Mininova together with The Tribler team will be starting a closed beta for Tribler’s new video streaming software. The software is developed by the The Tribler team at the Technical University of Delft/Netherlands.

The swarmplayer was developed by the Trible-Project which is dedicated to research on P2P. The project was recently facilitated by the european union with 19 million euros.

Mininova blog
The Tribler Project
Mininova: Bittorrent-Seite bringt Video-Streaming (german article)

Looking for a new model

Opening scene of Oliver Stone's "W" leaked.

quote:

Anyone can go to Baghdad, real men go to Tehran.

It's not piracy if a CEO does it.

Basically says you don't own your own work unless you pay a private copyright organisation...

Boing Boing suggests that article is slightly exaggerated.

(I thought the article sounded a little weird, in that it raged on and on, but didn't give much detail about the supposed law in question.)

You'll like this, Boog

LOL...Beauty, eh?

Ahh, selected shops in Munic have now started selling DVD-D's.

DVD-Disposable that is. Yup, once the disc started to rotate a chemical process will start which is going to destroy the Medium within 48 hours of the first time you viewed it.

Here is more, in German.

Update: how it works in English. Seems to be a different technology then the German one, but some idea.

Sooooo...that means you only have 48 hours to rip it?

Seems adequate.

The Pirate Bay latest, whilst looking for a good Calzaghe vs Hopkins torrent

Why DRM is bad, or at least another reason why DRM is bad.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/26/2312244

quote:

"The Canadian government is secretly negotiating to join the US and the EU in an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The agreement would give border guards the power to search iPods and cellphones for illegal downloads, as well as to force ISPs to hand over customer information without a warrant.

More:
http://ipjustice.org/wp/campaigns/acta/
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/G-8_plurilateral_intellectual...ent_discussion_paper
http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/281171/

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O: "Your harddrive is encrypted, I will need the password."
C: "I told you, I am working for a Bank, this laptop holds sensitve customer data."
O: "I will still need to scan it or I can not allow you travle with this flight, sir."
C: "Have you signed 100 pages of data protection and non-disclosure agreements? And if so, can I see the documents and have a copy of them please?"
O: "Ermm.. no?"
C: "Well, in that case I would commit a serious crime punishable with up to 10 years prison if I would let you scan the harddrive."
O: "Ermm... I still need to ..., otherwise I can't let you through."
C: "Not going to happen."
O: "Well, I can't let you through sir."
C: "Can I speak with your
superior please?"

Counterfeit songs?

Are they trying to outlaw tribute bands?

What's the bet checks for illicit media will be more thorough and time consuming than those for weapons or explosives?

quote:

Was Google's network of online services manipulated to silence critics of Barack Obama? That was the question buzzing on a corner of the blogosphere over the past few days, after several anti-Obama bloggers were unable to update their sites, which are hosted on Google's Blogger service.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/01/business/google.php

YouTube ordered to hand over viewing data

quote:

In a ruling that could have serious privacy implications, a federal judge has ruled that popular Internet video site YouTube must hand over details about what people watch online.

Cross reference to: surveillance/big brother news - thread.

How in the fuck is that legal?
Proprietary information, client lists, sensitive and lucrative databases that the companies depends on for survival..., how can they demand such things? A dictator, sensing loot in the catacombs of an invaded nation, would behave in such a manner. This is not fair, right or legal, but that probably won't stop them. Most people probably won't care until the order comes to their doctors, lawyers and shrinks to turn over the information that was once upon a time thought of as being private.

It's too bad we voted our privacy away. I remember it as being kinda nice.

quote:

Originally posted by Boogerhead:
Most people probably won't care until the order comes to their doctors, lawyers and shrinks to turn over the information that was once upon a time thought of as being private.

And here is me, thinking that it all already happend 6 years ago. But then, maybe I'm wrong.