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England's six largest ISPs have all joined together with the government to "clamp down" on unauthorized downloading of music and movies.

Estimates have suggested that 6.5 million British citizens have downloaded unauthorized files over the last year and that piracy will cost the music industry £1 billion over the next five years.

The new clamp down will begin with thousands of warning letter informing alleged users that their illegal activity has been detected and that they are now being monitored.

The Governments business department will sign the industry agreement soon with BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse.

All the ISPs have committed to developing legal file-sharing services, with perhaps the option of users paying extra per month to the ISPs to download unlimited legal music.

There was no word yet on what sanctions would happen to persistent online pirates but ideas that have been thrown around are the so-called "three strikes" law or additional broadband fees for heavy users.

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An another movie sequel of probably infinite serie National Lampoon’s called Homo Erectus has been released by group aAF. Once again, it’s a pretty stupid comedy made in a really short time with really cheap and gross jokes. I guess you have to be totally smoked to laugh with this movie. Anyway, it’s here for you in a classic 1 CD release with MP3 audio.

Detroit Rock City’s Adam Rifkin writes, directs, and stars in National Lampoon’s Homo Erectus, a prehistoric comedy surrounding a caveman and his plight to find love while leading his clan. Ali Larter plays the love interest, with David Carradine and Talia Shire portraying Rifkin’s parents. Cameos are supplied by Tom Arnold and Gary Busey.

Homo.Erectus.2007.DVDRip.XviD-aAF

1 CD, 700 MB, aaf-homer
84 min, 624×336, 1018 kbit/s, mp3
IMDB (3.9), trailer, nfo, torrent soon

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Google opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a twist on encyclopedia Wikipedia, which allows anonymity. “We are deeply convinced that authorship — knowing who wrote what — helps readers trust the content,” said Cedric DuPont, product manager for Knol. The name of the service is a play on an individual unit of knowledge, DuPont said, and entries on the public website, knol.google.com, are called “knols.” Google conducted a limited test of the site beginning in December. Knol has publishing tools similar to single blog pages. But unlike blogs, Knol encourages writers to reduce what they know about a topic to a single page that is not chronologically updated.

“What we want to get away from is ‘this last voice wins’ model which is very difficult if you are a busy professional,” DuPont said. Google wants to rank entries by popularity to encourage competition. For example, the first knol on “Type 1 Diabetes” is by Anne Peters, director of the University of Southern California’s Clinical Diabetes Programs. As other writers publish on diabetes, Google plans to rank related pages according to user ratings, reviews and how often people refer to specific pages, DuPont said.  Knol focuses on individual authors or groups of authors in contrast to Wikipedia’s subject entries, which are updated by users and edited behind the scenes. DuPont said that rather than competing with Wikipedia, Knol may end up serving as a primary source of authoritative information for use with Wikipedia articles.

Source: Reuters 

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Guys from VoMiT released a new dvd screener of action thriller Taken. This film set in Paris was filmed by French filmmakers, however, the audio is English and most of the actors are British or American. This release offers a decent quality, but there are hardsubbed Chinese subtitles on the image, which is little annoying. If you like movies filled by action scenes from the beginning to the end, this one is exactly for you.

An ex-soldier (Liam Neeson) traveling through Europe embarks on a frantic quest to rescue his daughter (Maggie Grace) after the young girl is abducted by slave traders in District B13 director Pierre Morel’s contemporary thriller Taken. Robert Mark Kamen joins the screenwriting team which also includes Morel and longtime collaborator Luc Besson, who also produces.

Taken.2008.SUBBED.DVDSCR.XviD-VoMiT

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93 min, 953 kbps, 640 x 352, mp3
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DVDFab Platinum is alongside ConvertXtoDVD most popular software here on rlslog. It’s updated constantly just like mentioned ConvertXtoDVD. WRATH group released latest stable v5.0.6.0 build although v5.0.6.5 is already available on publisher’s forums, but that one is beta build.

Description: DVDFab Platinum is the most powerful and flexible DVD copying/burning software. With 8 copy modes, you can back up any DVD to DVDR in just a few clicks.
DVDFab Platinum is brand new, is completely rewritten, is based on more than 6 years of DVD copy software development.

Highlights:

• Remove all DVD copy protections, like CSS, CPPM, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs, ARccOS, RipGuard, FluxDVD, CORE X2, etc.
• Constantly updated to support latest DVD copy protections.
• Backup scratched/dirty disc:
  • Even if some information (IFO) cannot be read, you can still copy Main Movie or Customize.
  • Recovery from DVD reading (VOB) error.
• Constantly updated to support latest DVD burners and blank DVD discs.
• Constantly updated to support more mobile devices.

Release Name: DVDFab.Platinum.v5.0.6.0.Multilingual.WinAll.Cracked-WRATH
Size: 9.02MB
Links: Homepage, NFO
Download: UploadJockey, Torrent (search)

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Rock star Neil Young made some interesting comments at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech Conference yesterday including his suggestion that music sound quality has been "dumbed down to Fisher-Price toy levels" since the inception of the iPod.

