One thing’s for sure, Google doesn’t want to be associated with pirates; the company has enough copyright troubles as it is in its battles with Viacom and the AP. But defenders of The Pirate Bay argue there is precious little difference between two engines both capable of retrieving existing .torrent files on the Internet.
Google Maps Used To Mark Pirate Attacks
Google’s been known to track all sorts of stuff, including search trends, wildfires, and the flu. Now Google Maps and Google Earth are being used to record the locations of what might qualify as an even more interesting thing: pirate attacks.
The Pirate Bay Introduces New Image Hosting Site
They’ve misattributed a quote and shown a disregard for law and order – but then, what did you expect of pirates? The key thing is that a new, censorship-free image hosting site has launched, courtesy of the lads at The Pirate Bay.
Extradited Software Pirate Pleads Guilty
The leader of one of the oldest and most well known Internet software piracy groups, Hew Raymond Griffiths has pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement charges, in one of the first extraditions for an intellectual property offense.
Griffiths, a British national living in Bateau Bay, Australia was extradited in February 2007 to face charges in U.S. District Court.
EBay Pirate Locked Down By DOJ
An Indiana man was sentenced to over two years in prison for selling over $700,000 worth of counterfeit software on eBay, the US Department of Justice announced.
Courtney Smith, 36, of Anderson, Ind., was sentenced in US District Court to 27 months in prison, a two-year supervised release, and will face fines and restitution in excess of $7,000. That’s a pretty stiff penalty considering he only made $4,000 from the sale of pirated Rockwell Automation software.
Fox Presses YouTube To Reveal Pirate
What’s scarier than a Rosie O’Donnell pole dance? How about Rupert Murdoch with a subpoena? Twentieth Century Fox will test Google’s privacy resolve in much the same way the federal government did this time last year by demanding a YouTube user who uploaded entire Fox TV shows be identified.
No Pirate Day For Google
Google’s only interest in pirates is keeping them out of Google Video, as it has opted out of Talk Like A Pirate Day, which comes every year on September 19.
DoJ Turning Movie Pirate Into Salisbury Steak
A Missouri man has been indicted under provisions of the recently passed Family Entertainment and Copyright Act.
British Court Convicts Chipper Xbox Pirate
A 22-year-old Welsh man was made an example of by becoming the first to be convicted of modifying and selling copyrighted Xbox game consoles.