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The Pirate Bay is now facing three legal battles in the new year from a Swedish prosecutor, Prince, and the IFPI. The site’s response? “It’s kinda funny,” a Pirate Bay admin tells Ars.

A grandmother targeted by the RIAA for file-sharing is striking back at the controversial music industry association, arguing that it has knowingly engaged in “one or more overt acts of unlawful private investigation” to further its case.

Last night, the AACS LA’s attempts to keep an HD DVD crack under wraps backfired in a spectacular fashion. Pandora’s Box is now wide open and there’s no going back now.

Benchmarks show that Firefox 3 uses less memory than Internet Explorer 7 and Opera. A number of significant fixes and improvements have brought down the open-source browser’s memory footprint and could make it a more viable choice in mobile environments.

How would would you like to have an NES controller that housed an actual NES? Okay, the innards aren’t an actual NES; the creator used a third-party knock-off system packed with pirated games to do his mad-scientist work, but I’m still impressed. The controller plugs right into the television, has a bunch of games built-in, and, even more crazily,

Thanks in part to the efforts of Gabe & Tycho of Penny-Arcade, Jack Thompson is currently under investigation by the Florida Bar Association.

Connecticut substitute teacher Julie Amero was supposed to be sentenced today, but instead will get a new trial. She faced 40 years in prison for allegedly showing pornography to school kids.

“When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song.” Making “a copy” of a purchased song is just “a nice way of saying ’steals just one copy’,”

“My a good friend makes kick-ass cakes as a hobby. Last year she started dating my old roomate who plays World of Warcraft a fair amount around his job; for christmas she aquired a “WoW stole my boyfriend” t-shirt. She is good-natured about his love of Warcraft, however, as shown by the birthday cake she made him three weeks ago”