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something_unique_and_descriptive: It's like they don't realize that the entire movie was non-scene pred within 24hrs of its release. The appropriate punishment would have simply been ... more »
Sprzout: Ok, so here's the thing...I work for an ISP (which shall remain nameless so that I don't have the wrath of the company coming down on me and therefore... more »
MrEvil: I got one once. That was when I stopped using public trackers. more »
nutbastard: also, how come all the dudes in this movie look like chicks? has it really gone this far? do i have to wait 10 years for masculinity to come back into... more »
nutbastard: really the SNAFU here is this - theater or no theater, are you seriously going to sit down in the future and watch yourself sing happy birthday? or ar... more »
bonedog73: I have a decent job and I pay for my media, movies, music etc.... sometimes I pay for crap and it pisses me off, but that's why the interwebs are so h... more »
Roeroica: They just started singing in the middle of the movie? I'd be pissed if I was in that theater. more »
Joe: Change you DNS server to Googles, then TW wont bother you. more »
UnderLoK: You know what scares you straight? Watching people get arrested and some sent to jail. One bust in 99 sent a few up the river and a massive one in 200... more »
Faxmonkey: Now she also owes royalties for the song Happy Birthday . . . Public performance of a copyrighted song? What was she thinking? more »
dO_Ob: What I don't understand is why the ISP's would ever threaten to turn off your internet for pirating. Lets be honest people. A ISP is a company, compa... more »
aardvarked: I think anyone obnoxious enough to sing happy birthday in a cinema deserves to go to jail. more »
minibeardeath: but what about the fact that she was doing a public performance of the Happy Birthday song????????? huh??? that should net her a good 5 extra years more »
mike563: I'm sure many people auto hate twilight because its so popular. Thats what the Romans said about Jesus. We all know how that ended..... He died for y... more »
Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: I think all we need to remember is, vampires can't get boners. more »
Counterglow: Seems to me we need some massive social disobedience. I know there's all kinds of jokes to be made about how the woman deserves what she's getting, b... more »
Calzo: I remember when the mute kids signed me happy birthday. more »
Panzer23: Well at least this discounts you from being a vampire... still worried about the zombie though... more »
BazookaJoe: So - to all of you IQ20 degenerates that love this shit so much? - This is how much they care about you! more »
Yerzriknot: Shouldn't we reserve prison for the real monsters; like Stephenie Meyer? more »

#piracy

Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail
A woman is potentially facing three years in jail for recording three minutes of New Moon, the sequel to Twilight. Three years. In Jail. Over Twilight. More »
#piracy

Time Warner Hijacked My Browser Because of Piracy
Time Warner, perhaps hip to the fact that I haven't bothered to check my meat space snail mail mailbox in the last three weeks, took matters into their own hands and inserted this warning directly into my browser. More »
#crime

Guy Demands to Be Arrested for Ripping His Own DVDs
In Denmark it's legal to make backup copies of your DVDs, but illegal to break the DRM that prevents copying them. This annoyed a guy so much that he decided to turn himself in for ripping his own DVD collection More »
#filesharing

Spanish Government Destroys P2P and Basic Freedoms
The Government of Spain, one of the last bastions of legal peer-to-peer file sharing, has approved a law that'll obliterate some of the most basic human rights, like freedom of speech and due process. All in the name of money. More »
#remainders

Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
Phil Schiller Talks App Approval, Avoids Saying Much of Anything...Microsoft Reiterates Smackdown on Pirate Xbox Users...iPhone Magnification Camera Mod Came From the Recycle Bin...Another Anonymous Netbook/Sleeping Aid Hits Wireless Carrier... More »
#music

Paul McCartney Doesn't Understand the Internet
What's Paul McCartney's doomsday scenario? Someone, somewhere, somehow manages to leak the Beatles' music onto the internet, where it will be stolen by everyone, all the time. This must be prevented! Notice a problem there? Yeah, it gets worse. More »
#mpaa

MPAA Shuts Down Entire Town's Wi-Fi Over Single Illegal Download
The citizens of Coshocton, Ohio are without their free Internet after a single download prompted the Motion Picture Association of America to shut down the town's municipal Wi-Fi network. More »
#piracy

It's Still True: Music Pirates Buy More Music
We've been here before, so no long post necessary, but it's worth mentioning, again, that illegal downloaders, the alleged scourge of the music industry, are really the ones who buy the most music. More »
#imagecache

