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Goodbye Megaupload … but not farewell piracy
January 26th, 2012 | 
Author: Goodbye Megaupload … but not farewell piracy
The closure of the file sharing does not mean the end of this type of hosting sites keen to traffic.
When I think of the magnates of foreign sites file sharing, I imagine a bunch of pirates of the Internet as untouchable evil-that is why we talk about Pirate Bay, right? Since Thursday, the image has taken the lead in the wing with the closure of Megaupload , one of the sites hosting the largest in the world.
In the end, it took a joint action of U.S. authorities, Hong-Kong and New Zealand, assisted by the police kiwi and other international police forces, to overcome the site, cut all its servers and stop half-dozen of its leaders. Among the arrested was the founder of Megaupload, a hacker charged past plump and taste for girls in bikinis , known by many names such as Kim and Kim Dotcom Tim Vestor Jim (his real name is Kimble Schmitz).
7% of global Internet traffic
According to press reports , the report charges of 72 pages is filled with juicy details about the small pleasures that building staff salaries through ill-gotten (Dotcom have rented the largest house in New Zealand ). The fact that officials have openly discussed Megaupload the myriad of content protected by copyright hosted on their site is also found in this report, which undermines any defense on “We did not know what our users did. “
There has been talk recently of hosting sites with discussion of Sopa , a proposed anti-piracy law that made hay while the Web-many of them are part of the “pirate sites” covered by this legislation . Sopa has been widely supported by the music industry and film, not surprisingly.
These platforms were likely to have hoisted as if by magic in the top most visited sites in the world . In addition to Megaupload, up to the 70th top global Alexa, the sites hosting the most important are Mediafire (66th) and 4shared (88th). To give you an idea, these three have a total volume of traffic compared to AOL, CNN and eBay (and, um, Xhamster.com, which is also part of the video sharing sector).
The rag vary, but according to this article from Ars Technica , sites hosting account for 7% of global Internet traffic (Megaupload alone in claiming 4% in a cheeky YouTube video which I will). They also have other things in common: they are based abroad and media industries are struggling to reach them, although they have clearly succeeded this time (this in itself is a good argument against the remedies draconian Sopa, based on the assertion that these “pirate sites” were out of reach of U.S. law enforcement).
Different sites torrents
How these hosting sites work? We must first note that they differ from sites such as Pirate Bay torrents, which does not distribute any files (technically, Pirate Bay does not host any torrent, but that’s another story). The Pirate Bay and his followers will direct you to the “torrent files” that, when you load into a program like Vuze or Utorrent-integrate your computer to a host of users sharing the ends of a song, a album or film (in the last study I cross on the subject, it is said that the streams represent about 15% of U.S. Internet traffic ).
These sites are remunerated by selling advertising, including a big party for adult content. To quote again Pirate Bay on Alexa, it breathes the same rarefied air as the combo-Megaupload-AOL and eBay, given the huge number of users, it is probably more money than them in terms of income advertising.
Conversely, the hosting sites hosting the files, simply. When you download one, you actually download the song or movie you want, and not a torrent file that allows you to build this song or the movie piece by small piece.
If you listen to what they say sites like Megaupload, their job is to help people move files that do not fit in an email. Imagine that you need to send the sequence of a film that you are going up, and weighs several gigas. Send it on just one of these sites, then please link to all those who need to see.
If you’re like me, you will receive from time to time this kind of file from a friend or colleague, usually via YouSendIt . This is a company based in California and whose activity appears to be broadly legitimate. No one ever sent me a file hosted on offshore sites.
What actually do Megaupload and other host content is subject to copyright. Gus of them are songs, albums, TV shows or movies, and pass on the URL. Unlike torrent sites, these hosts do not pay through advertising. Below, for example, here is the screenshot of a page Megaupload, taken before the closure of the site on Thursday:
The purchase of accounts, the bulk of revenue
While some hosting sites are remunerated by the pub, they derive the bulk of their revenues by encouraging people to buy premium accounts. To do this, they make the free download extremely painful, or making you look for ages for the download button, or even forcing you to wait a minute or more to access another button and you can download the file (In any case, um, what I was told).
