Time-lapse video of the giant Bruce Willis mural revealed today on the Fox lot to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Die Hard's release.
In order to counter all the awful stuff in the Open Letter thread, here's a little something for the ladies. Well, the hetero ladies at least. And the gay guys. And the bisexuals. Oh, just watch the darn video.
Hey guys This is way, way stranger than I remember. Nuclear fallout? Dead parents? The band playing on the streets of post-apocalyptic new york?
That's just how things were in the 80s, what with the Cold War. The only good part was that if you got enough radiation exposure, you could transform into a mini-skirt and rag shirt.
Posted this already in the "what are you listening to" thread. But re-posting it now it's got a proper youtube link. A fantastic bit of animation (and amazing song to boot).
A documentary has been released about The Pirate Bay, some scamp has put it up for free on youtube so get it while you can!* * If that joke was too obscure, it's free, given that the universe would implode from irony if a TPB documentary was a commercial copyright.
That docu makes it seem like the entire crux of their defense was "we're Swedish. Fuck you!" And when they were convicted their plan for dealing with it was "they can't do anything to us in Cambodia!" Oh, what's this word 'extradite' mean?
It didn't really go in to the details of the trial much, but I gather their defence was that they're not involved with hosting material at all, it's the users who do that. And, according to them, it's not illegal to provide a service which happens to be used in an illegal manner by some users. It will be interested to see what happens with Fredrik, who as far as I can tell is still in Thailand. His claim, that a sentence expires after 5 years if the defendant is not captured, is true under Swedish law. I'm not clear on the reasons why he hasn't been extradited - he seemed to think that wouldn't happen under this case. What got me was how pointless the trial seemed at the end. So they (sort of) sent down the founders for a number of months and demanded compensation they won't get. The site itself appears as untouchable as ever with servers outside Sweden. And this was organised by three people, one racist drunkard, one heavy drug user who runs off to Cambodia regularly, and one idealistic liberal type. Sure some help came from other sources as well, but that was basically it, and the site itself was (is?) run off a small pile of servers you could carry in your hands. And it only gets more incorporeal as time goes on. It's hard to see how sites like TPB can be defeated short of governments having radically greater control over the internet, an eventuality which would only prove TPB founders' point.
