To help people circumvent recent European blockades against thepiratebay, the Piratebay is willing to begin playing wack-a-mole with IPs, the same way they did with Itailian and Belgian DNS blocks. A new IP has been setup, that is not currently blocked in the UK or Holland, and it’s just waiting for people to create their own domains to point to it.
http://194.71.107.80:80 is a piratebay light, pre-configured to work with proxies, it’s the first IP outside of the current government block zones. However, it is limited. “No login/register/comments/upload/torrents, just search/browse and magnets”, according to someone familiar with the subject. By setting up a light IP, it makes it easier to create proxies to browse the site. For example, previously when browsing thepiratebay with google translate, it wasn’t possible to search and browse.. With the new IP it is, and it works nicely. Also, for those not technically savvy enough to create a proxy, or for those who want to help but simply do not have the bandwidth, a simple redirect will suffice for now.
Share Cop is a service that claims they can protect people from “cyber thieves” who share digital content on the internet. All pirates and anyone with the slightest tech sense, and most probably Share Cop, realize that such services are little more than a scam because their is no known way to prevent piracy on the internet. Much to the dismay of intellectual property industries, that is an old fact.
Perhaps this fact has become so apparent that Share Cop is struggling to find clients and, being the geniuses that they are, have resorted to spamming blog that clearly are in favor of copyright reform and keeping online file-sharing legal. Rather than treat it as the usual spam and block it, Green Pirate is going to allow Share Cop to publicly expose themselves as the lowest life form on the internet. Behold, the spammer.
Now I would like to address a few words from the spammer’s website.
Warning
The illegal sharing of your digital product is killing your profits.
No it’s not. Prove it.
It’s heart-wrenching, but true! If you have a digital product, then it is or will be shared or sold illegally throughout warez sites, file sharing networks, torrent sites, forums, and more.
Ok, at least you got that part right.
Let us protect your digital product from cyber thieves.
It’s heart-wrenching, but true! If you have a digital product, then it is or will be shared or sold illegally throughout warez sites, file sharing networks, torrent sites, forums, and more… In other words, you just you can’t do a damn thing about it. Suck my balls. GTFO.
A friend sent me this insightful lecture from Mark D. Pagel, Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Evolutionary Biology; Head of the Evolution Laboratory at the University of Reading; Author Oxford Encyclopaedia of Evolution; co-author of The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology; where he goes on to compare our human abilities of innovation against our innate instinct to copy. Not only do I love when some highly credible expert comes along to confirm what we pirates have known all along, whether it be in our hearts or minds, but what better modern day example represents this subject than the debate over copyright vs. infringement?
The following interview was recently posted at youtube. Here is a chance for people to get to know one of their most unique elected MEP and hopefully see why she is so well suited for the position. Enjoy!
Stun tweets that an IP address used by BUMA/STEMRA, a sort of Dutch version of RIAA who sued Kazaa unsuccessfully in 2001 over the copyright infringement of its users, has been logged by youhavedownloaded.com sharing the first episode of the eighth season of Entourage.
Green Pirate would like to be the first to welcome BUMA/STEMRA (whichever you are) to the wonderful world of entertainment called internet piracy that offers a larger library and greater convenience than even money can buy! I wholeheartedly hope you enjoy that episode of Entourage, which for all I know is pretty tough to come by in the Netherlands. Kudos to you chaps for setting a better example and joining the rest of us who are enjoying the luxuries of modern technology. Perhaps this means you will refrain from suing fans who download the Dutch music you hold the rights to?
Notorious rival gang cartels known as MPAA and RIAA which experts believe got it’s start when entertainment producers and lawyers in Hollywood teamed up to find ways of exploiting copyright law to extract money from unwary citizens, have grown into out of control cartels with a sphere of influence reaching as high up as the President of the US and many other leaders of other nations.
These cartels have grown so powerful that they have powers “above the law” so to speak. They can have people incarcerated for publicly indexing hash strings or demand that ICE seizes domains, blocking global access to a website based on an accusation of copyright infringement without requiring an investigation or trial. (more…)
Tech experts, human rights & free speech supporters, as well as the very internet users who will be subject to the ill effects of this legislature, are not being allowed to voice their opinions at the the congressional hearings surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) this week.
