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Google Pirate Search

September 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Google Celebrates Talk Like A Pirate Day too!
Check out Google Pirate search !

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International Talk Like A Pirate Day, T’is today matey!

September 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Yarrr, ‘ello me hearties.  T’is September 19th once again and once again it be talk like a pirate day. Don’t yer forget it neither. If yer be forgettin how to talk like a pirate there be many many internets places that be explainin it for yer. Or perhaps yer be preferin’ just the Wikipedia article? [...]

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Will There Be A New Bittorrent?

November 17th, 2007 · No Comments

At the end of October one of the admins of the world's largest Bittorrent site sat down for an interview and predicted the protocol's demise. Citing Bittorrent, Inc.'s corporate ties and some technical limitations, brokep announced that The Pirate Bay was working on a new protocol to succeed Bram Cohen's Bittorrent. The idea's [...]

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Happy Halloween, Savvy?

October 31st, 2007 · No Comments

Photo courtesy of John Gruber at Daring Fireball.

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The Pirate Bay Developing New P2P Protocol to Replace BitTorrent [Yarrr]

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

The Pirate Bay’s pretty busy these days, reviving dead sites and whatnot, but their latest scheme is even bigger: They’re working on an entirely new P2P protocol designed to replace BitTorrent, since BitTorrent Inc. is no longer making additions to the source code entirely open, which TPB believes grants them too much influence. The new [...]

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Battle brewing between Pirate Bay, recording industry over IFPI domain coup

October 19th, 2007 · No Comments

I previously wrote about this story from last week and it seems that the IFPI wants their domain back. Ars Technica has word on what has happened since the initial domain conquest (arrrr). Some excerpts below:
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has taken up a new battle against pirates, but this one is different [...]

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Pirates take over anti-piracy website

October 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment

 
The Pirate Bay scores another victory over the music biz

Rob Mead
15 Oct 2007 07:30 GMT
Software pirates have launched an astonishing smash ‘n’ grab raid on the music biz, stealing the domain name of one of its foremost anti-piracy bodies.
The Pirate Bay has now taken up residence at [...]

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The Best License Plate Ever

September 24th, 2007 · No Comments

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The Best License Plate Ever, originally uploaded by andycarvin.
…and its in Washington D.C.!!!!!!

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Wed. Sept. 19th - Talk Like A Pirate Day!!!!!!

September 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Yarrr, ‘ello me hearties. You be rememberin’ today be talk like a pirate day? Don’t yer forget it neither. If yer be forgettin how to talk like a pirate there be many many internets places that be explainin it for yer. Or perhaps yer be preferin’ just the Wikipedia article?

‘ere be a clip from [...]

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Harry Potter Will Conjure Up Big Sales, Despite Piracy

July 18th, 2007 · No Comments

A few weeks back, Michael Moore’s latest film, Sicko, was released and fared pretty decently at the box office, despite being available on P2P networks — a situation one hyperbolic article described as “every film maker’s worst marketing nightmare.” That’s a story that’s played out time and time again, as the mere availability of pirated [...]

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