Not a lot – according to the official campaign contributions listing. Just looking at the last election and only the city of Washington, D.C. Your report displays: election cycle 2007-2008 Ind. donor – Name contains Individual donations The VOR Group, Ltd. / Managing Direct Individual Contribution to [...]
Thanks, Chris, for the introduction! As reader well know, there's a lot of noise in the P2P scene at present, especially following the recent Pirate Bay case in Sweden. http://www.p2pnet.net/story/20434http://google.com/trends?q=pirate+bayhttp://thepiratebay.org/blog.php The legal muscle is coming from the US, which is the largest producer of media content in the world. So how does this sector compare [...]
Its well known that in times of economic crisis, the best thing an administration can do is take the nation to war. War boosts manufacturing, jobs, and manages to get rid of a few thousand future social welfare entitlement recipients. But what happens when the population is sick of war. What happens when [...]
Yesterday whilst blogging – out slipped one of those little gems that I just couldn’t resist revisiting. We all know that an army marches on its stomach and that a nation’s GDP is dependent on the output of its citizens. So what happens when young people don’t get in the family way anymore? [...]
Last Friday in a Swedish Court, the four pirates were awarded four years of jail time and financial damages against them (for running a Google search engine) of over three million dollars. In February three Thai CD Pirates were handed out jail sentences under a year each and fined $14,200 each for pressing 306 [...]
The Swedish High Court has sentenced four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), to jail. On Twitter today Peter Sunde said: “Nothing will happen to TPB, this is just theatre for the media.” We got the news last night that we lost. It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before [...]
Before I start today, I need to disclaim any religious bias. I will admit to being a science fiction fan, but references to sci-fi are for comparative understanding purposes only. Today's editorial is only for people that have read George Orwell's Book, 1984. Or are familiar with Revelations Chapter 13. If you haven’t [...]
It appears that we now have a new Industry Rating Method. I call this rating the FIRM scale. Which Stands for Fakefile Interdiction Rating Method. Fake Files. If the Industry has a block buster on its hands then it floods the P2P networks with fake versions of those movies. My colleague Chris Gilbey and I [...]