“Progression of Information Technology”, researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Bronman.
The second is labelled “Did you know 2.0″ and includes new and updated statistics, it’s produced by XPLANE.
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“Pirates” can actually be nice
The story of Roger Wallis is an absolute fantastic one. If you’ve ever downloaded a movie off the Pirate Bay or any other torrent tracker for that matter, Wallis is one of the men to thank as the Pirate Bay moved one giant step towards ‘freedom’. Wallis is a professor and media researcher that appeared in court as an expert witness – he was primarily there to be asked about the decline of album sales and its relation to filesharing. When Wallis was asked just this, he simply answered that his research has shown that there is no relation between the two.
After being attacked by the industry lawyers, who did everything possible to discredit his reputation, he was asked whether he wanted to be reimbursed for his travel expenses. The answer was down to earth and ‘Swedish’:
Send some flowers to my wife
Immediately after Wallis left court the flowers kept on coming, you can check out other ‘thank you notes’ and gifts that Wallis received over at “We who thanked Wallis“, quite astonishing. It seems that at least his wife was happy while Pontén probably wasn’t.
Check out the full story reported by TorrentFreak.com.
The Pirate Bay Trial – Opening Day
“[..] Roswall further discussed the total number of seeds and peers on the tracker, all part of the evidence that was previously gathered by the plaintiffs.
During the afternoon, Peter Sunde sent a message: “How the hell did they think this was going to be something else than EPIC FAIL for the prosecution? We’re winning so hard.” Peter points out that the prosecutor is having difficulty working out the difference between megabits and megabytes.”
Love that comment! From TorrentFreak, “First day in the Court”. Rick Falkvinge kindly linked to all of his pictures from both the press conference and the first day in trial, check them out here.
Unfortunately, The Pirate Bay’s own site “Spectrial” (also at: http://trial.thepiratebay.org) went down just after lunch, it seems to be up again but with very limited speed. It takes the concept of live coverage with the help of microblogging and the community to a different level, transparency at its very best.
If you’re Swedish and feel like you can contribute to the coverage, check out Marcin de Kaminski’s blogpost.
Life’s for sharing (T-Mobile Commercial) Saatchi & Saatchi
YouTube for Television
This is pretty cool. YouTube launches YouTube for Television in beta.
Currently in beta, the TV Website offers a dynamic, lean-back, 10-foot television viewing experience through a streamlined interface that enables you to discover, watch and share YouTube videos on any TV screen with just a few quick clicks of your remote control.