piracy

Piracy originally referred to criminal violence (such as trespassing and robbery) committed at sea, but today the term lends itself to an array of lawless acts, including copyright infringement, airplane hijacking, unregulated radio transmissions (pirate radio) and patent infringement. The term has also been used to refer to raids committed on land by paramilitary forces.

Traditional piracy at sea benefits from a romanticized image in contemporary popular culture, thanks to some picturesque characters such as Captain Hook, Long John Silver, and even the more recent Captain Jack Sparrow from the Pirates Of The Caribbean film series. Colorful language, a lust for hidden treasures, as well as the love of freedom and the open sea are some of the more common motifs to be encountered in pirate stories.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “piracy”

• in Entertainment
  Who's the Bad Guy--the FBI or MegaUpload?
  WE THE PEOPLE want our piracy and we want it now.
  by JerryFlattum / on Jan 31, 2012
• in Politics
  Lamar Smith: Blackout a Publicity Stunt, SOPA Markup Will Continue
  Lamar Smith says today's SOPA protest is a publicity stunt, using fear to spread misinformation
  by cblaha / on Jan 19, 2012
• in Technology
  Obama, Cantor: SOPA Stalled Until We Have Consensus
  Both Obama and House Majority Leader Cantor call for changes to the bill before it can move forward
  by cblaha / on Jan 17, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “piracy”

 

• Pirate Bay considers European courts after Swedish ruling

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 821
  One of Pirate Bay founders convicted of aiding copyright infringement said the group is considering taking its case to the European court, after Sweden’s top judges refused to hear their appeal against a guilty verdict handed down in 2009. In a ruling on Wednesday, the court said it would not grant the right to ...
  15 hours ago

• How To Remove Mole

  
  Skin Tag Removal At Home — Authority: 114
  Chemistry 152A Q4A) Z12.29 ( 8 points) It takes 200 kJ of energy to remove one mole of electrons from the atoms on the surface of rubidium metal. a) If the metal is irradiated with 250 nm light what is the maximum kinetic energy the released electrons can have? {} 34 8 3 2 92 3 19 19 19 1 2 6.626102.991020010.. ...
  16 hours ago

• Is Music Piracy Really ‘The New Radio’? Yes and No

  
  Nerd World — Authority: 122
  Canadian folk-rocker Neil Young is making waves this week after telling reporters at a conference that piracy is "the new radio," but is it really that simple?
  17 hours ago

• FBI spyware not Skype responsible for spilling MegaUpload secrets

  
  SlashGear — Authority: 794
  FBI investigators may have infected MegaUpload ‘s computers with spyware so as to monitor Skype and email messaging, it’s been suggested, with sources within the Microsoft-owned VoIP company claiming it was not asked to turn over conversation logs. Multiple chat records were included by the FBI within its case ...
  17 hours ago

• Pirate Bay owners sentenced. Appeals denied. Site back up

  
  Random Access Talks — Authority: 413
  First lets begin with the owners of the site and their sentences. Peter Sunde, also known as Brokep, awaits 8 months in prison. Fredrik Neij, also known as TiAMO, faces 10 months. Businessman Carl Lundström has the lightest sentence of 4 months.  All will have to pay their share of a combined 46 million ...
  18 hours ago

• Angry Birds CEO: piracy is an opportunity

  
  CY.TALK: VoIP, IP telephony and telecommunications news — Authority: 112
  At the Midem conference in Cannes, Rovio CEO Mikael Hed announced, "Piracy may not be a bad thing: it can get us more business at the end of the day."
  18 hours ago

• Is Online Piracy About Theft-- or Inertia?

  
  Fantasy & SciFi Lovin' News & Reviews — Authority: 411
  Its funny how life offers up little bits of synchronicity every now and then. I had been musing on a topic for the blog that centered on the idea of playing it safe when I can across the trailer for Jason Stathams upcoming movie Safe . Sometimes these things write themselves. The obvious reason that Stathams new ...
  19 hours ago

• Danish aid worker freed in US pirate raid

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 424
  Dramatic details of an overnight US raid in which two aid workers for the Danish Demining Group were freed from Somali pirates have begun to emerge. It is thought that nine kidnappers were killed and another six arrested when Navy Seals parachuted into a compound in the village of Hiimo Gaabo. Dane Poul Hagen ...
  1 day ago

• Neil Young: Piracy Is The New Radio [Blockquote]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 862
  You cant beat an old rocker flying in the face of the man. Neil Young has decided to let everyone know what he thinks about piracy, and it turns out hes probably a fan of Megaupload. More »
  1 day ago

• Barack Obama faces pressure over TVShack extradition case

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  US president asked to explain why America is trying to extradite British student Richard ODwyer over alleged copyright breach Barack Obama has come under pressure to explain American attempts to extradite a British student accused of breaking US copyright law, after a web campaign to raise awareness of the case ...
  2 days ago

• caitz1129:stfuconservatives:How Hollywood could kill movie...

