If you look closely you can see it's the same tree that has been cut down in stages then reverse the order of the photos to look like time laps.
Anyway back to the topic does anyone here have an update on how the war on file sharing is being won?
Same people who drink and smoke pot have not been effected by the billions of wasted dollars over the years,
I see the same for this lame ass file sharing law.
But if it makes the Blake's of this country happy, spend away....
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57...ht-by-july-12/RIAA chief: ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12
Comcast, Time Warner and Verizon are among the ISPs preparing to implement a graduated response to piracy by July, says the music industry's chief lobbyist.
NEW YORK--The country's largest Internet service providers haven't given up on the idea of becoming copyright cops.
Last July, Comcast, Cablevision, Verizon, Time Warner Cable and other bandwidth providers announced that they had agreed to adopt policies designed to discourage customers from illegally downloading music, movies and software. Since then, the ISPs have been very quiet about their antipiracy measures.
But during a panel discussion before a gathering of U.S. publishers here today, Cary Sherman, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, said most of the participating ISPs are on track to begin implementing the program by July 12.
Supporters say this could become the most effective antipiracy program ever. Since ISPs are the Internet's gatekeepers, the theory is that network providers are in the best position to fight illegal file sharing. CNET broke the news last June that the RIAA and counterparts at the trade group for the big film studios, had managed to get the deal through--with the help of the White House.
Sherman told attendees of the Association of American Publishers' annual meeting, that planners had always said that setting up an antipiracy program like this could take a year. He told CNET following his panel that the process isn't as easy as turning on a switch.
"Each ISP has to develop their infrastructure for automating the system," Sherman said. They need this "for establishing the database so they can keep track of repeat infringers, so they know that this is the first notice or the third notice. Every ISP has to do it differently depending on the architecture of its particular network. Some are nearing completion and others are a little further from completion."
The program, commonly referred to as "graduated response," requires that ISPs send out one or two educational notices to those customers who are accused of downloading copyrighted content illegally. If the customer doesn't stop, the ISP is then asked to send out "confirmation notices" asking that they confirm they have received notice.
I'm not referring to Wild Cobra's picture. I'm referring to your stupid ones.
Don't confuse "referring' to "Debunking"
Didn't.
http://thepiratebay.se/blog/210TPB LOSS
We were down a few hours earlier today. There's no need to worry, we haven't been raided this time. We're only upgrading stuff since we're still growing.
One of the technical things we always optimize is where to put our front machines. They are the ones that re-direct your traffic to a secret location. We have now decided to try to build something extraordinary.
With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi, we're going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air. This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war.
We're just starting so we haven't figured everything out yet. But we can't limit ourselves to hosting things just on land anymore. These Low Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) are just the first attempt. With modern radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km away. For the proxy system we're building, that's more than enough.
But when time comes we will host in all parts of the galaxy, being true to our slogan of being the galaxy's most resilient system. And all of the parts we'll use to build that system on will be downloadable.
double post
Last edited by velik_m; 03-19-2012 at 01:41 PM. Reason: double post
Interesting.
This link expounds on it a little further I think:
http://blog.authorsrights.org.uk/201...nes-copyright/
I wonder where they came up with 2001 for the cut off. If it was simply due to it being the turn of the century, then that's a stupid reason.
I think idea would be better suited if they were to move it back another 40-50 years.
I also wonder how they will determine compensation to the authors/publishers.
lol real act of war
Does Pirate Bay not understand what airspace means
The Hollywood chamber of commerce sounds like a group of ass holes, but if they've trademarked their image, then tough . Remove the image from the helmet.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...=related_rightISP: Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a day
Until January, Megaupload was a major customer of Carpathia Hosting. Now Megaupload is facing a federal indictment, and its servers have become a major burden for Carpathia.
Carpathia is the proud owners of 1,103 servers with approximately 25 petabytes of Megaupload data on them. The government seized Megaupload's assets, so the firm can't pay its bills and Carpathia has cancelled Megaupload's service contract. But Carpathia hasn't been able to reuse the servers for other customers because doing so might interfere with the Megaupload court case or invite lawsuits from Megaupload customers who lose data as a result.
On Tuesday, the hosting firm filed a request with a Virginia federal court asking for relief from the financial burden of continuing to maintain the servers. The company estimates it pays $9,000 per day for rack space, power, and connectivity. In addition, the servers themselves are worth $1.25 million. Since Megaupload is no longer paying for service, Carpathia would like to re-allocate the servers for the use of other customers.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has intervened in the case on behalf of Megaupload's users, some of whom used the service for legitimate file transfers. EFF has argued that these innocent users have a right to this data, and has threatened to sue to vindicate these users' rights.
