Label me a pirate. A renegade. A lawless scum who doesn’t care about intellectual property. That’s fine. I pay for music in one way or another. I have no qualms or regrets. Here in the states, intellectual property laws and policies are becoming increasingly anti-consumer, anti-artist, and are getting tweaked more and more to benefit labels and other such “middlemen”. We’re not alone however as many other countries across the world are...

In case you’ve been living under a rock, WiFi Direct is the new spec that the WiFi alliance is set to start unleashing in early 2010. The technology will work much like Bluetooth currently does in allowing devices to connect to each other operating as a sort of “close range” P2P network. While new WiFi Direct devices won’t start seeing official certification until 2010, older legacy devices which consist of pretty much everything to date with a...

Having a continence based guilt trip because you downloaded that one Hanson song back in the day that you had to have? Or, are you a full fledged pirate who is eschewing old ways of plunder and instead looking for a way to give back? Leak water from your eyes no more as Piracy Payback is here to help. Now, if you’re thinking what I think you’re thinking (follow that), yes this is real and no this is not a joke. Aiming to give back to artists and copyright...

How about another chuckle on behalf of the entertainment industry and all things nerdy? The sign above is extremely clever and no doubt will turn a few heads/drum up talk about the theater. While torrents may cause some to not go to the theater since they already have the title that they would have gone to go see, I don’t see them being the main cause behind the closing of cinemas across the world. The real reason? Cinema’s aren’t giving people a...

The drama surrounding ThePirateBay and it’s take down, sale, planned purchase, and eventual return have hit another snag. While flow of information from the parent company trying to buy TPB has pretty dried up, “content protectors” are still operating at full speed. Go on over to Google and do a search for the pirate bay. Chances are you won’t find a single link pointing directly to TPB’s homepage. According to Google, a DMCA takedown...