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"PRQ Inet" is the people who host The Pirate Bay. They're based in Sweden. They got raided by the police a few years ago, it was covered on Slashdot, so it's hardly a secret location.
...is SCO's blurb at the bottom. I quote: "SCO owns the core UNIX operating system, originally developed by AT&T/Bell Labs and is the exclusive licensor to UNIX-based system software providers". Uhm, SCO...
I've got a question. Does everybody on Slashdot believe that all of Africa is starving babies with flies covering their mouths?
That's a serious question, by the way. Because whilst there are certainly places where that is still happening and it's terrible, there's a fuck of a lot of places where it isn't like that.
The software is available to download here: UniversityToolkit.com in ISO format. The software 'pings' this server on boot for this file. If you want to crack a load of university networks, just crack that server and you're away (it's a flat Redhat Enterprise Server boxen).
Also, the software developer is breaking the law. They haven't shipped the modified code they've made (eg ntop).
Uhm, there's no law against domain cyber squatting anyway. There are, however, processes to recover.com domains -- it's happened many times before in cases like this. It's entirely likely TPB will loose the domain.
My suggestion to TPB folk is to use the domain to seriously shit on the IFPI in the mean time. IFPI know full well that's on all their old letter heads, business cards etc - embarrass the fuck out of them whilst you can.
That's what my invoice from Apple.com for iTunes says at the top of the email. I used their (Apple's) corporate address - somehow they added New York to it. For serious. Yes, I use the same thing for the US iTunes store, and purchase US iTunes gift vouchers to redeem to access the US TV and movie content. Also works from the UK.
Yep, it says US only, but I'm in the UK and I just purchased a song. When you are asked to confirm your billing address, put in a dummy US address. I used this:
" 1 Infinite Loop New York Cupertino, CA 95014 "
(Apple's US headquarters address - it's valid).
When asked for your phone number, put in your full international dialing number.
Result? It works. Raw MP3 downloads. Legal. I'm using a Mac, and it works fine with Firefox, Safari and with my iPod and on iTunes.
I've no idea why, but this is the lead front page story on news.bbc.co.uk, and was the lead news story on the last summary I saw on TV! I can't even figure what what law the church could sue Sony with in the UK.
As far as I know, Pirate Bay actually operate their own Torrent trackers at the moment, which connect the clients together (suppling IP, peer data etc). It's already a little shady from that point of view. Plus, when The Pirate Bay's servers were raided, they were moved to another country, which makes things murkier.
One thing I can say: the fact The Pirate Bay still exists and runs fine after all these years is a huge embarrassment to the MPAA and RIAA. It shows how little power those folk have in foreign lands, and that must be humiliating for them.
What this means is that *NEW* HD-DVD and Bluray discs won't work on old players, unless patched. It's a consumer nightmare as they won't know nor care about HD-DVD piracy -- they just want a disc which works.
Put simply: industry + clueless = idiots who damage their own profits. The music industry has proven this well already -- now it's time for the movie industry to not learn from the past.
Yeah, but when you install a random application in Windows from a 3rd party vendor, it's unsupported. I expect said random application or driver to keep working in that version of Windows - they usually do. If I upgrade to Vista? Sure, it could break. Just to put this into perspective again - the version of Ubuntu I was running was 4 months old.
I know what unsupported means in the Linux world. Random computer user at home does not care. They want their OS to work 4 months later. If it breaks 4 months later when updates run, that's retarded beyond belief for average joe.
Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying. And I'm serious. Frankly, I don't care that I did something in an unsupported method (ie installing a bloody graphics driver). All I wanted was to upgrade Ubuntu from a version released 4 months ago to the current version. If Windows died every time a service pack was applied, you would probably be laughing your arses off at Microsoft.
And it went horribly wrong. I have an ATI card with the ATI driver installed via easyubuntu. After the upgrade, X just died saying the ati driver failed to start. My wireless wasn't working, either, so I couldn't get on google via lynx to research it. I ended up reinstalling dapper from CD, then doing the edgy upgrade straight away, and it was fine.
And who is going to pony up the money to pay the legal professionals who can actually help them wriggle out of this problem? Mr. Free Blog Post?
a) She has legal representation from a fan's company. There's also a donate button on her website.
I would rate seeking compensation for unlicensed clothing as something no less petty than, say, demanding that "GNU" precede the word "Linux" in the name of an operating system.
b) Have you actually seen the artwork? Here's the store: http://www.cafepress.com/11thhourart. Universal are currently disputing the designs with serenity written in chinese on them. Yes, you heard it here first, Chinese folk: Universal own one of your words.
It wasn't the internet, dude - it was all those rock'n'roll songs I listen too. Either that or, you know, I just didn't pay attention in skool. Or Muslim's made me do it. Or Darth Vader.
Here's some hilarity - that interview was published under a picture of a Firefly fan poster. Designed by 11th Hour. The person being sued by Universal.
Also, some of 11th Hour artwork was used in the prepublicity material from Universal, and it's seen on the Serenity DVD in the special feature on fans.
None of 11th Hour's artwork is from the movie. It's all original. It doesn't feature characters, screen shots or anything like that. You can view it here: http://www.cafepress.com/11thhourart.
Basically, what's happening here is slightly retarded. Universal's lawyers are digging themselves into a hole by not understanding what they are doing in the scheme of things.
Hello there. We have an SSL-Explorer Enterprise Edition box. The product is pretty good, and to be honest it's really, really cheap - we compared it to other vendors and I'd say it's at least 10 times cheaper for a basic deployment.
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I'm serious, I'm not trolling. Why on earth didn't they just, like, make it a feature people can toggle in the options? A fork over this is insane.
Okay, the torrent is here.
First things first - it's not the full source. In fact, it's not even 2mb big. It's not even a fraction of the source.
