Archive for October, 2008
Futurama’s Anti-Piracy Message, Just Do It
The latest Futurama movie, Bender’s Game, is released in a few days and as usual it’s already on BitTorrent. However, Matt Groening has included a nice extra on the DVD – a pretty amusing parody on one of the classic anti-piracy messages. Anyone who watched The Simpsons Movie will have noticed Bart in the intro chalking [...]
Chinese State Bans Video Sites, Huge eDonkey Site Survives
The Chinese government has stepped in and banned 10 video sites, while giving warnings to 17 others. The sites were accused of ‘regulations violations’ ranging from running a service without authorization, through to displaying violent or horrific content. None of the charges relate to piracy, even though one of the sites is China’s biggest eDonkey [...]Pirate Bay Talk: How To Dismantle a Billion Dollar Industry
Pirate Bay co-founders Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij gave a keynote speech at the Hack In The Box Security Conference 2008, entitled “How to dismantle a billion dollar industry – as a hobby.†The two discuss how The Pirate Bay grew to be the largest BitTorrent site on the Internet, and some of the challenges [...]Lawyers Forced to Drop P2P ‘Wireless Defense’ Case
A married couple with a combined age of 120 have been accused by UK games lawyers Davenport Lyons of pirating an Atari game, and faced demands for over £500. However, the shocked couple enlisted the help of a popular consumer magazine, and unsurprisingly, the lawyers have backed down. No matter how many times it gets said, [...]Use BitTorrent to Upgrade to Ubuntu ‘Intrepid Ibex’
Ubuntu, the open source GNU/Linux based operating system, is about to release its next big update – Intrepid Ibex. In the past, the update servers would crash very quickly on a big release day, making it hard for people to get the latest update. With BitTorrent, however, this can be easily avoided. Most users of Linux [...]P2Pnet Wins Landmark ‘Hyperlinking†Case
The file-sharing oriented news website, P2Pnet, has won its case against the Canadian businessman Wayne Crookes. The Supreme Court ruled that linking to defamatory material doesn’t constitute as publishing. Since the case is about linking, the outcome will have implications for all websites on the Internet, including BitTorrent sites. Wayne Crookes, a former Green Party organizer, [...]Changeling Movie Review
Director: Clint Eastwood Writer: J. Michael Straczynski Starring: Angelina Jolie John Malkovich Gattlin Griffith Michael Kelly Jeffery Donovan Devon Conti Quote: This is not my son. The newest movie directed by Clint Eastwood “Changeling”. Starring Angelina Jolie as the main the character set in the 1920’s in Los Angeles. It is a true story about a mother who loses [...]Hu’s Leading China
Sadly, I can see this being a real conversation. [vid]WYH-WZkV4wc[/vid]Elevator Disco
Elevator Disco Why didn’t I think of that????RocknRolla
Director: Guy Ritchie Writers: Guy Ritchie Starring: Tom Hardy Thandie Newton Jeremy Piven Gerard Butler Tom Wilkinson Idris Elba Chris Bridges Quote: “I’ve been robbed!” RocknRolla the newest film by Guy Ritchie is the first of a hopeful trilogy if it is popular the first time around. Guy Ritchie has brought us such great films as Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. [...]Site Search
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