Meanwhile, the sites you bludgeon pubs for their premium services that promise of simultaneous downloads, faster and easier: at 4shared, for example, is between 6 and 7 dollars per month for a premium membership and to download 100 GB of data per month.
On these sites, you can also find content, legal and illegal, in streaming, sometimes accompanied by pubs. In the report of alleged Megaupload, it is said that the site had set up a bonus system for premium subscribers thank depositing a maximum of desirable content (ie subject to copyright). This feature, present on other sites, is screaming industries of film and music. The sites make money on illegal copies of content from studios and users who provide them are paid to do.
All sites say remove any content submitted for copyright in simple complaint of entitlement, but there is no reason to think they take this task seriously. The report shows how the prosecution staff Megaupload trying to get around it. For example, it limited the number of formal complaints that he could deal a day, to increase it kindly when growth of the site allowed them to give some bone to pick with major content publishers.
Quite invisible in the engines
The hosting sites have another strange feature. Overall, they are quite invisible in search engines: it would be embarrassing to easily find pirated content while pretending not to know they were there. Sabotage of internal search engines to these sites is close sometimes absurd.
On 4shared.com, seeking “Harry Potter”, you can get a message on the total lack of results. But if you go to Google and search for “Harry Potter” + “4shared.com” then you will get pages and pages of links to movies, music, games and electronic books.
Amid these results, you may find many links to a site called FilesTube . FilesTube is a search engine specialized in hosting sites. On the Web, there are only very little information about it (according to Wikipedia, it would be based in Poland). Similarly, the homepage is very simple. But view the source code, and you’ll get a bunch of links that blends the porn (with “bangladesh xxx video” among the choices) and tip-top content subject to copyright (“How I Met Your Mother s07e14 “).
Thinking about an album at random, I typed Radiohead In Rainbows in its search bar. The site directed me to a new page with a link to FilesTube a RAR file, a compressed version of the album-hosted on a site called Filesonic.com (also filled with ads for porn sites or other hazardous initiatives such as cracking passwords).
The sites of illegal file sharing have not much honor: instead of getting redirected to the site Filesonic, the technique of FilesTube was basically to remove the bond-equivalent for file sharing , to withdraw the entire contents of a site to publish it on your own. But do not worry for Megaupload and other hosting sites. According to the report of the indictment, this operation also directs users to other search engines to their site.
There is still some time, Megaupload went relatively unnoticed. It is possible that the flamboyance of Kim Dotcom is somewhere responsible for the closure of its site. At the end of last year, a strange cast of celebrities (Kanye West, Chris Brown, Kim Kardashian) appeared on YouTube to literally sing the praises of Megaupload.
With a business plan so openly fraudulent, the support of these stars to a site as zealous in the destruction of their industry has only one plausible explanation: money (after all, it is certainly not due to the quality of the song, rather trivial – “If I have to send files around the world / I use Megaupload” – to see the leg of the creators of Rebecca Black Friday).
And if Megaupload reborn?
After the arrest of Kim Dotcom and his friends, Megaupload funds will not stay full longer. And regardless, the arrest of one of the largest hosting sites does not represent a decisive blow to content publishers in their war against illegal sharing.
It was difficult to believe that Megaupload’s competitors are not already in the process of adapting their strategies to this new threat. They just climb to even higher peaks where the police have even more difficult to achieve, and find other ways to protect, too, benefits all users of legal (and, sooner or later , a program of anonymity for users of torrents will be accessible to all). And given how hard it is to block a hosting site, it is even possible that Megaupload reborn from its ashes one day or another .
Meanwhile, download speeds ever faster and storage capacities ever larger offer to those who illegally swap content more time and space to do so. There are not so long ago, the editors got angry at kids who traded mp3s on Napster 3 MB. Today, it is not uncommon to spend 35 GB compilations containing, say, seven seasons of the TV series Dr House conveniently grouped together (note that it is ten thousand times more important).
