December 2009
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Jamie Cullum: I Download Music Illegally Too →
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Torrent Search Engines Unlawful, U.S. Judge Says →
The operator of a popular BitTorrent search site said Monday he will likely challenge last week’s landmark decision by a U.S. judge declaring such sites unlawful and no different from conventional peer-to-peer piracy services.
In a lawsuit brought by the Motion Picture Association of America, U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson in Los Angeles ruled: “Defendants’ technology is nothing more than...
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Giganews Adds VPN to Usenet Service →
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isoHunt Loses US Lawsuit Against Movie Studios →
Following a 2006 complaint by several Hollywood studios, a US federal court in California has ruled that isoHunt is guilty of inducing copyright infringement. Due to the similarities between this case and earlier ones involving Napster and Grokster, the judge decided there is no need to proceed to a full trial. Summary judgment was granted.
iPod touch M110 sniper rifle: another reason to... →
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Napster: The File-Sharing Service That Started It...
NPR:
“Napster wasn’t the problem,” Garland says. “Napster was just one symptom.”
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Unfortunately, Garland doesn’t think iTunes or streaming services like Pandora will save the music industry. Sales of individual tracks or monthly subscriptions don’t generate as much profit for the labels as CD sales. “Now, the legitimate...
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“Soldiers in Iraq pass around big external usb hard drives containing hundreds of...”
– Hand-to-hand file sharing.
Who The Hell Got A Blu-Ray of THIS IS IT??? →
This Is It (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1477715/
Rating: 7.4/10 11,611 votes
ViDEO ……: 1280*720 @ 6926 Kbps
AUDiO ……: DTS 1509 Kbps
SUBTiTLES ..: English
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A year out, where's RIAA's promised ISP help? →
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Why the RIAA really stopped the lawsuits →
“The reason that some at the labels wanted an end to the litigation is that for years it brought down mountains of public scorn. The lawsuits were also expensive and RIAA’s members wanted costs slashed, which happened earlier this year.”
Sandoval also reveals that yet another reason is that the RIAA was trying to get other Net providers to play ball in their imaginary scheme, to have...
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Invictus DVDSCR xViD-xSCR →
xSCR with a pretty huge release here considering the movie has only been out in cinemas for just under 2 weeks now, its the DVDSCREENER of the new film directed by Clint Eastwood called “Invictus” starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.
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I Want To Read 543 "For Dummies" Books On My...
I haven’t seen any buzz around Piracy and the Kindle, Sony Reader, or Nook. The Kindle’s DRM was cracked starting with the first model, but no one on either side seems to be waving flags about it. I suspect that most Kindle users think of it as a cool gadget, but are ultimately interested in the service: A cracked E-Book is not “instantly available”.
Scanning the Top E-Books on TPB;...
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Accused 'Wolverine' pirate calls charges... →
“It’s just ridiculous. I bought it from a Korean guy on the street for five bucks. Then I uploaded it. I didn’t make any money.”
Sanchez, who is 47 and works as a glazier, doesn’t appear to have any direct ties to 20th Century Fox, the Hollywood studio that produced “Wolverine,” or the film industry. To hear Sanchez tell it, he was way downstream from...
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Kloetinge, Zeeland, Nederland. →
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The Ukraine, Luxury Nuclear Bunkers, and Your...
The most important thing to remember in regard to the location of BitTorrent servers is that they don’t actually contain any copyrighted material. They only contain only tiny .torrent files. That said, authorities are obviously after these servers regardless, as they facilitate piracy.
Before going completely dark in October, Demonoid physically moved their servers to The Ukraine, and...
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“RE: LITHUANIA. A commenter:
Well, I am from Lithuanian. I know this story....”
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This Post Will Be Pirated in 3,2,1...
If you think that the likes of the RIAA, MPAA and IFPI have a huge task in front of them in tackling online piracy, spare a thought for Lithuanian Anti-Piracy Association (LANVA) President Vytas Simanavicius. His organization has to tackle an unprecedented level of media piracy which online has reached 99%. To add insult to injury they also have to deal with the embarrassment of being pwned at...
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A Thought to Build Upon or Tear Apart...
Obesity and all you can eat p2p both have an expiration date. Esteem within a group, belonging, and curation all are a part of that. Storage capacity will overwhelm the consumer and the novelty of quantity will be replaced by the desire for quality. Historical precedent? How does cable TV fit in?- a contradiction to this premise? How many channels do people actually watch?
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Notes on Street Hustlers and Evolving...
In the US, there were definitely more digital than physical movie bootlegs by 2005, right? Globally, it’s hard to say because the two are not so distinct. For example – if the dozens of DVDs or VCDs at a market in Malaysia or Turkmenistan are duplicates of the same .AVI downloaded from the web, how is that counted?
But, I would say that, just as the majority of music in the world is still on...
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A New Format Emerged from "The Scene" today - or...
Wonderful World BDSCR XviD-BLUNTROLA
Yes, A Blu-Ray Disc Screener. Commenters are debating whether that’s factual or not. Someone in the industry says:
This was released to the VOD (video on demand) industry a few days ago, with a theater release date as well in Jan. I wonder if this is true BD “screener” or the VOD version? Does it have property warnings like a screener? Any BD SCR would...