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Oink Admin Beats File Sharing Charges
A British jury on Friday cleared former Oink admin Allan Ellis of conspiracy to defraud the music industry for running one of the world’s strangest music file-sharing services with some 200,000 members Operators of the so-called Pink Palace banned low-quality sound files, enforced strict usage rules and mandated that all users’ avatars be “cute” — even taking pains to define exactly what made an avatar appropriately cuddly. All that came to an end in 2007, when the authorities arrested admin Alan Ellis, who created and ran the operation from his Middlesbrough apartment from 2004 to 2007. After a seven-day trial, the 26-year-old Ellis walked from Teesside Crown Court a free man Friday , the BCC reports.
Continue reading »P2P Recommends – “Moon”
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 no Star Treks or Star Wars! This is emotional! Sam Rockwell – a great performance in 'Moon' This film has substance and, personally, it reminded me that you can still find intelligence and deep concepts in Sci-Fi movies in this epoch dominated by sub-mediocre Hollywood productions in which hundreds of millions are invested. Two things lie at the core of this production – an extraordinary idea and an extraordinary interpretation of the character Sam Bell delivered by Sam Rockwell(also remarkable in “Choke”, “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind”) who practically carries all by himself the entire film.
Continue reading »Pirate Bay Spokesman Peter Sunde Resigns
In perhaps not a completely unexpected move, Peter Sunde, the public voice of The Pirate Bay, has announced his retirement as site spokesman. With the sale of The Pirate Bay to Sweden’s Global Gaming Factory still promised for the final days of August, it’s doubtful whether his unique blend of abilities would be compatible with their immediate business strategy, if the deal sails through. But of course, being involved with the running of The Pirate Bay means there is little time for anything else and this is the main reason cited by Peter behind his decision to quit – he wants time to do other things.
Continue reading »EFF ’staying safe online’ activist guide
What’s descrfibed as a “practical guide to help activists from around the world use the Internet safely under repressive regimes” has just neen released by the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). The foundation says ”Surveillance Self-Defense International’ is an offshoot from its ‘Surveillance Self-Defense manual,’ an online how-to guide for protecting private data against government spying in the US which, “reflects the fact that the best strategies to achieve privacy are very different for people in the U.S. and people living elsewhere, sometimes under authoritarian regimes”.
Continue reading »3 Strikes To Be Administered By Post Office Subsidiary
After its initial adoption in May 2009, the original version of the controversial Hadopi anti-piracy legislation was nuked by the Constitutional Council, France’s highest legal authority. Taking a similar stance to that of the European Parliament, the Council declared the proposals unconstitutional and demanded that accused individuals have a fair trial. A modified version of the bill, which passes the ultimate disconnection decision to a judge, was accepted July 8th by the French Senate.
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