During that time, on the legal front, officials continue to catch some small sharers unlucky and other small fry, but this has no effect on the rate of growth of the problem and even less about its decline. And in Washington, lawmakers in search of grants from generous donors in Hollywood try to consider new laws to squaring the circle. Next year, the same date, any new version of Sopa has yet shown the tip of his nose.
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Rajinikanth Superstar!
Rajinikanth Superstar!
Everything you ever wanted to know about a superstar you’ve never heard of.
Jackie Chan is the highest paid actor in Asia and it makes sense. In addition to produce, direct and act in his own films since 1980, he earned millions in Hollywood with blockbusters like Rush Hour and Karate Kid. Occupies second place in the charts? Oddly, this is a middle-aged man, balding, plump in the belly. A native of Tamil Nadu, a southern state of India, it is this kind of old-fashioned mustache since 1986. His name is Rajinikanth. This is not a single actor is a force of nature. Imagine a tiger and a tornado that mate and give birth to a tornatigre, which blends in turn with an earthquake: the child of this union is Rajinikanth! Aka “Superstar Rajinikanth ‘, as shown (this is mandatory) generics of his films.
If you did not know him before, you may have heard the 1st October in the worldwide release of his film Endhiran (The Robot). This is the most expensive Indian film of all time. And it is becoming the worldwide release the most gigantic in the history of Indian cinema, with 2,000 copies projected simultaneously. Yuen Wo-ping ( The Matrix ) has signed the action scenes, the studios Stan Winston ( Jurassic Park ) drew the creatures, “Industrial Light and Magic,” the company of George Lucas, took care of special effects, and the composer AR Rahman ( Slumdog Millionaire ), Oscar-winning, wrote the music. The funds invested are enormous, but the producers expect to go far in their charge. And for good reason: it’s not just a film is a film with Rajinikanth.
A man, a real
At 61, Rajinikanth has over 150 Indian films to his credit, and it’s not even really a Bollywood star. He works in the Tamil film industry, the poor cousin of Bollywood, known for the prowess of its cameramen and realistic crime scenes. The stars of Bollywood fans certainly have fans, but Rajinikanth is considered beyond reproach, beyond criticism, beyond good and evil. Ask the “Bollyfans” on their favorite stars, they will come the usual refrain was a kid, Hrithik, Shahrukh Khan is rotten spoiled, Amitabh Bachchan wears a toupee. But talk to them about Rajinikanth and their eyes light up. It is so rich, he made so many good deeds, his films are all cartons. Rajinikanth is not a movie star like the others, they hammer. Rajinikanth is a “man, a true”.
The forums are filled with Indian jokes Rajinikanth-the equivalent of Chuck Norris jokes. (“Rajinikanth was bitten by a cobra. After four days of intense pain, the cobra died”) On the screen, when Rajinikanth point the finger, a crack is heard. When he gets angry, the director introduced the sound of a cry gorilla beats his chest and growls of a tiger. It adds an echo to showcase his famous “phrases punches” to the pronounced when the drama is at its peak. “Nobody knows when I get or where I will arrive, but when I arrive I have to happen,” he roared such confused. Or, “I will do what I say. I will also say that I do not. ” Then it sends a punch a thug in the windshield of a van with such force that it leaves through the back window. Hard to argue after that.
Harmonica, dove and martial arts
Rajinikanth’s films are full of humor, action and musical interludes (usually composed by Rahman), and they take pleasure in toying with narrative logic. In Chandramukhi , in 2005, a psychiatrist interprets Rajinikanth so gifted that he can read someone’s mind just by observing facial expressions. The film begins with a wedding, then turns to horror movie and pause time of a song in which hundreds of kites register “Superstar” in the sky. In the end, Rajinikanth is fighting on a roof against a master of martial arts half-naked, amid fireworks and hundreds of doves. Chandramukhi has broken all records at the box office Tamil is the film which was broadcast as long as it has even been shown during 800 days in a theater and became a cult in Germany under the title The Geisterjäger (the ghost hunter).
