After finding out about a copy of his game being released on The Pirate Bay, Sean Hogan responded quite positively in the torrent comments. Read the TorrentFreak article for details on that. As you’ll see in the TorrentFreak article, the original torrent has since been removed.
A super duper top secret insider at The Pirate Bay tells me that the account of the user, Frewyrn, who uploaded the game was banned by mistake, most likely getting caught up in a flood of fakes TPB mods are constantly battling to remove. (On a side note, modding is not only a lot of work, but it is volunteer work so please buy your TPB mods beer if you ever get the opportunity.)
At some point during the comments of the TF article, Sean engaged with other readers a bit. At least a couple of people suggested that Sean upload a torrent of the game and it appears that he has taken heed of the communities desire to access Anodyne and uploaded a torrent of the game using the account name seagaia, the same he had earlier used to comment on the first torrent.
Without drawing this update out any further, here is the new, official torrent along with a big Green Pirate thanks to Sean for being awesome.
Thanks to Frewyrn as well. If not for that torrent, I never would have found out about this amazing looking game which stirs up nostalgic memories of StarTropics and Secret of Mana.
The Cranberries first new album in 11 years, “Roses”, was leaked in full FLAC format* today. Although scheduled to be released on February 27th, a KickAss Torrents uploader known as somethingvague has released the album on the public torrent site a full 10 days ahead of schedule.
This should be great news for The Cranberries fans everywhere who likely first heard of the Irish group when their chart topping protest song “Zombie” was released in 1994. This may also bode well for the band’s bottom line if it is true that file-sharers tend to buy more music… not to mention all the publicity a leak like this can bring in the form of blog and news articles. It will certainly be interesting to see the response from the band as well as fans.
*If you hold the rights to this album, please be advised that this link does not lead to the album content. It leads to a page on kat.ph, which does not host content. This site is hosted in the US and the link is posted with a clear conscience and understanding that it does not infringe upon copyright law. Green Pirate neither encourages nor discourages readers to participate in pirating this album. It is up to the reader to decide independently whether or not they wish to do that. Even if Green Pirate wanted to, which it doesn’t, it could not stop this album from being pirated. It’s happening. Drink about it.
No Safe Harbor, the first Pirate Party collective, is announced to be released today. The following announcement comes from the US Pirate Party via Andrew Norton.
The Pirate Party is proud to announce the release of its first book, No Safe Harbor.
No Safe Harbor, released January 24th 2012, is a collection of political essays, texts, and discussions that help explain and educate about Pirate Party positions. While some have been published before, many others are original to the book.
Contributors range from first-time writers being published for the first time, leading academics, to Pirate Party officials, and even international organizations like the United Nations.
Adding color to the book are cartoons by artist and free culture activist Nina Paley, creator of the animated film Sita Sings the Blues.
Topics covered include notes on the 4th Amendment, the history of copyright, biopatents, and corporate personhood.
The book is released under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-SA) and sharing of it is strongly encouraged. To further that, the book is available in a number of DRM-free formats, free of charge. In addition a paperback edition can be purchased through Amazon.com for $9.99
“For anyone concerned with our rights today, but unsure where to start, this book is an invaluable guide,” says Assistant Editor and contributor Andrew Norton. “Education on these very important topics, and their immense potential for harm, has been sadly overlooked in recent years. We felt it was time to correct that.”
Further information, including the book and press resources can be downloaded from www.nosafeharbor.com
This idea comes from one of Green Pirate’s irc friends at #greenpirate.org on efnet.
21:02 <+[4Q]> [ActP_Internet] These 61 Senators are refusing to meet with their constituents before SOPA vote http://activepolitic.com:82/cgi-bin/qrfxt/13727
21:04 <@Geui> Front Page of Google
21:05 <@Geui> Revolt revolt, KILL THEM ALL
21:05 <@Geui> Est. 275 million U.S. citizens see that
I imagine Google doesn’t want to use their massive influence in this way as it as it may become a slippery slope toward using it for other political opinions that the few people presiding over their home page may have. Most people probably don’t want to see that.
Please share this post to help get Google’s attention.
