Tracking down the pirate DVDs

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Pirate DVDs are coming from theatre
operators

Pirate DVDs are coming from theatre
operators 04/16/2004 05:17 PM
I saw a great movie last night, Anurag Mehta's American Chai (2002). You won't find it on Netflix; my wife found the DVD through the Berkeley Public Library. An interview with Mehta notes that movie piracy is all too often...

Finding the pirates How easy is it to
buy pirate Spider-Man 2 DVDs on the
streets?

Finding the pirates How easy is it to
buy pirate Spider-Man 2 DVDs on the
streets? 07/12/2004 05:41 AM
BBC Jul 12 2004 10:21AM GMT

Broadlook--#1 Applicant Tracking
Software Solution--Empowers your
Applicant Tracking Software and fills
your Applicant Tracking Software with
applicant tracking relationships.

Broadlook--#1 Applicant Tracking
Software Solution--Empowers your
Applicant Tracking Software and fills
your Applicant Tracking Software with
applicant tracking relationships. 07/16/2004 03:14 AM
Whichever applicant tracking software your company uses, you need to look at the Broadlook Suite of Software which should seamlessly integrate with whichever applicant tracking software you are using. BroadLook is an integrated set of applications designed to harness the Internet as a powerful real-time data source--the data from which can be exported into your applicant tracking software. [PRWEB Jul 16, 2004]

Clockware Releases Version 4.4 -
Significantly Enhances Timesheet Styles,
Expands Status Tracking, Employee and
Organizational Data Tracking Features

Clockware Releases Version 4.4 -
Significantly Enhances Timesheet Styles,
Expands Status Tracking, Employee and
Organizational Data Tracking Features 04/05/2005 04:50 AM
Clockware announces its seventh major release in eight years, adding enhancements to its enterprise timesheet software, time tracking, leave and exception time tracking and other key timesheet system features. [PRWEB Apr 5, 2005]

Tracking Blogs, Tracking Packages --
What's The Difference?

Tracking Blogs, Tracking Packages --
What's The Difference? 03/31/2005 09:04 AM
Extreme Tech Mar 31 2005 1:16PM GMT

Web Tracking of Billable Time Improves
Productivity and Bottom Line/New Kyebot
Time Tracking and Billing Software
Announces Availability

Web Tracking of Billable Time Improves
Productivity and Bottom Line/New Kyebot
Time Tracking and Billing Software
Announces Availability 09/13/2004 02:58 AM
New Web-based time and billing application simplifies administrative tasks associated with tracking billable hours and virtually eliminates problems with under-billing. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Tracking the newsroom bug-tracking idea

Tracking the newsroom bug-tracking idea 02/01/2005 09:42 PM
I want to return to the idea I floated a few days ago about bug-trackin g software for newsrooms. The comment s response ranged from "neat idea!" to "it'll never work," so let's look it over again.

What I imagined was something similar to the way open-source software development projects manage bug reports. When people file bugs against such a project, they go to a publicly available online resource and enter a form that says "Here's a problem I encountered," and provide details. Different projects follow different organizational structures, but generally speaking, other developers will review the bug and try to classify it: Sometimes they'll say it's a duplicate and point to previous entries in the database that dealt with it; sometimes they'll say it's a simple problem and go fix it right away and close it out; sometimes they'll say it's a big one and leave it open to be dealt with in the future; sometimes they'll say it's a "known bug" that for one reason or another is never going to be fixed; sometimes they'll say it's not a bug at all.

For a newsroom, the idea is to provide a structure and a channel for reader dissatisfaction. You wouldn't have to follow the software model detail for detail, but the general outline could be valuable: Provide a form for readers to enter complaints, one that requires them to present details. Post the complaint publicly as soon as it's entered, and record the publication's response in a reasonably prompt fashion -- anything from "Thanks, we fixed the spelling on that name" to "we chose the phrase 'private accounts' because it is an accurate description of the president's proposal, and the label was in wide use by supporters of the idea until very recently, so we do not plan to stop using the term." The explanation is on record, and if other readers keep filing the same complaint they can simply be pointed back to the original answer. Spam? Just delete it. Letters to the editor that don't have a specific complaint? Re-route them to the letters box.

The most common objection seems to be, forget it -- this will become another free-for-all for political partisans to work out their agendas, another wide-open Internet forum that will degenerate into circular debate. Such forums already exist, to be sure; the point of a bug tracker is to avoid that outcome by choosing a narrower environment for the feedback that allows you to quickly aggregate and dispose of duplicate complaints, and that provides a public record of responsiveness and accountability. If 500 people all holler that you shouldn't say "private accounts," you can answer them once and be done with it -- but you can point each individual complaint back to your explanation, so those people understand that you actually heard them and offered some sort of response. There's a big difference between the silence of no response and "no, we're not doing that, here's why." The latter won't satisfy everyone, but it at least acknowledges that there's been an exchange on the subject.

Ross Karchner proposed a somewhat different model based on wiki practices: "1) A publically viewable changelog, where you can see, in detail, the changes made to an article. 2) A place where the author(s) and editor(s) can discuss the changes needed and made. This is also in public view..." I'm not sure whether Ross means the changelog and the writer/editor dialogue to commence from the first time the writer composed a draft, or only upon publication. The former is, I think, too wide open -- even a blogger has the right to compose a posting and revise it in private before choosing to push the "publish" button. The latter is fine -- but since most reputable publications rarely change articles once they're published, and note the changes as corrections if they do, then it's just codifying an existing practice in slightly different ways.