Carpathia calls 25 petabytes an "historically and mind-bogglingly large amount of data," and argues that if that data needs to be preserved, someone else—the government, Megaupload, or an interested party such as the MPAA or EFF—should bear the costs of preserving the data. The problem is that so far no one has come up with a way to satisfy all interested parties. Megaupload is willing to take custody of the data, but the government and the MPAA have both objected, perhaps fearing that Megaupload would destroy evidence. The other parties—the government, EFF, and MPAA—have all said they're not willing to take custody of the servers.
Carpathia suggests several possible resolutions. One would be to allow Megaupload to put its site back online for a limited period of time so that legitimate users could download their data; after that, the data would be deleted and Carpathia would be free to do what it wanted with its servers. Another option would be for the courts to order a third party—most likely the government or Megaupload—to take custody of (and pay Carpathia for) the servers. A third would be for the parties to pay Carpathia for the costs of continuing to maintain the servers. Carpathia wants the government to pick one of these options, because right now the situation is costing it thousands of dollars a day.
http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-t...es-why-120326/Kim Dotcom: The US Government is Wrong, Here’s Why
For the first time since his arrest in January, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is responding to allegations in what he calls the “MPAA-sponsored” indictment. Eager to fight back, Dotcom refutes several “nonsense” claims made by the Government. In addition, he shows that Mega wasn’t a big bad pirate haven, but a legitimate service that may have been shutdown for political reasons.
For a man who’s the main defendant in one of the biggest criminal cases ever brought in the US, Kim Dotcom is surprisingly composed.
The Megaupload founder is convinced of his innocence, and instead of letting fear or anger get to him, he is excited. Deep into the night, Dotcom digs through heaps of paperwork, collecting evidence that shows how he was framed by the US Government.
Talking to TorrentFreak by phone, he gives example after example of why he thinks the indictment twists the truth. While Megaupload’s lawyers are still working on the first motion in response to the indictment, he agreed to exclusively share the first details with us.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...lection-304058German Pirate Party Scores Second State Victory
Anti-copyright group wins four seats in German state election in Saarland.
COLOGNE, Germany - Proving its victory in Berlin state elections last year wasn't a fluke, Germany's Pirate Party entered its second state parliament this weekend, winning four seats in the tiny state of Saarland.
The Pirates, whose party platform includes a pledge to reform or abolish online copyright laws, won 7.4 percent of the vote, making them the fourth-largest party in the state, ahead of the Greens.
Copyright discussions played little role in the Pirate's successful campaign, however. The party instead focused on issues of social and political reform.
The victory follows last year's state election in Berlin, where Pirates won 15 parliamentary seats, taking nearly 9 percent of the vote.
Saarland's election results will silence any pundits who wrote of the Pirates as a short-term phenomenon. Now most are predicting they will secure seats in the two other states set to go to the polls this year: the northern region of Schleswig-Holstein and North-Rhein Westphalia, Germany's largest state by population. The regional battles are prepartion for Germany's national elections, which will be held next year.
Since their Berlin victory, the Pirate Party has consistently polled over five percent nationwide -- the minimum required to enter parliament in Germany's proportional representation voting system.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...823738,00.html
lol framed!
yeah i found that part funny too. His excuses don't strike me as particularly strong either. I guess we shall see...
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2...-downloads.arsSony tries cutting off homebrew exploits, takes down Vita game downloads
Sony's never-ending battle to control the content that runs on its hardware has moved to a new front on the Vita, with the company taking down downloadable versions of two PSP les in response to reports that they include programming holes that allow the Vita to run unsigned, homebrew code.
On March 1, the hackers at Wololo.net first publicly announced that their homebrew Vita Half Byte Loader (VHBL) worked by exploiting a vulnerability in a downloadable copy of the PSP le Motorstorm: Arctic Edge, releasing a video of Doom being loaded onto the system by way of proof. Sony responded quickly, removing Motorstorm from the PlayStation Store just before VHBL was officially released the next day.
Users that had previously downloaded Motorstorm could still use the exploit, though, and the hackers claim they went to great pains to ensure that a few thousand people in and around the hacking community were able to download the game before the details of the hack were made public. Previous purchasers are no longer able to redownload the game from the PlayStation Store, however, potentially leaving some innocent bystanders without access to legally purchased les if they delete their existing copy (Sony did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter).
Fast forward to Sunday, when the Wololo hackers teased that they had found another exploit in Japanese and European PlayStation Store download Everybody's Tennis that could, in the hackers' tongue-in-cheek words, be "extremely dangerous for [Sony's] business," by letting people play les "such as 20 year-old 8-bit games and 154 different versions of Pong." Following form, Sony once again removed the game from the PSN store just before the hackers publicly released the new exploit yesterday.
