The drama surrounding ThePirateBay and it’s take down, sale, planned purchase, and eventual return have hit another snag. While flow of information from the parent company trying to buy TPB has pretty dried up, “content protectors” are still operating at full speed. Go on over to Google and do a search for the pirate bay. Chances are you won’t find a single link pointing directly to TPB’s homepage. According to Google, a DMCA takedown...
While this shouldn’t have been a surprise, somehow I am still left wondering “why”? You may remember all of the drama circulating around the Pirate Bay trial, verdict, and revealing of Judge Tomas Norström’s membership to the Swedish Copyright Association as well as the motion for a retrial by the Pirate Bay and accompanying camp. I’m sad to say that today, a Swedish court has ruled that simply supporting a particular group/laws does not...
At first glance, the Blu-ray managed copy procedure may seem like movie studies are finally wising up and giving consumers some more legal options as to how they can use products that they legally paid for. But, when actually digging down deeper into the fine print and attached strings one can realize how much of a sham and waste of time this is. In short, keep “illegally” legally copying your movies for personal use. Moving on. The first kick in the face...
iPods are notorious for keeping their media locked down which in turn often frustrates customers as they have to jump through all sorts of 3rd party hoops just to get a simple song from one iPod to another. Thankfully a much easier solution is available to you thanks to the Easy iPod Media Sharer. Able to whisk songs along at up to a claimed 600KB/s means song transfers happen in mere seconds, not minutes. Sadly, DRM authorization and lock downs still persist meaning...
In what is a sad day for P2P, torrent, and file sharers everywhere, a tweet by CNNbrk sadly revealed early this morning that Pirate Bay has lost their case. Will Pirate Bay disappear and become but another story we tell our grandchildren some day. Or will it live on (albeit in another country.) Heck, even Pirate Bay themselves said regardless of the decision they and their service would live on. As with all things legal, the appeal that is most certainly to follow...
