MegaUpload Users Want Their Files Back, Plan To Sue FBI

Thursday, 26th January 2012
Posted in Blog Archive, Keeping it Real
Tags: FBI, files, hacking, lawsuit, megaupload, pirate, Pirate Parties, Pirates of Catalonia, racketeering, recover, Spain

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It appears MegaUpload’s users aren’t ready to just back down to the feds with new reports claiming international pirate organizations are planning on suing the FBI on behalf of users over files that have been lost due to the shutdown.

If you’ve been following along with the MegaUpload case, you’d know that many of the company’s execs are now awaiting trial on charges of piracy, racketeering, and money laundering following the feds shutting down the massively popular file-sharing site Keep Reading

Man Caught Stealing $9.5 Million Worth of Source Code From Federal Reserve Bank

Friday, 20th January 2012
Posted in Blog Archive, Technology
Tags: $9.5 million, Bo Zhang, FBI, Federal Reserve Bank, GWA, source code, stolen, theft

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With the federal government shutting down file-sharing website MegaUpload, and Anonymous taking down the Department of Justice website in response, some have passed over claims that Federal Reserve Bank source code used for managing the US government’s finances has been stolen this week.

According to a report from VentureBeat who points us to an official FBI statement, a computer programmer named Bo Zhang, 32, has admitted to copying the code to a hard drive from within the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Wednesday. Keep Reading

Does Blizzard Want to Turn You Over to the Cops?

Wednesday, 23rd November 2011
Posted in Gaming, Technology
Tags: blizzard, FBI, information, IP history, law enforcenment

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According to an official document released by the company on Friday, Blizzard Entertainment has been working with the government to rat out any shady activity amongst its users. Say wha?? Define ‘shady’…

That may be part of the problem. While the document (made official in 2009, and leaked this past week) never details exactly what sort of crimes could be going on amongst WoW players, the company has stated that it gets more requests from law enforcement officials for that game than any other. Keep Reading

Juggalos: FBI’s Newest Most Wanted

Thursday, 3rd November 2011
Posted in Blog Archive, NERDCORE, Pop Culture
Tags: FBI, gang, Juggalos, most wanted, official

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For those of you under the impression that the Insane Clown Posse had gone off to greener pastures — maybe that meant just retiring and laughing all the way to the bank, maybe mellowing out and doing acoustic jams with Gavin Rossdale, maybe just waiting for Darwinism to do its magic — you can rest easy now in knowing things are about to get much, much worse.

That includes a possible re-vitalization of the band and ensuing double-live album, all to celebrate the FBI report that now classifies juggalos as an official ‘gang.’

I guess ever since the ICP’s fanatical followers threw feces at Tila Tequila and began attacking people in traffic accidents, it warranted Keep Reading