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Its a little late. Its been on the web for over a week. It is a mild form of terrorism! Don’t let it get out of hand and let it escalate to bombs and guns and such though. I rather just ignore the law rather than go out with flamebottles, guns and bombs. I haven’t called these yet. They may have changed their phone numbers and sued somebody already. Probably don’t care too. I’m happy with my Emule. It still works good. Havn’t rebooted or restarted Emule in over a month (IP Blocker update don’t require any restarts)! I wonder who in the Recording Industry Association of America leaked this. He probably got fired and is getting sued too with possible crinimal charges. Praise to the leaker though! He just gave it away on the internet like a makeshift rougue TV-station! Didn’t need to make a buck off of it.

Here’s how to get through to the RIAA: call (202) 857-9600, this will put you at the root of their voicemail system. Then enter the last four digits of the person’s number to get to their REAL voicemail. Leave your message there

Brad Buckles        RIAA    USA       (202) 857-9607
(head of the RIAA Anti-Piracy Unit, and former head of the ATF)
Mitch Bainwol       RIAA    USA       (202) 857-9651
Cary Sherman        RIAA    USA       (202) 857-9632
Mitch Glazier       RIAA    USA       (202) 857-9673
Neil Turkowitz      RIAA    USA       (202) 857-9647
Steve Redmond       BPI     UK        +44 (0)20 7803 1324
Peter Jamieson      BPI     UK        +44 (0) 20 7803 1311
Matt Phillips       BPI     UK        +44 (0) 77 3951 4963
Michael Haentjes    IFPI    Germany   +49 (30) 59 00 38-0
Peter Zombik        IFPI    Germany   +49 (30) 59 00 38-0
Jean never Foitzik  IFPI    Germany   +49 (30) 59 00 38-23
Herve Rony          SNEP    France    +33 (1) 44 13 66 66
Graham Henderson    CRIA    Canada    1 (416) 967-7272 ext. 102

They can take their oligopolic / monopolic dreams of power and money and go to hell along with their DRM.

Recent

Warez / Moviez Groupz

Star Wars DVDscr leak

FECA busts (CAMs not P2P)

Passion of the Christs DVDscr leak

FECA (Family Entertainment and Copyright Act) Passage

I added my Return of the sith workprint-DVDs a little over 4 months before it came to theaters. I procrastinated in starting them because I had priority to other DVDs – mostly BBC documentary DVDs and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos DVDs. I started downloading them about two weeks prior and they finished about 2 weeks after theatrical release. I am very spoiled to DVD screeners and I think I only EVER downloaded 1 CAM – X-Men 3.? I don’t expect to be CAMing any theaters myself because I generally won’t keep CAMs in my hoard because of their shitty quality.? So I largely slip through the cracks of one of the main purproses of this law.? Expect more laws and worse laws though.? Anything thats not through a shopping-mall pay-for-everything, be dictacted on every action, and be watched over everything business model will eventually be illegal.

Look! RIAA lawsuit insurance! Odds are computed worldwide. The insurance is only being offered to sweedes in Sweden i think, and you probably also have to be sued through a Swedish court. I think Sweden is a small minority country for RIAA lawsuit targets. They may be requiring a trial conviction as well and won’t pay out for a settlement. Its more profitable than the articles make it look if these things are true. I doubt any payouts will ever be made. I can’t read Swedish though so I can’t be sure on what their terms are. Insurance is a complicated thing and its generally screw or be screwed kind of thing (especially doctors vs medical insurance middlemen).

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Laws like this are unenforceable to its intention without iron-hand rule / surveillance and martial law. Most violators are non-collaborative individuals and will require extensive Goverment-ISP surveillance and house-to-house warrant-less searches and maybe even on-the-spot beatings or executions.

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I like the Pirate Bay’s legal threats page. It is funny. The Pirate Bay might have wiggled from the cops but now they are a big visible target now for a variety of motivations. Humans are just so evil.

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Case of wrong department syndrome. MPAA is working with backwater departments of the bureaucracy. Goerge Bush would know nothing about it. I still think threats were issued though they were worded subtlety and that its all orchestrated by the MPAA/RIAA and that George bush is in passive support of it all.

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I think this article is a good prediction of the world if the governments and corporation fail to defeat P2P filesharing through iron-hand rule. It gives insight on how businesses can compete with P2P filesharing as if it were an actual business competitor. The paragraph starting with ‘P2P networks have weaknesses too which are permanent’ largely applies to Kazaa and to a lesser extent, gnutella though. The bandwidth-hogging part is true for non-geeky users, but Emule can be taught to not hog the connection. The article is really good. I suggest reading it and even keeping a copy in case it goes down and becomes unavailable.

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Companies in America and Europe and maybe China too could care less. If it isn’t through the marketing (company) or Public Relations (government) department, its piracy if its copied. It don’t matter if its educational, going to the poor or whatever.

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RIAA/MPAA PIs and lawyers do make up most of the enforcement these days, even in China. Imagine when big government really gets involved. Massive non-compliance social unrest and example-making abound.

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Not surprising. Until I was about 23 about I though America was the only country of significance in the world. It is not at all surprising that American companies push American law to the rest of the world. Problem is that American cultural influence, more from the large corporations, is influencing other countries to be more like America, including in it’s laws.

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Havn’t seen the commercial in the first commercial. The commercials are so ironic though. Apple is not ‘freedom’. It is proprietary and DRM-slavery. They make the drones and the barcode-heads. Kazaa lawsuit victim conned into a commercial for pro-DRM service. I don’t think Pepsi know she was a RIAA lawsuit victim. I know the commercial because I downloaded the commercial from Emule and then deleted it because it sucked. I kept the 1984 mac commercial though maybe it’s ‘freedom’ is out of the text-based DOS interface and not open standards and no-DRM.

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I better get my homebrew DVR before this stupid law passes. Otherwise it will cost triple or more in the black market. Kudos for those who release their recordings onto Emule, Broadcast-flag free forever.

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It was 100% of my portable MP3 player’s content. I had it for a year. It got stolen though. Havn’t replaced it yet. I will never buy an IPod. If I get one free I will give it away or just use it for storage, if it is usable as a mass-storage device without iTunes software.

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Looks like people are copyrighting and patenting India’s traditional yoga moves or just programs/conglomerates of them or derivatives, to gain monopolistic power or just to get free money in lawsuits or both. Certainly looks like products of the RIAA’s education, role-modeling and example-making.

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I would stop accepting ALL windows updates at least at home. The ‘kill switch’ will probably be embedded in one of the ’security patches’. Go ahead and use your job as a guinea pig though. Who cares if your work machine gets locked out as long as you got your work backed up elsewhere beyond company control.