This Movie Theater Tells It How It Is
Nothing shames internet pirates like internet memes turned real. [Blame it on the Voices via The Daily What]
#piracy

Movie Theaters Will Fry Us All with Infrared to Stop Pirates
You can't shoot a film pirate with bullets, but IR light is just fine. More »
#bittorrent

µTorrent iPhone App Rejected, Heads Over to Cydia
µMonitor is little iPhone app that lets you remotely control µTorrent back at your computer. But like Transmission's Drivetrain app, it's been banned by Apple on anti-piracy grounds. Usefully, however: Jailbreakers can still pick it up via Cydia. More »
#thepiratebay

Pirate Bay Unplugged By Swedish Court (Already Back Again, Sorta)
Like a T-1000 that just won't die, the Pirate Bay simply jumped servers after its ISP pulled the plug yesterday. Update: But the site bounced back (after some ups-and-downs overnight), and here's an excerpt from their defiant (and funny) response: More »
#thepiratebay

Surprise! The Pirate Bay's Buyers Are Extremely Shady
Heroically snatched from near-death by a mysterious, benevolent gaming company, the Pirate Bay had a rosy future laid out ahead of it. But hey, that company? They're turning out to be kind of rotten, and possibly fraudulent. More »
#riaa

Second Degree Murder and Six Other Crimes Cheaper than Pirating Music
I'm outraged that the Obama administration is supporting the RIAA on the case against Jammie Thomas, a single mother of four who has to pay them $1.92 million for downloading songs. That's more expensive than murder and six other crimes: More »
#digitalmusic

Greg Kot: The Music Industry Caused Piracy, and iTunes Isn't the Way Out
Greg Kot, music critic for the Chicago Tribune and others, wrote a book called Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music. In a recent podcast interview, he enumerates the precise downfall of record labels and why iTunes isn't their savior. More »
#riaa

Student Forced to Pay $675,000 to RIAA for Sharing 30 Songs
Joel Tenenbaum admitted to sharing 30 songs with Kazaa back in 2004 (Kazaa! So quaint!) and was originally fined $150,000 per song. He worked that down to "only" $22,500 per song, but that's still $675,000 in total. More »
#music

Video, and Universal Music, Killed the Radio Star
How's this for irony: "Video Killed the Radio Star," released in 1979 by The Buggles, is about how TV (MTV in particular) would kill radio. And now, 30 years later, Universal has disabled embedding the YouTube video. More »
#piracy

Video Piracy Was Big Business In 1979
Back in the day, new fangled VHS technology opened up a world of piracy and paranoia that we are abundantly familiar with today. The only difference was that many pirates were making big, big bucks. More »
#piracy

No Surprise: Hollywood Doesn't Understand Where Pirated Movies Come From
Cory Doctorow has a piece in The Guardian explaining why it's awfully dumb for a theater to confiscate cellphones at a preview screening: Nobody's pirating movies with a cellphone, and real leaks come from inside the industry. More »
#thepiratebay

Is the Pirate Bay Actually Dead?
Your worst fears about The Pirate Bay acquisition might be coming true: Peter Sunde told Torrent Freak that they are indeed closing down TPB's tracker and decentralizing to the point listed torrents won't be hosted on the site anymore. More »
#piracy

RIAA Member Settles Suit After Defendant Proves She Did Even Not Own a Computer
RIAA member Universal Music Group was forced to settle a piracy suit it had brought against Mavis Roy after suffering a bit of a setback in their prosecution: Mavis Roy did not own a computer when UMG first brought suit. More »
#thepiratebay

Pirate Bay Retrial Denied After Judge Cleared Of Bias Accusations
It looks as though The Pirate Bay will have to hope for the best on appeal now that a Swedish court ruled that the judge's membership with two pro-copyright organizations does not constitute bias. More »
#piracy

Man Sent to Jail For Six Months For Pirating, Uh, The Love Guru
This is embarassing. Jack Yates has been sentenced to six months in jail for pirating the horrible Mike Meyers movie The Love Guru. It might have been worth it for Star Trek, but come on, The Love Guru? More »
#music