Wololo claims its VHBL hack is useful only for running homebrew software and not for playing pirated PSP or Vita games. Still, Sony has taken a zero-tolerance approach to players running unauthorized code on its systems in the past, usually responding to breaches by releasing re-secured firmware updates, which hackers subsequently re-hacked.
Now, Sony instead seems to be using its control of PSP game downloads on the Vita to try to cut off the supply of exploitable games as quickly as possible, opening up a new front in the war for control of the Vita hardware. They might have an uphill battle on their hands, though, as Wololo's hackers claimed to "collectively have access to about 5 to 10 user mode game exploits in psp games" earlier this month, and have created a so-called "exploit factory" to easily port VHBL as new exploits are found. We could be entering a new era in the Sony hacking wars, where exploits are first released quietly before being publicly deployed as tactical weapons that whittle down the number of downloadable PSP les available from the PlayStation Store.
Sony
http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-d...-twist-120327/RapidShare Declared Legal In Court, With a Twist
A Higher Regional Court in Germany has ruled that file-hosting service RapidShare operates legally in Germany. The verdict is the result of a long-standing legal battle between the Swiss-based file-hosting service and music rights group GEMA. It’s not all good for RapidShare though, as the company now has to monitor external websites for incoming links to infringing files.
In the aftermath of the Megaupload shutdown, people have been keeping a close eye on court cases involving other file-hosting services, RapidShare included.
During the past several years RapidShare has made tremendous efforts to cooperate with copyright holders and limit copyright infringements. But this couldn’t prevent the company from getting involved in a handful of lawsuits against rightsholders.
Two week ago, a press release published by copyright holders claimed that RapidShare had suffered an enormous defeat in court. However, now that the court has published its final decision, RapidShare is claiming a victory of its own.
In the verdict of RapidShare’s legal dispute against the music rights group GEMA, the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg explicitly recognizes that RapidShare’s business model is legal. This news is music to the ears of the file-hoster.
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http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/perm...12/120330drugsThe War on Piracy = The War on Drugs...
But does the comparison really make sense? After all, the drug trade features violent cartels, 'mules,' overdoses, gang warfare... pooping condoms after cross-Atlantic flights! By comparison, the war on piracy involves ripping off Metallica; it features a finite number of supply channels (ISPs) and lots of legal alternatives...
Yet this is an analogy that keeps sticking, for a number of reasons. Both 'wars' feature endless crackdowns, shakedowns and raids, not to mention persistent 'abuse' and a seemingly unstoppable level of 'usage'. And just like the government, this is a memo that executives in the traditional music industry are getting, but rarely discussing. Which why it was surprising to hear it out loud from Rio Caraeff, CEO of VEVO, a joint venture involving three out of the four major labels:
"Piracy is a bit like the war on drugs, it's an unwinnable war in my opinion. But that's not necessarily the opinion of the industry, but I think the solution is to provide access to entertainment to as many people as possible, through a variety of different models – including the free models."
But Caraeff only has a limited vote. And all indications point to a far greater level of anti-piracy enforcement ahead, especially as an increasingly-agitated Hollywood steps in. That means stepped-up action against infringing companies, more raids against high-profile operations like MegaUpload, and according to sources, more direct action against the executives and employees at these companies. And, continued clampdowns against the users snorting all that free music...
if they did mess up on the indictment that could unravel the whole thing. doubt it will get that far, but at least we get to hear everything these days eventually.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/s...,2782373.storySupport for Germany's maverick Pirate Party has rocketed since its strong showing in a regional election, a poll showed on Tuesday, potentially raising the chances of a "grand coalition" of the two major parties taking power next year.
The Pirates, who champion Internet freedom, would win 12 percent today, the Forsa poll showed, their best result since the founding of the party in 2006 and up from the 7.4 percent they won in last month's election in the tiny state of Saarland.
That puts them only just behind Germany's third most popular party, the Greens, who were down one percentage point from the previous week at 13 percent, the poll showed.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's junior coalition partner, the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), was on 3 percent, the Forsa poll showed, up slightly from the last poll but still below the 5 percent threshold for entering the Bundestag lower house.
The FDP crashed out of the Saarland assembly in the March election there with just 1.2 percent.
The success of the Pirates has wider national implications.
By eating into support for other smaller parties, they may leave a "grand coalition" of the two major parties - Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) and the opposition centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) - as the only option for Germany after a 2013 national election.
Political analysts say the Pirate Party is building the momentum to win seats in state assemblies in Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in elections scheduled for May.
Commenting on the jump in support for the Pirates, Forsa head Manfred Guellner told stern magazine, which published the poll, that they were taking votes from all the other parties.
"They are not confined to a narrow clientele, they are effectively a national party in miniature," he said.
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