Follow TechBlips on Twitter
Firefox Pirates Take Over Amazon
TorrentFreak —
... The timing of the ‘Pirates of the Amazon‘ launch could not have been more (un)fortunate. At the busiest time of the year for on- and offline retailers, this Firefox browser addon offers users a download link to pirated copies of products that can normally be found in the Amazon online store. ...
Firefox addon makes pirating music easier
Hack a Day —
The Amazon MP3 Store may have the lowest prices on DRM free music, but for some people 79 cents for a song is just too much, especially when [john] and the folks at pirates-of-the-amazon.com can help you get that song for free. Pirates of ...
Pirates of the Amazon Firefox add-on
p2pnet news —
p2pnet news view | P2P:- Quoting Larry Lessig of Creative Commons fame, “How can you compete with free? - ask the people who built the newest Firefox add-on.
“You cant!”
And just in time for Christmas, too.
Pirates of the Amazon inserts a “download 4 free” button on Amazon, which links to corresponding The Pirate Bay BitTorrents, say the creators, Enrique B. and John S., being careful to observe:
“We are not affiliated with The Pirate Bay, and do not host or even link to any illegal content. This artistic project ...
New Firefox extension turns Amazon.com into an illegal free-for-all
Webware.com —
... A new Firefox extension called Pirates of the Amazon (note: link is currently down) lets users download movies, games, TV shows and MP3s free of charge by cross referencing Amazon's product pages with torrent files from ...
Firefox Add-On Alerts Amazon Shoppers to Illegal Content
Today @ PC World —
Nothing says thoughtlessness like the gift of pirated digital material, but more people may be receiving this type of illegal content this holiday season. A new Firefox extension, called Pirates of the Amazon , will alert Amazon.com shoppers whenever an illegal copy of a product they're about to buy is available on a torrent site called The Pirate Bay. Pirates Amazon illegal pirated software According to an ...
Pirates of the Amazon Abandon Ship
Bits —
... books, music and movies on Amazon.com to download the same products free through the Pirate Bay, the illicit BitTorrent site. Lawyers for Amazon.com promptly served the students’ Internet service provider with a take-down notice, and on Thursday the students complied and removed the tool. In an interesting twist, the students now say their project was a parody and an “experiment on interface design, information access and currently debated issues in media culture,” according to their Web site . One of the students, John, who did not give his last name, tried to explain ...
Quoted
GMSV —
... Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was a practical experiment on interface design, information access and currently debated issues in media culture. We were surprised by the attentions and the strong reactions this project received. Ultimately, the value of the project lies in these reactions. It is a ready-made and social sculpture of contemporary internet user culture. One day after publishing we received a take down request by the legal department of Amazon.com.” – The creators of a Firefox plug-in that ...
Bits: Pirates of the Amazon Abandon Ship
NYT > Technology —
... books, music and movies on Amazon.com to download the same products free through the Pirate Bay, the illicit BitTorrent site. Lawyers for Amazon.com promptly served the students’ Internet service provider with a take-down notice, and on Thursday the students complied and removed the tool. In an interesting twist, the students now say their project was a parody and an “experiment on interface design, information access and currently debated issues in media culture,” according to their Web site . One of the students, John, who did not give his last name, tried to explain ...
Pirates of the Amazon hits the rocks
Webware.com —
... However, on their Web site, the students now say the plug-in was meant as an artistic parody, part of their research for a media design course at the Piet Zwart Institute of the Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool in Rotterdam Holland. "It was a practical experiment on interface design, information access, and currently debated issues in media culture," the students say. ...
Best 2008 digital music startups
p2pnet news —
... Pirates Of The Amazon (122) was a cheeky Firefox plug-in that, when users browsed Amazon’s UK MP3 Store, provided them with links to download the songs for free from The Pirate Bay. ...