If you already installed WGA RemoveWGA should be able to get rid of it. It may be possible that the kill switch may only be in Windows Vista, or it will be in a ‘update’ to Windows Genuine DisAdvantage. Half of Windows Genuine Advantage seems to be actually an transitionary upgrade to the serial number validation system. It probably won’t even be necessary in Vista as it will be built-in to the install-time serial number validation system – at least the part that make sure that your VLK serial number that you put in belongs to the company distribution cluster that your particular windows belongs to (if its a VLK edition at all) or that your are not using a Dell OEM serial on a Toshiba OEM windows or any VLK or OEM key on a retail version. The other part of Windows Genuine Advantage probably is checking the Microsoft database every week against a piracy blacklist database on Microsoft’s server and that will probably be put into a no-name code module in Vista. So WGA isn’t going to be ‘dumped’.

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These MPAA / RIAA corporations are EVIL. They try to be legal and ask for permission for something totally non-profit and difficult to reproduce (well somebody could take a picture and put it up on WebShots). Takes a press frenzy for them to reverse their ‘NO’ answer. I say don’t bother asking. They will only say ‘NO’. If you want it enough and its copying related (somebody not actually losing a physical item) and its non-profit just do it anyway.

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Google’s good image is marred by its own video service (but its better than YouTube). Stream only but it gives the author the option to allow downloads, but downloads are in a proprietary-wrapper that makes the video work only in Google’s player software. Looks like ‘open format’ and ‘free’ was just a single-generation fad of the 80s and early 90s (when the PC and most of the current internet implementations were researched). It makes me neutral on google having its own internet because I no longer think that google for sure to create capitalistic incentive for net neutrality. I do prefer a stubborn big corporation that is not as evil as the rest of them to establish net netrality via capitalistic competition over laws, regulation and heavy foot of goverment though. If all rather than just some of the people in power are too evil then its bye bye internet and hello services like late 80s-Early 90s Compuserver and the current ‘Get It Now’ services – propreitarized, shopping mall business models with lots and lots of DRM.

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Looks like the monopolistic corporations are getting their way with French law

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China sucks. I know they do sieze land and forcibly move people. Thats the kind of media that the law targets. But i assume you could be busted for reporting on car accidents or natural disasters too. I guess you’re stuck with the human to human gossip file sharing network. Maybe DVDs could be slipped around. Hot vid of chinese cop punching a reporter in the stomach until he bleeds through is mouth. Thats the kind of enforcement that happens in China because of goverment secrecy.

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If these download sites had DRM, then I would never miss them.

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Not surprising. Propaganda often must use old or inaccurate information. Often it is further twisted. Sometimes it is an outright lie. The outright lies are often believed more also.

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Put it onto emule if you’re proud enough of it. Might already be there. I’ll search. I think the script should’ve only been used as an idea base. That doesn’t mean that they won’t sue anyway though. They want monopoly on the ideas too. The law is only a tool and corporations who can afford the lawyers have the upper hand in using it.

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Warez Groups are largely non-profit. Bootlegger groups are more crinimal. Got people like me too – individual users. I’m pretty sure al-queada and many other anti-american goverments and organizations uses Emule and BitTorrent for espionage and propaganda material. Wheather its leaks, analytical mining off of copyrighted works and homebrew material. The battlefield2 video presented in congress as terrorist training material was portrayed as delibrately made as such by terrorists for terrorists, but it turns out to be made by some non-terrorist kid and possibly pirated (more legally than not but enough lawyers and its not) by terrorists to use for training or more likely, propaganda. But it might not have been used by terrorists at all. But all that would be classified so you’ll never know how much evidence the US goverment has or doesn’t have.

Meritline.com – Blue-Ray Burners and Discs

Blu-Ray burners for a grand! Single-layer discs running on a unit price of $20-25 per piece. I might be getting one in a year or two when the drive is $250 or less and the media is $2 or less.

I think PCs and PlayStations will adopt blue-ray while hollywood will end up on HD-DVD. I can see an anti-piracy motive on this. Casual pirates won’t be willing to pay the premium price dual-drives or hybrid drives (unless the hybrids become cheap). Only geeks and serious movie watchers would do such a thing. Cuts the ripping population down to a quarter (post-crack-mainstreaming). HDDVD for the TV and BluRay for the PC would be mainstream until the hybrid drives get cheap enough.. Don’t expect me to buy that many HDTV movies if they do this though. Only LOTR, Harry Potter and Star Wars. Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD for me? I would choose BlueRay. Just need a little more patience for the prices to drop.

Here are some links to articles on HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray. It appears that Toshiba is selling its HD-DVD player at a loss, banking on its royalties and license fees from clones and maybe the discs too. If the discs have to pay royalties, that may not be good for HD-DVD, unless its the same for blu-ray also (which I would hate). It is not unusual to undercut a product like that. Many game consoles are sold under-cost to bank on game royalties.

Now why do you think so many hollywood movies are pirated in China and the mob counterfeiters so successful? I prefer Emule but you generally need to use black-market proxies and routers to get out of the country without hinderance (shaping, throttling, censorship) though.

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My Blog and a number of my comment postings on other sites come up on MSN Search China. It also comes up on Google China. It got censored from Yahoo China and Baidu. It appears that Baidu and Yahoo have banned the keyword ‘GreatInca’ also, both returning only one result, a metasearch page Emule Chinese Movies Download for baidu and a Posting on Emule’s Forums for Yahoo. So I guess China does hate me. Oh well, like I give a damn. Democracy communism sucks commy party sucks down with communist tyrants rebellion uprising massacre matyre. Now that more stuff to censor. Whats wierd is that some searches on Baidu will only bring up ED2K hashlink sites with links to pirated copyrighted movies and music with the rest of the results being censored!!

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(Updated 6/22/2003) Both Sweeden and Russia are being threatened (China is both a hopeless case and too powerful). The Slyck Link has a Link to a US goverment to sweedish goverment communication that was leaked from an embasy in Sweden to a sweedish newsaper. I say ignore the threats!! Refuse! Resist! The USA imports so much shit that they need the trade more than the theatened country does. Let the USA put up sanctions. World economic depression with the USA getting screwed the most. Emule (piracy) can only compensate and bypass sanctions for digital goods but it will do a good damned job at it though. Works quite well in China. If its digital and trade barriers or internal restrictions cause unfufilled demand, Emule happily fills the void! Probably, eventually, the USA will being going to WAR over piracy instead of WMD-paranoia or Oil! With the RIAA, MPAA and other, like-cultured, large corporations at the helm via a puppet interface!

