Pirate Bay sold
"The Pirate Bay has been sold—and the new owners plan to make it a legal service that allows "content providers and copyright owners [to] get paid for content that is downloaded via the site." Global Gaming Factory X AB, a Swedish firm that runs Internet cafes and game centers, plans to buy The Pirate Bay for 60 million kronor, twice the fine that was slapped on The Pirate Bay defendants (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/the-pirate-bay-verdict-guilty-with-jail-time.ars) by a Stockholm court earlier this year. "The Pirate Bay is a site that is among the top 100 most visited Internet sites in the world," said GGF CEO Hans Pandeya. "However, in order to live on, The Pirate Bay requires a new business model, which satisfies the requirements and needs of all parties, content providers, broadband operators, end users, and the judiciary. Content creators and providers need to control their content and get paid for it. File sharers need faster downloads and better quality." " Continued (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/pirate-bay-sold-going-legit-music-biz-cautiously-optimistic.ars) So much for the Pirate Bay in its current form, soon enough it will resemble the i-tunes store. I wonder what portal will takes its place as the premier torrent search/tracker?
"The Pirate Bay has been sold—and the new owners plan to make it a legal service that allows "content providers and copyright owners [to] get paid for content that is downloaded via the site." Global Gaming Factory X AB, a Swedish firm that runs Internet cafes and game centers, plans to buy The Pirate Bay for 60 million kronor, twice the fine that was slapped on The Pirate Bay defendants (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/the-pirate-bay-verdict-guilty-with-jail-time.ars) by a Stockholm court earlier this year. "The Pirate Bay is a site that is among the top 100 most visited Internet sites in the world," said GGF CEO Hans Pandeya. "However, in order to live on, The Pirate Bay requires a new business model, which satisfies the requirements and needs of all parties, content providers, broadband operators, end users, and the judiciary. Content creators and providers need to control their content and get paid for it. File sharers need faster downloads and better quality." " Continued (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/pirate-bay-sold-going-legit-music-biz-cautiously-optimistic.ars) So much for the Pirate Bay in its current form, soon enough it will resemble the i-tunes store. I wonder what portal will takes its place as the premier torrent search/tracker?
HD Recovery
Anyone have any experience with hard drive recovery services? My home machine died - the HD will spin, and on startup you can hear the clicking as it tries to read itself, but nothing. I put it in an external SATA box, hoping I could get it to come to life and recover the files, but it doesn't want to read itself. Was wondering about the recovery services - any recommendations? PS - back up early, back up often.
Anyone have any experience with hard drive recovery services? My home machine died - the HD will spin, and on startup you can hear the clicking as it tries to read itself, but nothing. I put it in an external SATA box, hoping I could get it to come to life and recover the files, but it doesn't want to read itself. Was wondering about the recovery services - any recommendations? PS - back up early, back up often.
Any Ideas For A Computer
My computer has to be put out to pasture. It’s a 256ram and 10 gigs hard drive Celeron crap. Some people say 2.2 gigs ram and 400 gigs hard drive is too slow Is this true? What’s the minimum I should get?
My computer has to be put out to pasture. It’s a 256ram and 10 gigs hard drive Celeron crap. Some people say 2.2 gigs ram and 400 gigs hard drive is too slow Is this true? What’s the minimum I should get?
Kodachrome made all the world a sunny day
Well new technology had to make this happen. Kodak is making an ERA come to an end and so it will terminate what some photographers believed was the best colour film to use.. Seeing everything is now digital, the old is replaced by the new.. ---Quote--- We don't expect technologies and human beings to enjoy similar lifespans in this accelerated age. Rapid obsolescence is the norm, "On to the next!" the prevailing battle cry of the digital era. Small surprise, then, that the announcement this past week that Kodak was finally ceasing production of its storied Kodachrome film line after 74 years provoked so many printed expressions of sadness and nostalgia. Even if you knew this day was coming – and, most devotees agree, the writing's been on the wall for 10 or 15 years – you had to keep rooting that this epoch-defining slide film unveiled in 1936 and which dominated the gleaming pages of Time, Life and National Geographic well into the 1980s would keep improbably hanging on against the onslaught of point-and-shoot digital cameras. "I saw this thing coming five years ago," says Daniel Bayer, a professional photographer from Aspen, Colo. "My only concern was that we could keep the film around long enough and, more importantly, the processing long enough to celebrate it at 75, meaning we could shoot photos in its 75th year." Bayer has lately made it his life's mission to document as much of the U.S. as he can in Kodachrome's uniquely rich colour palette. "Whether or not the film was made yesterday or what roll it came off, who cares? It's still Kodachrome. It's still alive. "I'll probably grieve after the film can literally no longer be processed." The Kodachrome Project, as he's dubbed it, is in a double race against time. Bayer has hoarded close to 900 rolls of unexposed Kodachrome against the inevitable – the day Kodak's warehouse stocks of the film are emptied. ---End Quote--- TheStar.com | Insight | Kodachrome made all the world a sunny day (http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/657803)
Well new technology had to make this happen. Kodak is making an ERA come to an end and so it will terminate what some photographers believed was the best colour film to use.. Seeing everything is now digital, the old is replaced by the new.. ---Quote--- We don't expect technologies and human beings to enjoy similar lifespans in this accelerated age. Rapid obsolescence is the norm, "On to the next!" the prevailing battle cry of the digital era. Small surprise, then, that the announcement this past week that Kodak was finally ceasing production of its storied Kodachrome film line after 74 years provoked so many printed expressions of sadness and nostalgia. Even if you knew this day was coming – and, most devotees agree, the writing's been on the wall for 10 or 15 years – you had to keep rooting that this epoch-defining slide film unveiled in 1936 and which dominated the gleaming pages of Time, Life and National Geographic well into the 1980s would keep improbably hanging on against the onslaught of point-and-shoot digital cameras. "I saw this thing coming five years ago," says Daniel Bayer, a professional photographer from Aspen, Colo. "My only concern was that we could keep the film around long enough and, more importantly, the processing long enough to celebrate it at 75, meaning we could shoot photos in its 75th year." Bayer has lately made it his life's mission to document as much of the U.S. as he can in Kodachrome's uniquely rich colour palette. "Whether or not the film was made yesterday or what roll it came off, who cares? It's still Kodachrome. It's still alive. "I'll probably grieve after the film can literally no longer be processed." The Kodachrome Project, as he's dubbed it, is in a double race against time. Bayer has hoarded close to 900 rolls of unexposed Kodachrome against the inevitable – the day Kodak's warehouse stocks of the film are emptied. ---End Quote--- TheStar.com | Insight | Kodachrome made all the world a sunny day (http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/657803)
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