Josh Greenberg, one of two co-founders of the defunct music-sharing site Grooveshark, was found dead in his Gainesville, Fla. home Sunday night. His death was a shock to those who knew him—his mom and girlfriend both said he’d never been sick, and the Gainesville Sun reports police found no evidence of drugs or…
Some ways to watch Friends, a classic situational comedy about white people, include: buying digital episodes for a couple of bucks each, purchasing them on physical DVDs for even less than that, or catching some of the many, many syndicated reruns available on network television for free. Or you could just pirate an…
Three days ago, an extended video popped up on Youtube of five mariners being shot to death in the open ocean on the wreckage of their boat, as their killers guffaw and chatter from the decks of their larger crafts. Where was the footage shot? Who were the victims and their killers? So far, no one knows for certain.
The fourth season of Downton Abbey will premiere Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014, on PBS — roughly a month after its U.K. run. A PBS boss says this delay creates "promotional buzz," which is industryspeak for "piracy."
Why can't you suits understand: Kim Dotcom is just a simple man with a simple website who's definitely not burning with rage at the government officials who raided his mansion and arrested him almost exactly a year ago today?
Warning: There are spoilers below for a show that won't officially air in the U.S. until next year.
Texas Rep. Lamar Smith shelved his terrible internet-destroying Stop Online Piracy Act today after the internet's week-long anti-SOPA freakout.
By far the most surprising thing about the news that four people have been arrested by the FBI in connection with a 72-page indictment handed down on file-sharing site Megaupload (and its streaming-video sister Megavideo) was learning that rap producer and Alicia Keys husband Swizz Beatz is the company's CEO.…
Today, some of the best websites on the internet—and Reddit—are blacked-out to protest SOPA. But you think "SOPA" is what an Italian tourist says when asking for the cleaning supplies aisle at an American convenience store. Here's a guide for those of you whose brains shut down when thinking about tech stuff, but…
Gilberto Sanchez, the Bronx native who leaked a workprint of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, was sentenced to one year in prison. That's a whole year for Sanchez to think about what he's done, get out, and probably do it again. [Deadline]
Major media companies say online piracy is such a problem that the federal government should adopt a draconian system of blockades and blacklists to stop infringement. But maybe they should first focus on the pirates they pay and employ, who've just been exposed torrenting the hell out of competitors' movies and TV…
What the world has been missing lately is a big, all-stars-on-deck charity single to benefit a needy cause (casual racism optional). So we're really glad that Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Diddy, Chris Brown, Floyd Mayweather (Floyd Mayweather?) and others have joined together to release the "Megaupload Mega Song," to…
More than a year ago, the music blog Dajaz1.com was shut down for supposedly abetting online piracy. The feds gave no warning, no due process, no trial, and kept all supposed court orders under seal. But that's not the even the most fucked up part.
Bad news: The federal government has once again made it harder to find the best online shopping spots for all your counterfeit sports jersey and fake Louis Vuitton bag holiday shopping needs. Why? Because they want your family's holiday gift-giving experience to be authentic.
King Bieber has issued his latest decree: Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar must go to prison! He really doesn't like a new law she's proposed.
Which movies have been illegally downloaded the most? If you said "a bunch of mediocre sci-fi/fantasy blockbusters," well, you're wrong! It's, actually, "a bunch of mediocre sci-fi/fantasy blockbusters and, also, The Hangover."
A team of U.S. archeologists believe they've found parts of the long-lost pirate ship of Captain Henry Morgan—that's Admiral Sir Henry Morgan to you, scallawag—down in Panama, which is where I, for one, suspected it was located all along.
The file sharing obsessives at TorrentFreak.com are convinced that Netflix is helping Americans become conscientious citizens who pay for movies rather than illegally downloading them free off BitTorrent. We are truly becoming moral titans.
Five Somali pirates who attacked the USS Nicholas last April were sentenced to life in prison in a U.S. District Court yesterday, even though no one was harmed in the incident. This doesn't bode well for future abductees.
The pirates who captured the yacht carrying four Americans are from Somalia's Puntland region, where pirates "are known to spend their ransom spoils on alcohol, drugs and prostitutes," and don't generally harm their captives.
