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Whether it’s the stupor-inducing gambling channels dedicated to parting fools from their money, the late-night pseudo-porn selling premium-rate phone sex, or the corrupt ‘competition’ call-ins plaguing the UK’s prime-time (even that Holy of Holies, the BBC …
Now that the Pirate Bay trial is drawing ever closer, more and more mainstream news outlets are starting to report on the upcoming case, mostly with heavy anti-piracy bias. Born in 1984 and co-owner of the Swedish ISP ‘PRQ’, the report says that Gottfri …
In an attempt to punish Scientology for abusing copyright laws and brainwashing of its members, Anonymous launched a series of DDoS attacks to remove the Church from the Internet. It seems, however, like this this is only the beginning. “We will contin …
Tip: Want to download Torrents anonymously? Try TorrentPrivacy, the only way to download torrents securely. A common question from BitTorrent users is how anti-p2p outfits trace and trace file-sharers in order to send infringement notices. We’ve reporte …
It’s been in development for a decade already and won Wired’s Vaporware Lifetime Achievement Award. Undeterred, 3D Realms have just completed a new teaser to tempt the gaming masses. Quite whether further teasing is required after a 10 year wait is ser …
Curtis James Jackson III, aka 50 Cent has been a drug dealer, he’s been shot, he’s a hugely successful artist – selling over 20 million albums – and he even has his own label, G-Unit Records. Thirty minutes before getting up on stage at a club in Oslo, …
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