A few months ago a torrent site broke the news that quite possibly, one of the companies currently engaging in prosecuting copyright violations, might have just set up a website for the sole purpose of providing users on the internet with copyright material to violate, willy-nilly.
...basically, facilitating the very illegal actions they were pursuing damages for in court. (Boy howdy is that illegal. Wow.) So of course, it would be very bad for them if this were actually happening.
The company, MediaDefender, denied it completely.
(time passes)
It turns out the report was, in fact, true.
In one of the most spectacular security leaks I've ever seen, somehow, 700Mb of the company's internal emails found their way into a bunch of torrent streams and are winging their way around the interwebs right this very moment.
I would imagine that right about now, to the executive management over there, the internet has just opened up and poured thousands upon thousands of kittens into their offices and homes... and they're allergic.
Actually, using the search term 'hacker' to see what other "news" stories they've run turns up yet another lurid fantasy tale from mid-May of this year.
My favorite part of this story is when they talk about a response email that "melted the hard drive" of their little Dell machine.
FOX presents mostly fictional anti-hacker news story
Topic: Media
10:10 am EDT, Jul 27, 2007
It looks like FOX is pretty pissed about getting their stuff hacked, and so they've gotten some of their affiliates to cook up a complete line of crap so they can run a "HACKARS R BAD, K?" news piece. It's rather sad.
For those of you who don't recognize what board they're talking about, where everyone is "required" to be anonymous, it's 4chan. If you don't recognize it, Google it. The reason almost all the users on 4chan post anonymously is definitely *not* what this news report claims it is... and the lies don't stop there.
Phil Shuman is a tool. It's one thing to be clueless, but this, coupled with the previous articles he's ran, borders on irresponsible.
It's a song called "The Drugs I Need" and features a little pill, smiling and waving. The artwork looks like maybe the SpumCo guys had something to do with it (which would be appropriate).
For the uninitiated, this is Senator Ted Stevens speaking before Congress, trying his best to explain Net Neutrality and his position on it, with music added in.
It took awhile to find just the MP3 but I did it. :)
BBC errs and puts the wrong person in front of the camera! (mit video!)
Topic: Media
12:47 am EDT, May 14, 2006
The Times Online has tried to spin this as if the cabbie who wound up in front of the camera made some effort to misrepresent himself, but it seems to me more like it was a matter of people getting a little rushed and putting someone who doesn't have a very powerful grasp of English in front of the camera.
The *video* can be found on at least two different sites at the moment. Pay close attention to the interviewee at the start when the BBC reporter introduces him. The look on his face is priceless.
Political Dissent folk singer on Jay Leno (with lyrics)
Topic: Media
9:25 pm EDT, Apr 6, 2006
Looks like Leno had a folk-singer type on his show the other night, singing a rather biting tune called "When the President Talks To God". This link contains video of the performance.
Finally, some more people have found their testicles!
