Sunday, December 7, 2008





Pirates of the Amazon hits the rocks



By Leslie Katz <-- Click here for more Reference(Collado)




A reporting news was uptade today December 7th, 2008. According to CNET News, the journey of downloading illegal music, videos and programs for the pirates of Amazon.com has stoppped. This is not hard to believe, as I posted on my last journal many teenagers get in trouble, by looking for exploits and crack programs for their mini computer games, which they really believe is a low federal crime. The way of downloading

"On Thursday December 5th, 2008. A day after Webware reported on the plug-in, lawyers for Amazon.com took action. They served the Internet service provider of the two students who released the extension with a take-down notice--and the students complied and removed the tool", states

The New York Times


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.

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