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The MPAA anti-piracy battle continues with another pirate caught: Edgar Rubio Corazon, a 26-year-old living in Mexico, has been arrested and sentenced to six years and six months in prison for storing and selling pirated content on the Internet. The man has also received a fine of 428,400 pesos after he was found gui... |
23 May 2008
09:13 GMT |
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The fight against pirates who simply ignore the copyright laws records one more win as David M. Fish, a 26-year-old man living in Woodbury, Conn., has been sentenced to 30 months in prison after he was involved in multiple illegal activities. According to a statement signed by the Department of Justice, David Fish di... |
7 May 2008
05:53 GMT |
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Pete Doherty is currently locked up in a West London jail which has the ridiculously resounding name of "Wormwood Scrubs", and where he is said to be receiving the star treatment - that is, enjoying a series of privileges other inmates work hard to achieve. However, since this is Doherty we're talking about, no ... |
15 April 2008
05:49 GMT |
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Finally, celebrity justice has its say. After being arrested for about two million times and miraculously keeping himself out of the slammer, the planet's most infamous and scary-looking crackhead Pete Doherty is finally locked safely behind bars. Unfortunately, no one has yet realized that the best thing to be ... |
9 April 2008
05:32 GMT |
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The brief trial that sent Fouad Mourtada to jail after creating a Facebook profile and impersonating the Moroccan king's younger brother, Prince Moulay Rachid, drew a lot of attention to the African country and the "appalling" human rights conditions there. BBC and CNN both covered the story and caused quite a s... |
20 March 2008
04:06 GMT |
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Nigeria has a bad reputation for being involved in countless (really!) scams on the Internet, mostly having something to do with a grieving widow of a general killed in a fight for freedom, and the woman not being able to receive the money he had saved in a bank, several million dollars. I'm sure everybody recei... |
11 March 2008
08:19 GMT |
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I was wondering how long this would take to happen - but luckily, I didn't place any bets with anyone, because I would have lost. Big time. I was rooting for Amy ditching her loser husband Blake in about five to six months, but it seems that things are happening a lot faster than I expected. Why am I saying this... |
29 February 2008
11:45 GMT |
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Earlier this month, I covered the joke that Fouad Mourtada had played by creating a Facebook profile and claiming he was King Mohammed VI's brother, Prince Moulay Rachid. He was swiftly arrested and the jury didn't take its time before coming up with a sentence. And it was a harsh one at that: 3 years in j... |
26 February 2008
06:17 GMT |
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The history of humankind has seen many audacious acts and even more that can be simply named with one word: manslaughter. It was often endorsed by the ruling body and because of that it was all of a sudden a good thing to behead or stone the alleged culprit to death. That being said, political violence, as it is the ... |
23 January 2008
16:31 GMT |
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I have a feeling 2008 will be the year of major-league celebrity trainwrecks. Britney kick-started it in style with her police standoff and taking one of her kids hostage, now there's talk of rapper Eminem spiraling out of control, Amy Winehouse has been stirring things up in Britain and now another British hott... |
11 January 2008
10:40 GMT |
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I know, I know, the Amy Wino drama is definitely no match for Britney, but the British trainwreck sure knows how to hold her ground and make the headlines often enough to preserve her whacky reputation. The fact is, we can all agree on the fact that while Wino's addictions are much more public and severe than Br... |
9 January 2008
09:41 GMT |
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Wikipedia is the site where you go for information when you have something that is unclear for you. However, it is not the company to look up to for management hiring examples, they have made a bad choice that is the equivalent of General Custer recruiting Indians or the Templar Knights welcoming Saladin as second in... |
18 December 2007
14:51 GMT |
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As if former American Idol finalist and trainwreck in the making Jessica Sierra didn't have enough trouble to deal with (what with her parole violation and her latest arrest for disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest without violence), news has come out that Jess really has been a very bad girl. As in very... |
7 December 2007
10:55 GMT |
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Whenever my friends and I go out and the topic of Amy Wino pops up, I am always the one who ends up getting laughed at. "How can you possibly despise Britney Spears and stand up for this wreck?", someone will always say. And yes, all this is 99% true: Amy Wino is a pill-popping, drunken mess of a woman, who has a har... |
23 November 2007
04:02 GMT |
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Amy Winehouse's husband has begged her to beat bulimia before it kills her. The singer's husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, reportedly made his voice heard from behind bars (I almost wrote "from behind that grave", and judging by the way he looks, he sure is on the right track) and declared himself shocked by Am... |
19 November 2007
11:04 GMT |
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I'm still a bit reluctant to actually say I'm feeling sorry for Amy Wino's husband, who is currently in jail and it seems that he will be staying put in the clink for at least another couple of weeks. I am definitely feeling sorry for the troubled singer, though, for falling for such a guy. The fact is... |
12 November 2007
06:57 GMT |
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A US court accused no less than 17 persons of identity theft, credit card fraud and other illegal activities conducted and promoted with the help of the Internet, Reuters reported today. According to the same source, a corporation is also involved in the case. It appears that the fraudsters obtained no less than $4 m... |
