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Pirate-ho!
Pirate-ho!
06/07/2004 09:15 AM
Keep your hands off! Warner Bros. distributes military-style
night vision goggles to cinemas around Britain in order to scotch
bootleg copies.
"The staff have all been trained to use the
glasses and are patrolling the cinema every 15 to 20
minutes."
The company is determined to fight back after a
deluge of poor-quality copies of the first two Harry Potter movies hit
the black market.
pirate
pirate
09/18/2004 02:51 PM
Just getting
into the spirit of
things rea
dy for tomorrow.
Again.
Pirate This Page
Pirate This Page
03/08/2004 11:08 PMwebreview.com Mar 8 2004 11:56PM GMT
Pirate update
Pirate update
12/17/2004 06:34 PMSome people like to do crossword puzzles, lately I've been amusing
myself by getting some new feature of Python implemented on
Parrot. Here are some recent successes: ...
Talk Like a Pirate Day
Talk Like a Pirate Day
09/18/2004 08:56 PMDirect and Related Links for 'Talk Like a Pirate
Day'
Mark came up with September 19. That was and is his ex-wife’s
birthday, and the only date he could readily recall that wasn’t
taken up with something like Christmas or the Super Bowl or something.
We also decided — right then and there on the court on June 6,
1995 — that the perfect spokesman for our new holiday was none
other than Dave Barry himself, nationally syndicated humor columnist
and winner of the Pulitzer…
"Talk Like A Pirate Day"
"Talk Like A Pirate Day"
09/19/2004 03:25 PMOther News: "Pirate" Act
Other News: "Pirate" Act
05/26/2004 10:41 AMWatch out for this fast-tracked act for record companies...
Pirate Hunter
Pirate Hunter
10/30/2003 11:48 PMKucinich the Pirate
Kucinich the Pirate
11/25/2003 10:32 PMDennis Kucinich has posted the memos that Diebold claims we may not be
post because Diebold doesn't want us talking about possible
vulnerabilities in its electronic voting machines. Nice move, DK! (And
good blogging by Donna at Copyfight.) Correction: According to Dan
Gillmor, DK's page has links to sites with copies of the Diebold
memos, not the memos themselves....
"International Talk Like A Pirate Day"
"International Talk Like A Pirate Day"
09/17/2004 04:04 PMWarez pirate convicted
Warez pirate convicted
12/28/2004 09:29 PMTechSpot Dec 29 2004 12:31AM GMT
Senate approves PIRATE act
Senate approves PIRATE act
06/26/2004 02:42 AMToday, the U.S. Senate approved a proposal that will give federal
prosecutors the power to file civil lawsuits against suspected
copyright infringers -- penalties include fines up to hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
The so-called Pirate Act has raised alarms among copyright lawyers and
lobbyists for peer-to-peer companies, who have been eyeing the
recording industry's lawsuits against thousands of peer-to-peer users
with trepidation. They worry that the Department of Justice could be
even more ambitious.
Senate leaders scheduled Friday's vote under a procedure that required
the unanimous consent of all members present. Now the Pirate Act,
along with a related bill that criminalizes using camcorders in movie
theaters, will be forwarded to the House of Representatives for
approval.
Link to Declan McCullagh's story on
News.com.
U.S. to extradite alleged pirate
U.S. to extradite alleged pirate
07/08/2004 12:10 PMZDNet Jul 8 2004 3:42PM GMT
Tracking down the pirate DVDs
Tracking down the pirate DVDs
07/16/2004 01:43 AMNews.bbc.co.uk - Thu Jul 15, 09:30 am GMT
Software pirate receives
Software pirate receives
07/22/2004 10:02 PMTechzonez Jul 23 2004 2:09AM GMT
Help Cory pirate his own story!
Help Cory pirate his own story!
09/01/2004 01:43 PM
Cory Doctorow:
Science Fiction World, a Chinese magazine, recently published an issue
with a translation of my story "Nimby and the D-Hoppers" (originally
published in June 2003). They didn't ask first, so technically this is
a "pirate" edition, but hell, I'm not all that worked up about it --
I'm pretty pumped to know that there are people in China reading my
stuff (and for what it's worth, foreign publishers usually pay teeny
little pittances for translation rights to short stories).
