, 2010 - 2:14am

Imagine that you've just come home with a brand new game and you can't wait to play it. So you install it on your PC, fire it up, and the next thing you know you're hit with a screen that...

Britain to make taxpayers pay $1 billion to catch digital pirates?

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 11:29am

The British government's Labour Party proposed the Digital Economy Bill in October, a get-tough policy against copyright infringers that threatens to take away an offender's Internet connection after a third offense. The problem is, this bailout of movie and record...

Transforming oil tankers from floating goldmines into floating fortresses

Kevin Hall

Monday, November 30, 2009 - 2:15pm

Defending an oil tanker from pirates is a tricky business. On the one hand, you've got cargo worth upwards of 100 million in black gold; then again, you really don't want bullets and RPGs whizzing around when your vessel is...

'Acoustic cannon' used to fend off Somali pirates

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 4:57pm

You heard about the Maersk Alabama cargo ship before when it made headlines after a daring rescue mounted by Navy snipers. Well, the vessel had another brush-in with the same pirates off the coast of Somalia, and this time managed...

SHIFT: Hey movie studios! Stop sabotaging Blu-ray

Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 2:02pm

Times are tough. With financial resources dwindling by the minute, the movie-viewing public recoils in horror as Hollywood asks them to pay $39.99 for a film on Blu-ray disc. But there are ways to watch those flicks that are...

Video Rebel, Part 6: BitTorrent and the dark side of downloading

Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - 2:58pm

As we wrap up our ongoing series, we take you to the depths of video rebellion: using the legally gray peer-to-peer application BitTorrent. I’ve shown you how to go the legit route, downloading free HD videos over the Web,...

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Piracy stories

Even the Pope is a software pirate

Should online personal information erase itself over time?

Ubisoft's anti-piracy measures are anti-consumer, too

Britain to make taxpayers pay $1 billion to catch digital pirates?

Transforming oil tankers from floating goldmines into floating fortresses

'Acoustic cannon' used to fend off Somali pirates

SHIFT: Hey movie studios! Stop sabotaging Blu-ray

Video Rebel, Part 6: BitTorrent and the dark side of downloading

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