Supporters of this bill have given congress over four times as much money as the opponents. Simply put, Hollywood money ($8,500,820) vs. the common person with common sense ($2,076,390) has successfully bought congress.
If you are sick of corrupt congressmen bending over for Hollywood’s golden member, you can go to Demand Progress and demand that the voice of the people is heard.
The final ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon, which changes the allowances for the number of members of European Parliament for some nations in the EU, is expected to be annexed to the original document in Rome this month. The changes will be active December 1st, 2011.
The Lisbon Treaty, in which the rules governing the European Union were last modified, limits the number of MEPs to 750 plus one president and tweaks their allocation among member states after the massive enlargements of 2005 and 2007.
Twelve countries are to gain one or more representatives – Spain: 4; Austria, France, and Sweden: 2; Bulgaria, Italy, Malta, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, and the UK: 1 – whereas Germany is set to lose three of them.
One of those 18 additions includes elected MEP of Sweden, Amelia Andersdotter of Piratpariet (Sweden’s Pirate Party). Sweden should consider itself lucky to have such a passionate, well informed representative who genuinely cares about the well being of the people of Sweden.
The Pirate Party platform revolves around three important issues which are not prejudice to race, class or any group less than the sum of all citizens. These issues are copyright and patent reform, less intrusive commercial and government surveillance (right to privacy) and increasing freedom of speech.
The people have spoken and elected Miss Andersdotter to represent them in these areas way back in 2009. Andersdotter has continued to stay active in Swedish politics in spite of not being on the payroll. You’ve heard of starving artists? Well, you might be able to call her a starving politician. On the bright side, she is probably more prepared and sharper than she has ever been to represent the people of Sweden.
Now Sweden’s citizens, including Amelia, are no doubt excitedly awaiting official announcement of when she will take her seat at parliament. Congratulations and best of luck to you all!
Update: The following e-mail message is from an excited Amelia Andersdotter to her supporters, friends, family and all.
Dear all,
It appears that me and my 17 Lisbon Treaty MEP colleagues will finally get to be inaugurated during the Strasbourg session in December 2011. The 2,5 years it has taken the European institutions and member states to sign a paper enabling the further democratization of the union, equal in number the amount of years I will be able to actively work towards a democratization of the union.
There have not been any official callings of me to the parliament yet – apparently such notifications will be sent out only after the Belgian government have had their ratification approved by the depository of treaty documents in Rome. That means, that should such notification from the Belgian government and subsequent approval by Rome take more than 12 days from today, my inauguration will instead occur during the January plenary in Strasbourg.
Certainly my perspectives on bureaucracy, democracy and their many interactions have developed during these 2 years, but for the remainder of this legislature I’ll do my best to advance this union )
Goodnight and till tomorrow,
Amelia
Once again, ActivePolitic is the first to let me know! Thanks.
Active Politic has compiled a top 20 list for pirate related news sources. If you ever find yourself feeling out of the loop when it comes to current events relevant to internet freedoms, add these sites to your RSS feed and you’ll never have to be the “last one to know” again.
Active Politic always scours for pirate related and other news, so that is always a good one to follow as well. In fact, I’ve gotten a bit lazy because I just follow their bot’s updates on irc. I’ll let you find that yourself tho.
Although I haven’t updated in a while, definitely check out the recommended list to the right. Many are big voices in the ongoing battle to defend your freedoms. I’ve been fortunate to get to talk to some of them on multiple occasions and they are generally very good, down to earth people. Each of them are real people no different than anyone else except that they care enough about our rights to make their voices heard. Aside from that, they are no different than you or I so I highly recommend browsing through that list over there.
H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has been introduced in an attempt to make streaming unlicensed content a felony and allow government to take down websites they consider to be involved in copyright infringement.. The Immigrations and Customs Office has already been doing this since around Thanksgiving of 2010 (while admins were no doubt enjoying a nice turkey dinner with their families).
Apparently though, taking away your right to free speech and a fair trial is making it hard for some members of the House Judiciary Committee to sleep at night. Their solution? “LET’S MAKE IT LEGAL TO TAKE AWAY YOUR FREE SPEECH AND RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL!”
Now I’m sure none of these politicians are evil. Therefore I conclude that the following are mentally challenged members who think that legalizing oppression makes it morally appropriate: Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX), ranking member John Conyers (D-MI), Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Howard Berman (D-CA).
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