My only peeve here is that they never sent me a copy, and never put
their translation on the Web. I sent 'em some email but they never
answered.
So here's my challenge to the lazyweb: track down a copy of the
September issue of Science Fiction World and re-type the story that
starts on page 12 ("Technological Opposition and the
Dimension-Hopper") and send it to me. I'll post it on the Internet and
make it available under a Creative Commons license for free
reproduction.
Link
(Thanks, Joel!)
Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19
Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19
09/18/2004 02:06 AMIntARRRnational Talk Like a Pirate Day .. original U.S. site is
crushed .. that
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The Big Sony BMG Pirate Battle
The Big Sony BMG Pirate Battle
06/17/2005 06:14 PMArrrr! Sony BMG is unveiling a new CD technology to provide a
“speed bump” for those nasty pirates. The new CDs only
allow for three duplicates to be made and can only be ripped to a
computer in a protected format. Legal problems are already arising,
though; the protected rip format forbids the music from being put onto
the Apple iPod, so BMG is sending emails to inquiring customers with
instructions on a backdoor route around this problem. Nice one,
Sony!
Sony BMG hinders music pirates with protected CD
[Reuters]
Software pirate sentenced
Software pirate sentenced
07/22/2004 10:02 PMglobetechnology.com Jul 23 2004 2:06AM GMT
Swedish Pirate Demo
Swedish Pirate Demo
05/02/2004 04:19 AMPirate radio workshops
Pirate radio workshops
05/07/2004 04:23 PMRadio Free Berkeley is giving workshops on how to build your own
pirate^H^H^H^H^H^H^H low-power FM radio station, and what to do when
the radio cops come a-knockin'.
Building your own station is also illegal. Dunifer advises his
students to enlist the help of an attorney before hopping the
airwaves. But he describes microbroadcasting as "electronic civil
disobedience" rather than a typical criminal act.
"As far as I'm concerned, the real pirates are the NAB (National
Association of Broadcasters) and their member stations," Dunifer said,
referring to the powerful lobbying group. "They've stolen the airwaves
with the full complicity of the FCC and Congress."
LinkMicrosoft nets pirate reseller
Microsoft nets pirate reseller
12/02/2003 11:32 PMAustralian IT Dec 2 2003 11:19PM ET
Guilty plea for eBay pirate
Guilty plea for eBay pirate
02/10/2004 09:21 PMU.S. wins appeal against alleged pirate
U.S. wins appeal against alleged pirate
07/08/2004 08:37 AMCNET Jul 8 2004 1:18PM GMT
Web Zen: Yarrrr! 'Tis Pirate Zen 2004!!!
Web Zen: Yarrrr! 'Tis Pirate Zen 2004!!!
09/17/2004 11:56 AM
Xeni Jardin:
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which pirate are you?
spooneye! the card game
pirate bath
2
pirate's of the bahamas
pirate flags
pirate's of penzance
pirate supplies
yar! pirate zen 2003
and for a limited time...
david byrne's pirates
(this will disappear on 09.20.04)
web zen home,
web zen store,
(
Thanks, Frank).
Pirate Act makes it through House
committee
Pirate Act makes it through House
committee
09/10/2004 03:04 PMThe Pirate Act made it one step closer to law, as the House Judiciary
Committee approved it. It now goes to the full House for a vote.
Nikita Kashner, Your ideal job is a
Pirate
Nikita Kashner, Your ideal job is a
Pirate
07/14/2004 01:18 AMJobPredictor
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Michael Moore: pirate my film, please
Michael Moore: pirate my film, please
07/04/2004 12:27 PMDocumentary filmmaker Michael Moore has recently gone on record
stating that downloading and watching his films was fine as long as
people didn't try to make money off them. In a way, it's a classic
struggle between a filmmaker creating works he wants the world to see,
while the studio that produced it would rather everyone pay to see it
instead of downloading. Other directors have backed up his position
and the current distributor is allowing the downloading to take
place.
