Oh Canadian

The Pirate Bay, the most popular P2P files sharing website has been brought under trial by the recording and movie industries. Already, the 'Pirate Bus' has appeared, and 50% of charges have been dropped. Will there be a Pirate Party in Canada?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party

A Canadian software developer convicted of involvement in a foiled fertilizer bomb plot in Britain has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in jail.Momin Khawaja was found guilty in October 2008 by a judge in Ontario. He was tried without a jury.

Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the student journalist sentenced to death for blasphemy in Afghanistan, has been told he will spend the next 20 years in jail after the country's highest court ruled against him – without even hearing his defence.

China officials have shut down Black Hawk Safety Net, the country's biggest hacker training Website, and arrested three people for making hacker tools available online.

A Quebec hit man who turned police informant pleaded guilty on Tuesday to another 27 charges of first-degree murder related mainly to the province's biker war.

Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.

Taiwan's Foxconn Technology, a contract maker of the iPhone and other consumer electronics, insisted Wednesday its treatment of workers is world class after a female employee became the company's eighth Chinese worker to commit suicide this year.

The Federal Court of Canada on Thursday ordered the federal government to allow the return of a Montreal man stranded in Sudan for six years as an al-Qaeda suspect, ruling his charter rights have been breached.
Abousfian Abdelrazik, 47, was arrested and detained while visiting his mother in Sudan in 2003 and for the last year has been living in the Canadian Embassy in Khartoum.

Josef Fritzl, the Austrian accused of imprisoning his daughter and fathering seven children with her, has changed his pleas to guilty on all charges.Fritzl, 73, said video testimony from his daughter, played in court on Tuesday, had made him change his mind.