Jitway

LimeWire is the only original P2P development company that remains in business in the United States or North America. As a free P2P application, it has survived WinMX, BearShare, a myriad of BitTorrent indexers and trackers, Kazaa, iMesh and many others. Additionally, it has maintained its open source nature and regularly publishes new software updates - a fact virtually unheard of in the United States. BitTorrent, Inc. is the exception to this rule. Unlike its file-sharing brethren, BitTorrent has managed to survive in rather hostile environment, thanks largely to its understanding with the MPAA. LimeWire hasn't managed to reap this benefit, perhaps because it's still primarily used as an MP3 and music trading tool. BitTorrent is also used for music sharing, however its overwhelming usage is geared towards large movie files - something the MPAA sees value in. Currently, LimeWire is entangled in a legal dispute with the companies represented by the RIAA. Converse to the MPAA, the RIAA isn't particularly impressed with LimeWire as a distribution mechanism for their wares. In fact, LimeWire received a "cease and desist" notice back in September of 2005, which ordered the company to halt the facilitation of copyright infringement. Unlike many others that felt the RIAA's wrath, LimeWire had one advantage: money. With deep pockets and a community that viewed the company in a favorable light, LimeWire has managed to prosper when most have been snuffed out. There's nothing wrong with a good fight, but even two powerhouses like LimeWire and the RIAA can grow weary with time. It wouldn't be surprising if both organizations shared the common goal of ending an otherwise time consuming conflict. While LimeWire has no intentions of becoming a pay P2P network and abandoning its roots, and the RIAA has no intention of giving free P2P networking an endorsement, it's possible the two might meet somewhere in the middle. Perhaps with a music store, similar in nature to the BEN (BitTorrent Entertainment Network)? On Monday, LimeWire launched its highly anticipated music store. Will you find the latest pop 40 hit? No. Will you find a catalog rivaling iTunes? Not at all. Will it have that funky new song your little sister likes to hear? Hopefully not. But what it will have is 256 kb/sec encoded MP3s, no DRM, and full interoperability with all your electronic gadgets. So if your MP3 player is a Palm Pilot, a Pocket PC, an iPod, or your Asus EEE PC, tracks purchased from LimeWire's store will work just fine. There's a few notable departures to the typical MP3 music store. First, all the music is from independent artists. You won't find Sony's latest act here. Also, the pricing plan is more on par with the mentality of the online world. While there's the 99 cent, pay as you go option, there are other flockt packages as well. If the end user decided to pay a monthly rate of about $20, he or she can then purchase 75 songs for 27 cents a download - much cheaper than what most expect of online music stores. So what is to come of this? Eventually, the music store will be integrated into the LimeWire client. It's not known if LimeWire will expand their lineup to include mainstream acts, however LimeWire has maintained its commitment to providing a free service. It's questionable how this dichotomy will coexist, however many are hoping this P2P mess will be resolved by that time. LimeWire Store Well it has happened. Limewire has gone legit. Basically the same price as iTunes but they do have a monthly play that is not bad...still I wonder if this well be a big as iTunes? Source HERE

Today fools....will try to keep it current of my very eventful life.

My latest bout with Food Poisoning makes me wanna stay away from Pig. Last time I got salmonella was 10 years ago and it was from bad Sausage. This time it was bad Bacon. Swine before pearls brings new meaning to my life. !0 days and 20 lbs later. All I got to say if when you get it you know it. I admit I need to lose weight but not this way. The past days I have worshiped the porcelain God way too much.

I will attempt to entertain you all. And if not well flock you all.

I am lost what are u actually asking? And what are your computer specs you are playing on as well as OS?

Last Resort - Papa Roach

Very Disturbing I found this very disturbing being a parent of 5. What about you?

Great strip and I happen to have the full series of that said strip.

Mine is Zits Here is a preview for those that have not experienced it. You can see it all HERE

With very little characters..lol. But on a serious note this needs to really be fought as all our freedoms are in jeopardy.

Behemoth and Dimmu Borgir are streaming their live concert on April 5th. So all you metalheads this a must see. This is a Nuclear Blast production. Here is the Link Sign Up Now or I will kill ya!

