Monthly Archives: January 2008
Pirate Bay founders charged
The founders of The Pirate Bay, the web’s number one choice for BitTorrenting moody flicks albums and software have been charged with conspiracy to break copyright law in their native Sweden.
They have previously escaped censure thanks to the fact their servers don’t hold copyrighted content. Users are instead sent in the direction of the material they’re after.
The four men have been charged because they’re making money through copyrighted material. This cash comes through online advertising rather than the direct sale of content.
The Swedish authorities have long been under pressure from major record companies and film studios to clamp down on The Pirate Bay’s activity.
Plaintiffs in this new case include Warner, Columbia Pictures, MGM, EMI and Universal.
If found guilty, each founder member faces up to two years in the slammer. They say they’re not causing any harm, but we’ll leave it up to you to judge whether it’s the big companies or BitTorrent sites that are to blame for illegal downloading still being so prolific.
Pirate Bay founders charged
The founders of The Pirate Bay, the web’s number one choice for BitTorrenting moody flicks albums and software have been charged with conspiracy to break copyright law in their native Sweden.
They have previously escaped censure thanks to the fact their servers don’t hold copyrighted content. Users are instead sent in the direction of the material they’re after.
The four men have been charged because they’re making money through copyrighted material. This cash comes through online advertising rather than the direct sale of content.
The Swedish authorities have long been under pressure from major record companies and film studios to clamp down on The Pirate Bay’s activity.
Plaintiffs in this new case include Warner, Columbia Pictures, MGM, EMI and Universal.
If found guilty, each founder member faces up to two years in the slammer. They say they’re not causing any harm, but we’ll leave it up to you to judge whether it’s the big companies or BitTorrent sites that are to blame for illegal downloading still being so prolific.
Aquavision’s all new waterproof telly rules
Like Homer Simpson, the thought of living under the sea has always appealed to us here at T3 Towers. It just seems a bit more, well, interesting.
Alas, it’s a pipe dream, but that doesn’t stop us taking a fancy to nifty water repellent gadgets like this monster Aquavision telly.
The 57-inch AVF 57-4LCD is a waterproof ‘in-wall’ telly, so you can park it at the end of the bath, stick in your ‘pool house’ or just slap it on your living room wall and splash booze at it.
Featuring two HDMI sockets, full HD and access for all your component, S-Video and scart needs, it’s everything you’d expect from a high end panel.
It also comes with a RS232 ‘control panel’, letting you sort out what you want to watch from anywhere in the home. All you need to do is park it in the wall outside the bathroom.
Cue the kids switching the channel to BBC News 24 while you’re trying to watch BabeStation in the shower. Beadle would be proud.
Elsewhere, you’ll find in-built games, just in case the PS3 or Xbox you’ve got wired up doesn’t take your fancy.
There’s no word on price, but we’re not imagining this’ll hit you for anything less than a high end Sony or Tosh telly. it for us.
Boom Borda 2
Not quite but it does have a motor. This board addresses the twin troubles of our age- the desire for eco-friendliness and the need for an over weight populace to avoid exercise at all costs-by adding an electronic motor. Updated from the Boom Borda 1 its successor is lighter, faster and is a board that Marty McFly would be proud of.
Helping you parade or more than likely power down the street is the 600W brushless motor that pulls 3600rpm. Control how fast, or in our case how slow, you go with a pull on the handheld trigger controller. It’s a little touchy; we tapped a little too hard and the neighbours Begonia’s didn’t thank us.
Bursting to speeds of 30mph maximum it is a little nipper. You may want to nail your feet to it if you’re planning an Evil Knievel style trip. Oh, and you can’t reverse either, apparently you have to do some kind of kick flip, or nose grind double back face plant?
If you manage to take it out with all your limbs in tact, you’ll see the bod’ on the board has had a once over. Huge chunky tyres and alloy wheels encased in rubber mean the wheels don’t tend to wear down as easy as the first edition. You could skate to Anglesey. We doubt you’d make it back though.
Other nifty bits include the ABS style breaking (bit of an overkill on a skateboard), a spring loaded handle and a lighter frame. It still weighs the equivalent of an obese child though.