How the Pirate Bay Was Dismembered

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The Pirate Bay folks go to jail; the site went to the big cloud server in the sky. In the interest of, ahem , academic research, I've n... Continue reading →

.so Appropriate: Kickass Torrents Takes Somalia Domain

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Psst...got the latest episode of Doctor Who ? One of the more curious things that software copyright holders have to deal with is the globa... Continue reading →

Counting Illicit Outflows from Brazil, 1960-2012

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A Reuters news article points us to a new study from Global Financial Integrity (GFI) on the level of illicit outflows from Brazil. GFI h... Continue reading →

Pity the Children: 'War on Drugs' Fuels Asylum Seekers

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This train of pain begins and ends in the United States. I am not sure if there is a moral to recent events, but the number of children seek... Continue reading →

Sympathy for the Pirate? Gulf of Aden Overfishing

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Give a man no fish to catch...and he grabs an AK-47 & boards a skiff? Fisheries management does not top the list of attention-grabbing i... Continue reading →

'Applecoin' Has Potential, Not Necessarily Bitcoin

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...or is that iCoin? Referring to a post I made earlier on all you wanted to know about Bitcoin, I did not believe it could not come into w... Continue reading →

What Comes After Failed Global War on Drugs?

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 "Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade...[c]learly, what we have been doing has not worked and it is unfair fo... Continue reading →

UKR-RUS Collateral Damage: Rutracker.org is Down

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Even the mightiest go down sometimes. Longtime readers will know I have an interest in torrent sites as examples of the vast possibilities f... Continue reading →

Are Stolen Passports Really That Common?

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[ On a personal note, dear readers, rest assured that our thoughts and prayers are with those affected by the lost Malaysia Airlines flight.... Continue reading →

West Makes Afghanistan Safe...for Growing Opium

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Say what you will about the original premise that the 2002 invasion of Afghanistan was to force Osama bin Laden out of hiding from his Talib... Continue reading →

Did US Ask Philippines to Kill KAT.ph?

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News site Torrent Freak, "[t]he place where breaking news, BitTorrent and copyright collide" believes so, at least. Coming from th... Continue reading →