Get Rid of the MPAA

"Those who count on quote 'Hollywood' for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who's going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake,"

Corporate Hooker Chris Dodd CEO MPAA

My tolerance for corporate fuckery can only go so far before it turns into disdain, which turns into a complete blind anger.

Not long after SOPA/PIPA got its ass handed to it. Chris Dodd of the MPAA stated that there would be no bribery check (aka campaign contribution) to those

that did not support the bill. This chap has some huge ass balls to say this and then we have some strange rhetoric:

"Still. My sense is that folks are always looking for someone to blame, and blaming this on Chris Dodd is probably factually inaccurate and wrongheaded.” Dean Garfield CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council

Politco

The MPAA shouldn't blame their loss in this battle on Chris Dodd just like we shouldn't blame him for SOPA/PIPA, that honor falls on to Lamar Smith who gets his checks from Dodd. My problem (and

I think the collective here feels this way as well) is that Chris Dodd essentially stated that the people that are voted in by us, their pockets are lined with corporate money. (Not a big surprise)

And on piracy, the MPAA is one to talk; when Hollywood got started because some cheap assholes didn't want to pay up to Edison.

Wiki

The MPAA is from an antiquated system and refuses, as content holders, to innovate and/or embrace innovation. They have a lot of money to throw around and that's the saddest part, with all that money they could at the very least start using it to create an efficient and innovative way of streaming the content to the consumer rather than sue the fuck out of someone or buy off some shitty politician.

If they continue to refuse with getting with the times? Maybe America and the rest of the world can show them the door.

Back from the dead with a quicky review.

I stole this image without permission.

600 Second Review: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Should you see it? Yes.
I enjoyed the remake of the Swedish film adaptation...wait for it...of the book. David Fincher was able to spin this retelling with his unique approach of sound and visuals.
If you saw the original? Be prepared for Lisbeth to fall flat thanks to Screenplay writer Steven Zaillian's inability to capture the character. Fortunately Rooney Mara was able to channel Noomi Rapace when needed to make it tolerable.

Random Attack

Waking up to gray skies and walking wet pavement, collectors for their payments.

Mike Relm - Mash up master


I seriously suggest checking out this mans work.


In Other News:
From Wired: Hacking, Lock-Picking, Booze and Bacon: DefCon 17 In Review

LAS VEGAS — Braving triple-digit heat, mean hangovers and an incredibly hostile network, roughly 10,000 hackers, security experts, feds, spies and various other “computer enthusiasts” took over the Riviera last weekend for the world’s largest hacking convention, DefCon.

Cyberwar Tehran

People couldn't take it to the streets, the beatings were too much.
So they took the fight to a ubiquitous realm to protest, sites caving in.
Political freedom in a sea of information.
They took it to a ubiquitous realm and are winning.

Pulled from wired.

Pro-democracy activists on the web are asking supporters to use relatively simple hacking tools to flood the regime’s propaganda sites with junk traffic. “NOTE to HACKERS - attack www.farhang.gov.ir - pls try to hack all iran gov wesites [sic]. very difficult for us,” Tweets one activist. The impact of these distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks isn’t clear. But official online outlets like leader.ir, ahmadinejad.ir, and iribnews.ir are currently inaccessible. “There are calls to use an even more sophisticated tool called BWraep, which seems to exhaust the target website out of bandwidth by creating bogus requests for serving images,” notes Open Society Institute fellow Evgeny Morozov.

What will happen if Iran strikes a deal with America? Next thing you know, you have American people declared as political enemies of the "free country" and are demonized for their assistance of the Tehran Twitter Attack Team and DDOS of Iranian Govt sites. Much like what happened to the communist in America.

Happy Anniversary 1984!

From the you know it's true dept:

As we move forward into a new decade, a book that was published 61 Years ago today is still one of great relevance and impact. No book has influenced me as much as this one, people, I'm talking about 1984.

"Nineteen Eighty-Four is told through the eyes of Winston Smith, a minor civil servant in the Ministry of Truth whose job it is to rewrite history for the totalitarian state of Oceania. His spirit hasn’t been entirely quashed, though, and he chafes under the yolk, eventually joining a rebellion against the state. He is soon betrayed, arrested and tortured. In the end, Smith wins his freedom by accepting the assertion that 2 + 2 = 5."
- Wired.com

A story where the government employs torture, disinformation and censorship. A book that shows us what will happen if we allow current systems in place to continue on course.
This book is a reminder that we are human and we shall remain free.

Cyl1024

Goodbye Consoles?

A new company, called OnLive, has a revolutionary idea for gaming: Remotely hosted, streaming games. What exactly does that mean? It means all the rendering and action is hosted on OnLive's servers, then streamed to your TV with a new, highly optimized compression type.

This type of technology could be win/win for companies like Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, as well as consumers. Consumers wouldn't have to spend hundreds of dollars on a console, and console manufacturers wouldn't have to sell millions of units at a loss. While it still requires a small "console" to work with a television, it is basically a cable box. Using it on a PC simply requires you to install a 1MB plugin.

While the technology even seems impressive now, as more companies take the idea and run with it, I can only imagine it getting better.

Official Site:

http://www.onlive.com/

A little info:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/161853/onlive_video_games_without_the_hardware.html?loomia_ow=t0:a41:g2:r5:c0.038051:b23265270

Preliminary Review:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/161852/onlive_will_it_beat_xbox_360_ps3_and_wii_at_their_own_game.html

This is News!? Seriously?

While I appreciate the Wayne's World reference, this is one of the top news stories on Google today. sigh...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29179119/


Schwing!