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  • Hands-on with the WiFiSync app

    Hands-on with the WiFiSync app

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    WiFiSync should have existed a long time ago. Created by Greg Hughes, it uses two programs - desktop app and an iPhone app - to sync your iPhone wirelessly. I was able to sync music, movies, and info quickly and easy, just by pressing "Sync" in iTunes. The app costs $9.99 on the Cydia store. The Cydia Store appears when you jailbreak your phone and it's sort of a Bizarro App Store unsanctioned by Apple.

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  • OMG! Fake Five Fingers appearing everywhere

    OMG! Fake Five Fingers appearing everywhere

    Posted on April 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Just when you thought it was safe to buy some nice VFFs for your wedding, Chinese pirates are creating knock-off five fingers with names like Mupuk Five Fingers. While I’d normally say live and let live when it comes to Chinese piracy – after all, what can we do about it? Cry? – I’d recommend [...]

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  • Assassin’s Creed II DRM proves that Ubisoft hates your guts and wants to beat you up after school

    Assassin’s Creed II DRM proves that Ubisoft hates your guts and wants to beat you up after school

    Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Fellow PC gamers: it's time to freak out. You're familiar with Ubisoft's newfangled DRM scheme that requires you be online in order to play its games, right? It's 100 percent as awful as we had thought it would be. PC Gamer recently played Assassin's Creed II, and discovered what a pain the in the ass the DRM really, truly is. Get this: every time you lose your Internet connection the game boots you to the main menu, and all progress made from the last save point is thrown out the window. This isn't an MMO, mind you, but a plain ol' single player game. In other words, no Internet, no game. Bravo, Ubisoft.

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  • Four percent of American gamers are pirates~!

    Four percent of American gamers are pirates~!

    Posted on January 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Four percent of U.S. gamers admit to pirating video games, according to a new NPD report that apparently we're not cool enough to get directly from the NPD. I'm going to guess that more than one of you fall into that four percent.

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  • Chinese pirates are making a pretty penny installing hacked Win7

    Chinese pirates are making a pretty penny installing hacked Win7

    Posted on November 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Arr… Vendors in Beijing's Zhongguancun market are charging customers $7 to install Windows 7 onto any computer. The hilarious part? The copies of Windows are pirated. The service takes about 40 minutes and includes a full install as well as a quick crack. Win7 Family Edition costs $11.

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  • Siren.gif: Microsoft COFEE law enforcement tool leaks all over the Internet~!

    Siren.gif: Microsoft COFEE law enforcement tool leaks all over the Internet~!

    Posted on November 6, 2009 | No Comments
    It was one of the most sought after applications on the Internet until it was leaked earlier today. And now that it's out there—and it is all over the place, easily findable by anyone able to use a search engine—we can all move on with our lives. Yes, Microsoft COFEE, the law enforcement tool that mystified so many of us (including Gizmodo~! and Ars Technica~!), is now available to download. If only there were a “bay” of some sort where, I don't know, pirates hang out...

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  • Apple welcomes Windows pirates with open arms

    Apple welcomes Windows pirates with open arms

    Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments
    Apple seems to have bought some keywords on Google including, most interestingly, "download windows 7." That's right: every hax0r out to download Win7 will see a little ad from Apple saying "Upgrading to Windows 7? There's never been a better time to switch to a Mac. Find out why."

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  • In-App Purchase In Free Apps: A Shot Across The Bow of iPhone Piracy?

    In-App Purchase In Free Apps: A Shot Across The Bow of iPhone Piracy?

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Just hours ago, Apple made an announcement that has developers everywhere dancing down their collective, metaphorical street: In-App Purchase is now good to go in free applications. This, of course, comes just months after Apple essentially told a room full of journalists that such ideas were nonsense – that free apps should always remain absolutely [...]

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  • Let’s celebrate Pirates’ Day with gusto tomorrow

    Let’s celebrate Pirates’ Day with gusto tomorrow

    Posted on September 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Tomorrow, Saturday, September 19, is Pirates' Day in World of Warcraft. “Commoners wearing pirate garb have appeared in all the world's cities with the news that the Dread Captain DeMeza and her crew have landed in Booty Bay and declared it Pirates' Day!” Great, yes, but I say we take it one step further: let's bring Pirates' Day to the Real World.

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  • Looks like iTunes LP can be pirated after all: Muse album found online

    Looks like iTunes LP can be pirated after all: Muse album found online

    Posted on September 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Maybe there’s no DRM on iTunes LP after all? I could have sworn that when Apple announced the completely useless new feature last week that it had said there would be measures in place to prevent people from sharing iTunes LP files with one another. Apparently not, since I was able to find the iTunes [...]

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  • Global Gaming Foundation X approves acquisition of The Pirate Bay

    Global Gaming Foundation X approves acquisition of The Pirate Bay

    Posted on August 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Oh, God. Well, it looks like Global Gaming Foundation X, the company that wanted to buy The Pirate Bay, has approved the acquisition. All the financing is in place (the deal will be financed by GGF itself, which means that nobody else wanted anything to do with the deal), and GGF is ready to roll, officially. Total price: 60 million Swedish kroner, or about $8.3 million. In the immortal words of Greg “Opie” Hughes, “Good luck, bro.”

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  • RIAA chief spokesman: ‘DRM is dead, isn’t it?’

    RIAA chief spokesman: ‘DRM is dead, isn’t it?’

    Posted on July 20, 2009 | No Comments
    The chief spokesman for the RIAA, one Jonathan Lamy, has gone on record to say what any normal, not-on-the-RIAA-payroll person has been saying for some time now: “DRM is dead, isn't it?” Yes. Yes it it.

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  • 65,000 signatures on petition to get LAN back in StarCraft II (but will Blizzard listen?)

    65,000 signatures on petition to get LAN back in StarCraft II (but will Blizzard listen?)

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | No Comments
    By now I'm sure you know that Blizzard doesn't plan to support LAN in StarCraft II. There's a petition going around that politely asks Blizzard to reconsider. Said petition has some 65,000 signatures on it. You should sign it, too.

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  • The Pirate Bay, well on its way to irrelevance at record speed

    The Pirate Bay, well on its way to irrelevance at record speed

    Posted on July 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Man alive is The Pirate Bay finished! Business Week has an interview with Hans Pandeya, the CEO of Global Gaming Factory, the company that's set to buy The Pirate Bay for nearly $8 million (provided it can come up with the money). What's mainly discussed it what type of business plan does this man have in store for The Pirate Bay. It's safe to say that The Pirate Bay will be all but dead in one year's time.

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  • Video: Damien Walters flails about in Ninja-like wonderment

    Video: Damien Walters flails about in Ninja-like wonderment

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Yow. When I first saw the above video I was like, “Who the hell’s been following me around on the weekends and filming me?” Then I was like, “Oh, that’s not me. It’s a guy named Damien Walters. Also, I tend to sit quite still most weekends.” At any rate, this is Parkour meets Ninjitsu, [...]

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