What intoxicated. Me never...hic..hic..bartender pour me a double.

Drink plenty of green beer today all you Irish people out there.

'King of spam' pleads guilty, faces 26 years in prison The notorious spammer authorities dubbed "the king of spam" is facing a possible 26-year jail sentence after pleading guilty in Seattle on Friday to charges of fraud and tax evasion. ADVERTISEMENT Robert Soloway, 28, had already been found guilty of spam charges in several civil cases -- Microsoft won a $7.8 million judgment against him in 2005 -- but had avoided paying fines in those cases. The criminal charges to which he pleaded guilty on Friday followed his arrest in 2007 by the U.S. Justice Department. He was arrested on criminal charges brought by the U.S. Department of Justice in May 2007. In a 2005 discussion group post, Soloway bragged, "I've been sued for hundreds of millions of dollars and have had my business running for over 10 years without ever paying a dime regardless to the outcome of any lawsuits." That year, Soloway raked in more than $300,000 from his spam operations, according to his plea agreement. Soloway has avoided fines in the past, but this time around he may not be so lucky. In addition to the jail time he now faces, he has also agreed to discuss his financial assets while being monitored by a lie detector. While there have been hundreds of spam prosecutions in the United States, it is extremely rare for spammers to face criminal charges, and those involved in the matter say that Soloway's case could serve as a deterrent to other spammers. In an interview last month, Microsoft senior attorney Aaron Kornblum said he thought the prosecution would make other spammers think twice. "There have not been a large number of criminal CAN-SPAM prosecutions in the U.S.," he said. "This is significant." Soloway is set to be sentenced on June 20. The prosecution had been seeking $700,000 in damages when Soloway was first charged nearly a year ago. I think what he did was very wrong but 26 is a lot of time for the crime and does not fit it I think. Hell manslaughter gets less then this. What a crazy mixed up world we live in when spam gets ya more time then killing someone. Full story HERE

Even as Tanya Andersen refilled her malicious prosecution lawsuit last week, the RIAA won a victories in two unrelated lawsuits. One involved a case where the defendant never showed up in court; the other a defendant who admitted to using KaZaA to download and distribute music. James V. Lewis was sued by the labels in August 2007 after an IP address flagged by MediaSentry was traced to his ISP account. Lewis never showed up in court, and the RIAA filed for a default judgment in October. Initially, the judge declined to give the labels what they were looking for, instead scheduling a hearing to discuss the case. After a hearing held last week, the judge gave the RIAA what it was looking for: a default judgment in the amount of $3,000 plus an additional $420 in court costs. Lewis has also been barred from infringing on "any other sound recording, whether now in existence or later created, that is owned or controlled by the Plaintiffs." The other case, Atlantic v. Anderson, involves a Texas resident who was sued in November 2006 for copyright infringement. Abner Anderson decided to fight the lawsuit, submitting a brief answer to the RIAA's complaint in which he did little more than deny the labels' accusations. He also said that any infringement that did take place was due to the negligence on the part of the RIAA. The RIAA moved for summary judgment in the case, arguing that Anderson's making the songs in question available on KaZaA was the same as distributing them, and that the facts of the case were indisputable. Anderson disagreed. In his response to the RIAA's motion, he argued that the problem of illegal downloading was the result of the recording industry's own negligence. "Without an official statement, the distribution of literature from Plaintiffs, or something to inform the public of actions that constitute copyright infringement, the public could not be expected to know that using this software network was improper," argued Anderson. He also noted that he planned to challenge the constitutionality of the statutory damages sought by the RIAA, as other defendants have done. Judge Vanessa D. Gilmore was unconvinced. In her decision, she pointed out that Anderson had admitted to downloading and using KaZaA during discovery. Furthermore, his screen name matched the one flagged by MediaSentry, and he admitted to "actively distributing" music to other KaZaA users. "Defendant concedes that he did place the subject Copyrighted Recordings in his shared folder for distribution to other users while being connected to KaZaA," she wrote in her opinion. Judge Gilmore also touched on the RIAA's argument that making a file available over P2P constitutes infringement. "Numerous courts have assessed whether availing music and/or media for downloaded by other users on a peer-to-peer network constitutes copyright infringement as a matter of law," wrote the judge. "Accordingly... because it has been both proven and admitted to that the Defendant intentionally downloaded and/or distributed those Copyrighted Recordings, no genuine issue of material fact remains as to Plaintiffs' claim for copyright infringement." The RIAA was awarded $23,250, or $750 in statutory damages for each of the 31 songs named in the lawsuit, plus $420 in court costs. Judge Gilmore took issue with Anderson's argument that the damages sought by the RIAA were excessive. "Yet, the true cost of Defendant's harms in distributing Plaintiffs' Copyrighted Recordings for download by other users on KaZaA is incalculable," wrote the judge in her opinion. "That is, there is no way to ascertain the precise amount of damages caused by the Defendant's actions." The Anderson case may prove significant for the RIAA because of the ruling on the statutory damages question; an RIAA spokesperson said that the group would be "citing it often" in other cases. It's important to note, however, that the defendant's failed to raise the "making available = infringement" question in his defense. Indeed, his admission that he knowingly set up and used KaZaA to download and share music on the P2P service may have precluded him from doing so. I am so pissed at this I could scream. Give me a freakin reason why these songs are worth 750 each. Also Lewis has also been barred from infringing on "any other sound recording, whether now in existence or later created, that is owned or controlled by the Plaintiffs." WTF is this all about. I am telling you the government is having way too much power and I say time for a revolution is at hand. Full source HERE