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PIs (Private investigators) are used everywhere. My company may be using one on me for all I know. My sister hired one to stalk evidence for a lawsuit on a babysitter who caused my nephew to get 2nd degree burns from a scalding hot bathtub faucet because she was watching too many kids at a time. The babysitter babysitted in-house for someone dragging 5-6 other kids into that house that she was supposed to watch in her own house. The babysitter’s employer’s homeowners insurance ended up the victim as the babysitter had nothing to take. Most of the spy cams that you would find would belong to a PI and not the FBI as they usually use remote survance or cameras under 1/8″, usually slinkies and have active monitoring within 1/4 mile while a PI is a pickup a tape every day or two kind of deal.

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Doesn’t surprise me. Sometimes hacking and spying is the only way to get evidence that holds weight in a respectable courtroom (Chinese and many middle eastern courts don’t hold respectable trials).

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(Edited 6/29/2006) The USA Constitution is too outdated to grant freedom of electronic distribution. The Bible is too obsolete to give any wisdom of intellectual property and is only covered by the equivilant of generic heuristic used by anti-virus programs (when definitions are outdated or the virus is just too new) of ‘love god’ and ‘love thy neighbor’. Though this catch-all heuristic is much more effective than the predictive heuristic algorithms used in the antivirus programs. I can’t wait until gentic piracy becomes an issue if it not already is (breeding)!!

I have a pro-piracy example in the Bible! It is not precisely like digital copying though. It is more like chopping up an MP3 or AVI into 1000 little pices and picking 500 random pieces of it and merging it with your own 500 out of 1000 little pieces of a similar and compatible MP3 or AVI. Look at Genesis 30 Verse 25 to 43 (Link is to Genesis Chapter 30 on the NLT on BibleGateway.com). It is an example of breeding piracy. Verses 37 to 43 has the methodology and Verse 25 to 37 provides contextual coherence. Jacob ’stole’ a copy of the genetic material from Laban’s flock (’stole’ because no permission to inter-breed was obtained from Laban and common meeting/watering grounds was exploited) by using sexual lures to encourage inter-breeding (biological copying the old-fashioned way) while being selective at which animals mate (by removing the herbal aromic sexual lures). It describes it as an achievment and blessing, not a crime, probably more becuase there was no concept of ‘intellectual property’ in early old-testament times. If you did that in real-life though, you’d probably get sued, with conviction being dependent on how well the laws are developed in determining how or in what way genes can by copyrighted.

Boy just wait until you can start sharing cloning schematics on the filesharing networks (or just sharing blu-rays with your friend!)!! Digital-Genetic-Warez!! One problem is that cloning and digitized genome maps leave the scope of the context of the bible block. It only describes inter-breeding between livestock herds without permission of the other herd’s owner and it does not precisely overlap with exact and lossless digital copying. The gentic code itself is ‘digital’ though – it can be replicated without error, but the god-created natural process encourages minor errors and systems that are robust against these minor errors and then splices two copies (parents) half-and-half with 99 to 99.99% similar genomes to produce diversity in the 3rd copy (baby).

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Its only going to get worse. P2P Hashlinks or simple weblinks to copyrighted material will probably be explicitly banned through most of the developed world within the decade.

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Looks like their example-making is backfiring too much. They are probably trying to reduce the publicity and therefore intensity of their example-making incase the equation may be quadratic (Such as Example=BadWill^2) or worse.

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Don’t pick on the USA too much. Area-51 is over-publiced and the US goverment probably aready has reduced it to a ‘public decoy’ with only modest top-secret testing going on (probably foreign aircraft) — No more Auroras and other hypersonic aircraft and such. Go pick on Europe, Russia, and especially China too. Even India could have underground UFO salvage going on.

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Though I??m not currently sharing these, I did downloaded all 24 of the Eric Cantona / Joga Bonito / JogaTV World Cup 2006 Nike commercials for 12 regions / languages direct from Nike so I can provide deluxe quality Emule P2P file-sharing ED2K links with full hashsets and AICH hashes and descriptive filenames, plus an inital web-source seed to Nike’s site in case the commercial/language doesn’t have any presense on the network yet. Most Western European languages have a HEAVY presence some over 100 sources. Its the Eastern Europe and Asian languages that may not.

This massive list of links was made possible by a good naming scheme! Except for the asian languages, all you have to do is change the two-letter language code in the filename, such as ‘_la_’ and ‘_us_’ and ‘_br_’! The Asian languages, excluding thailand (which is chaos and have english subtitles or no subitles at all), also follow the convention except for having a different domain name and base directory path, but is consistent within the language block. The good naming convention is very good for Nike’s viral marketing compaign (I havn’t seen any of these on TV but there are some limited sat-rips or DSRs on Emule) because of autistic-obsessed hoarder-sharers like me!

The Languages / Regions are United States English, Latin America Spanish, French, German, Czech, Polish, Russian, Italian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. All except Italian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese have all 24 commercials. The United states has 4 additional US-National Team sepcific commercials that lack a JogaTV context. Hong Kong had its japanese-subtitled commericals removed (Same MD4/MD5 as Japanese version) and Korea had its english-subtitled commericals removed (Same MD4/MD5 as United States version). The only inter-regional dupes I allowed were the ‘Brazillian Ping-Pong’ spots which have no subtitles at all and just barely a few words of spoken language.

Except for the Italian, all the languages pertain only to the subtitles. Only the italian commercials are ??overdubbed??. The rest are the original english commercial with the subtitles in that language. If you live in the united states I’d recommend downloading the Latin American / Spanish commercials as it makes little sense to have English subtitles on English Dialague if you are fluent in English. I would guess French would be best for UK downloaders. All of the linked videos are in windows media video (windows media player) format. The videos are between 4-25 megabytes each.

Spanish (Latin America)

English (American)

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Here are direct links to download the commercials should your only broadband or semi-broadband internet connection be at a very P2P file-sharing restricted workplace environment. These Link to Nike’s site so use them only if you must. I think it would be more contributive to Nike’s marketing if you download them from Emule even if you ‘leech’ them as Emule’s mandatory incomplete / incoming (recently completed) folder sharing will help spread the files virally. Plus you can permashare (or just procrastinate in removing from ‘incoming’) the commercials too. I actually think Nike sucked since about 2003 for MLS (plus I think Adidas is ahead technologically now), but their commercials are still cool.