9 November 2007
03:08 GMT |
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Hulk Hogan's son Nick Bollea was arrested on Wednesday morning after turning himself in for reckless driving involving serious bodily injury. But news has come out that there's more to it - and apparently, Nick was also charged with operating a vehicle with a breath-alcohol level of .02 or higher (while bei... |
8 November 2007
03:12 GMT |
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Gregory Kopiloff, a 35-year-old man from Seattle, admitted that he used P2P file sharing application to download private documents in order to obtain credit cards. The Register reports the scammer bought stuff online up to $73,000 using the information stolen from approximately 50 people. The man pleaded guilty when ... |
7 November 2007
13:51 GMT |
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Finally, some justice in this world. Remember Hulk Hogan's 17-year-old son Nick Bollea? He was involved in a horrendous car crash a few months ago, from which he escaped unscathed but in which he managed to almost kill a friend. And finally it seems that Nick will have to face the consequences of his own actions... |
7 November 2007
10:40 GMT |
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Just hours after giving a clean performance at the MTV European Music Awards in Germany, a shocking footage has emerged depicting the Babyshambles front man Pete Doherty back at his home in Wiltshire injecting himself with cocaine. The video in question is shot on a mobile phone and lasts 1min 14secs (you can watch ... |
6 November 2007
03:51 GMT |
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No, it's not a rhetorical question and yes, it could go under the heading of wishful thinking but this time, it's for real. The popwreck could soon tread the yellow (or rather orange) brick road on which such household names as I'll-Get-AIDS-From-Stepping-Into-Pee Paris, Rehab-Sex Lindsay or Saint Nico... |
22 September 2007
06:51 GMT |
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O.J. Simpson is not the world's sharpest person - proof of this is that he is back in jail. Yes, it's official and quite frankly - after the latest incident he managed to get himself into - it's not really a surprise. But it's true: Las Vegas police officers busted him in his Palms Hotel room yest... |
17 September 2007
04:05 GMT |
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So now you get years in jail, from eBay. Well, it's not as easy as you would expect it to be - Prerequisites: Be desperate for money, be evil, have an eBay account. Mission: scam people on eBay, get caught, receive years in jail. It's not too complicated, if you have the right skills; Jordan Dias surely had... |
10 September 2007
03:26 GMT |
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In case you're a console modder and you just can't keep your hands off your beloved gadgets even if you're in jail, we've got some bad news for you. It turns out that the famous next-gen consoles, Xbox 360, PS3 and the best-selling portable Nintendo gaming device, the DS will be banned from jails... |
10 September 2007
02:59 GMT |
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Software, video games, DVD movies and MP3 music files, all available online, most of them before commercially available to the general public. Does that sound good to you? I don't know, but it sure is illegal! And that was all Eli El's business - he was a 40 year old hacker involved in one heck of a large p... |
3 September 2007
05:08 GMT |
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Must've been the "spring me out of the slammer fast" special weekend, folks, as another one of the stars we were oh so counting on to give us a nice jail house diary in a few years' time filled with loads of interesting facts about life in the slammer somehow managed to avoid it. So it's no joy again, ... |
25 August 2007
05:46 GMT |
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Nicole Richie's managed to pull another stunt on all of us. Remember how a couple of weeks ago we were all wondering how the poor thing was going to handle the four days in jail she was sentenced to serve by the end of September? Well, wonder no more. Nicole managed to work her magic on the law enforcement segme... |
25 August 2007
04:59 GMT |
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There's been a lot of "in jail, out of jail" traffic these days, and some things that we only suspected are now becoming more and more certain. Like that fact that cocaine possession, for once, must have been made legal a while ago, otherwise I can't explain how come Lindsay Lohan will almost certainly walk... |
23 August 2007
06:28 GMT |
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Young people hacking computers and scamming others on the Internet are starting to become more and more numerous. Cyber-crime is a lot easier to commit than real life crime, it's more at hand to fraud people on eBay than to steal money directly from their pockets, that's because fooling people on the Intern... |
22 August 2007
07:48 GMT |
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Lindsay Lohan's in rehab, and according to recent press reports, the teen princess is cleaning toilets in some luxury facility somewhere in Utah. Well, if it puts her back on track then… go, Lindsay! But now, scandal hits again. Lindsay's getting sued by one of the passengers that were in the car she allege... |
16 August 2007
04:13 GMT |
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Hollywood is a beautiful place, a world on its own that, unfortunately, does not have a correspondent in our real world. So, that basically means that all that's left for us to do is to work hard, dream and then work some more, in the hope of getting there some day. Preferably before we reach our thirties becaus... |
13 August 2007
12:42 GMT |
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You'd think that, since Paris was lucky enough to have her sentence reduced from 45 days to 23, she would stop talking about the joke that her 'jail stint' was. After all, she was given some sort of special treatment (even if not as special as she would have wanted it) and she only came out of Lynwood ... |
8 August 2007
06:51 GMT |