When Rajinikanth is around, the camera is agitated in every direction, even during the most mundane scenes the cameraman zoom plays like a trombone. The development is overactive when the thugs knock Rajinikanth, so quickly that we do not even see how it strikes. All his films are called characters, and each begins with a song in which he presents in a dementia. In 1999 for example, in the first scene of Padayappa , asked “Hey you, who are you?”. It meets in music for four minutes, during which he plays the harmonica, performs a somersault and manages a huge demonstration of martial arts, before transforming into a baby. “This song was superb Padayappa,” says the village chief then. This is where the music starts again, Rajinikanth climbing a human pyramid of 10 meters high and smashes a clay pot, fireworks sound and the director’s name appears.
Superstar super stylish
As ridiculous as Rajinikanth is, it does not lack humor. In 2007, Sivaji: The Boss , he plays a computer engineer who returns home to fight against political corruption and tackle the guy with as full of Wall Street. The entire film is a mixture of populism and winks at the male audience, fights in the music store, in which the effect of bullet time in Matrix allows him to hit five thugs with a guitar and to a few dance steps before they touch the ground until the musical interlude before the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, where Rajinikanth, white complexion, sings “I once dark complexion / I am now incredibly white! ”
Rajinikanth is what provides its audiences: the style. The “Superstar” does not just wipe his forehead with a towel, he brandished like a bullfighter. When he puts his sunglasses, it’s like in a show in Vegas. Its action scenes are so sophisticated that it seems to attend a kabuki a new genre. As a song about him puts it, “Your approach is stylish / Your look is stylish / Your fights are stylish / All you do is stylish.” While Bollywood films increasingly mimic the conventions and mores of Hollywood, Rajinikanth remains respectful to his parents, with chaste women, and always on the side of the little people.
While Bollywood has a tendency to replace the choreography by MTV style montages, Rajinikanth remains committed to the tradition of cinema masala. There is “lush, hypnotic and victorious” as a song says about him. But it is also an irreducible Indian hero of the country that will never go Hollywood. Rajinikanth film without ‘superstar Rajinikanth “on the poster, not a crazy opening scene without cracking his fingers, without hyper-complicated plot, without the accompanying sound effects when he sends thugs in the giant power lines that explode, it would simply not a Rajinikanth film.
You can laugh all you want, but the cinema, the film Enthiran, Rajinikanth in which a robot performer, will raise a lot of money. Because such a Cyrano de Bergerac of Tamil Nadu, Rajinikanth is the incarnation of the Indian in the masculine, and, like Cyrano, when he will go out one day, it will remain something that no one can steal, what it matters most in life: his panache.
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Obama Sings Al Green… and NAILS It
Obama Sings Al Green… and NAILS It
Obama sang an Al Green song in front of a packed crowd in New York and absolutely NAILED IT. Who knew the POTUS had such impressive pipes?
How I Animate in Photoshop CS4
How I Animate in Photoshop CS4
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY AUDIO IN THIS VIDEO.
Thought this might help any animators that come across my channel or this vid 
any questions on animating with layers just comment and ask! I will do the best I can to help you.
1st song: Billionaire- Artist: Travie McCoy
2nd song: Bulletproof- Artist: La Roux
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Bie The Star ‘Jung Wa Hua Jai’ Thai Pop Song
Bie The Star ‘Jung Wa Hua Jai’ Thai Pop Song
Bie The Star ‘Jung Wa Hua Jai’ Thai Pop Song
Music Phone with Touchscreen
Music Phone with Touchscreen
With the Sony Ericsson Walkman, you mix your favorite music is. The internal memory is 256 MB, but is expandable to 32 GB through microSD memory cards. The Media Go technology allows files between your computer and your phone easily. The program automatically converts films and even video files to the best possible quality. Through the Walkman Player program can sort your music and your own playlists. SensMe technology goes one step further: program analyzes your music and makes using the rhythm and mood of the songs custom playlists for any time of day. So make with just a touch playlists for every mood. Do not you know right away what song you want to listen, can you Zapping key. That leaves a few seconds to hear the chorus of the song.That way you can quickly and efficiently through your muziekbiliotheek zapping. Anyone who pursues a singing career, is already practicing with the Karaoke feature. With the microphone because you sing along with your favorite songs. Mix the Walkman also features include Wi-Fi connection, a Touch UI interface, music recognition, FM radio, 3.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and (Micro) USB support. Choose from six different covers in pink, green, gray and gold.
