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- Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
- The Inspirational Maniacs Of The Pirate Bay
- Kim Dotcom Becomes Proud Dad Of Twin Girls
- The Department For ACTA
| Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent Posted: 26 Mar 2012 01:40 AM PDT
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Source: Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
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| The Inspirational Maniacs Of The Pirate Bay Posted: 25 Mar 2012 01:32 PM PDT
Then late last weekend and out of nowhere came a gift. The Pirate Bay team put up a blog post declaring that the site would be hosted in the sky inside flying drones. As Ernesto quite rightly pointed out to me, this kind of thing makes a perfect Sunday article. If i’m honest all I could think at the time was that the TPB boys had just returned home after a weekend-long hallucinogen binge and hadn’t had the good sense to keep off the keyboard. “Being this connected to the ground doesn't feel appropriate to us anymore," a TPB insider wearing a glazed expression, bandana and a smiley-face t-shirt told TorrentFreak. For those who follow the adventures of The Bay, these crazy stories are nothing new. During its life The Pirate Bay has been hosted in a Cold War nuclear bunker and was even destined to move beyond the law and onto a North Sea platform known as Sealand. If Peter Sunde hadn’t spent all the donated money on trees, Pirate Bay drones might have never been needed. Nevertheless, despite it painting a fairly unlikely picture the drone story spread faster than a well-seeded torrent and was retold around the web dozens and dozens of times. Of course there were the usual Doubting Thomas writers and skeptical readers, but interestingly there were plenty of people discussing how it might be achieved. Several big publications even quoted experts who said that the idea is technically possible. Yet again The Pirate Bay had done what it is very good at – firing people’s imaginations. Last week millions of people daydreamed about the possibility of tiny flying servers, each hovering tantalizingly just out of the copyright bogeyman’s reach. Those same people want to believe that The Pirate Bay will create its own laws inside its own floating nation. They positively love the idea of a defiant server fighting a digital war encased deep inside a nuclear bunker. And the reason people are ready to suspend their disbelief and are willing to give these crazy ideas a chance is because The Pirate Bay continually does amazing things, things that really shouldn’t be possible. The Pirate Bay’s founders have been sued into oblivion and ordered to pay millions yet not a penny has or will be paid. The theory is that soon they will go to jail, but given the site’s Houdini-like abilities one has to wonder if that will ever happen. The site itself is absolutely huge and has remained so for nearly a decade. It was physically and completely dismantled only to reappear phoenix-like just a few days later. Everyone on the Internet can find the site yet mysteriously no-one knows where it is to shut it down. Even if it was found it would clone itself immediately and reappear tomorrow. It’s the beast that can’t be killed, the stuff of legends. What The Pirate Bay does every single day is the impossible, and whether you love them or loathe them there can be few who don’t quietly admire them. Despite overwhelming odds they are still here, doing what they promised to do a decade ago and there just aren’t that many people around who are that reliable. As a symbol of digital defiance, The Pirate Bay has no equal and its operators are perhaps the most inspirational maniacs the Internet has ever seen. So when they talk about hovering drones or pocket-sized personal WiFi proxies for all TPB users (oh, you haven’t heard about that one yet?) not everyone will believe them. But the rebellious side in all of us will be intrigued nonetheless and will come to the conclusion that however unlikely the proposition, if anyone can pull it off, the inspirational maniacs at The Pirate Bay can. And even if only secretly, most people will be cheering them on. Source: The Inspirational Maniacs Of The Pirate Bay
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| Kim Dotcom Becomes Proud Dad Of Twin Girls Posted: 25 Mar 2012 12:22 PM PDT A month after Kim Dotcom was released from prison on bail, his wife Mona has given birth to healthy twin girls. The twins were born in the National Women’s Hospital in Auckland weighing 2.4kg and 2.8kg. Dotcom and Mona already had three children - Kimmo, Kaylo and Kobi. The Megaupload founder was delighted to report the news and the now five-time father proudly posed with the new Dotcoms. “Two healthy Kiwis were born yesterday. All good,” Dotcom texted TorrentFreak on Friday. “When they asked me if I would like to keep the placenta (weird question) I said yes, and please send it to the FBI for forensic analysis so they can verify there is no pirate DNA ;-),” he added. Kim Dotcom and his twin daughters
