Maëlys McArdle

Category: Life

Every other post.

  • “Exeem Announced”

    “Exeem” was officially announced by the Suprnova teem today, and will supposedly be a decentralised P2P take on Bittorrent. It will not use the Bittorrent protocol, and will use an external link system similar to ed2k:// urls. Sounds alot like eDonkey to be honest.

    Some claim that in fact it isn’t decentralised at all (much like eDonkey/eMule/overnet network relies on master servers), and there is an anonymous corporate donor backing the whole project. Interesting development to say the least.

  • Suprnova to make Announcement

    Greetings everybody

    It has been more then a week since SuprNova.org went down. We are sorry that we have not updated the site with more recent news, but we have been very busy.

    Anyway, we will soon be making an announcement. Announcement will be made on NovaStream.org radio on 30th December around 10 PM CET (9 PM GMT, 4 PM EST).

    Also, everybody is still welcome to join us on irc (irc://irc.suprnova.org/suprnova.org) or on forums (www.suprnovaforums.net), but please remember, we are no longer offering torrents. You will not find any on IRC or on our forums.

    Thanks,

    Sloncek & the rest of the SuprNova team.

    NovaStream.org radio on 30th December around 10 PM CET (9 PM GMT, 4 PM EST). Got that?

  • RIAA sues 754 more P2Pers

    By Tony Smith
    Published Friday 17th December 2004 09:53 GMT

    The Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA) has filed a further 754 lawsuits against named and unnamed individuals it claims have infringed its members’ copyrights.

    The latest round of court filings brings the total number of lawsuits the organisation has issued to 7706. However, there seems little sign that the RIAA’s aggressive, highly public legal proceedings have had any real result.

    According to market watcher BigChampagne, cited by Reuters, around 7.5m computer users were running P2P software in November – 70.5 per cent more than the 4.4m who did so in November 2003.

    The RIAA last filed complaints against alleged music-sharers in November. Then, it targeted 761 people, including a number in US universities and colleges. It issued 750 lawsuits in October.

  • MPAA Attacks TorrentBox…

    TorrentBox Legal Defence Fund
    We received this letter on December 14th which informed us that the MPAA has filed suit against the individuals responsible for operating this site (www.torrentbox.com) for copyright infringement.

    In order to find out more about our legal rights on this matter, and possibly even fight this charge in court, I am asking all BitTorrent users to donate (no matter how small) to the TorrentBox Legal Defence Fund. Until I can afford to inquire a lawyer on this matter, I am turning off the ability to browse and download torrents from ths site. The tracker will remain on, and all torrents using it will now become anonymous and unknown to admins.

    The bittorrent community is in dire straits, so please don’t let TorrentBox die like the other sites! -Hohead

    This was posted on TorrentBox’s website (www.torrentbox.com), one of the few places I went to obtain my bittorrent files. They too have been hit by the MPAA’s barrage.

  • Release: Perfect Blue DVD-Rip Subs

    I made a backup XViD copy of a movie I own, “Perfect Blue”. However, subtitles for DVDs are saved as images, not text. Therefore I used a tool called SubRip to extract the text from the DVD files using OCR, and time it correctly into a .srt file. I then manually went over every line to get rid of any glitches that may have occured. I’ve released the subtitles file to the public, so that you may not have to go through what I did.

    Download Subtitles: perfectblue.srt [60KB]