- MegaUpload - Closed.
- FileServe - Closing, does not sell premium.
- FileJungle - Deleting files. Locked in the U.S..
- UploadStation - Locked in the U.S..
- FileSonic - the news is arbitrary (under FBI investigation).
- VideoBB - Closed! Will disappear soon.
- Uploaded - Banned in the U.S. and the FBI went after the owners who are gone.
- FilePost - Deleting all material (will leave executables, pdfs, txts)
- Videoz - Closed and locked in the countries affiliated with the USA.
- 4shared - Deleting files with copyright and waits in line at the FBI.
- MediaFire - Called to testify in the next 90 days and it will open doors. Pro FBI
- Org Torrent - Could vanish with everything within 30 days “he is under criminal investigation”
- Network Share mIRC - Awaiting the decision of the case to continue or terminate Torrente everything.
- Koshiki - Operating 100% Japan will not join the SOPA / PIPA
- Shienko Box - 100% working China / Korea will not join the SOPA / PIPA
- ShareX BR - group UOL / BOL / iG say they will join the SOPA / PIPA
I’ve never felt safer…
time to release the kraken
(Source: daggerdead, via whakatikatika)
Via kenyatta:
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) vs Ghost in the Shell (1995)
The FJP (I pronounce that like ‘The Wu’) posted Rob G. Wilson and Kirby Ferguson’s “Everything is a Remix: The Matrix” earlier today which shows how much of the iconic imagery of The Matrix was created by aping scenes from the classic 1995 anime Ghost in the Shell.
Also, I just posted a photoset about how the classic Fritz Lang film ‘Metropolis’ actually owed it’s signature look to an earlier Russian film, Aelita.
Similarly, the visually striking title sequence to David Fincher’s ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ seems to also owe much to the opening credits of Ghost in the Shell when placed alongside each other in the photoset above.
All of this serves to remake Kirby Ferguson’s point with his ‘Everything is a Remix’ series: while established content IP holders like to treat remix as near piracy, mimicry has always existed (good thing) but without attribution (bad thing), especially among Hollywood’s own practitioners.
So let’s move the ball forward. What if instead of considering any of these examples ‘ripoffs’, we treated this imagery (the framing of a shot, the pace of movement) the same way that hip hop treats samples and beats?
If the imagery is effective in conveying a particular thought or emotion, why not allow that as a building block of ‘content’?
FJP: Agreed. Where do we sign up?
So many other similarities in many other movies.. Remixing is normal but the law does not see it as such.
(via futurejournalismproject)
