film and video
Illegal TV downloads as popular as they are only because the media refuses to deliver
Last night’s penultimate episode of Doctor Who series four didn’t let up on the excitement from the opening teaser to the last second. It was incredible, and how fans outside the UK can avoid spoilers before getting the chance to watch an official broadcast on their own local channels, I’ve no idea—but trust me, if you’re one of them, you should try. It has to be said, though, that fantastic cliffhangers don’t exactly discourage illegal downloads of shows via the likes of BitTorrent, do they? Not when populations are otherwise expected to wait a year or more to see all the fuss for themselves.
tags: Apple TV, BBC, Blu-Ray, cult tv, Doctor Who, DVD, HD, illegal downloads, iPlayer, iTunes, media, piracy, TVDoctor Who Series 4 mid-season trailer
If you want to stay ignorant of upcoming events, don’t watch this! But… if you do, pay special attention to…
WARNING! SPOILER POTENTIAL HIGH FROM THIS POINT ON…
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED…
STILL WANT TO READ MORE? OKAY…
… the unarmed Dalek emerging from the shadows… I think we can tell what’s going on there…
I spy with my little eye someone beginning with D…
If it is him, well, it’s about time he showed up! Every time the Daleks lose their way, who gets defrosted to help them, eh?
tags: cult tv, Daleks, Doctor Who, sci-fiEeny meeny miny mo, catch an iPod user, don’t let him go…
The G8 is, for those who don’t know, an international undemocratic gestalt made up of the governments of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, they cook up new ways to manipulate and control people, trade, and money markets.
The G8 famously tell lies about how they’re going to tackle world poverty but then—after near enough promising on their mother’s graves—don’t do much at all other than make excuses. Now the G8 is cooking up draconian new copyright protection laws. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) between the US, EU, and Canada, will give border guards the right to seize our iPods and mobile phones whenever they suspect they contain illegal downloads.
tags: civil liberties, crime, Digital Rights Management, downloads, file-sharing, freedom, G8, games, Internet Service Providers, mp3, music, piracy, video
