Dick Smith Electronics selling used hard drives as new. Ooops.

Dick Smith Electronics, a major Australian retailer have been accused of selling used and malware infected hard drives as new, endangering the computers owned by consumers. In one instance a preacher bought an external hard drive and when he plugged it in he was greeted by a pornographic video. You would think they would be … Read more

GoDaddy.com supporting online censorship.

The website hosting company GoDaddy are publicly supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. This bill would condemn any website that is hosting or linking to copyright infringing material. GODaddy supports the SOPA bill that they say will be protecting the intellectual property of hard-working Americans, U.S. business and the American public from the … Read more

MPAA releases list of copyright infringing websites.

The MPAA have released a lit of websites they say are supporting online piracy, these include the obvious torrent websites, they are also targeting the video streaming websites used to stream copyrighted movies and music. The Rapidshare website has been left out of this list for now, considering the fact that they are wielding more … Read more