In my new issue of Wired, there was a huge advertisement for some Michael Madsen movie (Michael Madsen still makes movies?) with an attached Bluray disc — so it’s virtually completely useless. This giant page ruined the magazine since I couldn’t open it without it just flopping open to the ad. Since the page wasn’t perforated when I tore it out I almost pulled out several other pages. Way to go, advertisers. Now I have negative feelings toward you.
TorrentFreak has a good read on the MediaDefender hack a year ago:
Meanwhile, BitTorrent sites witnessed a decrease in MediaDefender activity following the leak. The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde, who sued some key players in the entertainment business for using MediaDefender, told TorrentFreak that there has been a significant decrease in activity from BitTorrent spoofers and decoyers. “It’s strange that no one has given much regard to the fact that the way MediaDefender works is probably illegal in most countries. Even in the US. I might even say, especially in the US,” Sunde added.
I shared this in the What I’m Reading section but I feel it bears some highlighting — Universal Cancels Metallica Interview over Torrent Mention. Basically a reviewer for a Swedish publication reviewed the new Metallica album and linked to a remix of it available on RapidShare and now through torrents (you can find it as “Death Magnetic Better Shorter Cut”) and said he liked the remix version better. The remix version, as the title indicates, is the same tunes minus the sucking repetitions of choruses and riffs. You know, it’s Metallica with the editor they’ve needed for the past, oh, 18 years. Metallica’s record label subsequently cancelled an interview the band was to do with the publication. (continue reading…)
