It seems that SuprNova and TorrentBits have disappeared after legal threats from the MPAA.
Alternatives? The Slashdot piece has this info (not that I understand it in the slightest. Probably.) in the comments:
BTW: If you have an IRC client, you can join #bt, #bt-gm and #tvtorrents on efnet. #bt and #tvtorrents serves TV show torrents and #bt-gm serves torrents for games and movies.Or you can try The Pirate Bay (yarr!) which is laughing in the face of scurvy lawyers.
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They are sticking their neck out a bit are'nt they?
Yarr! Cut throat pirates.
It depends where they are based really - some countries don't give a monkeys about copyright law. China and Russia have both signed agreements with the West to help prevent copyright abuses in their countries but I bet they are not enforced in any meaningful manner.
In the linked Slashdot post a site admin based in Russia has offered to host stuff - he doesn't give a shit about lawyers.
YAY! I love Tinter'web.
For anyone who misses Suprnova try this Bi-torrent.
YAY! I'm top of the new FF table, first time ever.
Probably only last til tonight's game, if there is one. Every dog has his day tho and it's about my turn to be top for 10 minutes ;)
Now where was the "Very Occasional Series Of Loosely Christmas Related Linkage Which You Have To Vote For If You Want To See It" Advent Calendar thingy? That would round off a brilliant day for me.
Or maybe a tunnel report?
I've just posted the FF write up so your gloating can be more public. ;)
As for the 'Very Occasional Series Of Loosely Christmas Related Linkage Which You Have To Vote For If You Want To See It' He'll say we didn't 'Vote For It' so we didn't 'See It'.
I would like to take this opportunity to preregister my votes for the rest of the series.
Me too :)
The Gods are pleased with all this talk of calendars and shall fulfil your request!
These Gods of yours aren't very powerful are they? 2 hours after announcing they will fulfill the request there's still nowt.
I'm off to worship Jeebus instead. ;)
Fsck the laywers! Did you read that comment I put below your RIAA piece? They are a big bunch of wusses. Bungers said so and he said he'll see the lot of them in court. Probably.
They can't sue everyone. There's safety in numbers - ask the wildebeest. Just hope you're not the one dragged into the river by the crocs! ;)
Why are most of the individual cases still pending? As you say most people will settle the $5K rather risk getting sued for full amount. If only we could get sued in $ - we'd just have to delay the payment as long as possible. I predict US$5K will be about 17 New Pence by January.
Wll if this war against their customers (which includes me) continues I may just have to start boycotting purchases. Fsck 'em. The large amount of money I save I can put away in a Legal Fighting Fund just in case they come knocking on my door. Or buy weed instead.
I know we'd be sued in quids - 'if only we could be sued in $' is wishful thinking. Of course that's presupposing we would get sued - which isn't wishful thinking!
Speaking as one who can't tell the difference between vinyl and CD (unless they're scratched!) the sound quality has always sounded ok to me.
Did you see the segment on ITV News (the even more dumbed down than the headlines bit with Trever McDoughnut) at the w/e about the death of the single and the increasing sales of albums? And still we'll get the piracy is killing stuff argument wheeled out. If it kills chart singles - well done piracy I say! It should get an award for it's services to music. Probably.
That ITV thing did mention that people were spending large amounts on other stuff too. And still album sales hold up.
It's no wonder the record companies are still making profits as they are now selling you the same songs digitally for about the same price you'd pay for it if you bought the actual CD - but with no manufacturing or transport costs. Greedy buggers.
As for the buy different copies to play different places - the protection shite they put on should be illegal. I never buy a CD with weird formats. Their loss.
Am I deaf? Of course. I blame Sony and their fiendish Walkman invention. The next phase of their cunning plan is Sony styled hearing aids in a Sony Shop™ near you.
Pah - you're just a grumpy old man! ;)
At least with music you can play old stuff and it still sounds good. There's still plenty of music to buy - it's just there is a huge amount of shite too.
Also from the article you linked is the proof they are conning us - that's the selling us virtual copies for the same price as physical copies: The company is set to save $250 million annually, thanks to a major cost-cutting drive.
That's a huge reduction in costs and no drop in selling price or volume. They deserve to be ripped.
They have to go for the loud over quality option due to the deafness they've caused in us already with the Walkman. :)
I've got loads of recent albums - and they all sound alright to me. That's no recommendation though due to my inability to tell the difference between CD and vinyl! I only ever listen on cack speakers - either Walkman headphones or the car.
I won a free digi track on the Wrigleys compo on atm. The choice was limited and I ended up picking Dido for the bairn. When I downloaded it wouldn't fscking play without downloading and installing another DRM layer. It still hasn't been played.
On the different pricing - we always pay more than evryone else for anything. It's a cosmic law apparently.
I know what you mean about the Kodak ad but it's understandable. Their whole company was built on film and film processing. They've seen their area of business disappear over the last few years due to digicams. Since then they've just been one of many other digicam companies. Their real area of expertise (and the one where they'd built the brand up over many years) was in producing pictures not taking them. They're desparate to get us printing pictures again!
I think that most of the costs are still quite expensive for a personal photo printer. You can take a flash card with 50 pics on to Jessops and they'll transfer to CD and give you 6x4 prints - for a fiver. If I want hard copies I know where I'm going. Kodak are fscked.
I didn't say it was justifiable - just that I can understand why they are pulling out all stops to get you to print.
Kodak's digicams may well be decent - but they are 1 of a hundred companies doing decent digicams as opposed to to one of a handful of branded film manufacturers IYKWIM.
I figured the picture printer market would be big - but I won't be joining it anytime soon. I'd rather do it via Jessops for ease. Anyhoo we are Generation Xers - we put our pics on the interweb and DVDs not paper! ;)
Is the 10 years younger ad the one with the 55 year old wife with face cream? There is some claim made in small text about reducing wrinkles - as long as they can back that one up they are legal I believe.
That teletext ad shit sounds horrendous!
Re the speakers - as I said I only listen on shite ones so it's not a problem. Well it is but not one that I'll notice.
DRM stands for Dirty Rotten Motherfsckers. Or should do.
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