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Kickasstorrents’ Top 5 Movies
The following chart published by KickassTorrents includes the titles that have dominated this week’s downloads in terms of popular movies. As you can see, the leader is none other than the Oscar winner “The Hurt Locker”. I’m sure you know all the rest 1.
Continue reading »‘3 Strikes’ Sarkozy blows $396,841 on a shower!
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who’s spearheading the French version of the corporate entertainment industry Three Strikes attack on consumers, spent £250,000 (about $396,841) of French EU budget on shower he didn’t use, says the Guardian . The major corporate movie and music studios say file sharing was, and is, ruining their businesses, centred on lawsuits targeting their own customers, said p2pnet recently, noting: “The wise auld greybeards who control the cartels came up with a scenario they figured couldn’t fail: use governments as copyright enforcement agencies, with local taxpayers footing the bill, and internet service providers working as copyright cops to identify file sharers and turn them over to the labels, primarily, and studios for firm action. “It’s called the Three Strikes plan and under it, alleged copyright infringers — file sharers — get two warnings and if they don’t do what they’re told — buy corporate ‘product,’ and only corporate ‘product’ — they get thrown off the net.” France and Britain are now neck-and-neck in determined efforts to act swiftly on cartel demands, to the serious detriment of voters.
Continue reading »Spain Gets Tough on Piracy, 200 File-Sharing Sites Targeted
Spain has declared war on piracy – first, little more than a week ago, the government announced a new inter-ministerial commission was founded with the purpose of creating a legislation that would help in the battle against violations against intellectual property. Now, 200 Spanish sites that provide links to illegal downloads have been ‘handed over’ to the Spanish industry ministry, Coalition of Creators and Content Industries and the CoPeerRight Agency has announced recently at the presentation of a report called Parasites' Business. “Spain is the only country in the world with no legal, civil or administrative measures in place to combat this problem”, pointed out Coalition president Aldo Olcese.
Continue reading »400 DVDs per second
Will this make corporate entertainment industry executives have accidents in their pants, do you think? It’s faster than a speeding train, faster than a bullet —- a lot faster. Scientists in Bell Labs, the research arm of France’s Alcatel-Lucent , have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.
Continue reading »Carly’s Fleischmann’s voice
“I have a twitter account, but I honestly haven’t figured out what the hell to do with it,” says p2pnet correspondent Henry Emrich in Reader’s Write to a p2pnet Twitter story. How about this, Henry? “My name is Carly Fleischmann (right) and as long as I can remember I’ve been diagnosed with autism.
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