Glitched P2P-Moviestream as Art
Schönes Projekt von Nicolas Maigret, der zusammen mit Brendan Howell eine Installation gecoded hat, die zufällige Torrents aus den Pirate Bay Top 100 runterlädt und die Datenpakete on the fly auf eine Leinwand schmeisst. Das Teil ist vor allem eine Visualisierung von P2P im Kontrast zu vergangener „Piraten-Technologie“ wie VHS und setzt das in den Kontext fragmentierter Narration. Spannend!
From a cinematic perspective this preliminary fragmentation of the media is also a fragmentation of the film material and of the narration. These “broadcasting mechanics” come with specific formal opportunities: mashup cinema, random editing, weaving together different films frame by frame, glitches and merging of different fragments.
This installation suggests a way to perceive the digital filmic medium as a stream, or rather as streams distributed on a global scale. In other words, The Pirate Cinema intends to re-explore films through the logic of cables, which is unique to each connection and location.
We Make Money Not Art: The Pirate Cinema, A Cinematic Collage Generated by P2P Users
Piracy? What Piracy? Sky Is Rising-Study, Part 2: Europe
Techdirt haben den zweiten Teil ihrer Piracy-Studie online gestellt, diesmal für den europäischen Entertainment-Markt. Und der zeigt die selben Entwicklungen, wie bereits der amerikanische: Er wächst.
For years now, the legacy entertainment industry has been predicting its own demise, claiming that the rise of technology, by enabling easy duplication and sharing — and thus copyright infringement — is destroying their bottom line. If left unchecked, they say, it is not only they that will suffer, but also the content creators, who will be deprived of a means to make a living. And, with artists lacking an incentive to create, no more art will be produced, starving our culture.
It seems obvious to many that this could not possibly be true, so last year we looked into the numbers to get an honest picture of the state of things. Now, we’re following up with a closer look at six key markets: Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Russia and Spain. What we found there is similar to what we found last year: not only is the sky not falling, as some would have us believe, but it appears that we’re living through an incredible period of abundance and opportunity, with more people producing more content and more money being made than ever before. As it turns out… The Sky Is Rising!
Hier die Studie in Deutsch als PDF auf Documentcloud, in weiteren Sprachen auf Techdirt: The Sky Is Rising 2 – Regional Study: Germany, France, UK, Italy, Russia, Spain.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Piracy? What Piracy? Study shows booming Entertainment-Market
3D-Printed Gun per P2P
Ging ja dann doch sehr schnell mit der ersten (fast) komplett 3D-gedruckten Waffe, das File wurde jetzt ein paar hunderttausendmal runtergeladen und natürlich ist die Knarre prompt in der Bucht gelandet, was den „Liberator“ wohl zur ersten P2P-Waffe der Welt macht.
It took Defense Distributed eight months to produce the firearm, which was assembled from separate components produced on an $8,000 (£5,000) 3D printer bought from auction site eBay. […]
One of the biggest headaches for law enforcers is the fact the gun is made from plastic – with only the firing pin made from metal. New York congressmen Steve Israel and Chuck Schumer have sponsored legislation aimed at adding a 3D-printing provision to the US Undetectable Firearms Act, which requires all guns to be detectable.
Downloads for 3D-printed Liberator gun reach 100,000 (Danke Tom!)
Game Dev-Pirates complain about In-Game-Piracy
Ziemlich smarter Zug der Entwickler von Game Dev Tycoon: Als die ihr Game veröffentlichten, haben sie ihr Spiel zeitgleich für alle Plattformen per Torrent hochgeladen, mit einem kleinen Haken – in der Piratenversion geht die simulierte GameDev-Bude irgendwann wegen Piraterie bankrott. Nette Idee für ein bisschen P2P-Kritik, aber das noch tollere: In den Comments der Torrentseiten beklagen sich die Leute über die In-Game-Piracy. Oh, the irony! Eine der schönsten Anti-Piracy-Aktionen, die ich kenne, Respekt!
The cracked version is nearly identical to the real thing except for one detail… […] as players spend a few hours playing and growing their own game dev company, they will start to see the following message, styled like any other in-game message: „Boss, it seems that while many players play our new game, they steal it by downloading a cracked version rather than buying it legally. If players don’t buy the games they like, we will sooner or later go bankrupt.“
Slowly their in-game funds dwindle, and new games they create have a high chance to be pirated until their virtual game development company goes bankrupt.
Some of the responses I found online (identities obscured to protect the guilty): „Is there some way to avoid that? I mean can I research DRM or something …“ And another user: „Why are there so many people that pirate? It ruins me!“
What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy? (via Hacker News)
„Abmahnende Kanzlei mahnt ab, weil sie nicht Abmahnkanzlei sein will“
Eine Porno-P2P-User abmahnende Kanzelei aus Hamburg mahnt ab, weil man behauptet hatte, sie würden abmahnen. Killers, Thieves and Lawyers.