Here are Moore's full quotes on the subject of 9/11 downloads:
I don’t agree with the copyright laws and I don’t have
a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people
as long as they’re not trying to make a profit off my labour. I
would oppose that. I do well enough already and I made this film
because I want the world, to change. The more people who see it the
better, so I’m happy this is happening. Is it wrong for someone
who’s bought a film on DVD to let a friend watch it for free? Of
course it’s not. It never has been and never will be. I think
information, art and ideas should be shared.
Is this guy a movie director or one of our board members?
The increased exposure to his films, protection from commercial
exploits, and general disagreement with current copyright sounds a lot
like the reasons why Creative Commons was formed and why we have our
licenses in the first place. Perhaps the next Moore film will be
licensed, making the downloading legal from the start.
Accused Software Pirate May Be
Extradited (AP)
Accused Software Pirate May Be
Extradited (AP)
07/16/2004 01:52 PMAP - An Australian man accused of running a global software piracy
network is one step closer to being extradited to the United States.
Accused software pirate may be
extradited
Accused software pirate may be
extradited
07/16/2004 03:29 PMBoston Globe Jul 16 2004 8:10PM GMT
Update: Help Cory pirate his own story
Update: Help Cory pirate his own story
09/07/2004 08:39 AM
Cory Doctorow:
I ran into the editors of Science Fiction World, the Chinese magazine
that translated and printed my story "Nimby and the D-Hoppers" without
asking (or even letting me know!), at the WorldCon. They gave me a
copy of the issue, which has super-cool anime-style illos, and have
promised to send me the text electronically to post under a Creative
Commons license when they get back to China.
They say that they have a deal with the Chinese copyright office where
if they give a royalty to the office, they get permission to translate
and publish the story -- this sounds to me like a weird, and somewhat
wishful reading of the appendix to the Berne agreement on the
compulsory translation right.
In any event, I'm not all that out-of-sorts about this (I wasn't to
begin with, and less so now that I've made some peace with them). I'll
let you know if they come through with the electronic text and post it
once they do -- thanks so much for all the support on this, it was
really cool to see everyone spring into action (and I had no idea that
Boing Boing/I had so many Chinese-speaking/residing readers!).
Link
From pirate dwarves to ninja elves...
From pirate dwarves to ninja elves...
04/09/2004 03:54 PMI have always considered the profound distinction between ninjas
and pirates to be an absolute one. One was either ninja or pirate -
there were no inbetweens. One personality type was skilled and
proficient, elegant and silent, contained and constrained, honourable
and spiritual. The other type loud and flamboyant, gregarious and
unrestrained, life-loving and vigorous, passionate and strong. I
thought all people must pledge their allegiance, or be categorised accordingly.
The other day at work, another binary pair was presented to me - a
co-worker who doesn't declare people pirate or ninja, but instead elf
or dwarf. For him, humanity falls into doers and thinkers - elves
being elegant and timeless, conceptual and refined, abstract and
beautiful while dwarves are practical and structural, hard-working and
no-nonsense, down-to-earth smiths and makers. It's a view of the world
that's expounded a bit in Cryptonomicon.
The wonderful thing about both of these classifications systems is
how unladen they are with value-judgements. It is possible to consider
an elven person to be intellectual and high-concept, or pretentious
and useless. It's possible to view a pirate as boorish and crass or as
vivacious and life-loving. It is not better to be ninja or pirate -
the world needs both. And the creativity generated by the collision of
elf and dwarf is far greater than could be achieved by elf or dwarven
kind alone. Not only are there no categories that come prejudged
inferior or superior, but also people have no problem
self-categorising themselves - there's no shame to be felt in any of
their self-classifications.
Both systems have these qualities - but still we're left with a
conundrum. Although so similar - the systems are different. So
how to make them work together? Confronted with a collision between
two such radically different ways of conceptualising the world,
obviously our minds started working overtime. Could we find a way to
map the two categorisation schemes onto one another? Could we declare
all ninja's inherently elven? Or all dwarves intrinsically piratic?
