Pirate Bay to Hollywood: Open your Own Torrent Site
Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij from The Pirate Bay recently did a video interview which resulted in some great quotes. One such quote comes from Fredrik, he suggests that the movie and music industry should set up their own torrent site, and monetize it through advertisements. “We would be out of business.” he added. Dayrobber, [...]
NIN – Ghosts I (2008), torrent
Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor understands where the industry is going. The new music industry is all about flexibility and options. The Nails’ new four-volume instrumental album, Ghosts I-IV, was released Sunday night in digital form, and it was a bit of a sneak attack. The media just caught on to it late yesterday. Last [...]
Lee Camp Shits on Fox
[go here if it doesnt work] Lee Camp explains why he shit on Fox News while live on Fox News. This is a satisfactory moment for every red-blooded America. Lee Camp says it best. As most of you have seen, I ripped into Fox “News” while on a Fox “News” morning show this past Saturday. [...]
FCC Hearing: Comcast Uses Hacker Techniques
Today is an important day for network neutrality, as the FCC’s Broadband Network management hearing has been discussing Comcast’s attempt to slow down BitTorrent traffic. One of the panelists said Comcast uses “hacker techniques” to manage their network. When we first reported that Comcast was actively disconnecting BitTorrent seeds, we never expected that it would [...]
The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
From one free human to another. Should one fear terrorism.. or a police state? We would like to restore democracy, but we’re afraid to face the state that we allowed ourselves to cook in. Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth, has written of “End of America”, which I haven’t put a dent in yet, [...]
RIAA says your sister sells rock
I just uploaded this video today, so I wont be surprised if some powers that be take it down before too long. If so I’ll find something besides youtube. look at that fat fucker. This is a leaked official RIAA training video produced with the National District Attorneys Association telling U.S. prosecutors why they should [...]
Joe Louis’ Sister, 92, Freezes to Death
Original Article Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 SOUTHFIELD, Mich. The 92-year-old sister of boxing great Joe Louis, was found frozen to death outside her apartment at an assisted-living center, authorities said.The body of Vunies High, who had Alzheimer’s disease, was found Monday outside The Heatherwood retirement complex in Southfield, a Detroit suburb, said Capt. Tom [...]
Kwame’s Party at the Manoogian Mansion and the murder of Tamara Greene
Kilpatrick’s first controversy started as rumors of a wild party in the fall of 2002 involving strippers at the the official residence of the mayor—the city-owned Manoogian Mansion. It is alleged by former members of the mayor’s Executive Protection Unit that the mayor’s wife, Carlita Kilpatrick, came home unexpectedly and upon discovering Kwame with the strippers [...]
Kwame Kilpatrick, Public Broadcasting and Statements
During a broadcast from his family’s church on January 30th, 2008, Kilpatrick said that he apologized to the city and to his supporters in the city. He also said that he was apologizing to his family, his three sons and his wife Carlita, who also spoke after Kilpatrick. The First Lady of Detroit, Carlita Kilpatrick, [...]
Kwame Kilpatrick – Whistleblower Trial
In August, 2007, Kilpatrick was sued by two ex-members of his bodyguard staff for violation of the Whistleblower Law. It was claimed that he fired them in retaliation for them investigating his personal actions. The trial ended on September 11, 2007, after three hours of jury deliberation in a verdict awarding the plaintiffs $6.5 million in damages. Minutes [...]
The Pirate Bay Facing Lawsuit Next week
Here is a translation I made of part of a Swedish article that can be found here. After a lengthy 20 month long investigation the time has come for the lawsuit to be filed against the men behind the biggest Bittorrent-tracker in the world, The Pirate Bay. The coming week prosecutor Håkan Roswall at the [...]
MPAA officially admits mistakes in piracy study
Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong. In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent of the industry’s domestic losses came from illegal downloading of movies by college students, who often have access to [...]
iRing, wtf
With a stylish design and wireless Bluetooth connectivity with your iPod and iPhone, the iRing allows you to control playback and volume on any of your Apple media devices. iRing features a bright OLED status display with touch-sensitive function strip, and a rechargeable battery life of up to 2 days. Conveniently recharge your iRing using [...]
Kwame Kilpatrick Slander Suit
As of January 2008, Beatty, Kilpatrick, and police chief Ella Bully-Cummings are also named in a slander lawsuit. The lawsuit was brought about by two police officers that claimed to have been slandered in the media by city officials. The lawsuit stems from a 2004 incident in which the two police officers pulled Kilpatrick’s chief [...]
Axiotron Modbook.
Axiotron, Inc., together with distribution partner Other World Computing, is drawing huge crowds at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco this week, as attendees flock to take its new Mac OS X-based “ModBook” tablet computer for a test run. …Each ModBook starts off as a MacBook Core 2 Duo but undergoes a surgical operation where [...]
Breaking: Apple Insider Leaks Ultra-Portable Details
What you see above is simple mock-up from Wired artists. An Apple insider told Wired today that the company’s new ultraportable, expected to be seen in public for the first time tomorrow, has an extremely thin profile and is shaped like a teardrop when closed — thicker at the top behind the screen, tapering at [...]
iThirst For Knowledge
Not much has been advertised about iTunes U but Apple Inc has been testing iTunes U in several USA Universities for the past few years. Recently, iTunes U comes with limited access for all. In a nutshell, iTunes U leverages Apple’s podcasting technology to bring a professors podcast right onto your Mac/PC via ITunes. iTunes [...]
These rabbits have been sent to destroy Sarah Conner
Researchers at the University of Washington managed to embed an electronic circuit and LEDs directly into contact lenses, which seemed to look good on rabbit eyes. Though the circuit is not functional and the lights don’t light up, the development shows that future applications like direct video to the eye may indeed be possible. The [...]
Big Old Deceitful and expensive phone company
Remember October’s news of Comcast throttling Bit Torrent traffic? The debacle not only created a firestorm of bad press for the nation’s largest cable provider but also re-ignited the nationwide debate about Net Neutrality. We had numerous signs that Comcast was inhibiting our use of this legal and legitimate file transfer protocol, but to have [...]
Vote Obama, McCain
If possible, vote out-of-state; if not, vote uncommitted. After seven years of the Bush regime, a long-awaited replacement at the White House and a new vision for America is only 375 days away. Across our country, there is a growing recognition that the Bush administration’s shortsighted approach to policy has further entrenched America in political [...]
Kwame Kilpatrick – Red Lincoln Navigator
For the sake of documentation, this a referenceable article concerning the former mayor of Detroit, Original article came from the Detroit Free Press, May 8th, 2005 In 2005, WXYZ-TV reporter Steve Wilson reported that the city had entered an expensive one year lease for a luxury SUV. It was to be used to chauffeur the mayor’s family. The [...]
Kwame Kilpatric – Civic Fund Controversy
On May 8, 2007, WXYZ reported that Kilpatrick used $8,600 from his secret Kilpatrick Civic Fund to take his wife, three sons and babysitter on a week long vacation to a five-star California resort, the La Costa Resort and Spa.[18] The fund, controlled by Kilpatrick’s sister and friends, was created to improve the city of Detroit [...]
