Category Archives: piracy

Protests, Memory Eraser Drugs, Microearthquakes, and a PSA from Mojo Nixon

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on April 9, 2009. Filed under Associated Press, Cinema, Conspiracy/Fascism, Marketing, Occulture, Weird, Y, ap, documentary, dprgrm, film, foolish people, mojo nixon, piracy, reality tv, shopping, suicide, twitter. 4 Comments.
It’s time for another one of these posts. I’ve been planning to do this post since Sunday, but it was this tweet which made today’s refresher post imperative: Man accused of killing gas station attendant said he thought she was casting a spell on him http://tinyurl.com/cw29vj (via @JimMacMillan) More Headlines! Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory That [...]

Torrent Talk Wrap Up: 05-30-08

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on May 30, 2008. Filed under Torrent Talk, WTF!, beer bottle caps, cyber space, games, inebriate, liquor, oy, piracy, pirate, scrutiny, security agency, shark, torrent, torrents, war inc. 6 Comments.
Yep, we have definitely jumped the shark here in meat-cyber-space. I mean, for reelz? Now beer bottle caps can be censored? Oy. And I thought liquor was the official inebriate of the 2008 War, Inc. games… Can I get a big WTF from the choir? So, the borders are shrinking, and I was thinking, does it [...]

Torrent Talk Wrap Up: 05-23-08

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on May 23, 2008. Filed under Torrent Talk, file sharing, piracy, pirate, torrent, torrents. 4 Comments.
Torrent Talk: The Ice Age Pale Rider You know, we have entered a brave new world. Chilling Effect doesn’t even begin to describe it. We are in a virtual Ice Age. Trackers, search engines (well, not the big ones) are being sued, not for any money they may have (they don’t) but rather to set precedents and [...]

Torrent Talk Wrap-Up: 05-16-08

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on May 16, 2008. Filed under Torrent Talk, ascii, bruce sterling, circulation, entertainment industry, file sharing, free version, greylodge, hacker crackdown, incunabula, ip, news entertainment, piracy, pirate, pirate bay, pirate party, torrent, torrents. 2 Comments.
 A lot has been going on in the world of file sharing and for once it’s not all bad news. Torrent.is set to return next week (for once, news of a tracker going UP and not DOWN) UMG Calls Infringement Damages “Excessive”  (I am literally laughing so hard tears are coming to my eyes) However, it’s not all [...]

The Anarchist in the Library (and a few other books)

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on April 16, 2008. Filed under Books, Politics, Web, ben mack, counterculture, free culture, intellectual property, piracy, pirate party, poker without cards, sivacracy, the anarchist in the library, the pirates dilemma. 4 Comments.
The Anarchist in the Library And a few other books A while back I reviewed Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, a book that powerfully illustrates how property has consistently changed in meaning over time. This week I read Siva Vaidhyanathan’s 2004 book The Anarchist In The Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the [...]

Review: The Pirate’s Dilemma

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on January 11, 2008. Filed under Books, Marketing, Politics, non fiction, piracy, pirate, youth culture. 4 Comments.
The Pirate’s Dilemma by Matt Mason A Review Wes Unruh Someone actually gets it. Well, honestly a lot of people get it, if the rise of hip-hop and the defense of remix culture is any indicator, but perhaps everyone will get it now that Matt Mason’s done such a great job laying it out in clear, precise [...]

FACT Manipulates Truth, UK Police

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on October 24, 2007. Filed under FACT, IFPI, Internet Culture, MPAA, RIAA, Rumors, Torrent Talk, Web, journalism, media, piracy, television, torrents, truth. 8 Comments.
FACT Manipulates Truth, UK Police TV-Links.co.uk, OiNK.cd Shutdown Wes Unruh Last Friday a multinational task force with no fucking clue about how the internet works arrested the owner and shut down the servers of tv-links.co.uk. Here’s the thing, there was no content hosted on TV-L, all the content was hosted on video streaming sites and then hotlinked into html pages [...]

Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on July 17, 2007. Filed under Books, Web, archiving, free culture movement, piracy. 3 Comments.
Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig Editorial Review Wes Unruh I just finished Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture. His discussion revolves primarily around the current state of copyright law in the United States and the result this has had in de-legitimizing entire forms of creative expression, what he calls Disney Creativity. To begin, he [...]