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An Ex- Admin of the now defunct bittorrent site, ‘Swebits', has been fined $652,000 for uploading one pre-release movie a few years ago. Along with the crippling fine, he will have to serve 160 hours of community service and has a suspended Jail sentence hanging over his head for helping …

The most recent bitcoin boom was driven by Chinese investment, with people from the country buying up more of it than the rest of the world put together just a few weeks ago. Today though, that situation is very different, as following increased regulations by the Chinese government making trading …

Twin Galaxies, the long time video game world record score keeper, has disappeared off of the face of the internet. The official site redirects you a “not found” page on the owners site, the Facebook hasn't been updated in weeks and the Twitter has been quiet for over seven days. …

In another classic example of site blocking not achieving its original goals and simultaneously overstepping the mark into the realms of censoring completely legitimate content, Sky's recent blocking of several torrent websites as per UK court orders, ended up also blocking popular image hosting site Imgur over the weekend. penis …

Amazon has a long history of not treating its employees very well, whether it's not providing adequate air conditioning in some of its facilities – leading some workers to pass out on the job – or leaving warehouse employees working alone in huge empty buildings. But one constant theme seems …

According to new emails outed as part of the Kim Dotcom extradition trial, New Zealand customs officials were offered the chance to earn “brownie pointts,” by the organisation's operations manager, if they gave up secretive information on the people they were investigating and handed it over to the FBI. how to …

Often used as a tool for relaxation – or a murderous weapon if you're watching Seven Psychopaths – the art of paper folding, or Origami, can now add another use to its resume, as  a team of engineers from Brigham Young University has been in touch with an origami mathematician to figure …

Amazon Studios  has just announced that it plans to shoot all of its 2014 series in 4K and will eventually make the ultra high resolution available for customers to stream. Programming will include both comedies and drama's and will most likely be put on Amazon's instant video service which is …

One of the more popular, but overlooked (especially in terms of government sanctioned DNS blocks) ISPs in the UK, Plus.net, has unveiled some new pricing plans for its broadband packages, with pricing that could really take the fight to some of the bigger firms out there. The new deal sees …

Anyone trying to visit the Pirate Bay this morning will have found that the usual .SX address is no longer valid. Instead, it's now operating at thepiratebay.pe, a Peru based address. Temporarily it was running at thepiratebay.ac, but now it's settled on its new South American home. For now at …

Google has been gunning for robot development for some time now, possibly lining it up to go head to head with Amazon over automated delivery services – and now it can do it over frozen lakes too, as it just bought Boston Dynamics, the company behind the Big Dog service …

Invited down to a glamorous hotel in central London by YOYOTech to see ‘The Resurgence of PC Gaming', KitGuru was intrigued. The Centerprise performance PC brand was certainly acting confident, but in the face of recent IDC and Gartner reports, was that confidence mis-placed?  Ignoring the wine and nibbles, we …

While it sounds like a punchline for a joke about the worst person alive, Lawfuel has announced its winner of Lawyer of the Year, granting it not to an individual but to the entire legal team of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. While there's a lot of people working in the …

When Dino PC told us that it was holding a LAN party with StarCraft II and Grid 2 tournaments, in association with Gigabyte, Nvidia and The Last Resort, KitGuru grabbed the camera and headed out to London. Held at the Meltdown Bar in London, Dino PC’s gaming extravaganza gave excited …

If you've never visited a Blockbuster but it was on your list of things to do before you die, you better do it this weekend as by Monday, every single one of the chain's last remaining stores will permanently shut down. For good this time. It's not coming back. This …

In the wake of the news that Youtube had begun stripping ownership of many Let's Play videos away from video content producers, some developers and publishers have sided with the Youtubers and have been making a real effort to have those videos returned to their original owners. Not all though, …

South Eastern Australian state, Victoria, has become the first to make ‘revenge-porn' illegal, by modifying existing sexting laws, making it against the law to publish nude pictures of someone without their consent. The hope is that this will help stop jilted lovers attempting to humiliate their ex-partners. The new law …

YouTube is at it again, the new comment system is still a mess and now gaming channels are being flooded with unfounded copyright claims. This is all down to a new content ID system that is being implemented, starting this week, every uploaded video will go through a series of …

There are a few educational games floating about in the library of Rift enabled experiences at the moment, Titans of Space being perhaps the most awe inspiring of the bunch, but they're few and far between. Looking to add at least one more to that number is Europeana, a cultural …

Redtube, one of the internet's most popular websites, acts as a Youtube like video sharing site for pornography, but despite its tantalising content, many users may be unwilling to revisit now that they've been hit by demands for compensation from a German legal firm representing a Swiss company called The …

NASA's Curiosity rover continues to throw up exciting information about its current home, Mars, where it has found evidence that suggests there was once a fresh water lake in an area known as Yellowknife Bay that was neither too acidic, nor too alkaline to support life. abortion persuasive essay Announced …

As the second weekend of be quiet! and Kitguru's Facebook competition has rolled around, it means everyone has another chance to win one of three great prizes. All you have to do to enter is answer a simple question, so why not take a swing at it? But what's up for …

Taking a quick look at any of the comings and goings of online drug marketplaces over the past year will give you several different impressions. One is obviously that it's astounding how simple it is to purchase supposedly “controlled,” substances online with a little technical know how, but the second …

The gaming industry often gets a lot of flak for not being a gender neutral workplace and alongside that negative comparison, EA games has been similarly voted the worst company of the year several years in a row based on online voting, so it's somewhat of a surprise to hear …

It was back in November that we first started to hear details of the SOPA like, US trade agreement known as the Trans Pacific Patnership, that would impose big limits of personal privacy, see worldwide draconian crackdowns on software and media piracy and potentially stop life saving drugs from being …

When you depend on the internet for work and gaming as I do, the concept of not going online for a week is a bit of a strange one. It's the kind of thing I like to do when I go on holiday, including turning my phone off, but it's …

British nerd rapper Dan Bull has always been a fan of file lockers. Sites like Megaupload helped him distribute his first album – until it was taken down in early 2012. Fortunately for him and for the rest of us, Kim Dotcom went on to launch Mega, a similar cloud …

We all had a good laugh and a think about Amazon's recent announcement that it was working on drone delivery to help reduce the time some products get to your doorstep and giggled again when Waterstones jokingly said that it would start delivering books via owl. However this might not …

As you no doubt have guessed, Kim Dotcom, is not the Megaupload founder's real name. His birth name, the one he had before changing it to sound like the early 2,000 bubble, was Kim Schmitz. Now though, he could be set to change it again, as a bunch of New …

Hewlett Packard has announced that the new year will see another large number of its UK employees let go from the company. In total as many as 1,124 will be made redundant by the end of March 2014. According to union leaders (via the Guardian), the unlucky number will be …