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| gehzumteufel |
I find this quite funny.
| quote: | Firefox Pirates Take Over Amazon
Written by Ernesto on December 03, 2008
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is under attack by online pirates. An add-on for the Firefox browser called ‘Pirates of the Amazon’ makes it possible to shop at the Amazon store but leave without paying a dime. Instead, on Amazon product pages the add-on integrates links to ‘free’ copies on The Pirate Bay.
The timing of the ‘Pirates of the Amazon‘ launch could not have been more (un)fortunate. At the busiest time of the year for on- and offline retailers, this Firefox browser add-on offers users a download link to pirated copies of products that can normally be found in the Amazon online store.
When the add-on is installed, it integrates a new “download 4 free” button into the Amazon product page when the same article is also available via The Pirate Bay. It works for CDs, DVDs, games, books and basically all products that can be converted to a digital format.
With their mashup of the largest online retailer and the largest BitTorrent tracker, the project aims to “be a counterpart to the current models of media distribution”, and to “redistribute the wealth”.
The people behind the project have chosen to link to The Pirate Bay, but clearly state that they act independently. “We are not affiliated with The Pirate Bay, and do not host or even link to any illegal content,” they write. “This artistic project addresses the topic of current media distribution models vs. current culture and technical possibilities.”
‘Pirates of the Amazon’ is not the only pirate add-on for Firefox, in fact there are quite a few. IMDB, Last.fm, and Rotten Tomatoes all have their own pirate skin available. Most of them use the Greasemonkey add-on which allows the installation of all kinds of useful user scripts which customize the web to your pirate needs. |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| Pwn'ed!!!!!!!!!! Nice dig. |
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| Project-K |
| What difference will it make? People who know about this already know about the pirate bay, and people who pirate stuff don't use amazon. :conf: |
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| Adam420 |
| Yea right, download a movie through bit torrent and give that as a christmas gift :haha: |
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| iammesol |
| quote: | Originally posted by Project-K
What difference will it make? People who know about this already know about the pirate bay, and people who pirate stuff don't use amazon. :conf: |
Can't deny that it would cut Amazon's profits though.
I can hear the lawyers stirring. :) |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Project-K
What difference will it make? People who know about this already know about the pirate bay, and people who pirate stuff don't use amazon. :conf: |
Agreed, but it is just funny. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Project-K
people who pirate stuff don't use amazon :conf: |
I use. Wait, I mean, what? |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
I sort of wonder if this is actually a surreptitious plan of the entertainment industry to intentionally bring about criminal charges against torrent sites. If they can reach torrent sites through legal charges other than the current content provision of such sites, which has proven to be quite a slippery endeavor thusfar, then perhaps they think they stand a better chance of getting them shut down for good, which is no doubt exactly what they want. Not dissimilar to some labels hiring online agents to intentionally distribute viruses on torrent sites disguised as popular media in an effort to strike at the users.
/lead hat [tinfoil just isn't strong enough to repel Mk. IV psychic emitter waves anymore] |
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| gehzumteufel |
| It is quite possible. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| IS IT? IS IT, REALLY??? |
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