A new study shows that piracy may not harm the entertainment industry as much as you’d have them believe. In fact, the researchers believe that there are some benefits from piracy. [Torrent Freak]

Science magazine played what might be a smart or dirty trick on smaller publications depending on your perspective. They sent out a fake and obviously flawed study to show the dangers of open-source scientific journals that don’t review the studies they publish. [National Geographic]

A report on internet freedom suggests that it’s on the decline in the majority of the 60 countries surveyed. [RT]

Amazon is working on their own microconsole at the moment and are going out to find devs to make games for it. That’s quite a bit different than what I recall Ouya doing. [Gamasutra]

There a lot of popular comic book characters but not all of those characters debuted in the pages of a comic, including some very big characters in some universes. [Newsarama]