Monday, January 23, 2012

Warning to bloggers


Unconfirmed "inside info" via OccupyMarines:



"MegaUpload - Closed.
FileServe - Closing does not sell premium.
FileJungle - Deleting files. Locked in the U.S.
UploadStation - Locked in the U.S.
FileSonic - The news is arbitrary (under FBI investigation).
VideoBB - Closed! would disappear soon.
Uploaded - Banned U.S. and the FBI went after the owners who are gone.
FilePost - Deleting all material (so will leave executables, pdfs, txts)
Videoz - closed and locked in the countries affiliated with the USA.
4shared - Deleting files with copyright and waits in line at the FBI.
MediaFire - Called to testify in the next 90 days and it will open doors pro FBI
Org torrent - could vanish with everything within 30 days "he is under criminal investigation"
Network Share mIRC - awaiting the decision of the case to continue or terminate Torrent everything.
 

P.S. mediafire has start deleting copyright protected files. Only left is the personal files."


R.I.P.


This blog is officially dead until further notice. 99% of the files were hosted on Megaupload so therefore NONE of them work. It appears that more uploading sites will disable their sharing features in the weeks to come. I'll be back to post more music if the dust ever settles.

Forget SOPA, Europe is about to ratify its bigger brother ACTA


Just as the SOPA and PIPA debate winds down in the US, the European Union is later this week set to work on ratifying a global intellectual property enforcement treaty: the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. 

European countries, including Ireland, will later this week join the US, Australia, Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Canada in supporting ACTA. Continued

Following Megaupload takedown, FileSonic & FileServe remove sharing features


After employees of file-sharing services Megaupload were arrested, similar digital locker services FileSonic, FileServe, and others have stopped allowing users to share the files they upload with others.

The “cyberlocker” provided by these companies is essentially a cloud service that allows people to upload a number of different files that can be shared/downloaded by others for a limited period of time (or permanently for premium customers).  The move to shutter this functionality by FileSonic, FileServe, and others is undoubtedly a response to legal action taken against competing site Megaupload, which was shut down last week under accusations of piracy by the U.S. Department of Justice in conjunction with government authorities from many foreign countries. Continued

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Feds Kill Megaupload (Updated)


Mixtape mecca and openair piracy expo Megaupload has a serious problem: it's just been shut down by the feds. The feds. And they didn't even need SOPA! Continued

Monday, January 16, 2012



"Ambient choral pieces made from the voices of Arvo Pärt’s seven Magnifcat Antiphonens. Voices are heavily manipulated and chopped to make beautiful, flowing works of ambiance."