Posted February 17th, 2009 by ac3raven
Day one of the trial against the Pirate Bay saw the lead prosecutor Håkan Roswal, who claimed to be an expert in computer crime, fail to start his powerpoint presentation. though a trivial situation, it’s a fun example of just how out-of-touch the prosecution is.
The defendents, Pirate Bay founders Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, and Fredrik Neij, who have been extremely confident that they’ll win the trial, all pleaded not-guilty.
The charges amount to assisting in copyright infringement on a commercial-scale, and the plaintiffs (Warner Bros., MGM, EMI, Colombia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Sony BMG and Universal), are claiming thirteen million dollars in damages.
Right off the bat, day two of the trial went very well for the accused. According to Fredrik Neij, the prosecution misunderstood how BitTorrent works, and he pointed out that Roswal couldn’t prove the torrents presented as evidence the day before were in fact using The Pirate Bay as a tracker. The prosecution had to alter it’s charge of ‘assisting copyright infringement’ to read ‘assisting in making available infringing material’.
Posted January 12th, 2009 by bash
You know, I love the look of the Mac OS, and I could spend hours in the local Apple store just messing around with the display units. I know you love them too. But how in the world can anyone afford the absurd price tag? The economy is tanking, and the odd thing is it’s like they’re designed to appeal to college hippies. I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of websites that claim you can buy a Mac for 400 to 600 dollars, and they’ll build it, and ship it. That’s all good and wonderful, but if you’re like me, and you have plenty of old hardware lying around the house, you can build yourself a fancy Mac for next to nothing.
Ok, let’s get started. Here’s what you’ll need:
*A torrent client, or a copy of Mac OS (What’s a torrent!?)
*An Intel processor that’s SSE2 compatible
For this project I’ll use an old eMachine Desktop:
Intel Celeron 2.93 GHz
SSE2 compatible
768MB of ram
40GB IDE hard drive
64MB Integrated video
I’m sure it can run on less, so if you have an Intel processor capable of SSE2, stay tuned for more to come, and let’s build a Mac for free 