This massive list of links was made possible by a good naming scheme! Except for the asian language schems, all you have to do is change the two-letter language code in the filename, such as ‘la’ and ‘us’ and ‘br’! The Asian ones, excluding thailand, which is chaos, also follows the convention except for having a different domain name and base directory path, but is consistent within the language block. The good naming convention is very good for Nike’s viral marketing compaign (I havn’t seen any of these on TV but there are some limited sat-rips or DSRs on Emule) because of autistic-obsessed hoarder-sharers like me!

The Languages / Regions are United States English, Latin America Spanish, French, German, Czech, Polish, Russian, Italian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. All except Italian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese have all 24 commercials. The United states has 4 additional US-National Team sepcific commercials that lack a JogaTV context. Hong Kong had its japanese-subtitled commericals removed (Same MD4/MD5 as Japanese version) and Korea had its english-subtitled commericals removed (Same MD4/MD5 as United States version). The only inter-regional dupes I allowed were the ‘Brazillian Ping-Pong’ spots which have no subtitles at all and just barely a few words of spoken language.

Except for the Italian, all the languages pertain only to the subtitles. Only the italian commercials are ??overdubbed??. The rest are the original english commercial with the subtitles in that language. If you live in the united states I’d recommend downloading the Latin American / Spanish commercials as it makes little sense to have English subtitles on English Dialague if you are fluent in English. I would guess French would be best for UK downloaders. All of the linked videos are in windows media video (windows media player) format. If you want the quicktime format instead, simply alter the urls (in GetRight or save the page and edit in textpad) and find and replace ‘.wmv’ with ‘.mov’ and they will be working valid links (such as from ‘nike_divers/nike_divers_la_high.wmv’ to ‘nike_divers/nike_divers_la_high.mov’). The videos are between 4-25 megabytes each.

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Hey, me downloading some of the fanmade music videos actually made me buy 2 CDs! Stupid-ass tyrants. Just boycott them, regardless of piracy availability.

Here’s some examples (with ED2K links):

Kids Jamming to System of a down (Matches Articles):

I made these, school project too (ripped from VHS):

Some other fan-made music videos (some are foreign):

Final Fantasy fan-made anime music videos (AMV):

The RIAA says these are all illegal (they are illegal or will be illegal within 5-10 years) and will put you in a random drawing for a lawsuit if your kid puts such one or more of these videos up on the internet. This only applies if it has video or music that is owned by a corporate-tyrant member of the RIAA or MPAA, not homebrew and most foreign-made (non-USA) video and music (but may nail you for deriviation though). But guess what! If you put them up anyway, you are less likely to be sued if you put them up on Emule (with an up-date IP-Blocker and some good server-list wisdom) as opposed to putting them up onto google movies or YouTube!

Also, I hate YouTube – Google is easier to rip the videos themselves especially with Media Player Classic and the K-Lite codec pack playing many *.flvs now (.flv is a container, there are main codecs that could be put into there). Emule is better than both Google and YouTube for people like me who like to hoard & share, but the stream-only (preferentially) Google and YouTube are wooing away more of the legal files because of ease of use and the community feel. Google Videos seems to let the poster to allow a download but the download is only usable with Google’s proprietary video player. Rip instead (works on them all, not just the downloadables).

The dominant theme of this batch of downloads are BBC documentaries ‘Walking with Monsters’, ‘Walking with Beasts’, ‘Walking with Cavemen’, ‘Walking with Sea Monsters’, and ‘Amazing Earth’. Plus some D20 Modern RPG stuff and some leftover sepultura and soulfly bootlegs.

Here’s the country breakdown of my Emule’s known clients (Max of Late-Night of 6/19/2006, Morning of 6/20/2006, or Evening of 6/20/2006):

 Argentina           8
Australia           13
Austria             2
Bahamas             1
Belgium             6
Bolivia             1
Brazil              30
Canada              25
Chile               3
China               53
Columbia            3
Croatia             2
Czech Republic      2
Denmark             3
Dominican Republic  2
Estonia             2
Finland             3
France              45
Germany             20
Greece              8
Hong Kong           2
Hungary             2
Indonesia           1
Ireland             1
Islamic Repub Iran  3
Isreal              14
Italy               32
Japan               1
Kuwait              2
Latvia              1
Lithuania           1
Malaysia            2
Mexico              4
Netherlands         7
New Zealand         2
Not Applicable      8
Peru                1
Poland              21
Qatar               1
Portugal            11
Republic of Korea   11
Romania             1
Russian Federation  3
Serbia Montenegro   2
Singapore           2
Slovakia            1
Slovenia            10
Spain               70
Sweden              4
Switzerland         6
Taiwan              16
Thailand            1
Turkey              9
Uganda              1
Ukraine             2
United Arab Emirate 2
United Kingdom      21
United States       41
Venezuela           1

Here’s whats in my incoming folder (I actually moved them out to my unshared ‘assimilation’ so I can give preference to my permashares, and they are filtered for stuf I just don’t like, dupes, fakes (mostly porn), crap quality, about in that order):

These rare and hatelists are by far small minority or outright rare on Emule but I watch out for them. I gathered these over the course of about a week and a half

America’s Hate List:

Afghanistan -

(Didn’t see any)

Bosnia -

(Didn’t see any)

Cuba -

[FunnyNick] Super Girl:
Us.Army.Survival.Field.Manual.[1992].pdf

Iran -

7TTTTTTT:
Area 51 Groom Lake AFB Pictures 156 Pics – 1959-2005 Aerial & Satellite 5-15 MP – Maps Diagrams Panorama Photos – Top Secret Black Project UFO.rar

[FunnyNick] Beautiful Cow:
Zombeck, Martin – Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics.pdf

[FunnyNick] Black Elephant:
Schaums Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables.pdf

httpemule-project.net:
Schaums Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables.pdf

Green Samurai:
Modern Physics For Engineers (all formulas in 22 pages!).pdf

[FunnyNick] Unholy Bird:
Dictionary of Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy.pdf

[FunnyNick] Harsh Frog:
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS.pdf

[FunnyNick] Crazy Elephant:
Penton Media VIP Super Master CD – SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator – Volume 11 September 1995 to December 2005.chm

barbabapaavazmishe:
eBook – US Army Field Manual – Mixed Gas Diving.zip (Current DL, Only Source)
[ebook - eng - ARMY] US FM 03 19 04 – Military police leaders handbook – 2002 – manual safety help field military defense guid.pdf (A4AF, Many Sources)
[eBook - US Army - PDF] Field Manual 21-76 – Survival Manual.rar (A4AF, Moderate Sources)
US Military Field Manual – The Army.zip (A4AF, Many Sources)
[eBook - US Army - PDF] Field Manual 21-75 – Combat Skill Of The Soldier.rar (A4AF, Few Sources)

