can you get the direct stream off comedy centrals website? now that they've fixed it and taken out the commercials i tend to use it over pirating daily show and colbert, just because it's easy and high quality.
given how many places we've got troops on the ground, the idea that anyone's learned anything about butting out of things that don't concern them seems pretty laughable.
and i suppose it all depends on what you'd consider a "war"
we'll just have to agree to disagree there.
I mean...extrajudicial killing of an american without trial via dronestrike pretty much did it for me, even leaving aside the "war" question.
agreed, to bad they decided to pick on someone with the resources to force them into a very public, very embarrassing fight, and the ability to make it happen in NZ, rather than a closed court room here in Amerikkka like they'd planned. I'm sure it was expected the kiwi's would rubber stamp his extradition and they'd have him in a cell within the day.
edit: never mind, you had it attributed right, but BOTH were bitching yesterday (i don't use twitter,took me a second to figure out where the arrows were pointing). story was a two parter. missing shatners return tweet misses out on half the punchline.
according to torrentfreak the coding is 90% done on the new mega, servers have been ordered, lawyers are being fed a diet of raw meat and gun powder in preparation...
Good luck getting the kiwi's to sign off on another raid.
I think they pissed off the wrong large angry austrian.
i've been waiting for mention of that one to pop up the last couple days too. astronomical sure, but if they get even a proof of concept it's a heck of a lot better than prospects looked before.
Once they've driven the libraries into extinction, the only keepers of culture left, will be the pirates.
I saw an interesting thing after demonoid went down, as the refugees spread out to other sites.
Movies, games, music, none of those even suffered a bump, since they're available everywhere...but books. Books were what made the noid special. Fiction, nonfiction, comics, romance, Advanced reader copies, ancient RPG source books...they were all there, and then they weren't.
You know what the reaction was? We got pissed. I've spoken to dozens of people who had never uploaded a torrent in thir life.... until the 'noid went down. Now they're uploading their libraries everywhere they can find, to ensure that books stay available to whoever wants or needs them.
Pyrrhic victory...they kill off a site, and inspire hundreds more to share even more, in even more places. Libraries (unfortunantly) are already pretty much irrelevant, and the gap increases by the day. Holding back your ebooks, jacking up prices, makes it so they won't work on my platform, or they won't be available when someone wants them doesn't get publishers a sale... it gets publishers the same disgust and hatred we feel for the music and movie gatekeepers.
it creates a new pirate, another consumer who's looking forward to pissing on their grave.
After their support for SOPA my compassion meter is barely registering, and my "give a fuck" has apparently left the building. Honestly, the lulzyest part is that the media still thinks random twitter accounts with variations of the word "anonymous" in them, count as a reliable source.
Awesome. drummonds stuff doesn't sound like my preferred flavor of sci/fantasy, but i'll be happy to seed for awhile. Books should be accessible to anyone who wants them. That was the dream that inspired libraries, and it's the reason we'll keep sharing no matter what the zombie legacy gatekeepers throw at us.
that's not much better. i've got security concerns with some kind of built in self destruct running executables on my system...not when the DRM free version is a click away and i know it'll be there.
I may check it out for some of these indie authors i hear so much about though.
i'm still not understanding. they were ALREADY pricing above amazon, and amazon is pricing far too high, so net result is nothing changes on our end? Honestly we could use an article that breaks down precisely what this means to the end user.
this is the only plan i've heard that could stop libraries from becoming ghetto's as readers turn en masse to piracy.
It's sane, it makes sense, it embraces access to culture, and for all of those reasons i expect it to be litigated out of existence any moment.
to be honest, i don't understand how libraries haven't ALREADY been litigated out of existence for the sin of sharing books/music/movies. Do they have some kind of grandfathered in protections?
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and i suppose it all depends on what you'd consider a "war"
we'll just have to agree to disagree there.
I mean...extrajudicial killing of an american without trial via dronestrike pretty much did it for me, even leaving aside the "war" question.
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they were both having issues, on opposit coasts, i thought i caught this on boing boing yesterday, but can't find that one....they've got both tweets here though: http://www.uproxx.com/webculture/2012/09/the-two-best-star-trek-captains-reunited-via-twitter-to-bit ch-about-their-cable-providers/
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Good luck getting the kiwi's to sign off on another raid.
I think they pissed off the wrong large angry austrian.
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I saw an interesting thing after demonoid went down, as the refugees spread out to other sites.
Movies, games, music, none of those even suffered a bump, since they're available everywhere...but books. Books were what made the noid special. Fiction, nonfiction, comics, romance, Advanced reader copies, ancient RPG source books...they were all there, and then they weren't.
You know what the reaction was? We got pissed. I've spoken to dozens of people who had never uploaded a torrent in thir life.... until the 'noid went down. Now they're uploading their libraries everywhere they can find, to ensure that books stay available to whoever wants or needs them.
Pyrrhic victory...they kill off a site, and inspire hundreds more to share even more, in even more places. Libraries (unfortunantly) are already pretty much irrelevant, and the gap increases by the day. Holding back your ebooks, jacking up prices, makes it so they won't work on my platform, or they won't be available when someone wants them doesn't get publishers a sale... it gets publishers the same disgust and hatred we feel for the music and movie gatekeepers.
it creates a new pirate, another consumer who's looking forward to pissing on their grave.
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I may check it out for some of these indie authors i hear so much about though.
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It's sane, it makes sense, it embraces access to culture, and for all of those reasons i expect it to be litigated out of existence any moment.
to be honest, i don't understand how libraries haven't ALREADY been litigated out of existence for the sin of sharing books/music/movies. Do they have some kind of grandfathered in protections?
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never going to happen, just like we'll never see the assange indictment, or the evidence against kim.com
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