The more we considered the issue, the harder it seemed to achieve some
kind of detente. And then it came to us - a new view of the world,
transcendent and illuminatory - a way not only to make the two systems
work together but to make each infinitely more illustrative in the
process! At that moment the Ninja/Pirate/Elf/Dwarf theory of human
classification came into being - and with it the crowning achievement
of all managerial arts, the following graph:
As you can see - the ninja/pirate polarity has become a spectrum.
The elf/dwarf polarity has followed suit - it is now possible to exist
directly between the extremes. But this spectrum is at right angles to
the first, generating a person-space with an infinity of different
potential placements. People now can be hardcore ninja dwarves, or err
towards the piratic side of elfdom. Within this graph all humanity
exists in all its polyphonic splendour.
Think of some of the humble bloggers on my blogroll. Where would
they live? Ben Hammersley
has something of the pirate about him. This is not a restrained man of
quiet honour, but a proud warrior of the sea - hair flowing in the
breeze. But his skills are more evenly tempered between the conceptual
and the practical - as best evidenced by his work on the schema for
various syndication formats. His position is clear. Matt Jones is far closer
to elf than dwarf, but as swashbuckling as a man can come. Not so Dan Hill, elven once more
but evidencing the self-mastery and discipline of a true ninja.
It takes little effort to spot the ultimate ninja's quiet
responsibility and attention to detail in the work of Jason Kottke and Matt Webb and both
straddle the technical divide between thinkers and doers. Mark Pilgrim on the other hand
has achieved a balance between ninja and pirate, while plunging into
the vigorous constructive heart of dwarvish ways. And so it continues
- until I can map almost my entire blogroll accordingly:
And it doesn't end there! You could plot people's operating systems
against it - Dwarves being more Linux-focused, elves more
Apple-oriented. Pure graphic designers have a tendency towards the top
right, interaction designers are spread across the top. You can also
deduce a lot about the people I tend to associate with online -
there's an enormous clump of people on the pirate / ninja axis who
aren't heavily elf or dwarf. In this context, this suggests a group of
old-school web people who have tended toward balanced expertises
across a range of disciplines. It's interesting how those people with
more clearly defined job roles tend to move towards the corners
too.
Now it's over to you - take this epic revelation and place yourself
within it. If you are a life-loving pirate with dwarvish leanings,
perhaps you'd like to assemble a quiz to locate people against the
axes like on that rather less important and trivial Political Compass site. I
would love to help, but I'm simply not capable. What can I say, I'm an
elvish pirate - I have better things to do with my time...
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Pirate CD sales hit record high
Pirate CD sales hit record high
07/22/2004 06:03 AMThe number of pirate CDs sold around the world rises to 1.1bn but the
growth is slowing, says a report.
Software Pirate Gets Sentenced to Jail
(AP)
Software Pirate Gets Sentenced to Jail
(AP)
07/22/2004 11:05 AMAP - A German software dealer was convicted of fraud and sentenced to
5 1/2 years in jail Thursday for selling cheaper versions of products
at inflated prices, which the court said cost Microsoft euro4.5
million (US$5.5 million) in lost revenues.
Other News: Pirate Radio Hack
Other News: Pirate Radio Hack
07/05/2004 11:24 AMYou can hack the antenna in an iTrip for more range (and that's
probably illegal).
Feds convict warez pirate
Feds convict warez pirate
12/28/2004 03:31 PMAn Iowa man pleads guilty to piracy charges in first U.S. conviction
from Operation Fastlink, an international law enforcement push.
Arr Mateys, Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day
Arr Mateys, Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day
09/19/2004 11:55 AMArrrr, happy Talk Like a Pirate Day. Yus....
Apple settles with Tiger pirate
Apple settles with Tiger pirate
03/25/2005 11:04 AMUSA Today Mar 25 2005 3:14PM GMT
MS, Hollywood: Mob rules pirate world
MS, Hollywood: Mob rules pirate world
03/14/2003 02:15 PMGrok Description matches for Pirate Act
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