[FunnyNick] Harsh Pony:
Religion Holy Christian Church ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? – Audio Bible – New Living Translation NLT – Old Testament – Dramatized – Mp3.rar

Iraq -

(Didn’t see any)

Palestinian Territory, Occupied -

(Didn’t see any)

Pakistan -

(Didn’t see any)

Syria -

(Didn’t see any)

More Middle Eastern Countries:

Jordan -

DeMoN-ID:
Joe Eigo – Oct 11 03.mpg

Kuwait -

[FunnyNick] Kentucky Fried Worm:
Penton Media VIP Super Master CD – SQL Server Magazine Windows IT Pro Security Exchange Administrator – Volume 11 September 1995 to December 2005.chm

khad96:
BBC Documentary – Walking With Monsters – Extras – 2005 DVDRip.avi
BBC Documentary – Walking With Monsters – Part 1 of 3 – 2005 DVDRip.avi
BBC Documentary – Walking With Monsters – Part 2 of 3 – 2005 DVDRip.avi
BBC Documentary – Walking With Monsters – Part 3 of 3 – 2005 DVDRip.avi

Qatar -

al_kuwari_omar:
BBC Documentary – Walking With Sea Monsters – Part 1 of 3 – DVDrip.avi
BBC Documentary – Walking With Sea Monsters – Part 2 of 3 – DVDrip.avi
BBC Documentary – Walking With Sea Monsters – Part 3 of 3 – DVDrip.avi
BBC Documentary – Walking With Cavemen – Part 1 of 4 – DivX5 AC3.avi
BBC Documentary – Walking With Cavemen – Part 2 of 4.avi
BBC Documentary – Walking With Cavemen – Part 3 of 4.avi
BBC Documentary – Walking With Cavemen – Part 4 of 4 – DivX5-AC3.avi

Oman -

SilverDesertRain (shareaza.com):
BBC Documentary – Walking With Beasts – Part 2 of 6 – Whale Killer DivX5-AC3.avi

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[FunnyNick] Fat Men:
BBC Horizon – 09-02-2006 – Most of our universe is missing (Dark matter).avi

dida:
ROMS – Favorite – GBA Game Boy Advance – 24 ROMs – Final Fantasy Tactics 1-2+4 Golden Sun 1+2 Fire Emblem 1+2 Pokemon Dragon Quest 16 Others.rar

user (shareaza.com):
Zombeck, Martin – Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics.pdf

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akbarkhab:
BBC Horizon – 09-02-2006 – Most of our universe is missing (Dark matter).avi

Click on the more link for the ‘Extra Rare Countries Just for Fun’ and ‘Some More Rare Countries (No ED2K Links)’ sections

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A Reverse DNS query for ‘83.140.176.146′ reveals ‘hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepiratebay.org’. Rebel Rebel Rebel. Funny. Nah Nah Na Na!! See for yourself – put ‘nslookup 83.140.176.146′ into a dos box / console window.

China hasn’t blocked my site yet Search ‘greatinca china tyranny communism’ or ‘china tyranny communist bio nuke’ (more scrolling on 2nd search or ctl-f for greatinca) on Google.cn Make sure its google.cn, not google.com as that is blocked in China. China probably eventually will eventually censor my site, but for now it slips through the cracks, so you chinese rebels, come to my ‘goverment/corporate paranoia’ category and enjoy!.

DRM sucks. ITunes sucks. They can take their DRM and shove it up their ass. Buy the CD and Rip or just get it from Emule, or a combination (don’t know how to rip or delaying purchase or ‘evaluating’).

My computer plays HDTV that I get from Emule. 1080p HDTV since 2003 (1920×1080 on 1920×1200 screen). I don’t need to buy real HDTV and it’s DRM. Emule has more HDTV content than you can subscribe to. Download a 4GB HDTV movie without thousands of dollars of dedicated hardware.

She’ll probably lose. No point in fighting their lawyers. Just stop buy their crap regardless of piracy availability. Then they go bankrupt and a new, more free hollywood shall arise.

USAToday – RIAA chief says illegal song-sharing ‘contained’Yeah right. They pick the flawed research that best fits their propaganda. They cannot accurately measure album-archive downloads and single-mp3 downloads are declining becuase that is the focus of the monitoring plus signle-mp3s don’t exploit Emule and BitTorrent’s part-swarming.

Most of this kind of plagarism I think is copyright legal as they have implicit or explicit author-consent (frend2friend trading or downloading from plagarism site). Its bad for learning though. The kind of plagarism that violates copyright is ripping from websites without citing the source which I know kids do freely too. But the ‘legal’ plagarism is more harmful to learning though as that kind of plagarism is meant to cheat (more laziness than greed for grades). But Some papers are so over-cited that the citations make it much more difficult to read. You know what’s wierd? A human generation is being named after a corporate brand-name (Google)! Thats a big brand…

Good story. Thats why I joined the Pirate Party despite preferring copyleft over public domain after a very limited commercial term. But I think the laws are only going to get worse, not better, so its best to just ignore them.

Edit 7/28/2006: Bulleted the Links; 7/11/2006: Fixed the in-line Google.cn link

I was going onto streaming guide sites and looking for proxies to get to BBC’s broadcasts and all that. NO NEED! WASTE OF TIME (unless you insist on live)! Its all on the E-mule Filesharing network (ED2K / KADemlia or KAD)! I’m pretty sure they are on BitTorrent (Azureus) also, but I am an Emule user so I don’t have any torrents, just Edonkey2000 links. Peer to Peer file sharing is sooooo great!!!

There appears to be two releaser groups. The ones with the ‘OTG’ releaser tag get them out quicker, but the ones with the ‘dimension’ tag spread better, suggesting that the ‘OTG’ ones probably have Chinese commentary (going by the ‘CHN’ in the filename). There is a few games with ‘KOR’ in the filename and some of those have korean charactersl, so I started linking to them also and a few others if they had something.

I learned how to preserve the chinese characters in TextPad. Change the font to ‘Arial Unicode MS’ (Only included in WinXP i think), script Chinese_GB2312 via the individual document properties (right click in document selector). Then Save the file in unicode encoding (via Save As). THEN, lastly, paste in the ED2K Links.

If you don’t have Emule yet, you get it here (I use MorphXT):

There are about 5-15 sources on each of these, so you will need be patient and it will be very helpful for you to at least procrastinate in removing the world cup (copa mundial) match movie from your incoming / completed files folder, but it would be even more appreciated to put it into a permashare or even better yet, power-share it!