Perhaps they could instead make people aware that SOPA exists by having the Google logo link to the search term “sopa” and then let people decide for themselves. After all, it is in no way the fault of Google that old media has completely refrained from reporting on SOPA. If every search result happens to be explaining why SOPA is such a horrible idea, it’s all organic search results. When the fate of Google and every other site on the web depends on it, perhaps Google can join all of their peers who have taken action to raise awareness of SOPA, without doing it in a tactless manner.
What do you think, Google? Is this metaphorical eclipse of the internet not as important a current event as the actual lunar eclipse? How would you like to save the internet through a simple act of impartial education?
Being faced with hosting fees at time where paying them is not easy, Green Pirate is turning to internet busking for support from readers. If you or your mother’s credit card (Kidding! For the love of keeping Green Pirate out of jail, please don’t do that.) would like to make a small donation, a few special people could make a huge difference.
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Neil Gaiman offers some wise advice to the Open Rights Group and shares his personal transformation from viewing file-sharing as a threat to understanding the important role it has played in supporting his career as a writer.
As this is my favorite author, I am very excited to be able to post this today. For a long time, the following quote from a blog post by Mr. Gaiman titled “Why defend freedom of icky speech?” could be found in my signature:
If you accept — and I do — that freedom of speech is important, then you are going to have to defend the indefensible. That means you are going to be defending the right of people to read, or to write, or to say, what you don’t say or like or want said.
This gave me a great deal of respect for Neil Gaiman as a man. It also served to reinforce my opinion of him as an excellent writer and weaver of fantastic stories because it made me realize the importance allowing the creative mind to roam free. If Mr. Gaiman had not had the opportunity, the world would have lost some very special works of art without ever even having known what it was missing out on.
Thankfully, we can enjoy great works such as Neverwhere, Anansi Boys and American Gods today. I highly recommend getting your hands on some of his novels in whatever way you can. I’d be willing to bet my bandwidth that once you read his work you will want to buy a printed version. In fact, come to think of it, it wasn’t until Anansi Boys that I had purchased one of his books without reading a friend’s copy first. It all started with the Sandman series I used to read at my uncle’s comic book store and the graphic novels I would borrow from my friend.
Ho Ho Ho! Firstly, I’d like to apologize for the downtime and tell whoever was trying to brute force / inject my account with the web host that you fail at cracking. I hope die a slow, painful, prescription pharmaceutical induced death, discover that it was the meds which were making you sick only to stop taking them, begin to recover and then get prescribed something else that makes you more sick until, by the time you finally die, your organs have withered in such a way that the little donor sticker on your driver’s license can’t even be honored. Best of Christmas wishes to you!
That said, what do you get the pirate who has everything? If you slacked on your shopping this year, or you woke up this morning and didn’t know what day it was until someone on the internet told you it was Christmas Eve already (me), I’m sure there will be plenty of after Christmas specials to look forward to. Fortunately my X-mas shopping was done early this year, but for you procrastinators out there and lucky kids with gift cards to blow, here are a few things pirates can always use:
VPN Service – Keep file-transfers anonymous. Preferably, get one hosted in another country. Perhaps one a little more friendly toward file-sharers, like Switzerland.
Seedbox – Sometimes it’s just not possible to keep up a good ratio on private trackers. A seedbox will host your files and allow you to seed from there. Look for something with good upload speeds.
External HDD – Because you can never have too many chests to store your booty.
Media Player – Burning DVDs to watch them on your HDTV can be a pain in the ass and it’s a waste of resources. Most media players are designed for HD format and a wide range of other formats.
Anything Needed to Read & Reproduce Content – Speakers, headphones, monitors, televisions, game consoles, eBook readers, etc. Data is just data. It isn’t until it is interpreted and reproduced that it becomes content, such as a movie or song. These things make it possible to bridge the gap between stored data and humanly identifiable, potentially infringing content. Until you reproduce it, you don’t even know if you’ve pirated anything at all!
That’s about it for the Green Pirate Christmas special. Have a good one! Oh, and don’t forget to donate a thumb drive with a couple of good movies and directions to your nearest torrent site to some poor kids somewhere. It could keep them off the streets, away from drugs and even get them interested in computers enough to have some sort of tech career when they grow up instead of being that guy who writes a 666 page manifesto about why every member of congress is a fascist and needs to be picked off from the nearest clock tower.
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.
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?
