CBS is offline and its servers are wiped
Hackactivist outfit Anonymous has had a busy weekend and appears to have done a little more than its trademark denial-of-service attack against CBS. According to Gizmodo, Anonymous not only managed to...
View ArticleMPAA boss calls for bribed politicians to toe the line
An online petition has called for a Senate investigation after the Motion Picture Association of America called for its bribed sock puppets in Washington to toe the line and not bow to pressure from...
View ArticleLeaked cable shows US is a tool of Big Content
A leaked cable between the US and the Australian governments has shown how far the land of the fee is having its foreign policy dictated to it by Big Content. The Canberra Wikileaks cables, found by...
View ArticleMPAA boss should be fired
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has waded into Motion Picture Association of America chairman Christopher Dodd saying that he should be fired. Dodd angered Wales by telling Fox News that senators bribed...
View ArticleMPAA admits it doesn't get the internet
Suits at the Motion Picture Association of America have had to admit that this internet thing is too fly for them and they have to negotiate with its owner Google or shut it down. MPAA number two...
View ArticleRIAA opposes more reasonable anti-piracy bill
A new anti-piracy bill that is going through Congress has not got the backing of the Recording Industry Association of America. Dubbed the OPEN Act, the RIAA says that it will do nothing to stop online...
View ArticleBTJunkie shuts before Big Content gets it
A popular file-sharing indexing site, BTJunkie, has voluntarily shut down over fears that Big Content has taken control of the US police force. The British site's closure comes three weeks after police...
View ArticleIf you disagree with the RIAA, you are a criminal
The head of the RIAA has come to the conclusion that all those people who complained about Big Content's cunning plan to take control of the Internet are actually criminals. Cary Sherman wrote in the...
View ArticleMovie spending on the rise despite piracy fears
Despite widespread concerns in the film industry of a decline, it appears overall, celluloid spending is set to increase. According to a report released by IHS, global consumer spending is expected to...
View ArticlePirate bay building drones
Notorious filesharing group The Pirate Bay has come up with a way it can see off Big Content. Writing in its blog, the outfit is planning to stick its servers into high flying drones and shift its...
View ArticleDotcom confident copyright cartel is on the back foot
Controversial MegaUpload boss Kim Dotcom found himself in a spot of bother when Big Content decided he was the next target they had to go after. But, in an interview, Dotcom seems outwardly confident...
View ArticleMPAA hatches plan to revive SOPA
Big Content has not learnt any lessons after its attempt to get its tame politicians to vote in the SOPA law failed. Christopher Dodd, the former Connecticut senator, said that he was having words with...
View ArticleLegal content does not stop pirates
Big Content has poured cold water on shedloads of studies that suggest that the more legal content there is out there, at a reasonable cost, the less likely people are to pirate. Australia's Federation...
View ArticlePirate Bay graciously welcomes RIAA search censorship plans
The Pirate Bay has graciously welcomed the RIAA's recommendation that search engines ban sites such as theirs. It has said that instead of turning people off, it may attract more traffic. The scoffing...
View ArticleCNET ignores RIAA software pressure
The Recording Industry Association of America is leaning on CNET to stop the distribution of software which enables people to rip songs from music videos. The move follows the blocking of...
View ArticleJoe Biden accused of ordering Kim Dotcom's arrest
Kim Dotcom has accused US Vice President Joe Biden of personally ordering the closure of file-sharing site Megaupload on behalf of his mates in Big Content. DotCom tweeted an image of Biden and Dodd,...
View ArticleBig Content losing ground
Big Content is clearly starting to lose ground in the US as the country wakes up to the fact that they are all a bit silly. Writing in his bog, Harold Feld, a senior vice president of Public Knowledge,...
View ArticleBig Content puppet wants bits of SOPA back
US Republican senator Lamar Smith is doing his best to get one of the worst aspects of the much rejected SOPA law back on the statute books. Smith is so concerned that his chums in the entertainment...
View ArticleMPAA claims Megaupload shutdown was "massive success"
Big Content has told the Office of the US Trade Representative that the shutdown of Megaupload was hugely successful. The MPAA claimed that the Megaupload shut down massively disrupted file sharing and...
View ArticleAnonymous plans busy new year
Any hopes that the loose hacker collective Anonymous would fade away after a series of high profile arrests last year were invalidated after the outfit posted a New Years message. Anonymous issued a...
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