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Busting World’s Biggest Movie Pirates Made Piracy Worse

At the turn of the decade, one piracy release group was making its mark on the Internet like no other in recent times. After releasing countless movies and even opening their own BitTorrent tracker,...

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Monday, May 6th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Pirate Bay Accuses Anti-Piracy Group of Piracy

The Pirate Bay said it has alerted Finnish authorities to what it termed a "suspected crime" over an anti-piracy group allegedly pilfering the "files from which The Pirate Bay is built, to produce a...

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Tuesday, February 19th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Neil deGrasse Tyson: science funding can “guarantee your economic future”

America's Astronomer-in-Chief drives his point home by showing magazine covers with NASA's iconic Earthrise photo. Rob Pegoraro Neil deGrasse Tyson came to Washington on Wednesday to deliver the science-specific version of President Barack...

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Friday, January 25th, 2013 Net News No Comments

French court orders Twitter to identify racist and anti-Semitic users

For months now, the French-language twittersphere has lit up with a rash of racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic tweets using the hashtags #UnBonJuif (a good Jew), #SiMonFilsEstGay (if my son is gay), and #SiMaFilleRamèneUnNoir (if...

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Thursday, January 24th, 2013 Net News No Comments

“Gaymer” trademark has to go, say reddit’s gay gamers

The discussion at the /r/gaymers section of Reddit usually centers around video games, not legal actions. Today things were different, though. The group of gay and lesbian gamers that congregates there has filed a...

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Thursday, January 24th, 2013 Net News No Comments