Archive for May 31st, 2006

Links for May 31

Well over the past week and a half I came across some very awesome sites, more than I could possibly display on the sidebar, so I’ve blogged them. Enjoy!

Try to get your records from the NSA.

AllofMP3.com is now illegal. Damnit! That site kicked!

Process ID - Find out what any process is!

Times New Roman - The end of an era.

Mega Timeline - Awesome timeline of 1750-2100

swishPod - Apple and Nike Team Up!

Software Bugs - Why to sell software with it.

Lay, Skilling guilty on nearly all counts - Finally the motherfuckers get what they deserve.

WinAMP Tweak Guide - I love WinAMP, you should too.

SlashDot - Finally got a redesign


PSP Modchip
- Finally they come up with something.

Font Maker - Make your own fonts.

Simple Phone - Why can’t they just make a simple cell phone?

How To: Setup and Offshore Bank Account

Evolution - Mario Style

Flash Frogger - Flash version of our favorite game.

Reckless Computing - 18 Days

Lego Aircraft Carrier - Finally Finished

ThePirateBay.org

Well today marks another victory for the RIAA/MPAA, and another HUGE blow to the file sharing community.

This is now what is on ThePirateBay.org.

In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Swedish National Criminal Police showed a search warrant to Rix|Port80 personnell. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Rix|Port80 and was directed at The Pirate Bay. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, alternatively assisting breach of copy-right law.

The police officers were allowed access to the racks where the TPB servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the racks were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the racks, including the non-commercial site PiratbyrÄn, the mission of which is to defend the rights of TPB via public debate.

According to police officers simultaneously questioning the president of Rix|Port80, the purpose of the search warrant is to take down TPB in order to secure evidence of the allegations mentioned above.

The necessity for securing technical evidence for the existance of a web-service which is fully official, the legality of which has been under public debate for years and whose principals are public persons giving regular press interviews, could not be explained. Asked for other reasoning behind the choice to take down a site, without knowing wether it is illegal or not, the officers explained that this is normal.

The TPB can receive compensation from the Swedish state in case that the upcoming legal processes show that TPB is indeed legal.

Firefox 2 Alpha 3 Review

Read it here, I personally can’t wait. It looks like it is going to totally kick @$$!