Malicious Intent

I love VLC, but the damn thing will keep crashing. I use Media Player Classic. It takes a bit more setting up, but, errrm, ..... not sure why I use it!

Jade has made no secret she is exploiting her disease to make as much money as possible before dying. The profits are destined for her kids. It is morbid, but she can make more from her obituary alive than dead.

Nice! My next laptop?

Wow - clearly I have been living under a rock. I've been told that it was even mentioned in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, who are so tech illiterate that the Pirate Bay trail is no more than a paragraph long. To answer some questions: 1) Plusses: - It feels like you are breaking the law, so no loss of rebellion - Fast searching with relevant results - Huge Library - Very easy to sign up for and use - It isn't trying to be some stupid social networking tool - All music hosted by Spotify, so no dead links Cons: - Adverts (although still no audio) - Have to download a file - not web based alternative - Can't download or burn the music - Missing artists like Beatles and Zeplin (perhaps a bigger loss to others) 2) i-what? Is that more of your Apple crap? :) 3) No idea. I've been so focused on P2P and RIAA press releases that I didn't know such services could exist. I guess this is a lesson to everyone using P2P for music - our kicking and screaming has produced results! 10 years late, but better late than never. 4) I don't get the whole invite thing. I don't think you need one any more. I just signed up.

Spotify is a free streaming music playing with an unbelievable library. Currently only available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France and Spain. Has built in ads (No pop-ups). It is suppose to have audio ads between tracks, although a lot less than commercial radio. I've yet to hear any. So for UKians who are sulking about the loss of Youtube music videos: http://www.spotify.com

Hopefully they will patch things up. Great song, great band.

You edited my post and made me look like an Apple user??? I KILL YOU!

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Wow!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I'm saving the rest of my energy for the 40,000 posts party!

Dramatically??

Amusing comment from Digg, "After two years of preparing, you'd think they'd last longer than a day."

Damn Dude beat me to the Google search :(

That would be the case if they had kept their mouths shut. With stunts like redoing their logo for the GTA San Andreas leak and creating a special website for all the torrents of Oscar nominated films, they stand distinctly apart from Google and other common comparisons. The Grokster ruling was a very, very clever one. I love TPB, but they would have fallen well short of even the strict guidance given in that precendent. We are, as TPB like to remind us, dealing with another legal system on another continent. I just hope that we see justice.

That video shows that it is exactly as I thought! Perhaps if I tried it I may like it, but it just sounds rubbish. I find most blogs boring as hell, without reading the stuff that didn't make the blog!