  
  ViciousNeutral — Authority: 113
  caitz1129 : stfuconservatives : How Hollywood could kill movie piracy (if they wanted to) - Imgur Yup. This is why I can’t get behind the “We should only complain about privacy issues, not the end of free downloading” side of things, however well-meaning it is. It’s not about artistic integrity, it’s ...
  2 days ago

• Megaupload user data could be deleted in days

  
  Neown | Latest Gadget, Mobile, Camera, Tech News and Videos — Authority: 126
  All data stored on the Megaupload servers could be deleted by this Thursday (2 February), including subscribers’ personal and legitimate files. A letter filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia states that the storage companies used by Megaupload to house files, Carpathia Hosting ...
  2 days ago

• MegaUpload data reprieve: Safe until mid-February

  
  SlashGear — Authority: 794
  Legitimate user data stored with seized file-sharing service MegaUpload is safe from deletion until at least mid-February, the lawyer for the piracy-accused site has confirmed, though there’s still no way for users to actually access it. Having been taken down by US federal prosecutors earlier this month, the ...
  2 days ago

• Megaupload Data Could Be Erased This Week

  
  Believe in Technolust — Authority: 116
  All the data on  Megaupload  – legal or illegal – could be erased as soon as Thursday, Feb. 2, the Associated Press reports. The file storage website hires outside companies – Carpathia Hosting Inc. and Cogent Communications Group Inc – to store its users’ data. Since Megaupload’s assets have ...
  3 days ago

• Megaupload Data Could Be Erased This Week

  
  Mashable! — Authority: 880
  All the data on Megaupload – legal or illegal – could be erased as soon as Thursday, Feb. 2, the Associated Press reports. The file storage website hires outside companies – Carpathia Hosting Inc. and Cogent Communications Group Inc – to store its users’ data. Since Megaupload’s assets have been ...
  3 days ago

• Riskalyze CEO’s suggestions for retaliation against Hollywood

  
  Gadgetell — Authority: 134
  Aaron Klein, co-founder and CEO of Riskalyze , has formulated a few ideas to hypothetically retaliate against Hollywood in light of the SOPA/PIPA aftermath. I mean, if they want to dismantle the internet’s integrity so badly, the least we could do is hit them with equally absurd legislation, right? Here’s what ...
  3 days ago

• Megaupload data could be deleted this week

  
  Geek.com — Authority: 627
  Regardless of what you think about Megaupload, its users do have a legitimate claim to access the data stored on their accounts. While the service may have been mostly illegal content, paying users also stored personal documents, which are not in any way illegal. When Megaupload was seized by the feds, the service was ...
  3 days ago

• Google and IP Piracy

  
  IP TV Times — Authority: 107
  Eric Schmidt responded to Rupert Murdochs comment about Google being a "piracy leader" in a way which appears to suggest he has slightly lost his grip on reality. Given that Google and YouTube have pretty advanced image and text search tools the idea that poor old Google are struggling to get it right against the ...
  3 days ago

• ACTA Gets International Push Back

  
  Sakura no Kokoro — Authority: 85
  As we’ve posted earlier, members of the European Union sign ACTA into something of an existence–it still requires ratification from the European Union parliament–various EU citizens have decided to fight back against ACTA.  Unfortunately, while these protests are getting noticed, the ruling governments signed ...
  3 days ago

• MegaUpload data faces deletion from Thursday

  
  SlashGear — Authority: 794
  Data stored on seized file-sharing site MegaUpload  could be deleted from as early as Thursday this week, Federal prosecutors in the US have confirmed, after the company’s frozen assets stopped paying for the site’s hosting. MegaUpload’s attorney, Ira Rothken, has warned that the site has no way of continuing ...
  3 days ago

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