When the Pirate Bay main site went offline a few weeks ago, there was a scramble to fill the vacuum left by the web’s largest trafficker of stolen goods. Isohunt launched the Oldpiratebay.org and promptly found themselves with millions of visits per day. The site’s success has prompted the operators to offer payments to developers,…
I occasionally get asked questions by Pirate site operators… which sounds cooler than it is. Normally, the questions involve a lot of four letter words, inquiries about my intelligence and/or paternity and a great deal of confusion about “where the hell I get off”. However, in this hailstorm of affection, the occasional valid one comes…
dis·in·ter·me·di·a·tion noun : reduction in the use of intermediaries between producers and consumers. The elimination of the “middle-man”. Talk about your $5 words… The first time I came face to face with this word was as a business student in the late 1990s. The internet boom was a go and the whole world was wondering…
Occasionally we receive emails from clients letting us know that “This site has all of my titles” or “I just received this Google alert and it looks like they have EVERY ONE of my plug-ins“. These emails usually result in a flurry of activity on our part to address the leaks quickly, but oftentimes, due…
