Of all days in the The Pirate Bay trial, this one was the most difficult to cover. Several of the prosecutors got to talk to TiAMO (Fredrik Neij) and Anakata (Gottfrid Svartholm Warg). A lot of questions and responses were out there, the Twitter feeds translated them live at a …
Waking up and reading the Spectrial has called it a wrap for the day. As expected, the prosecutor referred to the dropping of 50% of the charges as a ‘small change’. The defendants did not agree, of course. Swedish newspaper Metro headlined “Fiasco for Prosecutors”. A lot of industry representatives …
The Pirate Bay Trial in Stockholm, Sweden takes a nice flight on the second day of the court hearings. Håkan Roswall, the rather clumsy and quite un-tech-savvy prosecutor brought on some evidence which didn’t prove that the .torrent files (which are appearantly demonstrated using screenshots) actually use TPB trackers. This …
Today, the trial against torrent-site ThePirateBay started in Stockholm, Sweden. It’s very interesting to see how they manage to globalize this trial. A Pirate Bay Bus is standing outside the courthouse with people (video)blogging. Twitter feeds (tag: #spectrial, that’s spectacle and trial) from in and outside the court get translated …
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Okay, you can stop the giggling now. This is a lecture by Daniel Floyd (Savannah College of Art & Design) on the subject of sex in videogames, and why it is a necessary step to accept intimacy in videogames in much the same way we accept it in movies: a …
On 11 January 2008 , the military camp at Guantanamo Bay will be 6 years old. I don’t like pushing my political views, but don’t mind if I do hit the proverbial it with some facts: 775 detainees have been held in Guantanamo since January 2002, around 330 are still …