Tag: ILLEGAL

This fall, while working on a Georgia Power Company right-of-way in South Georgia, a power company employee found a bank of shotguns that was aimed directly into a wild boar feeding area, and fully connected to the Internet. After taking a few pictures, the employee called the Georgia Wildlife Resources Division, who, in turn, called the Office of Homeland Security. In a November 19th bulletin, ...

Twelve tons of cocaine is not to be taken lightly (or at all, really). But put this plethora of drugs underwater, shipped out by way of a diesel-powered submarine, and you've got a genuine James Bond plot. Friday, when Ecuadorian Police found this 100-foot-long, 9-foot-high submarine in the jungle, they discovered that the vessel was, in fact, a narco-sub used to transport drugs outside of the ...

The halcyon days of freewheelin' file-sharing may be drawing to a quiet close today at universities across the country. As CNET reports, yesterday marked the final deadline for colleges receiving Title IV federal aid to comply with the anti-piracy measures outlined in the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) of 2008. The act covers a broad range of issues pertaining to higher education, but ...

In case you forgot, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is still dropping lawsuits on folks. Some of the easiest and most common targets of these copyright cases are college students. After all, those troublemakers are always trying to get something for nothing, right? Well, one enterprising dumb University of Georgia employee recently decided he'd exploit students' fear of the ...

We still haven't really wrapped our heads around the 'Twilight' phenomena, but we do at least know it's there. And that your average vampire fanatic would probably do anything to sink their fangs into the latest film in the series, even attempt bootlegging. Samantha Tumpach, a 22-year-old Chicagoan, is facing up to three years in prison after being charged with a felony for recording four ...

One fine day, someone in Ohio decided to download a movie. And, thanks to this one surreptitious cinephile, the entire public Wi-Fi service was shut down. An unnamed individual in Coshocton County, Ohio recently logged on to a free wireless network that the county made available to the public five years ago to illegally download a film. Sony Pictures somehow found out about the crime, notified ...

In their never-ending game of finger pointing, music executives have blamed everyone and everything under the sun for the industry's woes. But after learning about a new study from the U.K., the suits might have one less scapegoat, and a little more cause for concern. According to the Independent, a new poll commissioned by Demos, a U.K. think tank, found that people who admit to illegally ...

Known for his anti-piracy views, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has once again been accused of being the pot that called the kettle black. According to Huffington Post, a French newspaper is reporting that Sarkozy illegally made 400 copies of a DVD and gave them to diplomats at a conference. The film in question is a 52-minute documentary on Sarkozy, himself, called 'A visage decouvert: Nicolas ...

A new study has found that the United States would make $52 billion over the next decade if lawmakers decided to lift a three-year ban on Internet gambling and tax the maligned industry. The study, prepared by accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, may prove to be laying the groundwork for the repeal of the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, a generally ineffective piece of ...

Can't wait for Black Friday? Neither could two suspects in Virginia Beach. Reportedly, a crafty duo entered a local Wal-Mart late last week, with one placing a Samsung Blu-ray player in her cart while the other placed a DVD / VCR combo unit in his cart. Once that was complete, the two met in the pet section, swapped the unwanted DVD / VCR unit out for a Blu-ray deck and proceeded to checkout. ...

If you were to dig through the average 18-year-old's iPod, you'll find quite a bit of illegally obtained music. According to a recent British study, an average of 842 illegally downloaded tracks can be found on a 14-24 year-old's iPod. 842 songs equals about half of the average music collection for the same age group. The study also proved once and for all that anyone who says they don't ...

For the love of all that's humane in this world, it's about time someone stepped up and put an end to this lunacy. Okay, so maybe that's overstating things a bit, but we're joyous nonetheless to hear that the Kent County Council in southeast England has "become one of the first in the UK to ban mosquito gadgets from its buildings." Here's a refresher: So-called mosquito tones are high-pitched ...

Jorge Romero of Chicago -- no, not that George Romero -- should consider himself lucky that Jack Bauer and his ability to connect bullets with foreheads are both things of fiction. That's because, instead of sending the king of bad days after Romero for violating its copyrights, Fox had to settle for real-life federal authorities that tend to prefer arrests to senseless bloodbaths. In January ...

Since its inception in 2001, the BitTorrent method of file-sharing's high download speeds and near user anonymity has earned it the ire of record labels, movie studios and just about anyone else that owns any sort of intellectual property. But for the BitTorrent user, the need for a separate client program to connect with downloads (instead of a Web browser) had been in a pain in the ...

According to its 2006 numbers, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is reporting a 34-percent increase in online child abuse complaints since 2005. Though some of the increase is due in part to greater awareness of the IWF itself, the report also points to newer methods being employed by illegal sites for avoiding detection or legal action. One such method involves cutting up pornographic images ...