When NYU art professor David Darts shows people his lunchbox, “a smile just starts creeping up on their face.” Painted black with a white skull-and-crossbones, the metal box doesn’t hold a pastrami on ...

The recent ordeal surrounding the now defeated SOPA and PIPA proposals followed by the shuttering of file-sharing giant Megaupload has put online piracy back in the spotlight. Despite studies showing ...

2011 is going to be a sad year if music pirates, academics, and hackers are able to create more things to get people excited about music than a multi-billion dollar a year industry. Fans have The ...

Here’s an interesting idea: get a router, Android device, or Raspberry Pi, put it on its own wireless network, and allow anyone to upload and download files. That’s a PirateBox, a small node in the ...

PirateBox is a self-contained file sharing device that blankets the area around it with an anonymous and secure file sharing network. Build one and set up a free and anonymous wireless network ...

A piratebox is a small computer, WiFi adapter, and a hard drive. The idea behind the piratebox is to simply put some storage on a network, accessible to all. It’s great if you’re in a group, need an ...

NYU art professor David Darts has unveiled his PirateBox, a battery-powered Web server inside a skull-and-crossbones lunch pail. It keeps no logs, doesn't connect to the Internet, and turns your local ...