Silk Road 2 Founder Finally Sentenced 5 Years After His Arrest
Immediately after the Silk Road was taken down in 2013, a marketplace known as the Silk Road 2 launched. The new darknet market was run by a person who called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts 2 and he was arrested a few months later in November 2014. However, privacy advocate Thomas White, otherwise known as DPR2, was released on bail for the next five years and has only now been sentenced to 64 months in jail. Also read: Wikileaks...
Wikileaks Bitcoin Donations Soar Following Assange Arrest
Wikileaks’ bitcoin address has received a deluge of support following founding editor Julian Assange’s arrest. Donations have reached nearly $32,000 on Friday, 60% more than was raised the day before, when Assange was taken into custody. Also read: How Traditional Stock Markets Can Help Mainstream Cryptocurrency BTC Donations Reach $32,000 More than 6.3 BTC worth of donations to Wikileaks has been recorded from 272...
Russian Ebook Pirates ‘Exploit Loophole’ in Anti-Piracy Legislation
With many thousands of sites now blocked in Russia following allegations of copyright infringement, piracy should – at least in theory – become harder. Many of the most stubborn sites, such as the infamous RuTracker, are now inaccessible directly via local ISPs, meaning that users must deploy countermeasures such as proxies, VPNs (where they’re still available), and other means, in order to reach their content....
Stream-Ripper Operator Rejects Record Labels’ Piracy ‘Hysteria’ in Court
Last year, a group of prominent record labels filed a piracy lawsuit against the Russian operator of YouTube-ripping sites FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com. The labels hoped to shut the sites down, but this effort backfired. In January, US District Court Judge Claude M. Hilton dismissed the case due to a lack of jurisdiction. The Virginia Court carefully reviewed how the sites operate and found no evidence that they...
Steal This Show S04E14: Faircoin Part 2
This is the second and final part of our interview with Enric Duran, leader of the Faircoin project and founder of Fair Coop. We discuss the advantage of using Faircoin rather than Bitcoin or even Euros; the history of anarchism of in Spain and the use of pre-crypto ‘scrip’ currencies in and between anarchist communes; the need to build an infrastructure for the coming community of disaffected normies,...
