MPAA sponsored site gets PWNED!

CaffeineJoe on January 21st, 2009

In preparing for the ISPs sending out warning emails to the masses the MPAA sponsored a website “RespectCopyrights.org”, apparently this didn’t go down too well with the pirate community and less than a month after the original website went up and was covered on sites like P2Pnet.net, some folks [...]

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The European Parliament is set to vote on whether to double the term of copyright in sound recordings in early 2009. While the labels have been jumping over themselves trying to pull off a hundreds of millions scam in the name of

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CaffeineJoe on January 12th, 2009

And we’re back visiting this topic again!
Just a little while back I was reading this article/report which clearly states that the movie studios are raking in much more than ever before, smashing records and past milestones like never before.
2008 brought the movie studios a whopping $9.78 [...]

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Everyone knows anti piracy organizations are dumb, it’s a given, no need to state the obvious… its just there like the air we breathe and the clouds in the sky. Only the word changes depending on who you ask… for example we chose the word “dumb”, other variations include: [...]

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CaffeineJoe on November 5th, 2008

Love them or hate them, Hollywood does produce some of the best movies in the world year after year and I am sure in under 30 seconds we can think of 10 awesome movies that came from the bowels of Hollywood.
Which is why we find it really strange how such smart people can be so

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CaffeineJoe on October 6th, 2008

Copying a DVD is easy, a quick search on any search engine worth its salt using the keywords “rip dvd software” should give you at least 10 more links than the number of people Paris Hilton has had sex with, just in case you didn’t get it… we are

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CaffeineJoe on September 22nd, 2008

As an owner of a 60gig PS3 I found this article on Ars verrry interesting.
Let me start of by saying..

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CaffeineJoe on August 22nd, 2008

Things are getting desperate for the slimy folk at RIAA/MPAA and affiliate MAFIAA HQ so they are coming out with guns blazing, shooting as much propaganda, truth bending, fear mongering, blatant lies and misinformation as possible.
Knowing full well that anything that came out of their mouth would be taken [...]

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CaffeineJoe on July 21st, 2008

Just a couple of days back saw the release of one of the most anticipated movies of this year:
Batman – The Dark Knight
Unfortunately it was not a ‘fantastic experience’ for everyone, especially for one 40 year old guy who got caught “camming” in the U.S [...]

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The weekend is almost upon us but no one can say it’s been an uneventful week in the copyright world.
We’ve seen everything from successful bribery …lobbying efforts by the music industry to

Continue reading about This week in copyright bullying.. and a cute ‘copyright infringing’ toddler!