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New Firefox extension turns Amazon.com into an illegal free-for-all
Webware.com —
... As blog Torrentfreak notes, this is a really bad time for such an extension. Piracy continues to be a huge problem for movies, music albums, and PC games. ...
Quick Lesson to Pirates: Keep It Quite if You Really Want To Do It
Profy —
... The irony is that someone decided that the extension was considered to be worthy submitting to Digg (my guess is that the developers wanted to get it out there very much) and the blog post about the new extension on Torrentfreak received over 2,600 diggs which must have brought tons of visitors to the blog - with the majority of these visitors quickly moving to the site of the extension itself. Chances are that it is the Digg affect that is responsible for the site’s eventual downtime (which still lasts while I believe the Digg effect should not be help responsible any ...
Firefox Add-On Alerts Amazon Shoppers to Illegal Content
Today @ PC World —
... . Despite its catchy name, Pirates of the Amazon is not affiliated with The Pirate Bay and claims to be an "artistic project [that] addresses the topic of current media distribution models vs. current culture and technical possibilities," according to TorrentFreak . Illegal downloads and digital property rights have been in the headlines recently. Minnesota mom ...
Internet Piracy: No, Virginia, There Really Is No "Competing" Against Yourself for "Free"
IPcentral Weblog —
... producers of content and bottled water who incur the costs and risks that let them create products that consumers favor can compete against lower-quality "free" products--but they cannot compete against a "free" version of their own product. To suggest otherwise is absurd. By incurring costs and risks, a commercial producer of bottled water can compete against the County Water Board on the basis of quality--but not if the we let County Water Board unilaterally decide to "redistribute the wealth" by stealing the private company's best-quality water and pumping it "for ...
Social Fridays: Round-up of the Best Social Networking Stories and Videos this Week
UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping —
... - You too can have an Apple apple pie for dessert! 4. Shop Amazon For Free w/ Firefox Add - The worldâs largest online retailer, is under attack by online pirates. 5. ...
Did Amazon Force Takedown Of Firefox Pirate Extension?
Techdirt —
Earlier this week, we skipped on writing about the rather silly release of a Firefox user script that would add links to popular torrent trackers for unauthorized downloads of products as you surfed Amazon.com. The whole thing just seemed likely to get folks (on all sides of the debate) riled up. In fact, if anything, I thought the rather amusing response was a separate user script that did the reverse. If you were surfing torrent sites, it would ...
Quoted
GMSV —
... 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 supplemented Amazon media searches with links to free, pirated versions back slowly away ...
Amazon gets attacked by Pirates of the online variety
Boy Genius Report —
News is spreading like wildfire about a new Firefox extension that makes pirating media listed on Amazon easier than ever. The extension, Pirates of the Amazon, detects what you are viewing on Amazon and provides a link to a “free” copy courtesy of Pirate Bay. The plugin embeds a button right into the web page literally providing one click access to a presumably illegal copy. It works with CDs, DVDs, games, and books. The website for the extension is currently offline, most likely due to a crushing amount of traffic from all the publicity. This is not ...