Universal and Virgin Offering Unlimited DRM-Free MP3s For Flat Monthly Rate
British cable operator Virgin Media is set to offer up an unlimited music download subscription program with Universal that would give you access to DRM-free MP3s as long as you pay a set monthly fee. More »
#music

Danger Mouse's Next Album Will Be A Blank CD-R
Danger Mouse, the amazing mashup artist, producer, and half of Gnarls Barkley, is unable to release his newest album due to legal battles with his label, so he's embracing piracy to get his music heard. More »
#thepiratebay

Pirate Bay Founders Plan a DDo$ Attack on the IFPI
After the Pirate Bay founders were fined $3.5 million, they swore they wouldn't cough up a single cent. Instead, they've come up with a DDo$ plan of attack that'll cost the IFPI instead of themselves. More »
#piracy

An iPhone App Developer's Take on Piracy: Work With Pirates, Not Against Them
The creator of iCombat weighed in with his thoughts on newly-popular piracy of iPhone apps with an interesting conclusion: It's not worth the trouble to police the pirates, and they might even prove helpful. More »
#myheadhurts

This Is How You Record a TV With a Camcorder So You're Just an MPAA Toolbag, Not a Pirate
No clever invective needed: It's an instructional video from the MPAA showing how to record a TV screen for classroom clips, instead of ripping a DVD. I think they really mean it, too. =( [BoingBoing]
#windows7

Windows 7 Will Annoy Pirates Even Less Than Vista
Microsoft really wants to make Windows 7 the least offensive OS ever. Case in point: They've made the little dialog box that pesters you into activating Windows less annoying. More »
#piracy

The New Blockbuster: Godawful Wolverine Downloaded Over 4 Million Times
I saw Wolverine in theaters. I paid $8 for my ticket and $5 for popcorn, heavy on the heart attack sauce. But I still don't know why 4 million people downloaded that piece of poo. More »
#movies

Steven Soderbergh's Girlfriend Experience Released to Amazon Before Theaters
Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh's new movie breaks some major Hollywood rules, and not just because it stars porn actress Sasha Grey. It's also available now on Amazon a full 3 weeks before it hits theaters. More »
#questionoftheday

Has Piracy Made You More or Less Interested In The Wolverine Movie?
As you know, a rough version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine leaked online. Starting today, we will learn if it ended up helping or hurting the film. How will it affect your weekend plans? More »
#piracy

Swedish Pirate Party Expected to Win (Not Plunder) a Seat in E.U. Parliament
It looks like Europe is just as taken with the Pirate Party as we at Giz are, because a recent electoral poll shows them with enough votes to secure a seat in the E.U. Parliament. More »
#piratewindows7

Pirated Copies of Windows 7 Will Still Get Windows Updates
Conficker spread via PCs that weren't updated with security patches, and not wanting to be at fault for worldwide infections, Microsoft is going to supply security updates to pirated copies of Windows 7. [Maximum PC]
#piracy

Biden Tells MPAA Obama's Intellectual Property Czar Will Be 'Right'
At a lobbying dinner hosted by the MPAA, Vice President Joe Biden chastised piracy as "pure theft" and assured the MPAA that President Obama's administration will find the right person for the intellectual property czar. More »
#piracy

This About Sums Up the Entertainment Industry's Pirate Bay 'Victory'
Enjoy feeling like you're making progress while you can, suits. It won't last too long. [alt1040]
#thepiratebay

Pirate Bay Judge Linked With Copyright Lobby, Faces Accusations of Bias
Tomas Norström, the judge who sentenced the Pirate Bay Four, was recently outed as a member of two copyright advocacy organizations, prompting rumblings about a mistrial. More »
#piratebay

The Pirate Google Bay Gives the Finger to Record Companies, Studios
Demonstrating how futile the war against Pirate Bay really is, someone has created The Pirate Google bay: A Google custom search dedicated to find torrent files. I can't wait for the industry to sue Google. More »
#piracy

The Pirate Bay Founders Issue Post-Verdict Statement: "The Site Will Live On!"
Though The Pirate Bay suffered a defeat last week, the founders' latest statement is anything but defeated. They've started the years-long appeals process, and urge TPB users to download and seed as much as possible. More »
#piracy

Study Finds Pirates Buy 10x More Music Online than Non-Pirates
A study from the BI Norwegian School of Management has found that those who download free music from services like BitTorrent are also the biggest legitimate consumers of downloadable music. More »

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