- ARCHIVE / Post, Pirate
- Primer
While tweaking their current project, two young engineers accidentally discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities–ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.
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- F for Fake
F for Fake (French: Vérités et Mensonges) is the last major film completed by Orson Welles. Initially released in 1974, it focuses on Elmyr de Hory’s recounting of his career as a professional art forger; de Hory’s story serves as the backdrop for a fast-paced, meandering investigation of the natures of authorship and authenticity, as […]
- Still Life
Coal miner Han Sanming comes from Fengyang in Shanxi to the Three Gorges town Fengjie to look for his ex-wife whom he has not seen for 16 years. The couple meet on the bank of the Yangtze River and vow to remarry. Nurse Shen Hong also comes to Fengjie from Taiyuan in Shanxi to look […]
- Terror’s Advocate
Communist, anticolonialist, right-wing extremist? What convictions guide the moral mind of Jacques Vergès?
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- Shortbus
The sex is real in John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus; only the setting—an animated New York cityscape, watched over by a fluorescent Statue of Liberty—is fake. To an extent, that describes the movie: a sexually daring, dramatically timid roundelay that employs unsimulated twosomes, threesomes, and even solos for skin flute in the service of subplots reminiscent […]
- 3-Iron
Tae-suk, the hero of Ki-duk Kim’s remarkable film “3-Iron” has a strange air of quiet, contemplative contentment. A beautiful young man with a shiny new motorcycle, he does not participate in the ordinary hustle and bustle of contemporary life. Instead, he methodically goes from door to door of stranger’s homes, putting flyers in the keyholes, […]
- Thousands stuck with fake art prints
Take a second look at that signed Picasso print you bought on eBay. […]
- Data about P2P, VoIP, Skype, File Hosters like RapidShare and Streaming Services like YouTube :: ipoque
Was hunting for P2P data and found this… analysis to follow.
Internet Study 2007: Data about P2P, VoIP, Skype, File Hosterslike RapidShare and Streaming Services like YouTube :: ipoque
- Exit Stage6: A Step In The Right Direction
So
DivX Corporation’s Stage6 has croaked. The service’s
‘goodbye, cruel word’ note says it was a victim of its own success, but that it proved ‘it’s possible to distribute true high definition video on the Internet’.
What it really showed is how deliriously inefficient streaming video is, whether it’s high def or otherwise. It cost
at […] - Comment On “The World’s Creative Hub”
This is a longer version of the piece I have just written for The Guardian newspaper, I’m not sure whether it’s destined for the Comment or Comment Is Free section. It also has the benefit of having links.
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Filesharing is the favourite whipping-boy of an entertainment industry refusing to update its business models for the P2P […]