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P2PON Recommends: “Ink”
Each week P2PON presents a film and provides you with a link where you can download it and watch it in good quality. This is not good cinematography, this is a splendid idea put in a film! “Ink” is definitely one of the best films released this year. Chances are it will soon become a cult indie film but while comparisons to The Matrix, Dark City, and the likes have been quick to emerge, don’t expect anything as elaborate as that, in terms of effects or cinematography’ expect lots of heart instead! You could say “Ink” belongs to fantasy films but its ‘purpose’ is to affect your very real world (and doubt it) and it damn succeeds.
Continue reading »Proposed Anti-Piracy Legislation is Flawed, ISP Says
Cheered on by the music industry, the UK government is desperately trying to tackle the issue of online piracy. This has resulted in a proposal from Lord Mandelson, who plans to disconnect alleged file sharers without any judicial process. These plans are said to cost more for the ISPs to implement than the total financial damages the music industry claims to suffer from piracy in the UK.
Continue reading »Hold my Gold …
Yesterday, p2pnet contributor Henry Emrich posted on DRM — Digital Restrictions Management consumer control . In it, he quotes Nina Paley as saying: “This may be hard to hear, but: many artists who claim they just want to eat and pay rent are lying (perhaps to themselves). Most artists don’t want a living wage — they want to win the lottery.
Continue reading »ACLU Sues School Districts for Blocking Gay-Rights Web Sites
Two school districts representing thousands of Tennessee students were sued Tuesday for blocking access to web sites discussing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, but are not filtering sites advocating “reparative” therapy to change their lifestyle away from being gay. Last month, the American Civil Liberties Union asked the Knox County Schools and Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools to stop the practice. Evidently, they didn’t.
Continue reading »Funny Anti–Gay-Marriage Ad Sparks YouTube Revolt
“There’s a storm gathering.” A minute-long TV spot by a group called the National Organization for Marriage is already spawning YouTube parodies of its grave, Terminator -esque warning about gay marriage destroying the American Way of Life. But for sheer hilarity, no parody can match the audition tapes for the ad, in which a series of no-name actors stand in front of a green screen and mostly botch lines like “the clouds are dark and the winds are strong” and “I’m a California doctor who must choose between my faith and my job.” The audition videos, uncovered by the Human Rights Campaign, seem too good to be true. But NOM has helpfully authenticated them by sending DMCA notices to YouTube to get them pulled down .
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