Turn To Black - Gun Barrel

Censors in China blocked access to YouTube and Google News on Sunday, along with other news outlets carrying images and video of protests in Tibet, which turned violent late last week. The communist government frequently tries to control what information its citizens can access, particularly on sensitive topics such as the autonomy of Tibet. But with over 210 million Internet users in China, that job has become vastly more difficult than when the government sought to suppress reports on the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in 1989. Blog posts, pictures and video quickly spread over the weekend highlighting the turmoil in traditionally peaceful Tibet. Protests flared up on Friday when Chinese police and soldiers moved in to quell the demonstrations by Buddhist monks and lay persons, which they claimed were timed to disrupt preparations for the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer. Although Western media outlets including CNN have been prevented from entering the region, images from Tibet's capital Lhasa showed burning cars and buildings, bodies in the streets, and a heavy police and military presence. Users have created montages of the photographs and uploaded them as videos to YouTube. Tibetans have long been calling for independence from China, which took control of the region in the 1950s. Since Han Chinese moved in and took over businesses and government positions, Tibetans claim they are treated as second class citizens and humans rights abuses are frequently reported. The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader who was exiled from the country in 1959 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, is being blamed by the Chinese government for inspiring the protests, although he denied such accusations in a press conference on Sunday. The Dalai Lama blamed China for "intentional or unintentional...cultural genocide" in Tibet. The lack of media access has led to much uncertainty about what is going on in Lhasa and at Buddhist monasteries outside the city where other protests are taking place. Chinese authorities claim police are not using guns and many have been wounded -- an assertion that is disputed by rights group Tibet Watch, which claims women and children have been killed by police trying to stop the riots. China has yet to comment on the YouTube or Google News block, but users have reported the sites' homepages being redirected to a blank page. It's likely the move is a short term effort to stop the spread of information on the Tibet protests, as China has been quite tolerant of YouTube and other video sharing sites thus far. Last month, the Chinese government backtracked on a proposal to prevent all foreign Internet video sites from operating in the country unless they agreed to government ownership. In order to balance business interests with those of the communist government, the country decided to allow all sites currently operating to continue to do so, while new video sites will come under the stricter regulations. Google has faced censorship in China before, agreeing to remove links to information deemed subversive by government regulators. The company has defended its actions by stating that the alternative would be simply not to operate in China at all. Microsoft and Yahoo have expressed similar sentiments about operating in China. With all that is going on with Tibet there it is unfair to keep people out of the loop as to what is happening right under their noses. But then again that what Communism does. Wake up and take back your country people. Source HERE

The Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reports four of the country's major ISP collectives will forcibly cut Internet access to users who are caught using peer-to-peer technology, which they suspect is used mainly for unlicensed file-sharing. The Telecom Service Association and Telecommunications Carriers Association are two of the four groups overseeing more than 1,000 ISPs in Japan. In theory, ISPs would receive the IP addresses of repeat offenders caught downloading and/or uploading copyrighted material. Each ISP would then be responsible for e-mailing the alleged offenders, warning them their Internet service could be cut if they do not stop file sharing. Rough estimates place the number of file sharers in Japan somewhere near 1.75 million, with the majority using Winny. That notorious program was apparently intentionally designed to aid anonymous users in trading in unlicensed files, and in 2004, suspicion to that end landed the program's creator Isamu Kaneko briefly behind bars. Eventually, he and his colleagues were found guilty of copyright infringement, though they were find the equivalent of about $13,500. Japanese officials have previously considered temporarily cutting Internet service for those found to be participating in copyright infringement, though such drastic measures have never yet been taken, due supposedly to possible privacy rights violations. An unnamed Japanese ISP wanted to disconnect several file sharers in 2006, but the Japanese government warned it may violate user privacy if the ISP followed through. The ISP organizations plan to hold a panel next month with the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers, Association of Copyright for Computer Software, and other copyright organizations. The main topic of discussion will be a draft outline on how and when to disconnect Internet users found to be repeat copyright infringers. ISPs have elected to cut Internet service to alleged file sharers in part from growing pressure by industry trade groups representing the movie and record studios. The idea of cutting Internet service to file sharers first started in the United States before spreading to Europe, and now Asia. French President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly considered banning all repeat French file sharers last year, but Sarkozy never pressed the issue. Well looks like it is going to suck to be in Japan if you wanna file share. This is just the beginning you wait and see if they have big success with this others will jump on the bandwagon and fast. Source HERE

This does seem very interesting and I probably will try it out when it goes public. But the question I ask is do we really need another social network place with so many out there already? A 3D world that lets users mingle in nightclubs, beaches and yachts is currently in private beta with an expected launch date of two weeks. Created by Stable Media and the Wyndstorm Corporation, RipLounge is a free 3D world aimed at users between the ages of 25 and 40, while letting users communicate via chat, web phone and video. The two companies behind RipLounge are in the advertising business, where 25-54 is the most desired demographic. RipLounge promises to be a 3D virtual world that users only need to create an account for and enter, rather than having to spend hours learning their way around, or crafting other alternate persona for themselves. Users will be able to interact with one another in a number of different online settings built in RipLounge, while also listening to music created by independent artists. Readers interested in joining RipLounge can go to the Web site and enter an e-mail address to join the "VIP List." For now, it appears getting in on the VIP list doesn't appear to have any immediate benefits - it's possible users on the VIP list will receive entry to the 3D world a day or two earlier than the public. RipLounge will be open to the public on April 1 and will make its first debut in San Francisco in mid-April. Advertising will play a role, much of it apparently being displayed from virtual overhead monitors adorning the bar and gaming areas. RipLounge Source HERE

Very humorous Metal Pup

Man I feel for ya and know who you feel. Having lost and sister and daughter way too young in their prime. Try to talk to your Dad everyday as much as possible. Even if it is just to say how are you Dad or I love you. He will eventually come around. But the question I have for you is How Are You Doing In This? you yourself need to talk to someone about this and how you feel. Holding feeling inside can destroy you. I know from experience. Just find some family or friends that will listen to your pain that you are going through and let it out. Talking about it and expressing your feeling can relive must stress that you have to be going through right now. And time does heal all pain. As time goes by it will get easier and easier to deal with. You never forget but you learn to live with it. Hang in there.

I bring my over 10 years in the emulation scene as well as over 20 years of computer and internet experience. I also bring my experience in music producing and playing, as well as my love for music. I also bring my old drunken ass as well.

The Mist in Blue-Ray As I already seen this movie at the theater and being a big Steven King fan and reading all his books this movie was a treat in HD. For all those with HD you have to see this in that format.

Night Prowler - AC/DC

I have did this on a few boards that I have been a member for a long time. What is your first name? Mine is Steve and if you like you can call me that on my IM or in the IRC Room. So post yours if you are not afraid your identity will be stolen or worse cyber stalked.....