On Friday, South Korean commandos raided a hijacked ship in the Arabian Sea, and killed eight Somali pirates in the process. South Korea released the video today, and Somali pirates promised to kill any Koreans they capture from now on.

Last month, porn company West Coast Productions sued 9,729 anonymous BitTorrent users who illegally downloaded the film Teen Anal Nightmare 2. Luckily a judge just threw out the lawsuit. We're—er, these people must be so relieved.

Visit the Bittorrent site Torrent-finder and you're greeted with a scary notice that "this domain name has been seized by ICE-Homeland Security Investigations." It's part of an intense anti-piracy operation. But the Pirate Bay is still up, so who cares?

The porn company West Coast Productions ("Your source for ethnic adult content") is suing 9,729 BitTorrent users for illegally downloading its film Teen Anal Nightmare 2. This teen anal nightmare just became a real-life nightmare.

After a down year by their standards, Somali pirates are finally back in business: For the release of two tankers they were paid a record ransom of $12.3 million. "We are now counting our cash," one pirate gloated. [BBC]

Software company LimeWire shut down its file sharing services on the order of a federal judge after being found liable for "a substantial amount of copyright infringement" in case brought against the company by the RIAA. RIP, peer-to-peer.

For the second time in two days, Somali pirates have seized a commercial boat, this time boarding the German freight ship Beluga Fortune. Yesterday, pirates seized a liquefied gas tanker, also off the coast of Kenya. They're back! [AP]

In a really weird and long-winded PSA, Gilbert Godfried explains that illegally downloading is just like owning a lemonade stand, and some guy sticks a tube in the lemonade and then giving it out for free. Okay?

Earlier this month, pranksters from 4chan's /b/ board launched an attack on anti-pirating forces like the Motion Picture Association of America. One side-effect: a list of over 5,000 alleged Internet porn pirates was leaked on the Internet.

4chan and movie piracy are closely linked: Many of the anarchic message board's users frequent sites like the Pirate Bay to download movies they can watch alone in their parents' basement. Now, 4chan is attacking the champions of anti-piracy efforts.

Can you believe we still live in a world where people get away with downloading all sorts of media, from movies to music? What happens when a man attempts to sell a sacred combination of both? Answers after the jump.

The Wall Street Journal is up in arms about it; the Associated Press is building a robot army to fight it. But it turns out online news piracy is at most a $250 million-per-year problem. Just how small is that?

Guys, if you're going to go to jail for six months for movie piracy, please make sure it's not because of The Love Guru. Let poor young Jack Yates of California be an example to us all.

Writers are getting mad as hell about digital versions of their books getting pirated online. Ursula K. Le Guin and Harlan Ellison will sue you. But we like horror mogul Stephen King's approach: insults!

Yes, pirates are dangerous criminals, blah blah blah. And yet in their home movies, they come off as kind of charming!

The biggest threat to the children of the rich is the rich themselves. Like Bob Arnot, the former NBC medical correspondent, who made a frighteningly loopy fundraising pitch for Eaglebrook, a private junior boarding school:

Even as our Indiana Jones PlunderWatch ticker moves inexorably closer to $9.5 trillion, a proportionately huge response to the new film is also taking place in high-traffic piracy circles around the globe. A bit of Defamer research (as well as a few winks from seedy, trench-coated informants in the digital shadows)…

With piracy at epidemic levels and the Beijing Olympics right around the corner, the Chinese government is following its sterling records of human rights and environmental protection with its latest quasi-altruistic crusade on behalf of intellectual property rights. And we know they're serious this time, what with…

Since the MPAA tried to ban screeners of Oscar-nominated films over piracy fears in 2003, the risk of those screeners leaking to the Internet has actually fallen, according to research by journalist/programmer/dot-com founder Andy Baio. But a month before the ceremony, all but six of this year's 34 nominated films…