Pirates of the Amazon.
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is under attack by online pirates. An add-on for the Firefox browser called ‘Pirates of the Amazon’ makes it possible to shop at the Amazon store but leave without paying a dime. Instead, on Amazon product pages the add-on integrates links to ‘free’ copies on The Pirate Bay.
Except they’re not: it’s a project run out of the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam on interface design. Not sure why one of my mum’s favourite admonitions “you’re so sharp you’ll cut yourself” springs to mind.
