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egabriel

The end of the free pirate life

Naturally, our famous pirates were not unemployed, there was a constant demand from France and England for able and ruthless sailors that could be used as a striking force. Infamous great pirate Henry Morgan was on the rise when he started recruiting his sailors from Tortuga for his great and cruel...

egabriel

Major center of Caribbean piracy

If you like books and movies about pirates and their adventures you probably heard the name Tortuga many times. In the last movie trilogy Pirates of the Caribbean island of Tortuga was showed to us as a haven for pirates. In famous writer Sabatini’s book series about Captain Blood and the movies...

egabriel

Mysterious Sea People

When we talk about pirates, we usually imagine these boys sailing on the ships under the flag of Jolly Roger. But in fact piracy has always been here since ancient times. In fact, historians the first documented cases of piracy dated as far back as thirteen century BC. Ancient Egyptian chronicled...

Sunil & Abinash

Youtube don't work in all machines of India

Recently we found a wired problem reported by a potential customer - Our flex solution doesn't work in her Vista Laptop. The retail solution - Resenet from Drapsa technologies is a SAAS solution with Flex as frontend. Our initial guess was the flex plug-ins are not there. But we were wrong. Next...

Lord Charon

Lawsuit Claim: Students' Lecture Notes Infringe on Professor's Copyright | Threat Level from Wired.c

Just remember kiddies that if you take notes in class you are stealing and should be shot. If you read this article out loud and there is anyone within hearing range you are stealing.

Lord Charon

Music Label's Copyright Argument is Rubbish | Threat Level from Wired.com

selena

and the piracy continues!

demonoid is back! all settings just the way they were. ratio beautiful like it was. logo just as pretty. oh yes.

Magnus Lindkvist

Excellent speech on Piracy by Matt Mason

A few weeks ago, I read and reviewed Matt Mason's book The Pirate's Dilemma here on the blog. He spoke at The Medici Summit in early March and his presentation is terrific; insightful and fun to watch.

War-N

Obscurity vs. Piracy

Time to return to my ongoing musings (or endless rant, depending on your viewpoint) on what I'll call "music freedom". I came across a wonderful article by Andrew Dubber (via Derek Sivers) entitled "Should I Be Worried About Piracy?". Andrew thoughtfully and eloquently explained the point I've been...

Dale

Sony rhymes with funny

I've already talked about what a bunch of utter fuckwits Sony BMG are. But it gets better. Sony BMG, you see, are dead set against piracy. From putting their nasty rootkit copy protection on their CDs to suing the fuck out of music fans, it's clear that piracy is their big concern. Except, oddly,...