“Apple has taken a detour down the convenience highway,” Young said. “Quality has taken a complete backseat - if it even gets in the car at all.”

Young spoke out about the poor audio quality of the most popular audio codec, MP3, and also talked about his "long-term, multimedia archiving project of his entire career" which will be available as a series of Blu-ray discs. Young hopes his project will become the basis for an alternative digital platform with higher quality sound.

The artist spent most of his time expressing his feelings at the decline in audio standards and put the blame mainly on companies such as Apple who he feels have "an increasing focus on convenience versus quality."

“We have beautiful computers now but high-resolution music is one of the missing elements,” he said. “The ears are the windows to the soul.”

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Microsoft has announced that they will begin offering original, comedic short films made by horror producers to Xbox Live users beginning in the fall.

The pilots will be available for free and the idea was conceived by filmmaker James Gunn, known for writing "Slither" and "Dawn of the Dead."

The software giant is joining up with the Safran Digital Group to produce the exclusive shorts.

According to WorldScreen, "those working on short films for the new offering include James Wan (Saw, Death Sentence), David Slade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy), Lucky McKee (The Woods), Andrew Douglas (The Amityville Horror) and Marcus Nispel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th)."

A few of the known titles that will be available for download or streaming are "Doggie Heaven (Woof!)", "Humanzee!", "MEATDOG: What's Fer' Dinner," "Blue Like You" and "The Miracle of Phil."

"We're excited to launch the Xbox original content with these world-class directors, who are all tremendously talented and at the cutting edge of their craft," Safran said. "Their youthful and innovative approach is the perfect combination for this unique digital venture with Xbox 360, and we expect to see some very creative, horrifying and hilarious shorts as these masters of horror present their comedic vision.”

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Samsung has announced a new series of LCD HDTVs including the company's first ever with a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio.

The new 950 display line combines improved LED backlighting with "improvements to the panel and image processing" to hit the high contrast ratio. The 950 also is the first LED-lit model from Samsung to have a 120Hz refresh panel.

The new HDTV also has a built-in Ethernet jack that can stream media from PCs and consoles. Users can also use any DLNA media hub or Samsung's own popular WiseLink Pro. USB ports are built in to allow digital content to be played locally.

The 950 series has four HDMI ports with CEC automation support and will be available in 46-inch and 55-inch models. The units will cost $3,200 USD and $4,200 USD respectively when they hit retail shelves in August.

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AT&T has revealed today that they have sold twice as many Apple iPhone 3G units upon launch then they did a year ago with the first generation iPhone.

The carrier also noted that it had over doubled its smartphone users year-on-year from June 2007, from 8 percent to 18 percent.

Although official numbers have never been published by AT&T, the general consensus is that 270,000 first generation iPhones were sold in the opening weekend so AT&T's latest comments suggest at least 500,000 iPhone 3G units have been sold in the US by AT&T.

AT&T also reported that they added 1.3 million new subscribers, pushing its user base to 72.9 million, making it the largest carrier in the US over Verizon.

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Hey Guys! Another R5 version of Speed Racer appeared about 2 hours ago in the scene. The iVE version was nuked on my nets for [NUKED/field.shifted_i38.tinypic.com.11kzcbq.jpg]. So the BaLD release seems to be the real deal

Synopsis: Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized-the legendary Rex Racer-whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to fulfill.

Speed is loyal to the family racing business, led by his father, Pops Racer (John Goodman), the designer of Speed’s thundering Mach 5. When Speed turns down a lucrative and tempting offer from Royalton Industries, he not only infuriates the company’s maniacal owner (Roger Allam) but uncovers a terrible secret-some of the biggest races are being fixed by a handful of ruthless moguls who manipulate the top drivers to boost profits. If Speed won’t drive for Royalton, Royalton will see to it that the Mach 5 never crosses another finish line.

The only way for Speed to save his family’s business and the sport he loves is to beat Royalton at his own game. With the support of his family and his loyal girlfriend, Trixie (Christina Ricci), Speed teams with his one-time rival-the mysterious Racer X (Matthew Fox)-to win the race that had taken his brother’s life: the death-defying, cross-country rally known as The Crucible.

Genre: Action | Family | Sport
IMDB rating: 6.6/10 (13,415 votes)
RT rating: 36%
Directed by: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Nicholas Elia, Christina Ricci

Release Name: Speed.Racer.R5.XViD-BaLD
Size: 2 CD, 1400 MB
Quality: XviD @ Video: 1363 kbps (R5 VOB source) Audio: 128 kbps VBR MP3 48000 (Studio source) Resolution: 672 x 288
Runtime: 130
Filename: bald-sra, bald-srb

Links: IMDB, Homepage, Trailer (Apple)
Samples: Sample I, Sample II, Sample III, Video Sample
NFO: Here

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