Eine ehrenwerte Rechtsanwaltskanzlei aus der Hansestadt Hamburg […] mahnt aktuell einen Watchdog wegen dessen Forum für Abmahnopfer ab. […] Konkret stören sich die hanseatischen Rechtsberater an der Behauptung, sie würden Abmahnungen versenden. Dies halten die gekränkten Advokaten für eine “unwahre Tatsachenbehauptung”, obwohl sie tatsächlich seit Jahren massenweise Abmahnungen versenden.
Abmahnende Kanzlei mahnt ab, weil sie nicht Abmahnkanzlei sein will
Porno-Pirates in the Vatican
Als Andy von Torrentfreak eine Story über irische Priester-Piraten gelesen hatte, die sich Filme aus alternativen Quellen besorgen, kam er auf die Idee, mal zu schauen, was im Vatikan so runtergeladen wird. Viel hat er nicht gefunden, dafür schaut dort aber mindestens einer „BDSM Sklavin Züchtigung im dunklen Hobbykeller teen fesselspiele.avi“. Ist sicher nur der Hausmeister.
Paul Flynn, the owner of a DVD rental store in Limerick, Ireland, has a rather interesting customer. […] “Back in January, he mentioned he had watched Lincoln the night before,” Paul explained. “So I asked had they shown it early in the cinema or something and he said: ‘No, we have a film club once a week and we watched it up at the monastery’.” Of course, back in January the movie wasn’t out on DVD, so either the priest is an Oscar voter or there’s another more likely explanation. And it gets worse. […]
It seems that while Vatican dwellers aren’t all that interested in Hollywood movies, they do enjoy adult related celluloid. In the interests of science we researched each of the titles (including the curiously named RS77_Episode 01) and discovered that downloaders in the Vatican have one or two unusual ‘niche’ interests.
Priests Watch DVD Screeners While Pirates Download Filth in the Vatican
EU-Study: Pirate-Websites do not hurt the Music-Biz
Eine weitere Studie in der Sammlung: Diesmal hat eine Untersuchung des Institute for Prospect Technological Studies (IPTS) vom Wissenschaftsdienst der EU-Kommission ergeben, dass P2P-Websites die Musik-Industrie nicht schädigen und positiv zum Umsatz bei legalen Angeboten beitragen.
“It seems that the majority of the music that is consumed illegally by the individuals in our sample would not have been purchased if illegal downloading websites were not available to them,” they write.
In addition, the researchers are also the first to find that free and legal streaming websites don’t cannibalize legal music purchases. “The complementary effect of online streaming is found to be somewhat larger, suggesting a stimulating effect of this activity on the sales of digital music,” they comment.
Most of the effects were found by comparing people’s visits to “pirate” websites and legal music stores. After controlling for interest in music, the researchers found that visits to pirate websites are positively linked to visits to legal music stores. “If this estimate is given a causal interpretation, it means that clicks on legal purchase websites would have been 2 percent lower in the absence of illegal downloading websites,” the researchers write.
Torrentfreak: Online Music Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Sales, European Commission Finds
heise: EU-Studie: Online-Piraterie schadet dem digitalen Musikabsatz nicht
Scribd: Digital Music Consumption on the Internet:Evidence from Clickstream Data
The Pirate Bay goes North Korea (UPDATE: Yep, it’s a fake.)
Angeblich wird die Piratenbucht demnächst in Nord-Korea gehostet. Ich halte das für lustige Trollerei, warum sollten die auch ihren echten Serverstandort bekanntgeben, nachdem der norwegische Piratenpartei per Gerichtsbeschluss untersagt wurde, die Website zu hosten. Wie auch immer, TPB goes Pyongyang – as if. Snip von Torrentfreak: The Pirate Bay Moves to North Korea, Gets Virtual Asylum.
The Pirate Bay says it has been offered virtual asylum in North Korea. This move comes after the Norwegian Pirate Party was forced to stop routing traffic for the infamous BitTorrent site by a local copyright group. “We can reveal that we have been invited by the leader of the republic of Korea, to fight our battles from their network,” the Pirate Bay says. A traceroute does indeed show that The Pirate Bay is now being routed through the dictatorial country. […]
A Pirate Bay insider informed TorrentFreak that they had been working for a while to get connectivity on North korea. Today they switched over and TPB not not too shy to let the world know.
“We’ve been in talks with them for about two weeks, since they opened access for foreigners to use 3g in the country,” a Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak. “TPB has been invited just like Eric Schmidt and Dennis Rodman. We’ve declined for now.”