Features Mix Walkman Sony Ericsson
| General | |
| Format : | Touchscreen |
| Weight: | 88 g |
| Processor: | 800 MHz |
| Dimensions (HxWxD): | 95.8 x 52.8 x 14.3 mm |
| Screen Size: | 3 inches |
| Autonomy conversation: | 9.4 to |
| Screen resolution: | 400 x 240 |
| Standby autonomy: | 465 to |
| Operating System : | GSM / EDGE Dual Band 900/1800, 850/1900 |
| Connection | |
| Bluetooth: |  |
| USB: | |
| Wifi: | |
| Extras | |
| FM radio: | |
| GPS receiver: |  |
| Full keyboard: | |
| Camera : | 3.2 MP |
| Memory | |
| External memory: | MicroSD up to 32GB |
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Science can predict top hit
Science can predict top hit
The top 40 seems rather unpredictable, but is it really? New research suggests not.
Scientists from the University of Bristol wondered whether it is possible to predict whether a song is a hit. In other words, it is possible to draw up a formula that ‘hit potential’ can be calculated?
Differences
They tried it out. They studied the English top 40. Not only those of recent years but the last half century. They went looking for the differences between the most popular songs (in the top 5) and the less popular songs (in the lower reaches of the top 40).
Rate
The researchers studied the different songs one by one. They looked at the tempo, the duration of the song, the chords, and so on. Based on all these data enabled the researcher managed to establish a formula that fairly precisely predict whether a song becomes a hit or not. In sixty percent of the cases, the formula, the correct answer.
Comparison
It is not the first time that researchers try to predict hits. But it is the first time that a working equation yields.
Evolve
It should be compared to “evolve”, explains researcher Till from the Bie. ”Musical tastes evolving, and that means our comparison must also evolve.” Now the risk factors that increase a hit, played twenty years ago, for example, a much smaller role. Another striking finding from the survey: the louder songs are, the greater their chances of a top position.
Know more about the research? Scientists have a special site set up where they do their research’s unveil. The scientists are also on this site live predictions for the English charts.
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Sony comes with battery which arouses flow from paper
Sony comes with battery which arouses flow from paper
We knew a Christmas card which lets a song hear if you `m. openklapt, of the redactie of the TechnologieBlog already. But a Christmas card where music ends up if you pour a fluid gone is new for us.
It is possible bio-batterij developed with by Sony. Paper is demolished by a cellulase ESA to glucose and converted into electricity, communicatesTweakers.net
After uitontwikkeling must cut down a4 such a 18Wh to flow to produce. Now the capacity still restricted to playing a song in a Christmas card, became clear from a demonstration during grant Eco-Products 2011 in Japan remain.
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The Perfect Lie (Photoshop Transformation) www.sefsar.com
The Perfect Lie (Photoshop Transformation) www.sefsar.com
www.twitter.com – Follow me check out my other videos This is part of a project I am working on for my end of year assessment in college. I searched for hours trying to find a suitable portrait for this experiment. I wanted a female, front facing, eye contact, little or no hard shadows on the face and that was representative of the norm. I have increased the speed of the recording to give you an insight into what can go into post production. I have purposely went to ‘extremes’ on this portrait to show what is done to make the face ready for print. The woman is not who she was. Song: The Engine Room – A Perfect Lie (Gabriel & Dresden Remix) /// I am aware the song is entitle ‘A’ Perfect Lie, and the piece is ‘The’ Perfect lie. That was intentional. /// Thank you for viewing.
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