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Twitter Trusts, No Longer Verifies

Peter Kafka in Media on November 30, 2010 at 10:19 am PT

Want to prove that you’re the real deal on Twitter? Unless you’re really famous, and/or an Apple executive, you can’t do it with a “verified” badge anymore.

Is The Pirate Bay Really Going Legit? Of Course Not.

Peter Kafka in Media on June 30, 2009 at 6:32 am PT

You can hear the head-scratching going on at movie studios and music labels across the world: What just happened to The Pirate Bay? Reports out of Sweden are murky at best. But supposedly, a Scandinavian software outfit is buying the world’s most notorious file-sharing site for about $8 million and will create a service that pays copyright owners when people download their work. But let’s be honest: That’s never going to happen.