Come, open Emule, copy -n- paste to your emule transfers screen, drag -n- drop to your E-Mule transfers screen, or just click on the links!

Group A

6/9/2006: Germany vs Costa Rica

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6/15/2006: Ecuador vs Costa Rica

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6/20/2006: Costa Rica vs Poland

Group B

6/10/2006: England vs Paraguay

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6/10/2006: Trinidad and Tobago vs Sweden

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6/15/2006: England vs Trinidad and Tobago

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6/15/2006: Sweden vs Paraguay

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6/15/2006: Paraguay vs Trinidad & Tobago

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6/15/2006: Sweden vs England

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Group C

6/10/2006: Argentina vs Ivory Coast

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6/11/2006: Serbia Montenegro vs Netherlands

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6/16/2006: Argentina vs Serbia Montenegro

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6/16/2006: Holland vs Ivory Coast
[2006?¹?????].World.Cup.2006.Group.C.Netherlands.vs.Ivory.Coast.CHN.DSR.XViD-OTG.cd1.avi
[2006?¹?????].World.Cup.2006.Group.C.Netherlands.vs.Ivory.Coast.CHN.DSR.XViD-OTG.cd2.avi
6/21/2006: Holland vs Argentina
world.cup.2006.group.c.netherlands.vs.argentina.hr.hdtv.ac3.5.1.xvid.cd1-dimension.((aT)).avi
world.cup.2006.group.c.netherlands.vs.argentina.hr.hdtv.ac3.5.1.xvid.cd2-dimension.((aT)).avi
world.cup.2006.group.c.netherlands.vs.argentina.hr.hdtv.ac3.5.1.xvid.cd3-dimension.((aT)).avi -or- [2006?¹?????].World.Cup.2006.Group.C.Argentina.vs.Netherlands.CHN.DSR.XviD-OTG.cd2.avi
[2006?¹?????].World.Cup.2006.Group.C.Argentina.vs.Netherlands.CHN.DSR.XviD-OTG.cd1.avi

6/21/2006: Ivory Coast vs Serbia Montenegro
[C??.????vs????].world.cup.2006.group.c.serbia.montenegro.vs.netherlands.hr.hdtv.ac3.5.1.xvid.cd1-dimension.avi
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Group D

6/11/2006: Iran vs Mexico

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6/11/2006: Angola vs Portugal

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6/16/2006: Mexco vs Angola

6/17/2006: Portugal vs Iran

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6/21/2006: Iran vs Angola

Group E

6/12/2006: United States vs Czech Republic

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6/12/2006: Italy vs Ghana

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6/17/2006: Italy vs USA

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6/17/2006: Czech Republic vs Ghana

6/22/2006: Czech Republic vs Italy
2006.Germany.Worldcup.Group.E.Czech.Republic.vs.Italy.KOR.HD.Xvid.AC3.CD2-PowERD.avi (CD1 is missing, porobably a Shareaza or MLDonkey BitTorrent cross-share)

6/22/2006: Ghana vs United States
No Results! Share yours! A Tivo ‘Record to VCR’ to PC rip is better than nothing! Digital-Signal-Rips (DSR; much more preferred) or Direct-to-PC TV-Rips Preferred though

Group F

Brazil vs Croatia

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6/18/2006: Japan vs Croatia

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6/18/2006: Brazil vs Australia

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6/22/2006: Japan vs Brazil
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6/22/2006: Croatia vs Australia

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Group G

6/11/2006: South Korea vs Togo

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6/13/2006: France vs Switzerland

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6/18/2006: France vs South Korea

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6/23/2006: Togo vs Switzerland
No Results! Share yours! A Tivo ‘Record to VCR’ to PC rip is better than nothing! Digital-Signal-Rips (DSR; much more preferred) or Direct-to-PC TV-Rips Preferred though

6/23/2006: Switzerland vs South Korea
No Results! Share yours! A Tivo ‘Record to VCR’ to PC rip is better than nothing! Digital-Signal-Rips (DSR; much more preferred) or Direct-to-PC TV-Rips Preferred though

6/23/2006: Togo vs France

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Group H

6/14/2006: Spain vs Ukraine

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6/19/2006: Tunisia vs Saudi Arabia

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6/19/2006: Saudi Arabia vs Ukraine

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6/23/2006: Spain vs Tunisia

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6/23/2006: Ukraine vs Tunisia

6/14/2006: Saudi Arabia vs Ukraine
No Results! Share yours! A Tivo ‘Record to VCR’ to PC rip is better than nothing! Digital-Signal-Rips (DSR; much more preferred) or Direct-to-PC TV-Rips Preferred though

Abuse of power. Democracy and freedom is just a 20th century peak of a golden age of human civilization. The internet is its last major thread of freedom that only global disaster and the antichrist can break.

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Nearly out of business. Saved and kept in business by greedy lawsuit lawyers drooling over the sweedish state for their 25-35% contingency cut.

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P2P File Sharing is staying until the entire internet is globally nationalized and subsquently controlled, probably by the AntiChrist. Otherwise the death or near-death of P2P sites are nothing more than publicity garnishing matyres.

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Another article about hte Pirate Party raid and the spawning of the Pirate Party

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I don’t use YouTube or Google Video because I can’t download. I like

Completely agree. Filesharing hurts bootleggers/counterfeiters 3 times more than the corporate copyright holders and that the bootleggers/counterfeiters hurt sales 4 times worse than filesharers (lost sale average per pirated product offering per sale or download). Also private warez groups affect al-qeida terreros by out-hacking them to stolen corporate disk space and bandwidth.

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A new kind of profiteering piracy. Korean P2P providers charge money for downloads without any royalties. A user paying for a pirated good or download is far less likely to buy a legit version than one who downloads it for free.

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I think people should be educated on copyrights. Most are still outdated though, mostly involving plagarism and bootleg/counterfeiting (piracy for money). I think its ok for itellectual property to be in scouts, but it shouldn’t dominate. One-day lesson, backwater merit badge is fine. You can get merit badges for many unusual academic things. I don’t like that the RIAA/MPAA is at the helm at most of these copyright / intellectual properties education campaigns though. They emphasize hoarding, secrecy, power, control, and money money money. Copyleft gives freedom but protects against proprietarization (hoarding and secrecy for power, control, and profit), outright theft (claiming as own work), and plagarism.