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Nicole Richie has been sentenced to five days in the slammer for her second DUI bust over a short period of time. While you try to soak in the sad reality behind her sentence (I mean five entire days!), you should know that she did not get any kind of special treatment. No, not at all! Not even when the judge shorten... |
3 August 2007
11:02 GMT |
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In December last year, 'Prison Break' star Lane Garrison (who played the part of 'Tweener' in the series until he got killed off) was involved in a very serious car accident that resulted in the death of a 17-year old boy who was sitting in the passenger seat next to the driver, Garrison. Also in... |
3 August 2007
04:25 GMT |
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Justice is blind, they say. Sure it is! Maybe for us, regular folks, the saying applies but, when it comes to celebrities (and I'm not speaking here only about the kind of celebrities I write about every single day), they always seem to get the better part of the deal. I mean, I don't know what would happen... |
28 July 2007
06:29 GMT |
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While Lindsay Lohan has been MIA ever since her Monday night arrest (see all the details HERE and HERE), the media simply can't get enough of her latest drama. Seeing that this was, in fact, her second DUI in as many months and that she even added to it some extra charges of cocaine possession and transporting a... |
27 July 2007
04:27 GMT |
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Ever since Lindsay Lohan was arrested, there has been nothing but speculation and rumors and, in short, madness all over the Internet and in the media. Questions like 'Where is she?', 'What will happen to her career?', 'Is she back in rehab?' or 'Will she get jail time?' became... |
26 July 2007
09:19 GMT |
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When Paris Hilton was released from the Lynwood correctional facility, she vouched she was about to change her wicked ways (gotta love that word!) and do more stuff for other people as well, and not only focus on her own personal wellbeing. Of course, almost in the same breath, she also said that she never did drugs ... |
26 July 2007
04:12 GMT |
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Lindsay Lohan is in deep s**t and, at this point, even that could be an understatement! In the saga 'Oh, how the mighty have fallen', Lindsay is by far the only starlet to ever find herself in such huge trouble. Sure, there's also Nicole Richie (who might go to jail come this August) and Paris Hilton (... |
25 July 2007
05:17 GMT |
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Just days after she was released from Promises, where she completed a 30-day rehabilitation program, Lindsay Lohan is already behind bars. Although the actress already has two other cases pending, one for allegedly crashing her car into a van and another one for DUI, when she hit a curb and smashed her Benz, this did... |
24 July 2007
10:22 GMT |
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Ever since she was released from jail, Paris Hilton has done everything in her power to prove the public and the media that she is a changed woman. Every word that she uttered on Larry King (in the interview that will forever be remembered as the dullest TV moment in the history of dull TV moments) turned out to be f... |
23 July 2007
08:35 GMT |
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When comedienne Sarah Silverman took the stage at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, right on the eve of Paris Hilton's grand entrance in Lynwood jail, everybody knew for a fact that some jokes at her expense were bound to be told. Of course, what no one saw coming was the fact that Paris herself would attend the ceremo... |
20 July 2007
04:08 GMT |
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I was tired and the day was looking pretty bad when I found out that Paris Hilton is working on a new album, even though her first one was a total flop in every way. I read this and I thought to myself: "This is gold, man! Priceless info". News like that totally cheered me up and reminded me of some past events from ... |
17 July 2007
09:31 GMT |
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I'm sure you all recall what Paris Hilton promised when she got out of jail. She said that prison was the hardest thing that she ever had to face and that it has been a life changing experience. Basically, she intended to focus more on her work, whichever that may be. She also mentioned at some point that she wa... |
9 July 2007
10:35 GMT |
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Yes folks, it is true, Inmate #9818783 was released at midnight from the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California. Her original 45-day sentence was cut in half, based on her good behavior, so the heiress served almost half the time: 23 days to be exact.There was a throng of media representatives wai... |
26 June 2007
06:06 GMT |
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Fresh out of his troubles with the law, Boy George (real name: George O'Dowd) is again in deep waters but, this time, things are a bit more complicated than the first time around, when he simply made himself guilty of falsely alerting the police about a burglary in his apartment. Oh, and of having drugs in said... |
1 May 2007
09:05 GMT |
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First off, I don't even know if there is such a thing as being charged for assault with a deadly can of beans but, if there was, then Hugh Grant would probably be found guilty of it. That is, if pictures don't lie... The British actor is being accused by a paparazzo of bodily harm and injurious behavior on ... |
27 April 2007
07:07 GMT |
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A while ago, I was telling you that Joe Francis, the young millionaire who founded the Mantra Inc. studio and the universally known 'Girls Gone Wild' series was in serious s**t. Well, you can take that, add more troubles and more s**t and you kinda get a vague idea of the problems this 'son of Hollywoo... |
24 April 2007
10:08 GMT |
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JLo is taking legal action against a British newspaper... No, strike that: Jennifer Lopez (she said she didn't want to be referred to by the JLo name anymore and it's best to play it safe) and Marc Anthony have contacted their Belfast high power attorney, Paul Tweed, and are already moving in for the kill. ... |
17 April 2007
09:11 GMT |
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