Archive for the 'movie downloading' Category
BitTorrent News via Torrent Freak
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello March 17th, 2008 in BitTorrent, Digital downloading, Movie downloads, Torrents, file sharing, movie downloading.The good folks at Torrent Freak caught my attention this morning with news of the possible resurrection of Demonoid, of one my favorite BitTorrent trackers, for stats. They have been tracking the fate of Demonoid since it was taken offline last year. The site seems to have gained a new host in the Ukraine and [...]
Barack Obama Future President and Former Vampire Slayer
1 Comment Published by admin February 18th, 2008 in Digital downloading, Movie downloads, User Generated Content, movie downloading.It started back in June of ‘07 with “I Got a Crush on Obama” and culminated in “Yes We Can“, people from all walks of life have taken Barak Obama’s message, reimagined it and then shared it with millions of their closest friends via the internet. That trend shows no signs of letting up as [...]
Boondocks: MPAA Be Damned, Stealing Movies is In!
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello October 10th, 2007 in Movie downloads, movie downloading, mpaa.“Stealing movies is a felony. It’s just like robbing the elderly. Or murder!”
I took a break from my busy schedule of fretting, reading and lounging, to watch the Boondocks premier on Monday and it was a bit of a disappointment. The much delayed season opener didnt have the same venom of last year. There were [...]
Judge Orders TorrentSpy to Spy on Users For MPAA
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 10th, 2007 in Hacking, TorrentSpy, Torrents, lawsuits, movie downloading, mpaa.CNET.com is running an article about a secret order issued by Armenian dictator US Magistrate Judge, Jacqueline Chooljian. The order would require TorrentSpy to log all user activity on the site and turn the logs over to the MPAA, for review in their ongoing witch hunt battle against Torrent sites. The order was issued and [...]
Imploding Blockbuster Wants Failing Movielink
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello March 2nd, 2007 in Broadband, Foolishness, Movie downloads, blockbuster, business, deals, movie downloading, movielink, netflix.Better Title: Blockbuster (the also-ran) Contemplates Buying Movielink (the never-was)
The good folks at Ars Technica have an interesting post on Blockbuster’s desire to save its dying business by buying a failed business, Movielink. Movielink is a DRM crippled, online movie service foisted on an uninterested public by the five major movie studios. According to reports [...]
Pirate Bay Bitch Slaps MPAA
4 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello February 12th, 2007 in BitTorrent, Broadband, Groups Opposing the MPAA, Humor, Movie downloads, The Pirate Bay, YouTube, anti-drm, copyright, movie downloading, mpaa, p2p, parody, video.“Were winning” they say! I’d have to agree.
Our favorite swashbuckling buccaneers over at the Pirate Bay have done it again. These guys have all the swagger, ambition and balls that their name implies. Its not enough that they want to buy an island to freely distribute the digital goodness we all crave, or that they [...]
News From the Starred Folder
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello January 31st, 2007 in Digital Music, Movie downloads, Online TV, Quantification, Research, Research Summary, drm, movie downloading.Like everyone I often mark news items and blog post that I want to follow-up on but unless I do it within 12 hours its unlikely I’ll ever get to it. Since the exception proves the rule, I offer two exceptions.
The first is a report put out by our Cannuck friends at Solutions Research tantalizingly [...]
