Eircom Set To Block Access To Pirate Bay
Posted on August 20, 2009 - Filed Under Internets, Music | 1 Comment
Thanks to Damien Mulley I’ve learned that Eircom plans to block its subscribers from accessing The Pirate Bay from September 1st 2009. However, other Irish ISPs have indicated that they have no intention of caving into pressure from the large music publishers, with Chorus even bullishly claiming that they’ll take the matter to court if [...]
The Pirate Bay Sells Out
Posted on June 30, 2009 - Filed Under Internets | 3 Comments
According to BBC News:
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay has been sold to a Swedish gaming company.
Global Gaming Factory (GGF) has paid 60m kronor (£4.7m) to take over the site from its founders.
Once it has taken control, GGF said it would start paying copyright fees for the movies, music and games linked to via the site.
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GGF [...]
Irish Broadband Is Rubbish
Posted on May 27, 2009 - Filed Under Internets | 1 Comment
BBC News article.
Trent Reznor’s Digg Interview
Posted on April 30, 2009 - Filed Under Internets, Media, Music | Leave a Comment
This is from a few weeks ago. It’s 40 minutes long, so it’s possibly only of interest to other Nine Inch Nails fans.
Posted on April 25, 2009 - Filed Under Internets, Media, Music | Leave a Comment
I’ve said this to some friends recently, so apologies for repeating myself to them, but ever since Trent Reznor started twittering I’ve been avidly following his tweets and I think I finally understand the appeal of those silly celebrity magazines that some women buy. I’ve never cared about the daily life of Brad Pitt and [...]
Pirate Bay Verdict
Posted on April 17, 2009 - Filed Under Film, Internets, Media, Music, News Item | Leave a Comment
From the BBC:
A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world’s most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case.
Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail.
They were also ordered to pay $4.5m [...]
New Site Unearthed
Posted on March 29, 2009 - Filed Under Internets, Personal | Leave a Comment
I don’t want to big it up too much, but I think that TheLivingDeadbeat.com is set to be the best website of all time. However, in the interests of full disclosure I must reveal that Mr. Chainsaw, one of the site’s founders, and myself go back a long, long time…
Christopher Walken on Twitter
Posted on March 23, 2009 - Filed Under Internets | Leave a Comment
It’s a joke, obviously, but a good one.
Worst Rage Ever
Posted on March 12, 2009 - Filed Under Football, Internets | 3 Comments
Usually, when somebody links to a YouTube video and says “I bet you can’t sit through the whole thing!”, what they really mean is either “this is infuriating” or “this is dire”. Thus, it’s usually possible to sit through the video but it’s not very enjoyable to do so. However, there are times when the [...]
Bookmarks
Posted on February 19, 2009 - Filed Under Internets | 3 Comments
I tend to visit the same few sites every time I’m online, and I figure that many of you probably do the same. Apart from checking in on Gmail and Facebook, I invariably read Matt Yglesias’s blog, the blogs at The Atlantic website, and nin.com, to see if Trent Reznor’s posted tour dates/anything else interesting. [...]
Still Got It
Posted on January 12, 2009 - Filed Under Internets, Music | Leave a Comment
Nine Inch Nails – March Of The Pigs (Lights In The Sky Tour, Multi-Cam) from Edgar Desrives on Vimeo.
NIN performing ‘March of the Pigs’ during their 2008 Lights in the Sky tour. Trent wanted to make a DVD from tour footage, but due to complications with his former record label Interscope it couldn’t be organised [...]
Black Humour FTW
Posted on May 1, 2008 - Filed Under Funny, Internets | 6 Comments
I laughed anyway.
Censorship, Islam & “Fitna”
Posted on March 29, 2008 - Filed Under Europe, Freedom, Internets, Media, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Politics, Religion | 9 Comments
“Fitna” is the name of a rather nasty, polemical film by right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders that equates all Islam with violence and, portrays all Muslims as extremists. Or at least that’s what I gather based on the testimonies of those who have seen it. I can’t watch it myself because LiveLeak, the main channel [...]
IRL CO$ Raids
Posted on March 15, 2008 - Filed Under Funny, Internets | Leave a Comment
While I was doing my GAMSAT exam (post due in the coming days, when I’m feeling less tired), Anonymous was busy protesting worldwide against the vile Church of Scientology. Good for them, and props to the guy with the longcat placard.
Motivators
Posted on March 14, 2008 - Filed Under Funny, Internets | 1 Comment
Because I could do with some right now.
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