Category: Life

Whenever anyone posts a comment, I get an email informing me so.

Someone just posted spam in the form of a comment, for something I wrote 2 months ago. It consists of a URL to a gambling site, as well as some random text on gambling ensuing it. Newsgroups were ruined by selfish spammers; email followed… are blogs next?

Update on Piracy Film: I’ve amassed about 200+ pages of articles from journals on the issue of filesharing and copyright, and am now in the process of sifting through the stack.

I’m surprised to be honest by the sheer number of people who are against the principles of the media industries on this unbiast search.

Update: Deleted another spamtacular comment. This one was much more straight forward, with a URL to the “Online Top Casino”. Bastards.

To note that the EYNTO DVD ISO torrent has been updated with a new URL. This time it uses DNS (vs. an IP), so it should never have to change again.

If you’re halfway downloading the movie, just load up the new torrent and point it to where your download is located. It will resume from that point on. Give it a day for the DNS to permeate.

Plan to extend copyright on pop classics
…The government wants to extend copyright laws to ensure pop songs are protected for almost twice as long as the current 50 years.

…It will mean Beatles classics such as Love Me Do and Please Please Me, released in 1963, need not automatically lose their copyright in 2013. The Rolling Stones could also benefit with songs such as Satisfaction having their copyright extended beyond 2015.

James Purnell, the new minister for creative industries, believes the change will allow record companies to generate extra revenue to look for new talent and nurture it.

This defeats the purpose of the public domain. Wheras the funds might permit some new talent to be “discovered” and leeched upon by the record industry, it will be at the expense of the very origins of that newfound talent.

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Well, I was manually adding the porn sites that had been surfed with the proxy to a ban filter.

Then it hit me. 99% of all sites visited with the proxy was porn. Over 7,000 requests to one particular porn topsite alone. Alot of it of Iranian/Persian origin.

To add insult to injury, a commentator claimed that he would completely disreguard my situation, despite this last plea, and keep abusing the service.

So whats the point of keeping it up?
Proxy is down. Permanently.

I went to purchase a copy of GTA:San Andreas today, which for those who aren’t aware is a very popular sequel in a series of blockbuster video games.

Electronic Boutique informed me that the shipment would arrive later that day. FutureShop on the other hand was more fun. The sales rep. was lying through his teeth! So I called up Futureshop with Skype to try to get him to say the same things again… and he did.

Unfortunately, the recording portion failed – only my voice was recorded, not that of the other person speaking.

But a few quotes:

GTA:San Andreas [for] PC was pushed back by XBox to tomorrow [June 8th]. The June 7th release date is the American release.

To which I replied that in the Canadian flyer, the release date was stated as June 7th. And of course, the true release date is June 7th: Its a simultaneous North American release.

That’s not to mention the fact that Microsoft/Xbox has no effect on the sales of the PC version. They aren’t the publishers. And you don’t seriously think that the other parties would miss out on THE day to sell their game now would they?

GTA:San Andreas is due out for tomorrow, not today….if you see any other stores selling it before then its illegal.

I told him about how it was advertised in PC Gamer and other publications as being a June 7th release. He just continued the same spiel.

But it isn’t his fault, because when I talked to the managers about this posing as an employee of Take-Two Interactive, they informed me that they were informed via email that the release date was to be tomorrow for Canada as well. This is a case of misinformation; one on the part of the higher-ups at FutureShop. A dissapointing one at that. Despite this, the FutureShop webstore also still claims that the product is available today.