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Physibles Come to Town with First Downloaded, 3D Printed Pirate Bay Ship
The introduction of the Internet, vast amounts of storage, and the ability to copy what we see in high fidelity into an electronic form has exploded the copyright issue wide open on a multitude of fronts. However, the concept of being able to turn something inherently electronic into a tangible product has been out of ...
Nintendo Network Shows Console Giant is Finally Serious About Going Online
While Microsoft and Sony have taken expertly to the realm of Internet connectivity, networks, and DLC content with their consoles, Nintendo still seems to be lagging far behind in getting wired. It looks like with their slumping sales, the console behemoth is finally coming around to hook up into this vast economic springboard and that ...
EA’s Star Wars: The Old Republic Stats Made Public: 239 Million In-Game Hours Played
Since its release in late December, Star Wars: the Old Republic has sold over 2 million copies and boasts 1.7 million active users. This is being touted as the fastest growing massively-multiplayer online game of all time, dwarfing any other launch in sheer adoption by the player community. The game is a brilliant and astounding ...
Dwolla Brings Mobile Money to iOS and Android with Big Update
Des Moines-based Dwolla has expanded it’s capabilities for mobile users seeking to exchange money on-the-go with updates to their iOS and Android apps. Be sure to check out the images of the apps embedded below. Last December, the financial-network service released “Instant,” a payment mechanism as an opt-in feature that allows Dowalla customers install access ...
Bitcoins for World of Warcraft Virtual Gold? Just Look to Bitmit.net
The ever-popular World of Warcraft published by Blizzard is one of the most-played massively-multiplayer video games of all time (it’s certainly the most-subscribed) and there’s been a thriving economy in the game for some time. We’ve described this economy on SiliconANGLE before when we looked at statistics about where the gold in the game was ...
The Ukraine’s Largest File-Sharing Site Ex.ua Goes Dark After Raid
In what’s becoming the dark-age for cyberlockers, Ukraine-based Ex.ua just went dark after country authorities raided the site and seized equipment. According to an article on TorrentFreak, since being founded in 2009 it has been one of the most visited sites in the Ukraine and used to house 200 servers and over 6,000 terabytes of ...
Premiumize.me Now Delivers Anonymizing Proxy for Bitcoin Users
German Bitcoin blog, BTC Base, recently interviewed Mika of Premiumize.me, an Internet anonymization proxy service that gives users the option to go online and secure their location from prying eyes. It does so via multiple servers around the world that act as exit-points for Internet traffic and they store very little distinct information about the ...
The Internet and Video Gamers Could Unlock the Next Breakthrough in Science
They could, we just need to figure out how. I recently watched an amazing TEDx talk by Luis von Ahn about massive-scale online collaboration through systems such as how reCAPTCHA uses a common Internet method of determining humanity to digitize books. This sort of crowdsourcing has elements of expectation that could be brought to bear ...
Chilly Storms Brewing in the Cloud Over Megaupload Takedown
Last week saw what felt like a surprise move by the US government against the Hong Kong-based file sharing site, Megaupload. Swooping in from afar the company and several of its executives found themselves embroiled in a legal battle. The takedown and its proximity to the SOPA protests even triggered one of the largest DDoS ...
Valve Delivers with Smartphone Steam App Beta
The digital-distribution gaming company Valve has started a closed beta for a smartphone app that will allow access to their social-gaming and delivery Steam service on both Android and iOS. While the app will not allow people to play games, it will permit customers the ability to access their social profiles and purchase games from ...
