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...pirate dens. Somali fishermen, whose industry was always small-scale, lacked the advanced boats and technologies of their interloping competitors, and also complained of being shot at by foreign fishermen with water cannons and firearms. "The first pirate gangs emerged in the '90s to protect against foreign trawlers," says Peter Lehr, lecturer in terrorism studies at Scotland's University of St. Andrews and editor of Violence at Sea: Piracy in the Age of Global Terrorism. The names of existing pirate fleets, such as the National Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia or Somali Marines, are testament to the pirates' initial motivations...
...electronic music group Ratatat, who will be performing earlier that evening at Yardfest. Steath Foxx is composed of R. Derek Wetzel ’10 on keyboard and vocals, guitarist John “Jay” J. Costa, Jr. ’09, bassist Mike Leitzel, and drummer Peter Simonelli, a student at the Art Institute of Boston. Stealth Foxx was notified of their selection on the night of April 14. “We had prepared a couple of tracks specifically for this...so we had our fingers crossed,” Costa said...
...Pirate Bay, for its part, was unrepentant. In a statement streamed live on the firm's website, Peter Sunde reckoned it "bizarre we were even convicted at all." Its defense: the company doesn't host or store the offending material, and files aren't actually exchanged on the site. Instead, the Pirate Bay acts like a directory, pointing users to material hosted elsewhere on the Web. In that sense, Sunde told the BBC recently, "there's no difference between us and Google." (See the 50 best websites...
...fight piracy online continues as well. A court in Stockholm on Friday found the four men behind The Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing sites, guilty of breaching copyright law for allowing its users to illegally access music, movies and TV shows online. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom were sentenced to a year in jail, and ordered to cough up $3.6 million to a raft of entertainment firms - from EMI to Columbia Pictures - bilked, said the court, out of valuable revenues. The decision, said John Kennedy, boss of the International...
...Peter M. Bozzo ’12, a Crimson editorial comper, lives in Greenough Hall...