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Found a new link on the USA Pirate Party. Reposted all the pirate party links. I hope the content on the P2P networks can become at least 50% legal by more people copylefting instead of copyrighting before the antichrist comes and shuts out freedom alltogether (I would think it would be after ameteor or comet impact and/or eruption of yellowstone possibly as a chain-reaction from an impact or nuclear detonation or just on its own).

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Need More! Need More like you!

Edit 7/28/2006: Bulleted the links

I had a fracture-less lateral-medial ankle sprain in October of 2003. Sprained it when side-stepping instead of down-stepping a 6″ sidewalk curb. It rolled laterally. The knee buckled and there was a lot of calf torque (I have huge calves) while the ankle was rolling. I did not fall. Normally my weight would shift to the other leg when the knee buckles, but it was up on the curb. I know my leg muscles (especially quads/calves) are perfectly capable of supporting a slightly flexed knee, which is probably why I didn’t fall. The ankle popped (probably the ATFL tearing out fully) after the knee buckled. I think the proces of injury ceased when my other leg finally (probably a second late) got off from the top of the curb to get the weight off my cocked right ankle.

I think the injury mechanic was inversion + extreme plantar-flexion + some rotation of the foot inward (This pattern is what made the ankle hurt most after the sprain – Hard plantar-flex, roll-out (invert) , rotate foot inward). I bore weight on the bumpy thing on the outside of the ankle (lateral malleous) and my inside (medial) of the knee hurt a little (sensitive but didn’t affect walking) for about a day, so I probably subluxed the hell out of my tibia/fibula (enough to minorly affect the knee) from the weight-bearing on the outside bumpy thing / malleous. The ankle, up until 1-2 hours, was relatively pain-free, as long as lower-leg muscle tension was maintained. I was walking limp-free but slowly. After the swelling started though, it was very painful.

There was bruising on both sides of the ankle at the 3rd-5th day post-injury. After 2 days I was weight-bearing pain-free. After about 5-days, I stopped using the crutches for walking (I never really used two except to help in turning) as they weren’t helping me walk faster (they were slowing me down), but I would still carry one for another week or two to help with step-downs. After 2 weeks, I dumped the crutches altogether. I had to be careful to not have any sideways momentum (left or right) when placing weight on the ankle for about 4 weeks. Another problem at 2-6 weeks is that I couldn’t pronate the foot and had keep the weight on the outside and maintain some minor muscle tension to keep it from hurting (not too bad though). The doctor was surprised at my range of motion 1 1/2 to 2 weeks after the injury but sent me to get an MRI because it was still really swollen on both sides. The MRI revealed the deep deltoid tibio-talar tear. I read the deltoid ligament tears are very rare without a fracture (ankle or leg) and often avulse the bone instead (tear the piece of bone at the attatchment point off). The ankle hurt with any use of the calf muscle at all for about a week. Then I could minorly use it for the 2nd week. After 3-4 weeks I could use my caff pain-free enough to use it to stabilse the ankle on rough ground. It took 2 1/2 weeks for me to be able to ascend stairs at a normal pace. After about 4-6 weeks I was able to descend stairs without trouble but still couldn’t run or jog because of medial pain.

I finally saw a specialist 6-weeks after my injury because there was still swelling and I couldn’t run or put a lot of right-leg torque pedaling a bicycle. He gave me a shot and had me come 2-weeks later. I don’t think the shot helped at all. It made it take more to get it to hurt, but when it did hurt, it hurt more. The doctor said I would normally need surgery, but I have much to loose in terms of strength and range-of-motion and many doctors, including him, have 0-experience at medial-ankle surgery and the remainder have very-limited experience, So I agreed to no-surgery.

I got a ankle constraint after seeing the specialist but I didn’t use it as it didn’t work and was also uncomfortable because it didn’t fit around my bulging calf. I also got a 8-week rehab prescription but I was only able to go 3 weeks because of insurance limitations. STI Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation is a really good rehab place. Great service. Only catch is that they are not subjugated by HMO and PPO networks, so it was ‘classic’ or out-of-network only PPO. The Ultrasound was probably the most helpful part of the rehab specific to my injury. Most of the non-routine therapy was proprioception and balance as my strength and Range of Motion (ROM) was more than adequate (The star-exercise was the most difficult for me). Rehab on aggregate got me able to jog on the ankle, but I, even as of this day can’t run normally. I also have a bit of lateral-ankle instability but it is only an issue if the muscle stabilization is neutralized somehow (un-awareness of terrain or akward position). If I’m aware of the terrain, I can go over rough rocky-terrain without turning the ankle but it often feels like it wants to go unless there is calf or outside-lower leg tension (enough to feel stiffness/contraction but not heavy straining).

Now I can run a few hundred feet at a time strength-shoe style, on my toes. Any pronation while running is met with pain on the inside-front of the ankle after the 2nd-4th impact. But I hardly run in my routine life and my ankle handles hill-climbing torque on my bicycle without pain as long as the weight is not on the inside of my arch, and I walked normally from the 2nd day after my injury and handled stairs normally after 4-6 weeks (1 1/2 – 2 weeks for up, 4-6 weeks for down), so I wouldn’t go get surgery unless I really really wanted to play soccer again or anything else that needs a lot of running. I also cannot trap high-speed balls (20mph+) on the mid-arch to heel as it aggravates the medial ankle (had it happen once) and renders it sensitive for about a week two. Dribbling and passing are no issue. Can take shots too. I can turn and cut on the ankle wihtout pain or failure but there are intermittent proprioceptive / coordination failures if there is insufficient calf support and I let the weight fall on the heel to much. The media ankle sometimes cracks when I turn on the right knee in a casual scenario (weight a little back, some calf tension to lock the foot, turn on the right knoee knee). It doesn’t hurt and there is no feeling of slippage but sometimes it can be fairly audible. In a active scenario my weight is sually more forward with more active msucle support and it hardly ever cracks.

I think the reason that I had no fracture is because of my genetics. My father has never broken a bone in his life, though he has had a number of ‘bone bruises’ (‘occult fracture’ or ‘occult contusion’???) from motorcycle accidents. My father probably has flexible bones. My mother has heavy bones. I seem to have both heavy AND flexible bones (I overheard a doctor commenting on the size of my tibia and achilles tendon from when I sprained my left knee). I think a normal person would’ve broken their leg before tearing their medial ligaments as I had half or more of my weight on my lateral malleous (the ball/bump on the outside of the angle).

