Tag: ILLEGAL

A weird, disconcerting site that goes by the ominous name of 'Men in Grey' has just been discovered. It's an open site, but no one quite knows if it's meant to be. Plastered with terms like 'officer', 'authentication' and 'auditor console', the site appears to be a tool that's used to hunt down illegal P2P file sharers. Give it a go -- view the complete report and check the illegal activity on ...

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger -- who left the company back in 2002 -- says he has reported Wikipedia's parent organization to the FBI for hosting alleged child pornography. He's made the letter open and posted it to Wikipedia, where users (including Wikimedia's lead attorney) have subjected it to some harsh criticism, both legal and personal. Wikimedia defenders claim Sanger is just bitter ...

An appeals court in Tampa, Florida has found porn produced in California to be illegal. In other words, because (legal) porn made in California was available for download in Florida, the producer broke the law. If you're like me, you're probably a little worried about what you've uploaded to the Internet over the years -- can I be extradited to Florida for a home video of my girlfriend and I? ...

BitTorrent is an extraordinarily useful technology that allows for more efficient sharing of perfectly legal things like Linux distributions. Nobody's denying, though, that it's most often used to download things like Modern Warfare 2 or the latest season of Heroes. The BitTorrent census, conducted by a Princeton University senior, confirms these suspicions. It turns out that the most heavily ...

It only took my dear friends at the British police four months, but they've caught him! Craig 'Lazie' Lynch shot to fame last month when his Facebook fan page suddenly gained traction and attracted over 40,000 fans in just a few days. He regularly updated his status and even uploaded photos while on the run -- I would link you to the fan page itself, but Facebook finally took it down last week. ...

Have you ever put much thought into Internet piracy? 'Ooh, cool, tons of free stuff!' -- no, I mean, really thought about it. digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/01/06/bulletproof-safe-havens-are-all-the-rage-for-internet-pirates/'; In almost every Western nation software and music piracy is theft. In the eyes of the law it's wrong. There's simply nothing more to it: it's ...

Update 13 January 2010: He's been caught! Only in England, I tell you! digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/12/28/british-man-jailed-for-7-years-escapes-prison-updates-facebook/'; An escaped prisoner -- jailed for seven years for aggravated burglary -- escaped the confines of his jail back in September. He's been updating his Facebook page on a regular basis since then. ...

One of the largest and most popular BitTorrent search sites, IsoHunt, has just had a court judgment against it, in favor of Columbia Pictures. You're probably wondering what the big deal is: IsoHunt deals with illegal movies... so it's just a matter of time before it gets shut down... right? Well, kind of! A judge decided that IsoHunt 'induced theft' (i.e. copyright infringement), and thus it ...

I make no bones about the fact that I'm a fan of Malwarebytes. It's easily the best free malware removal app in my toolkit, and it's the first program I turn to when cleaning up an infected system. The Malwarebytes team has worked incredibly hard since their application burst onto the scene, and countless technicians and PC users appreciate the phenomenal work they've done. Now, for the past ...

If someone were to ask you what Microsoft's biggest competition is on the operating system front is, what would your guess be? OSX? No. Linux? Sorry, but no. Truth is, it's unlicensed Windows. So when you're developing a new operating system with a wide array of modern features, it's probably best to take a hard line against piracy, right? Maybe not. Paul Cooke, Microsoft's director of Windows ...