October 30th, 2007
Secure-p2p
You know what sucks about BitTorrent ? Well frankly, a lot of stuff, but it’s the best thing we have right now. The fine folks from The Pirate Bay are hard at work designing the next evolutionary step in P2P file sharing, and I for one, could not be happier! Say what you will about copyright, but The Pirate Bay folks have a vision that transcends the petty greed of any MP3 collector or Warez kiddie. I will gladly welcome a P2P system that eludes ISP filtering, speed limits and those sneaky sons of bitches at MediaSentry.
If any of you have any skills or knowledge worth contributing to the project, please jump in. It may not seem like much, but Secure-p2p will likely have a very real impact on the future of the Internet. We’re getting crushed by draconian, corporate-sponsored laws and Canadian dumbasses who were born on the wrong side of the US border (seriously). A little file-sharing program can be a powerful way to get people thinking about their freedoms, about what copyright really means and what laws should and shouldn’t be.
October 5th, 2007
Jury penalises music file-sharer - BBC NEWS
A Minnesota woman just lost in court against the RIAA, and has been slapped with a quarter-million dollar judgement.
Now I don’t care how much music she was sharing (it wasn’t much!) or how badly she may have messed up her testimony, there’s just no fucking way she could have “cost” the music industry $222,000.
The interesting bit is that this was a jury trial. That means there was a group of people in that court, who decided by majority that this woman was guilty, while the judge set the penalty. I’m… Read the rest of this entry »
August 27th, 2007
Bioshock.
It’s supposed to be gaming bliss. It’s from the same guys who brought us System Shock 1 and 2. It’s going to give Halo 3 a run for the money. I haven’t even played it yet and I’m already convinced it’s a fantastic game.
I haven’t played it, because the developers, like many others, made the foolish decision to use SecuROM copy protection, from the friendly sacks of shit at Sony. SecuROM is really good at copy protection, so good in fact, that it makes it rather difficult for legitimate owners to play the games… Read the rest of this entry »
June 18th, 2007
How to Stop Warez Pirates: Ask Them Nicely | TorrentFreak
It’s all in the headline, folks! It’s an article about an independent software developer who simply asked a warez group to stop pirating his software. Not surprisingly, they immediately complied with his request. You see, the “real” pirates don’t do it for profit, they do it just for the hell of it, because there is a huge demand for warez and cracks and all that fun stuff. This guy wrote a really cool program to do light shows and real-time video effects (sounds familiar ?), so it’s just natural that someone noticed and decided to share this very neat thing with everyone… Read the rest of this entry »
June 9th, 2007
The article at News.com.com.com.com :P
You’ve got to love California and their Hollywood legal system. A federal judge has ordered TorrentSpy.com to start tracking its visitors’ habits, as part of the discovery process in their suit against the MPAA.
It just keeps getting better and better (and by that I mean WORSE). You see, the MPAA doesn’t even have any proof of copyright infringement. They’re asking the defendant to provide self-incriminating evidence, which is a direct violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
This sets one ugly precedent. It’s yet another gross distortion… Read the rest of this entry »
May 22nd, 2007
The Market Function of Piracy, by Jerry Kirkpatrick, professor of international business and marketing at California State Polytechnic University.
Prof. Kirkpatrick explains in his article how software piracy can have a positive effect on sales. He likens it to handing free samples to everyone, which is well known to be a costly yet highly effective marketing strategy, and argues that pirated software can serve as free advertising… Read the rest of this entry »
May 16th, 2007
You may have heard of an Icelandic photographer named Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir (I have no idea how to pronounce that!). She’s taken some gorgeous artistic shots and trick photos that dazzle the eye and mind alike. She’s so good, in fact, that an unscrupulous print shop decided to sell canvas prints of her work without permission, and made a fair chunk of money… Read the rest of this entry »
May 1st, 2007
The colorful pile of user-submitted shit, better known as Digg, issued a little PR message regarding the recent censorship of HD-DVD decryption techniques. Nevermind the fact that these articles got upwards of 15 thousand votes or “diggs”, and were by far the most popular topics of the past week… Read the rest of this entry »
April 29th, 2007
Kaleidescape, makers of ultra-high-end media center equipment, have won a court ruling vs the DVD CCA (copy control association), which alleged that the defendant’s product was illegally circumventing DVD copy protection. For you lazy tards, the Kaleidescape system is like a video iPod on steroids… Read the rest of this entry »
April 28th, 2007
Trent Reznor, the man behind Nine Inch Nails, released three songs off the latest album “Year Zero” in multitrack format, making it possible for just about anyone with music software to remix the tracks. That in itself is nothing new, he did the same thing two years ago when “With Teeth” was released… Read the rest of this entry »
