TECH BUZZ: Just in time for Holiday shopping season, Amazon.com is reportedly getting hit by pirates using a Firefox addon that links away from the Amazon product and directs the user to a free illegal download of the same product. For the time being, the extension appears to have been shut down, but keep an eye out for more from these mischievous Holiday Geek Pirates.

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The Best Links:

1. Firefox Pirates Take Over Amazon
2. Firefox Plugin Makes Piracy Easy
3. An Instructional Video (with obligatory “All Your Base” sound effects)
4. Pirates of the Amazon Addon (currently down)
5. New Firefox Extension Turns Amazon.com Into Illegal Free-For-All

TECH BUZZ: Amazon's second generation Kindle reader is rumored to be available starting sometime early next year. This makes the Kindle a dicey Christmas gift, if you're actually able to get a hold of one.

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1. Amazon’s Kindle 2 Now Slated for Early Next Year?
2. Good Luck Getting A Kindle Before Christmas
3. Amazon Kindle 2 “Early Next Quarter”
4. Amazon’s Kindle 2 Leaked

CULTURE BUZZ: Spore fans are not happy with the game’s anti-piracy DRM, so they’ve taken their protest to Amazon. Right now, over 1,367 of 1,463 total ratings are just one star, giving the highly anticipated game’s launch an Amazonian black eye.

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The Best Links:

1. Spore on Amazon
2. Backlash: Anti-DRM Protesters Trash Spore’s Amazon Rating
3. DRM Opponents Attack Spore’s Amazon.com Rating
4. Amazon Reviewers Do Not Take Kindly To Spore’s DRM
5. Reviewers sabotage Spore’s Amazon rating in protest to ‘draconian’ anti-piracy measures
6. Spore losing the DRM Fight
7. Amazon reviewers clobber Spore DRM
8. Amazon Users Savage ‘Spore”s DRM
9. Backlash on Reddit
10. Spore on BuzzFeed

Members of one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes have been spotted and photographed from the air near the Brazil-Peru border. It’s hard to believe there’re still people on this planet who haven’t been introduced to the glorious ways of Coca-Cola, Nike sneakers, and Popeye’s Biscuits.

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1. HOAX ALERT! Tribe Was Actually Discovered in 1910
2. Those ‘Undiscovered’ Amazon Tribesmen: Bullshit Indeed
3. More Pictures
4. Uncontacted Brazilian Tribe Found Among the Amazon Rainforests. Did they Want to be Found?
5. “Images show indians painted bright red, brandishing bows and arrows”