Streeter Seidell is a comedy writer and (mediocre) drummer living in Brooklyn, NY. During the day he edits the front page of CollegeHumor.com but when the sun goes down he takes his place at the helm of the Indablog. He maintains a personal blog at StreeterSeidell.com and wants to make sure you know he once wrote something for the New York Times and that it was, in the words of his mother, "Amazing! You're so talented!"
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Lefsetz Letter
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Underrated Magazine
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Super-hip music blog. A must for anyone serious about the NYC scene. -
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ll the news that fit to print ... about music, that is. -
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Gawker Media's music blog. Perfect if you like a little snark with your music news. -
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Wednesday July 02, 2008 at 08:00 AM |
BitTorrent, the service that allows you to illegally download, well, anything could get a young man in quite a heap of trouble. From an article on ArsTechnica...
The MPAA has won a jury conviction for criminal copyright infringement,
opening the doors to many more cases like it in the future. A federal
jury convicted 26-year-old Daniel Dove for both felony copyright
infringement as well as conspiracy, the US Department of Justice
announced on Friday. Dove, the last remaining administrator of
EliteTorrents.com who did not plead guilty, now faces up to 10 years in
prison.
The case goes all the way back to 2005, when investigators raided EliteTorrents and shut the site down with the help of the MPAA. At the time, EliteTorrents was one of the most popular Bit Torrent trackers around and had gained notoriety for making available prerelease movies like Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith. Search warrants were served on 10 people in the US and the site admins immediately faced criminal charges.
I post this here not to debate the merits of jailing someone for leaking copyrighted material, but to warn anyone out there - and, let's face it, there are a lot - to be careful what uploads you make available through services like BitTorrent. Good thing Indaba is 100% legal!
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Wednesday July 02, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Wow 10 Years Jail ..........Unbelievebale.........ok i am not an expert in law and order things and specialy not for the rights in another country but the feel is so that it is a little bitty to much.Eeeeeh only one idea in this way.......when now everyone who had do an ilegal download must go in Jail then i want say subscrise shares in building enterprises.I have the feeling that this could be a good idea when they bring now everyone in the jail they must build many many for only this :-)
Yes Indaba is legal and that s good
MINIME the Finnincial Consoltun :-))
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