The Cybernorms research group at Sweden’s Lund University partnered with The Pirate Bay earlier this year to carry out the largest survey among file-sharers in history. 75,000 people from all over the world participated in the study, and today the researchers revealed some of the initial results. Girls don’t fancy The Pirate Bay, most pirates download movies, and they are increasingly worried about their anonymity.
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In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, the German people have seen fit to vote 15 members of the German Pirate Party into parliament. Winning almost 10% of the popular vote, German pirates will now start delivering freedom, justice, gold doubloons, privacy, saucy wenches, copyright reform and shoulder parrots to all. Yarrr!
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Samsung is reportedly readying a legal pounce on Apple, hoping to surprise the Cupertino company in the post-climactic bliss of the iPhone 5 unveil. According to an unnamed Samsung insider, speaking to the Korea Times, the company’s goal is a complete sales ban on the fifth-gen iPhone in Korea, using various wireless patents Samsung holds to do so.
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A report released Sept. 11 by Nielsen, the media research and ratings company, reveals that Americans are spending more time than ever perusing social networks and blogs. Unsurprisingly, the report found that "Americans spend more time on Facebook than any other site."
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The operators of Usenet indexing site Newzbin2 have introduced measures to circumvent court-ordered web-blocking measures designed to render the site inoperable in the UK. Site staff aren’t revealing how the stand-alone software client works but some basic network packet analysis shows that it defeats ISP BT’s Cleanfeed censorship system by using a handful of techniques including encryption.
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I know everyone loves the old Windows BSOD right? We’ve been live at Microsoft BUILD this week and while we have seen a few neat things we didn’t get the chance to eye any Windows 8 Blue Screen of Deaths. Just like basically all previous versions of Windows we all were still expecting the BSOD to remain a part of windows, I mean it is almost an icon it’s so terrible.
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The upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the new online first person shooter announced by Valve last month, will try to bring together the fiercely loyal fanbases of both Counter-Strike 1.6 as well as the newer Counter-Strike: Source, while offering a special kind of competitive experience to all of them.
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Even though reports suggest there is still some time left until AMD's first desktop processors based on the Bulldozer architecture will get an official launch, an online retailer has recently made available for pre-order three FX-series chips with prices staring at $188.32.
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A new technology that allows devices to send and receive data at the same time could debut in a few years as the foundation for future 5G networks, its developers say.
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Rockstar has just announced that Max Payne 3 has a brand new release date of March 2012, when it will finally deliver the next installment in the prestigious franchise, complete with its biggest advancements in game engine technology as well as a multiplayer mode, for the first time in the series.
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A hacker broke into the Twitter account of NBC News and sent out a handful of false tweets about a suspected hijacking and a plane attack at ground zero just days before the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
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Re: Last one to post wins the internets
If it weren't for Blacks and Jews, where would we get diamonds?
megabyteme Yesterday, 05:39 PM