As for the idea of trying all this out at Salon: Who knows, I might well advocate it, though my current on-leave status doesn't put me in a good spot to work on it. But Salon has been dealing with the back-and-forth of online criticism of our work for 9 years plus. Whatever problems we may suffer from, a failure of responsiveness to online feedback is not, I think, one of them, and we have a pretty sturdy process for reviewing complaints fast and correcting them where needed.

I think this approach would pay off best for a newsroom that is having difficulty convincing readers that the publication is actually listening to them. If you showed the public that you were recording and responding to the issues they raised -- whether you end up publishing a correction or simply saying, "We don't think that needs correcting, and here's why" -- I think you'd start to bank some confidence and trust pretty quickly.

I'm not suggesting that this idea is the single, one-fix-solves-all-problems answer to the ills of journalism today. It's a pragmatic, you-could-do-it-real-soon suggestion for beginning to deal with professional journalism's biggest problem: the public's loss of trust, which begins with the sense that media companies are big institutions that pay no attention to their own mistakes.

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 Act

Pirate Act 05/27/2004 12:28 PM

I have been watching the commentary grow over the proposed Pirate Act which is getting a lot of press over the past week and a lot of people are very worried that the government is going to start wholesale prosecutions of people who share music / software on the Internet. I need more information before I can
really come to a conclusion but it will be interesting to see how this is going to turn out. [ArsTechnica] [Dan Gillmor]

Pirate Hunter

Pirate Hunter 10/30/2003 11:48 PM

Pirate update

Pirate update 12/17/2004 06:34 PM
Some 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 PM

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Kucinich the Pirate

Kucinich the Pirate 11/25/2003 10:32 PM
Dennis 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....

Pirate This Page

Pirate This Page 03/08/2004 11:08 PM
webreview.com Mar 8 2004 11:56PM GMT

Other News: "Pirate" Act

Other News: "Pirate" Act 05/26/2004 10:41 AM
Watch out for this fast-tracked act for record companies...

"Talk Like A Pirate Day"

"Talk Like A Pirate Day" 09/19/2004 03:25 PM

The Big Sony BMG Pirate Battle

The Big Sony BMG Pirate Battle 06/17/2005 06:14 PM

Arrrr! 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]

"International Talk Like A Pirate Day"

"International Talk Like A Pirate Day" 09/17/2004 04:04 PM

Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19

Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19 09/18/2004 02:06 AM
IntARRRnational Talk Like a Pirate Day .. original U.S. site is crushed .. that

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Swedish Pirate Demo

Swedish Pirate Demo 05/02/2004 04:19 AM

Software pirate receives

Software pirate receives 07/22/2004 10:02 PM
Techzonez Jul 23 2004 2:09AM GMT

Pirate radio workshops

Pirate radio workshops 05/07/2004 04:23 PM
Radio 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."

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Software pirate sentenced

Software pirate sentenced 07/22/2004 10:02 PM
globetechnology.com Jul 23 2004 2:06AM GMT

U.S. to extradite alleged pirate

U.S. to extradite alleged pirate 07/08/2004 12:10 PM
ZDNet Jul 8 2004 3:42PM GMT

Warez pirate convicted

Warez pirate convicted 12/28/2004 09:29 PM
TechSpot Dec 29 2004 12:31AM GMT

Senate approves PIRATE act

Senate approves PIRATE act 06/26/2004 02:42 AM
Today, 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.

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!)

Software Pirate Gets Sentenced to Jail

Software Pirate Gets Sentenced to Jail 07/23/2004 01:08 AM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jul 23 2004 5:21AM GMT

Who's a Pirate? Russia Points Back at
the U.S.

Who's a Pirate? Russia Points Back at
the U.S. 07/26/2004 12:25 AM
Russia asserts that the U.S. has been abetting intellectual-property pirates by purchasing thousands of knockoff Kalashnikov assault rifles.

Software Pirate Gets Sentenced to Jail
(AP)

Software Pirate Gets Sentenced to Jail
(AP) 07/22/2004 11:05 AM
AP - 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.

Microsoft nets pirate reseller

Microsoft nets pirate reseller 12/02/2003 11:32 PM
Australian IT Dec 2 2003 11:19PM ET

Pirate CD sales hit record high

Pirate CD sales hit record high 07/22/2004 06:03 AM
The number of pirate CDs sold around the world rises to 1.1bn but the growth is slowing, says a report.

Accused software pirate may be
extradited

Accused software pirate may be
extradited 07/16/2004 03:29 PM
Boston Globe Jul 16 2004 8:10PM GMT

Run a Pirate Radio Station with a iPod

Run a Pirate Radio Station with a iPod 06/18/2004 03:18 AM

Anyone can run a rouge radio station (with limited range) with a little work and some ingenuity. Engadget has a nice little article and with a bit of searching around the net you can come up with a radio station with significant range. [Engadget]

Report: 'Tweens' Less Likely to Pirate
(washingtonpost.com)

Report: 'Tweens' Less Likely to Pirate
(washingtonpost.com) 05/26/2004 06:05 PM
washingtonpost.com - Young children are far less likely than teenagers to illegally download music, movies and software from the Internet, according to the results of an online poll that were released today.

Other News: Pirate Radio Hack

Other News: Pirate Radio Hack 07/05/2004 11:24 AM
You can hack the antenna in an iTrip for more range (and that's probably illegal).

U.S. wins appeal against alleged pirate

U.S. wins appeal against alleged pirate 07/08/2004 08:37 AM
CNET Jul 8 2004 1:18PM GMT

From pirate dwarves to ninja elves...

From pirate dwarves to ninja elves... 04/09/2004 03:54 PM

I 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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