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Anti-Piracy Lobby Defeats European Democracy

An amendment designed to protect Internet users from the anti-piracy lobby has been rejected by President Sarkozy of the European Council. The rejection goes against the will of the European Parliament, where 88% of the members already voted in favor of the amendment, which was originally destined to protect file-sharers from Internet disconnection under the [...]

Orange: Our Customers Can Now Access The Pirate Bay

A week ago today, customers of the ISP Orange across the UK and France found that they could no longer access The Pirate Bay. Many of them fired off emails to the service provider, worried that Orange was censoring their access to the Internet. Now, a week later, Orange have answered officially – its customers [...]

Atari Cancels Anti-Piracy Witch-Hunt

After Atari received some bad press recently for mistakenly accusing an elderly couple of pirating one of its games, the company has now stopped the anti-piracy campaign in question. The “witch-hunt”, carried out by the UK law firm Davenport Lyons on behalf of Atari, based on spreadsheets full of IPs gathered by a company named [...]

uTorrent Releases Long-Awaited Mac Version

Until today, uTorrent – the client of choice for most BitTorrent users – was only available on Windows PCs. Now, after years of waiting, Mac users finally have the chance to try uTorrent, to see for themselves how it fares against the competition. uTorrent for Windows saw its first public release in September 2005, and [...]

ISP Must Continue to Block The Pirate Bay

In February 2008, a Danish court ordered the ISP Tele2 to block its customers from accessing The Pirate Bay. The controversial ruling was under appeal but today, in a move which will delight the IFPI, the High Court upheld the decision to force the ISP to stop its customers from accessing the world’s largest BitTorrent [...]

Transporter 3

Transporter 3 Director: Olivier Megaton Writers: Luc BessonRobert Mark Kamen Starring: Jason StathamNatalya RudakovaFrançois BerléandRobert KnepperJeroen Krabbé Quote: You really should think more positive. Where “Transporter 2” was an over-the-top, ridiculous action film, “Transporter 3” is a little more subdued. That’s not to say that it’s low key. There’s plenty of action, plenty of car chases and plenty of martial arts fighting (which, [...]

Four Christmases

Four Christmases   Directed by: Seth Gordon Written by: Matt AllenCaleb Wilson Starring: Vince VaughnReese WitherspoonRobert DuvallSissy SpacekMary SteenburgenJon VoightJon Favreau So Mr. italkfilm has been harassing me about not going to a film all month. I conceded he was right and started by seeing something that would make me laugh.   I think I chose well. Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) [...]

Australia

Australia Director: Baz Luhrmann Writers: Stuart Beattie Baz Luhrmann Starring: Nicole Kidman  Hugh Jackman  David Wenham Bryan Brown  Jack Thompson     Australia an epic movie with “Nicole Kidman” as Lady Sarah Ashley, and  “Hugh Jackman” as Drover, playing the starring actors. Set just before the beginning of World War II, Lady Sarah Ashley is [...]

Bolt

Bolt Directors: Byron HowardChris Williams Writers: Dan FogelmanChris Williams Starring: John Travolta Miley Cyrus   Susie EssmanMark Walton Malcolm McDowell James LiptonGreg Germann Quote: “It is a good day to die!” Bolt the latest movie out in the theaters from Disney. What a great experience. Bolt “John Travolta” is a super hero dog, who fights against evil with his owner Penny “Miley Cyrus”. Penny is [...]

Role Models Movie Review

Role Models Director: David Wain Writers: Paul Rudd David Wain Starring: Seann William ScottPaul RuddChristopher Mintz-PlasseBobb’e J. ThompsonElizabeth BanksJane LynchKen Jeong Quote: “Venti does not mean large, it means twenty.” The latest movie by David Wain is “Role Models,” an off center comedy, covering jokes that are quite crude to the point of almost distasteful. Wheeler “Sean William Scott” and Danny “Paul Rudd” are [...]