[update] Yep, it’s fake: „While it is one of the more advanced fake routings it is still pretty lame, a single drop to AS4737 (like a server in China with a BGP session) and it would look much more real, and much harder to detect.
I cannot certainly say where TPB is hosted now, but it must be Asia and it seems to be Phenom Penh, Cambodia as the ICMP replies after it are only minimal higher than there.“
[update] Ein Kommentar auf Hackernews meint, der Server stünde in Deutschland. Wo auch immer TPB jetzt gehostet wird, die Nordkorea-Story ist definitiv Fake.
Nach dem Klick noch die Pressemitteilung aus dem TPB-Blog (derzeit down): Gib mir den Rest, Baby…
P2P-Abmahner DigiProtect ist pleite
Die ursprünglich von Moses Pelham gegründete DigiProtect Gesellschaft zum Schutze digitaler Medien mbH aus Frankfurt ist pleite. Vorher hatten sie noch versucht, Forderungen aus Abmahnungen für Pornofilme in Millionenhöhe zu versteigern, die rechtlich mindestens zweifelhaft sind. Da gibt’s auch Verbindungen zu Digi Rights Solution in Darmstadt, liest sich alles so eklig, wie man sich das vorstellt. Einer weniger.
Piratebay-Doku TPB:AFK – Bootleg-Version on Piratebay
Nette Idee vom FFFFFAT Lab, die die Piratebay-Doku TPB:AFK auf der Berlinale abgefilmt und in einer Bootleg-Version hochgeladen haben. Die Doku feierte vor ein paar Tagen ohnehin auf Piratebay-Premiere.
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The FBI likes P2P:
Neu auf der Liste der Heuchler unter den Copyright-Maximalisten, neben Labels, Politikern und Wirtschaftsverbänden wie der RIAA und MPAA: Das FBI hat sich beim Runterladen von Serien und Filmen erwischen lassen.
Piratebay-Doku TPB:AFK Premiere on Piratebay, Youtube, Berlinale
Die Piratebay-Doku „TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard“ feierte heute auf der Berlinale Premiere, gleichzeitig ist der Film online auf Youtube zu sehen und selbstverständlich per Torrent als Download über die Bucht. DVDs kann man ebenfalls vorbestellen.
Interviews mit Simon Klose, dem Regisseur des Films, gibt’s auf iRights.info, Süddeutsche und The Verge, hier ein Review von Peter Sunde.
It’s the day before the trial starts. Fredrik packs a computer into a rusty old Volvo. Along with his Pirate Bay co-founders, he faces $13 million in damage claims to Hollywood in a copyright infringement case. Fredrik is on his way to install a new computer in the secret server hall. This is where the world’s largest file sharing site is hidden.
When the hacker prodigy Gottfrid, the internet activist Peter and the network nerd Fredrik are found guilty, they are confronted with the reality of life offline – away from keyboard. But deep down in dark data centres, clandestine computers quietly continue to duplicate files.
Mega Search Engine
Es gibt jetzt eine Suchmaschine für Kimbles Megadings, die Suche basiert auf Links zum Filelocker, die im Netz gepostet werden:
The search engine doesn’t crawl Mega content — which is not possible because of Mega’s architecture. Instead, it relies on Mega users voluntarily providing links to files hosted on Mega’s service. Then downloaders can click and pull the content into their own Mega stash, or download it to their hard drives.
And the downloads are fast — way faster than a typical BitTorrent download.
Combined with Mega, the mega-search.me search engine — which is hosted from an anonymous domain — makes for a full blown piracy site, closer to what Megaupload was before it was brought down. Dotcom’s lawyer, Ira Rothken, said “no” when asked if his client had anything to do with the search engine.
Kim Dotcom’s Mega Gets Third-Party Search Engine
[update] Anscheinend wurden die Links der Suchmaschine von Mega runtergenommen: Dotcom’s Mega Removes Legal Files Citing Bogus DMCA Requests „Mega-search.me, one of the larger Mega indexes, became a repository of dead links overnight. The site in question allows the public to post links to files shared on Mega. It currently lists nearly 8,000 links, but apart from the most recent submissions these are “no longer available” on Mega.“
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard – New Clip
Neuer Clip aus der kommenden Doku „TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard“, die am 8. Februar zeitgleich auf der Berlinale und online Premiere hat. Selbstredend werde ich den Film dann hier posten.
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Doku-Trailer: The Pirate Bay – Away From Keyboard
Monoupload: A One File Sharing-Service:
Monoupload: „Monoupload is a one-file-only file transfer service. Upload a file and the current file will be overwritten.“ (via @Jann De Vries)
