Three down, a billion to go

The co-founders of "The Pirate Bay" have been sentenced to a year in the brig and ordered to pay $3.5 million in damages [1] ... not for copyright infringement, but for making copyrighted material available to the actual pirates [2]. Intellectual property owners declare victory, but are disappointed that the villains will not be shot by Navy SEAL snipers. At least one observer sees fit to recall the secret of the Dread Pirate Roberts [3], which earns him a lap dance from Princess Buttercup.

Meanwhile, Stagnetti has his revenge: Stardock's Demigod has around 140,000 users three days after release, but avast! ... about 120,000 of them didn't pay for the game [4]. The other 20,000 are getting screwed with connection problems, of course, having to compete for database resources with all the bastard buccaneers [5].