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POPSGoogle + Firefox = Free Music There’s a lot you can do with Google if you can take advantage of it’s advanced search features. Expanding on this tip which shows you how to find music in open directories, here’s a step-by-step walkthrough on how to use Firefox Smart Keyword searches to speed up the process.
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POPSTrent Reznor: I Steal Music Too Reznor, never one to refrain from speaking his mind, ends up confronting one of the record label "sales guys" at a meet and greet during his stay in Brisbane. He asks them why his CDs and DVDs cost 6,7, and even 8 more dollars then everybody elses. The sales guy says it's "Because your packaging is a lot more expensive." But, apparently Reznor pays for this out of his cut form the CD, so this is a moot argument. "I know how much the packaging costs -- it costs me, not them, it costs me 83 cents more to have a CD with the colour-changing ink on it. I'm taking the hit on that, not them." And I just said "That's the most insulting thing I've heard. I've garnered a core audience that you feel it's OK to rip off? F--- you'. That's also why you don't see any label people here, 'cos I said 'F--- you people. Stay out of my f---ing show. If you wanna come, pay the ticket like anyone else. F--- you guys". They're thieves.
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POPSMost Downloaded Freewares My Favorites: 15. ZoneAlarm Free is a free firewall. 18. KeyTweak Description: An easy to use utility that lets you redefine/remap your keyboard input signals in Windows NT/2000/XP. So, if you don't have a keyboard that includes special function keys, you can remap F12 as a mute button, for example. This version features a new teach mode that lets you press two buttons on your keyboard to remap them. This version adds the ability to save and restore remappings.
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POPSElectric Sheep: Awesome Screensaver Homage to Philippe K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". It works when your computer is idle and download new "sheep" from the server. I downloaded it yesterday and have already a "flock" of sheep on my HD. Eye-catching, mind blowing fractal animations.
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POPSMonty Python, buried treasure & the pirate bay
In the Pirate Bay trial closing statements, the defence held the Pirate Bay site didn't hold any copyright films or music -- it merely acted as a search engine -- and that no copyrighted content passed through it anyway. The prosecution had failed to produce any uploaders or downloaders, and had not shown their actions were illegal where they happened to live. Wired said: In the courtroom, the defendants quickly abandoned their revolutionary, free-culture ideals in favor of the simpler philosophy embraced by criminal defendants since time immemorial: I'm Not Responsible. The verdict is due on April 17. "Steal This Film" is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property produced by The League of Noble Peers and released via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol. Part One, combines accounts from prominent players in the dish piracy culture (The Pirate Bay, Piratbyrån, and the Pirate Party) with found material, propaganda-like slogans and Vox Pops.
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POPSAT&T And Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready To Filter Internet civil rights organizations oppose network-level filtering, arguing that it amounts to Big Brother monitoring of free speech, and that such filtering could block the use of material that may fall under fair-use legal provisions — uses like parody, which enrich our culture. “The volume of peer-to-peer traffic online, dominated by copyrighted materials, is overwhelming. That clearly should not be an acceptable, continuing status,” he said. “The question is how we collectively collaborate to address this.”
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POPSFile Sharers Are More Likely to Purchase DVDs and Go to Movie Theaters The result of the study, while going against everything Hollywood is claiming, isn't that surprising, considering the number of previous similar reports. It found that the p2p users went to 34 percent more movies than regular ones, bought 34 percent more DVDs and also rented 24 percent more movies. Could it be that the ones that use file sharing do so precisely because they are more interested in media and entertainment content and, as such, also end up buying more than the average users?
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POPSFCC Vote Backs 'Net neutrality' 3-2 The highly anticipated decision seeks to affirm the FCC's authority to enforce a policy that consumers are entitled to use the Internet applications and services of their choice.
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POPSSerenity HDDVD cracked and on bittorrent DRM will always be cracked, and it didn't take long for HDDVD to fall down. I wonder what these movies will compress down to when the community gets a hold of them. How amazing would it be to have HD quality movies on a single DVD?
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