Secondly, from the IM conversation they had with support:
[20:18] I don\'t know HOW you work
[20:19] i see the RESULT of this work
[20:19] and UNDERPANTS of it
They see the UNDERPANTS of it. Hilarious.
Mod this comment up (the parent one) (and mine if you want).
"PRQ Inet" is the people who host The Pirate Bay. They're based in Sweden. They got raided by the police a few years ago, it was covered on Slashdot, so it's hardly a secret location.
...is SCO's blurb at the bottom. I quote: "SCO owns the core UNIX operating system, originally developed by AT&T/Bell Labs and is the exclusive licensor to UNIX-based system software providers". Uhm, SCO...
I've got a question. Does everybody on Slashdot believe that all of Africa is starving babies with flies covering their mouths? That's a serious question, by the way. Because whilst there are certainly places where that is still happening and it's terrible, there's a fuck of a lot of places where it isn't like that.
Also, the software developer is breaking the law. They haven't shipped the modified code they've made (eg ntop).
Uhm, there's no law against domain cyber squatting anyway. There are, however, processes to recover .com domains -- it's happened many times before in cases like this. It's entirely likely TPB will loose the domain.
My suggestion to TPB folk is to use the domain to seriously shit on the IFPI in the mean time. IFPI know full well that's on all their old letter heads, business cards etc - embarrass the fuck out of them whilst you can.
That's what my invoice from Apple.com for iTunes says at the top of the email. I used their (Apple's) corporate address - somehow they added New York to it. For serious. Yes, I use the same thing for the US iTunes store, and purchase US iTunes gift vouchers to redeem to access the US TV and movie content. Also works from the UK.
Yep, it says US only, but I'm in the UK and I just purchased a song. When you are asked to confirm your billing address, put in a dummy US address. I used this:
"
1 Infinite Loop
New York
Cupertino, CA 95014
"
(Apple's US headquarters address - it's valid).
When asked for your phone number, put in your full international dialing number.
Result? It works. Raw MP3 downloads. Legal. I'm using a Mac, and it works fine with Firefox, Safari and with my iPod and on iTunes.
I've no idea why, but this is the lead front page story on news.bbc.co.uk, and was the lead news story on the last summary I saw on TV! I can't even figure what what law the church could sue Sony with in the UK.
The camera was in action near where I live today. The BBC got it on camera: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6676 809.stm - you need to click 'watch' on the right hand side.
As far as I know, Pirate Bay actually operate their own Torrent trackers at the moment, which connect the clients together (suppling IP, peer data etc). It's already a little shady from that point of view. Plus, when The Pirate Bay's servers were raided, they were moved to another country, which makes things murkier. One thing I can say: the fact The Pirate Bay still exists and runs fine after all these years is a huge embarrassment to the MPAA and RIAA. It shows how little power those folk have in foreign lands, and that must be humiliating for them.
I use United Hosting, which is based in the UK, with UK servers. Have done for years. No problems. They're really good. No Windows hosting, though.
Ssssh, Ubuntu's developers might be listening. After Hoary Hedgehog, we have the new release with FAGGOT package management!
Put simply: industry + clueless = idiots who damage their own profits. The music industry has proven this well already -- now it's time for the movie industry to not learn from the past.
Yeah, but when you install a random application in Windows from a 3rd party vendor, it's unsupported. I expect said random application or driver to keep working in that version of Windows - they usually do. If I upgrade to Vista? Sure, it could break. Just to put this into perspective again - the version of Ubuntu I was running was 4 months old. I know what unsupported means in the Linux world. Random computer user at home does not care. They want their OS to work 4 months later. If it breaks 4 months later when updates run, that's retarded beyond belief for average joe.
Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying. And I'm serious. Frankly, I don't care that I did something in an unsupported method (ie installing a bloody graphics driver). All I wanted was to upgrade Ubuntu from a version released 4 months ago to the current version. If Windows died every time a service pack was applied, you would probably be laughing your arses off at Microsoft.
And it went horribly wrong. I have an ATI card with the ATI driver installed via easyubuntu. After the upgrade, X just died saying the ati driver failed to start. My wireless wasn't working, either, so I couldn't get on google via lynx to research it. I ended up reinstalling dapper from CD, then doing the edgy upgrade straight away, and it was fine.
a) She has legal representation from a fan's company. There's also a donate button on her website.
I would rate seeking compensation for unlicensed clothing as something no less petty than, say, demanding that "GNU" precede the word "Linux" in the name of an operating system.
b) Have you actually seen the artwork? Here's the store: http://www.cafepress.com/11thhourart. Universal are currently disputing the designs with serenity written in chinese on them. Yes, you heard it here first, Chinese folk: Universal own one of your words.
That's it! I'm sending George Lucas a cease and desist.
It wasn't the internet, dude - it was all those rock'n'roll songs I listen too. Either that or, you know, I just didn't pay attention in skool. Or Muslim's made me do it. Or Darth Vader.
Also, some of 11th Hour artwork was used in the prepublicity material from Universal, and it's seen on the Serenity DVD in the special feature on fans.
None of 11th Hour's artwork is from the movie. It's all original. It doesn't feature characters, screen shots or anything like that. You can view it here: http://www.cafepress.com/11thhourart.
Basically, what's happening here is slightly retarded. Universal's lawyers are digging themselves into a hole by not understanding what they are doing in the scheme of things.
"PAC MAN" is actually in post production now. Theatrical trailer here: link.
Hello there. We have an SSL-Explorer Enterprise Edition box. The product is pretty good, and to be honest it's really, really cheap - we compared it to other vendors and I'd say it's at least 10 times cheaper for a basic deployment.
Just to clarify, the chinese government blocked Wikipedia back in 2005.