4chan

When Christopher Poole (aka Moot) was 15 years old, he founder of the 4chan image board on an IRC channel with 20 people.

Today, the site attracts about 12 million people a month and is the font of many of the Internet's most pervasive memes, from Lolcats to Rickrolling.

Moot doesn't like to do video interviews, but after much pestering, Chris Dixon got him to come on Founder Stories for a rare video appearance.

We'll be running the entire conversation throughout the week, including a sneak peak at what he's doing with his latest startup, Canvas.

In a keynote speech at SXSW, 4chan's founder Chris "moot" Poole said Zuckerberg is wrong about anonymity saying that when users are logged in and identified by their own name, like on Facebook, the "cost of failure is high." Then Poole kicked Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, stating, "Mark Zuckerberg has kind of equated anonymity with a lack of authenticity, almost a cowardice, and I would say that's fully wrong."

4Chan has landed itself in the middle of yet another FBI investigation. This time, though, the site is cooperating with authorities after a Michigan-based member named Ali Saad posted threats to go on a shooting rampage at his community college.

4chan founder Christopher Poole (a.k.a. moot) just launched a limited release of his newest, much anticipated project Canvas to 4,000 users.

Earlier this year book piracy surged after the introduction of the iPad. Although some publishers and authors fear that this will cause their revenues to dwindle, there are plenty of signs that the opposite will happen.

This week, comic book writer Steve Lieber said that his sales went through the roof after pirated scans were shared on 4Chan, and he's not alone.

This year has seen the definite breakthrough for digital books, which led to mixed feelings among publishers and authors.

Today, ICTorrent, the private tracker which was recently revealed to be a DDoS target of anti-piracy company AiPlex Software, celebrates its birthday.

Earlier this week, anti-piracy lawyers ACS:Law had their website taken down by a 4chan DDoS attack. Adding insult to injury, owner Andrew Crossley was harassed at home in the middle of the night by prank phone calls.

Now, through a fault with his website, hundreds of megabytes of private emails have been exposed to the public and uploaded to The Pirate Bay.