Alfie

Watched the movie, thought it was going to be a shite film, but it ended up allright. Not like others, and some of the stuff in it was true.

AlfieA

Parents away to dads work colleagues house for dinner.

Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Well after a long wait I finally landed myself a copy of this movie, didnt hear any good reviews about it before watching it, but I must admit it is a good movie. Ofcourse not as good as the previous two, but still a good film to watch. Good racing, intersting story line and an intersting ending with Vin Diesel. So there must be a sequel…?

First day back

Bah I guess it was pretty much as I excpected it to be, work has started. Everyone is pretty much the same as they were. Eh hope the year goes by quickly. 33weeks until the exams.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the 21st of August, the day we go back to school :’( , im so unhappy about this. I really dislike school, but maybe it will be better this year, who knows. Hopefully it will be, hopefully the year will pass quickly.

First holidays are in September, so quite some time to wait.

Was at PYO fruit farm on Sat.

entry

Well another day went by, the start of school is getting closer and closer . Found a few songs I was looking for. Now I need to finish reading a stupid book that I need to read before the school starts.

Wrote DMi a letter, I was planning to write him oneA after he replied, 5 days ago, but my lazyness is just to great. Gotta get rid of this lazyness!

American History X

This is probably one of the best films I have ever seen in my life. I want everyone who has access to getting this movie, to buy it, rent it, whatever, just watch it! Its a hard film, its not a comedy, but it has a meaning to it, its not like the rest of the american movies.

American History X @ IMDB

I also realized that one of the actors in it, Edward Furlong was in a few other films which I enjoyed watching. So the moral of the story it, go watch American History X!

LimeWire sued by RIAA

Again the RIAA doesnt stop anywhere, they have filed a lawsuit against 19,000 families in USA, some families have no computers, others have never had internet and in others they have filed against a mans dead son.

Now they filed a lawsuit against LimeWire, a nice read if you’re intersted.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed a lawsuit against Lime Group, LLC., LimeWire, LLC, Mark Gorton (CEO), and Greg Bildson (CTO). Lime Group is the umbrella company which owns the LimeWire development firm.

Back last September, LimeWire, along with other P2P developers, were the recipients of RIAA cease and desist letters. The letters instructed P2P developers to “…immediately cease-and-desist from enabling and inducing the infringement of RIAA member sound recordings. If you wish to discuss pre-litigation Resolution of these claims against you, please contact us immediately.”

BearShare, eDonkey, and WinMX, all ceased operations as a result of the RIAA letter, however, LimeWire’s operations continued.

At one stage, LimeWire was expected to introduce a “copyright filter” into it’s software, but months have passed, and the filter has yet to materialize. The RIAA claims that by failing to implement a filter for unauthorized works and by profiting from an infringing business model, LimeWire actively induces copyright infringement

“Since the Supreme Court’s unanimous Grokster decision last year, we have extended our hand to the major illegal file sharingn networks and encouraged them to become legitimate players in the online music marketplace. We have been patient as a number of services a€“ WinMX, Bearshare, Grokster, i2hub, Kazaa a€“ have ultimately decided to close down or transform themselves into legal music services,” the RIAA said in a statement.

“Despite numerous efforts to engage LimeWire, the site’s corporate owners have shown insufficient interest in developing a legal business model that adequately respects copyrights. While other services have come productively to the table, LimeWire has sat back and continued to reap profits on the backs of the music community. That is unfortunate and has left us no choice but to file a lawsuit to protect the rights and livelihoods of artists, songwriters and record label employees, as well as those companies building legitimate businesses based on music.”

The lawsuit, filed in New York’s southern district, cites Mark Gorton and Greg Bildon as both exerting substantial influence over LimeWire development whilst making a handsome profit from the commercialized “LimeWire Pro.”

“Defendant Mark Gorton is a principal and the Chief Executive Officer of defendant Lime Wire LLC. He is also a member and the Chief Executive Officer of defendant Lime Group LLC. Mr. Gorton is the dominant influence in Lime Group LLC, and, along with Defendant Greg Bildson, in Lime Wire LLC. Mr. Gorton has been personally and substantially involved in and profits greatly from the design, promotion, marketing and distribution of LimeWire.”

In mounting their piracy case, the RIAA lawsuit also states that LimeWire encourages the distribution of illegal files, and punishes those who “freeload” (leech):

“Defendants have taken steps to ensure that LimeWire users “share” a large number of files on LimeWire, thereby maintaining the draw and reputation of LimeWire as a vast, unauthorized repository of commercial sound recordings…Indeed, Defendants further designed LimeWire to punish those users – called “freeloaders” by LimeWire – who do not “share” enough files with other LimeWire users.”

LimeWire was also accused of more traditional “Contributory Copyright Infringement”, “Vicarious Copyright Infringement”, and also “Common Law Copyright Infringement.” It is worth noting that no other P2P developer has been sued for common law copyright infringement.

Eggy mp3 player

A new Korean media player will be out by the end of the year, the EGGE. Prepare to be egged. At A?84.26 for 512mb the prices are a bit steep.

Product Features

• 512MB / 1GB flash memory
• Video playback (WMV, AVI)
• Easy song loading from PC
• Full colour OLED display
• Rechargeable Li battery (playtime ~ 10 hrs)
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Buy the EGGE @ playEngine

Nuclear war starting 22nd August?

Its the second time I’ve read about this, someone predicts that a new world war will break out on the 22nd of August, i.e just more than a week left. Also nuclear weapons are excpected to be used. I read this in the Russian newpaper, Pravda.

http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/83898-0/A

Its actually quite scary.

10 new concept cars

Found this on torrentspy I think, this website has photos and info about 10 new concept cars, Mercedez, Bmw, Nissan, etc.

Check out Nissan Pivo, looks like a nifty wee car.

http://www.oddpeak.com/item_59946.aspxA