Early last year we blogged about Anonymous and his speech posted on Youtube. We described and quoted a US website as to what constitutes an act of war. DECLARATION OF WAR – An act of the national legislature, in which a state of war is declared to exist between a nation and some [...]
Man is a competitive member of the animal kingdom. Our nature is to compete with one another for food, shelter, mates and attention. Attention? Well yes, the more attention you get the better your prospects of : Obtaining a mate and earning money. So Koltai, the attention seekers are the most likely candidates [...]
Today’s “Rant” is about financial mismanagement, misguided economic directions and doom and gloom. There appears to be no way to convince the music business to pull in the reins. Globally, they have done more damage to human rights than Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Khan ever managed to destroy. With the Global Financial [...]
In Part one we introduced the concept that operating eMule is like any other program, you have to learn a little to get a lot. So today we will be discussing Responsible file Sharing and Fake Files. How do you notice that the file you are downloading is a fake? Unfortunately – [...]
I had an epiphany the other day…. For years we have been told that file sharing is illegal. That music piracy is the tool of the Terrorist gangs and is their major source of financing. The content industry has always calculated 15% as the value attributed to physical piracy. This allowance is entered [...]
Consumer incredibelus first appeared in the USA circa 1950's and managed to rapidly propogate it's commonly heard cry of hunger “I want, I need AND I’m stacked with plastic” (credit cards not “plastique”, C4) throughout the rest of the US satellite states. Australia through its Trade Treaties has become one of those satellite states [...]
It will come as a suprise to many readers, but there are those that still watch, free to air television. Those that do, tend to watch the programming on TV and use the advertising segments as convenient toilet or coffee breaks. But those of us that think that advertising is an inconvenient distraction from observing [...]
So I was watching a Battleship Gallactica episode earlier this evening, and for some reason fast forwarded to the end of the dvd (a legal one by the way, borrowed from a friend who loves the writing of Gallactica). And there at the end of the dvd was an anti-piracy ad…. And as I watched [...]
One of the presenters on today’s Public Sphere #1 talked about the Governments Toilet Database – which had no API for open access by other information developers – in fact the Copyrtight page deliberately prevents any reuse of the work except by pointing to it with a url. F***** Me. What is so special [...]
In the USA we see the RIAA take action against the ilk of the Pirate Bay and solo parent mothers and individual students. But when was the last time they actually took on the RICO organized crime DVD distributors? The RICO funded, managed and controlled Web sites advertising hundreds of movies for once only [...]