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more about #piracy something_unique_and_descriptive: It's like they don't realize that the entire movie was non-scene pred within 24hrs of its release. The appropriate punishment would have simply been ... more » Sprzout: Ok, so here's the thing...I work for an ISP (which shall remain nameless so that I don't have the wrath of the company coming down on me and therefore... more » MrEvil: I got one once. That was when I stopped using public trackers. more » nutbastard: also, how come all the dudes in this movie look like chicks? has it really gone this far? do i have to wait 10 years for masculinity to come back into... more » nutbastard: really the SNAFU here is this - theater or no theater, are you seriously going to sit down in the future and watch yourself sing happy birthday? or ar... more » bonedog73: I have a decent job and I pay for my media, movies, music etc.... sometimes I pay for crap and it pisses me off, but that's why the interwebs are so h... more » Roeroica: They just started singing in the middle of the movie? I'd be pissed if I was in that theater. more » Joe: Change you DNS server to Googles, then TW wont bother you. more » UnderLoK: You know what scares you straight? Watching people get arrested and some sent to jail. One bust in 99 sent a few up the river and a massive one in 200... more » Faxmonkey: Now she also owes royalties for the song Happy Birthday . . . Public performance of a copyrighted song? What was she thinking? more » dO_Ob: What I don't understand is why the ISP's would ever threaten to turn off your internet for pirating. Lets be honest people. A ISP is a company, compa... more » aardvarked: I think anyone obnoxious enough to sing happy birthday in a cinema deserves to go to jail. more » minibeardeath: but what about the fact that she was doing a public performance of the Happy Birthday song????????? huh??? that should net her a good 5 extra years more » mike563: I'm sure many people auto hate twilight because its so popular. Thats what the Romans said about Jesus. We all know how that ended..... He died for y... more » Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: I think all we need to remember is, vampires can't get boners. more » Counterglow: Seems to me we need some massive social disobedience. I know there's all kinds of jokes to be made about how the woman deserves what she's getting, b... more » Calzo: I remember when the mute kids signed me happy birthday. more » Panzer23: Well at least this discounts you from being a vampire... still worried about the zombie though... more » BazookaJoe: So - to all of you IQ20 degenerates that love this shit so much? - This is how much they care about you! more » Yerzriknot: Shouldn't we reserve prison for the real monsters; like Stephenie Meyer? more » -
#piracy
Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
A woman is potentially facing three years in jail for recording three minutes of New Moon, the sequel to Twilight. Three years. In Jail. Over Twilight. More » -
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Time Warner Hijacked My Browser Because of Piracy
Time Warner, perhaps hip to the fact that I haven't bothered to check my meat space snail mail mailbox in the last three weeks, took matters into their own hands and inserted this warning directly into my browser. More » -
#crime
Guy Demands to Be Arrested for Ripping His Own DVDs
In Denmark it's legal to make backup copies of your DVDs, but illegal to break the DRM that prevents copying them. This annoyed a guy so much that he decided to turn himself in for ripping his own DVD collection More » -
#filesharing
Spanish Government Destroys P2P and Basic Freedoms
The Government of Spain, one of the last bastions of legal peer-to-peer file sharing, has approved a law that'll obliterate some of the most basic human rights, like freedom of speech and due process. All in the name of money. More » -
#remainders
Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
Phil Schiller Talks App Approval, Avoids Saying Much of Anything...Microsoft Reiterates Smackdown on Pirate Xbox Users...iPhone Magnification Camera Mod Came From the Recycle Bin...Another Anonymous Netbook/Sleeping Aid Hits Wireless Carrier... More » -
#music
Paul McCartney Doesn't Understand the Internet
What's Paul McCartney's doomsday scenario? Someone, somewhere, somehow manages to leak the Beatles' music onto the internet, where it will be stolen by everyone, all the time. This must be prevented! Notice a problem there? Yeah, it gets worse. More » -
#mpaa
MPAA Shuts Down Entire Town's Wi-Fi Over Single Illegal Download
The citizens of Coshocton, Ohio are without their free Internet after a single download prompted the Motion Picture Association of America to shut down the town's municipal Wi-Fi network. More » -
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#imagecache
This Movie Theater Tells It How It Is
Nothing shames internet pirates like internet memes turned real. [Blame it on the Voices via The Daily What] -
#piracy
Movie Theaters Will Fry Us All with Infrared to Stop Pirates
You can't shoot a film pirate with bullets, but IR light is just fine. More » -
#bittorrent
µTorrent iPhone App Rejected, Heads Over to Cydia
µMonitor is little iPhone app that lets you remotely control µTorrent back at your computer. But like Transmission's Drivetrain app, it's been banned by Apple on anti-piracy grounds. Usefully, however: Jailbreakers can still pick it up via Cydia. More » -
#thepiratebay
Pirate Bay Unplugged By Swedish Court (Already Back Again, Sorta)
Like a T-1000 that just won't die, the Pirate Bay simply jumped servers after its ISP pulled the plug yesterday. Update: But the site bounced back (after some ups-and-downs overnight), and here's an excerpt from their defiant (and funny) response: More » -
#thepiratebay
Surprise! The Pirate Bay's Buyers Are Extremely Shady
Heroically snatched from near-death by a mysterious, benevolent gaming company, the Pirate Bay had a rosy future laid out ahead of it. But hey, that company? They're turning out to be kind of rotten, and possibly fraudulent. More » -
#riaa
Second Degree Murder and Six Other Crimes Cheaper than Pirating Music
I'm outraged that the Obama administration is supporting the RIAA on the case against Jammie Thomas, a single mother of four who has to pay them $1.92 million for downloading songs. That's more expensive than murder and six other crimes: More » -
#digitalmusic
Greg Kot: The Music Industry Caused Piracy, and iTunes Isn't the Way Out
Greg Kot, music critic for the Chicago Tribune and others, wrote a book called Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music. In a recent podcast interview, he enumerates the precise downfall of record labels and why iTunes isn't their savior. More » -
#riaa
Student Forced to Pay $675,000 to RIAA for Sharing 30 Songs
Joel Tenenbaum admitted to sharing 30 songs with Kazaa back in 2004 (Kazaa! So quaint!) and was originally fined $150,000 per song. He worked that down to "only" $22,500 per song, but that's still $675,000 in total. More » -
#music
Video, and Universal Music, Killed the Radio Star
How's this for irony: "Video Killed the Radio Star," released in 1979 by The Buggles, is about how TV (MTV in particular) would kill radio. And now, 30 years later, Universal has disabled embedding the YouTube video. More » -
#piracy
Video Piracy Was Big Business In 1979
Back in the day, new fangled VHS technology opened up a world of piracy and paranoia that we are abundantly familiar with today. The only difference was that many pirates were making big, big bucks. More » -
#piracy
No Surprise: Hollywood Doesn't Understand Where Pirated Movies Come From
Cory Doctorow has a piece in The Guardian explaining why it's awfully dumb for a theater to confiscate cellphones at a preview screening: Nobody's pirating movies with a cellphone, and real leaks come from inside the industry. More » -
#thepiratebay
Is the Pirate Bay Actually Dead?
Your worst fears about The Pirate Bay acquisition might be coming true: Peter Sunde told Torrent Freak that they are indeed closing down TPB's tracker and decentralizing to the point listed torrents won't be hosted on the site anymore. More »