Here’s really good Anatomy map of the ankle that makes Gray’s Anatomy look like an obsolete joke (at least for the medial ankle). Applicable figures for my Injury are 8, 9 and 10 with the injury being on Figure 8 : Pin 9 (ATFL Anterior Talo-Fibular Ligament Complete Tear), Figure 8 : Pin 11 (CFL Calcaneo-Fibular ligament Partial Tear, not mentioned in MRI), and Figure 10 : Pin 2 (Anterior TibioTalar Ligament on the Deep fibers of the Deltoid Ligament Badly Torn).Anatomy of the talus and the surrounding bony and articular structures – JOINTS INVOLVING THE TALUS

Here is my X-Ray and MRI reports regarding this injury. Impressions #1-3 are definitely from this injury. #4 probably is as it doesn’t hurt there anymore. #5 is not and I still have it. I license these reports/scans under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License. Feel free to use it in your medical research and case studies, just give credit and let the other people copy and share it.

Click on the image below to get the full-size scan.

Africa, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, Western Europe, Russia, South America. The Nigerian and Singaporean are downloading the Tyndale Dramatized Audio Bible and the Russian is downloading Area 51. This screenshot is much newer than the other two, after finishing the BBC Human Body and X-Men DVDs and letting the rare Sepultura and Soulfly bootlegs finish out.

A person from China and a Person from Taiwan downloading Pictures and Videos that I took myself at Phoenix First Assembly of God, plus an Iranian downloading a Chinese Bible in HTMLHelp .chm format. The N/A prompted me to update my IP2Country data file.

An American, 2 Southeast Asians (Hong Kong, Singapore), and 2 South Americans (Brazil, Columbia). A lot of southeast asians downloading the bible. Wonder if the bible is restricted in Malaysia and Singapore also? Africa, Except Algeria and South Africa, has been exclusively bible downloads.

MoveOn Wants to save PBS

I don’t support this.

If you want to save PBS, DONATE TO IT!!. Companies can run or run more ads Start Donating or increaseing Donations enough for all the supporters to cover the drop in federal funding (or more)! Its the difference between ‘libertarian socialism’ or people-centric, goverment-free socialism (supported by donations rather than taxes or sales revenue) and regular, goverment-centric socialism of the pure left-wing.

Also I don’t see any paypal donate buttons (or anything else equally easy) on the PBS WebSite. If you don’t care to support actively through donations even with the ease of payapl (at least for the donator; donatee may be a different story) then why would you want to pay taxes for it? If you are middle class or better and don’t care give even $5-20 once a year, then you probably won’t be sweatting over PBS dissapearing at all especially after 6-12 months.

Pirate Party USA mentioned at Pirate Party Sweden
The Pirate Party of the United States

I think I will update my voter registration for the American Pirate party if they can get more organized, back up their data, and try to get hacked less. I may not completly agree with Swedish Pirate Party’s beliefs (maybe about 75%), but my beliefs are closer to what the Pirate Party believes than to whats in the law now.

3rd party Links:
Sharman Networks Sues p2pnet.net
Source Article for article that P2PNet is being sued over – CEO of Co. That Owns Kazaa in Sydney Court
Kazaa Sues Blogger Over Anonymous Comments
Jon Newton is being sued for libel – Deleted ‘Infringing’ texts postd
A false Wikipedia ‘biography’
Kazaa Challenged with Contempt

P2PNet Links:
Stop-the-Blogsuit Campaign
p2pnet v Sharman: analysis
Kazaa sues p2pnet
p2pnet sued for libel; p2pnet goes on hold …

That lawsuit really sucks. Largely 2nd-hand conglomeration/opinion re-theming press. Go sue some of the sources. Enjoy the infringing material. I made local copies for myself too, may share it on Emule. Emule and various forums and blogs will immortalize it. ??Injunction?? and ??gag?? is obsolete in these blogging and filesharing days. No collaboration needed, just being a fan is enough. I started the process of spidering p2pnet incase sharman runs them bankrupt in lawyer defense fees.

Sharman is just as evil as the RIAA itself. I hope Sharman networks dies. Aussie SWAT raid for incompetent neurotic CEO ignoring court orders, trying to save the money for herself. The money is not neccesarily net assets. She lets Sharmin keeps its mounds of debt.

P2PNet will be run bankrupt, i’m pretty sure, assuming Nikki doesn’t have a nervous breakdown and follows through. Check these out:

tsr_vs_gdw.txt – confidential leakage
tsr_vs_gdw2.txt – Court document!
PDF on fantasylibrary.com – centered on page 14
tsr_vs_mayfair.txt – T$R tried to take out mayfair too.

Swedish Authorities Shut Down The Pirate Bay, Taking Along 300 Legitimate Businesses
Pirate Bay resurfaces, while protesters walk the street
Swedish ‘The Pirate Bay’ demo

Pirate Bay is back, abiet with major capacity problems. Looks like they can’t afford new, custom servers and had to lease substandard (relative to their capacity needs) servers. Can’t say that for the 100+ innocent businesses taken out as collateral damage. Many can’t afford new servers. Others just didn’t pre-emptivly planned for it as well as the PirateBay did. I know my company is vunerable to such collateral damage if a Pirate-bay site was in the same datacenter (especially if in the same row of cabinets). Take it right out of business.

DOJ Cracks Down on MP3 Pirate
Oklahoma Student to be Sacrificial Lamb in MP3 Wars
File Traders in Court

These are old. The FBI is too busy with terrorists now. Still good wisdom though. Crimes that require the morale equivilant of petty larceny get years in prison because of the higher theoretical loss potential and the lack of enforcement ability neccistating more example-shock. A hardcore warez sharer has only 5% of getting sued or busted in a year or two timespan; heavy sellers are more 10-15%. The lawsuits affect less than 0.1% of file sharers and hit mostly noobs and leeches=.

I think maybe about 1 in 5 downloads result in a actual lost sale. 50% would never buy it if it wasn’t pirated for free in the first place; and the other 30% would eventually buy it, and more. I think the other 30% was be higher in the napster days, but now they are ITunes DRM slaves.

With me, i think about 10-15% of the stuff I download and heavily use I don’t buy, but would if the free pirated version wasn’t there. Most of it is non-game software (apps, utilities crackable with keygens). I have about 70% ownership coverage for my music hoard, 50% for RPGs (80% if excluding 3rd-party D&D), 40% for non-RPG books, 95% for game software, and 30% for non-game software, 10% for console-roms such as GBA (90% if only including ROMs that I played on for 10hrs or more). Most of the difference between ‘backed by legal ownership’ (not neccesarily legal under current law though) and ‘lost sale’ is excessive greedy hoarding of stuff I wouldn’t of bought if a free pirated version wasn’t available because I don’t think I would like it enough to pay the price for it (assming middle class wealth-level).