No names have been mentioned for the latest additions to the Dotcom household, but it’s a safe bet those on the shortlist begin with ‘K’. Dotcom is currently preparing his defense against the indictment of the US Government, which he says will be “enlightening and maybe entertaining.” More news on this will arrive during the coming week. Source: Kim Dotcom Becomes Proud Dad Of Twin Girls
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| Posted: 25 Mar 2012 05:16 AM PDT
ACTA imposes significant requirements on the 30 or so signatories should they ratify it, none are yet to do so, impacting far wider than the commonly discussed aspects of file-sharing and media piracy. ACTA brings generic medicines into play. To some extent it dictates how nations should deal with trade-marks and patents. In the words of Australian Law Professor Dr Matthew Rimmer, ACTA "seeks to define and channel how nation-states enforce concepts of intellectual property." Australia’s lack of public and political opposition to ACTA stands somewhat alone in the international community, accentuated by limited local media coverage. The rare light shone on Australia’s role in negotiations during last week’s "Justice Standing Committee" hearing only came after the treaty had already been signed in October, 2011 – as was noted more than once by the handful of politicians present. Senator Scott Ludlam, an outspoken supporter of Julian Assange and his Wikileaks organisation, seized the opportunity to grill the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade and other supporters of ACTA who presented themselves. If body language is anything to go by, the good senator was less than enthusiastic about the answers he received. Later in the week, a very different group of people gave evidence, drawn from the ranks of concerned members of Australia’s academic community. Their testimony was largely negative, attacking ACTA on multiple levels. Human rights expert Dr Hazel Moir, of the Australian National University, pointed to the role copyright monopolies played in drafting the secretive treaty and questioned their motives. “The music industry has a very rigid business model. They’re only prepared to sell certain things at certain times,” Dr Moir testified. Some of the harshest language came from Dr Matthew Rimmer, an intellectual property law expert, also from the ANU. Dr Rimmer took aim at the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade’s role in negotiating the treaty. "The Department [of Foreign Affairs & Trade] have been one of the chief advocates," Dr Rimmer told TorrentFreak after giving evidence. "They’re conducting and running their own line on what should happen. I’m not sure that represents a wider government approach." Dr Rimmer questioned why other government departments had not been included in the treaty negotiations. "There was a need for Treasury, Finance and the Productivity Commission to be involved. I also think the Department of Health [& Ageing] have been ignored … their concerns have not been raised." Those concerns include the impact ACTA may have on Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme – a government program that provides subsidised drugs and medicines to the entire population. Bans on the use of generic medicines could see massive blow-outs in the cost of the scheme according to Dr Rimmer. "There’s many real problems with the one department having soul carriage [of ACTA] that have simply been ignored," he said. The Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade has been lead by no less than three ministers since ACTA negotiations began in 2008. None have shown a particular public interest in the treaty, preferring the rough and tumble of internal party politics and visits to Afghanistan and Washington. Australia’s ruling Labor Party and conservative opposition have a long standing history of combining their numbers to pass treaties and agreements driven by the US State Department – as ACTA is. Australia’s role in negotiating ACTA has been near invisible, both locally and internationally. Transparency in the process has been non-existent. Mainstream media coverage has been negligible. Expert local voices have been ignored. Should Australia ratify ACTA, it will sign up to a treaty negotiated in secret by a single, questionably-lead government department with parliamentary hearings held after the fact and outcomes that could be felt across the legal and policy landscape of the nation. Such a process runs counter-intuitive to how a modern liberal democracy operates. About The Author Myles Peterson is an Australian Journalist & Writer. Source: The Department For ACTA
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This week there are three newcomers in our chart. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is the most downloaded movie for the second week in a row.
Writing on a Sunday can be an ‘interesting’ affair. Not only is there no news, typing and alcohol-induced dehydration and depression often make things even more tricky. 
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