While being Madvillainy 2, this isn’t the official followup to 2004’s underground smash hit Madvillainy, but rather a new mixing of the original album by Madlib, who is one of the two members of Madvillain. Released on one of the eminent underground hip hop labels, Stones Throw, this is a necessary release for anyone who [...]
Ok this a bit late post (3 days “old” release), but you know what they “better late than never”. This is something interesting for all of you RPG fans. Hope you’ll enjoy it.
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Just one day after they announced a lawsuit against manufacturers and distributors of the R4 Revolution device, Nintendo has reported that they have already seized over 30,000 piracy devices which they believe infringe company copyrights.
The lawsuit, a joint venture with 54 other publishers hopes to get injunctions on the R4 and other devices that promote piracy on the Nintendo DS.
“Nintendo takes a global approach to piracy and has pursued the illegal game copying devices in 11 countries this past year,” said the company.
“Nintendo has worked with enforcement officials in Belgium, China, Denmark, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Korea, Netherlands, Spain, UK, and the US, seizing close to 30,000 infringing game copying products, as well as taking actions against those distributors and manufacturers.”
The popular R4 device is a flash cart and MicroSD adapter that allows user to install the custom Moonshell software on their DS and then load ROMS onto the MicroSD card and play them back on the handheld. The R4 bypasses all Nintendo firmwares and loads the Moonshell allowing the game playback as well as music, movies and even classic system emulators.
“Nintendo and software manufacturers are suffering tremendous loss caused by the import and distribution of such devices,” added the company.
“Nintendo and software manufacturers have determined that the spread of such devices in the market would hinder sound growth and development of the entire computer game industry and will therefore continue to take strict legal measures against any game copying devices that operate like the R4.”
The MPAA has announced two new lawsuits against movie streaming sites, this time trying to get Fomdb.com and MovieRumor.com taken down for good.
Both sites are very similar and allow access to current movies such as “The Dark Knight”, “Hancock”, and “Get Smart” all available as streaming video, no BitTorrent client necessary.
“There are many people operating illegal websites like these who are profiting from the theft of protected content. We have filed several other similar lawsuits and will continue to do so in order to hold operators accountable for their illegal activities. We have every intention of shutting down these, and sites like them, for good, said John Malcolm, Executive Vice President and Director of Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations for the MPAA.
In their press release the MPAA states that both sites combined generate about 27,000 unique visitors every day and that the sites have about 100,000 pages available to users.
As of this morning Fomdb.com had disabled any links relating to movies currently in theaters while MovieRumor.com was still fully operational.
A group of hackers on the forum Haklabs have posted a download link for Sega’s Super Monkey Ball on the iPhone, claiming they have broken Apple’s FairPlay DRM and that the pirated game will run on any iPhone with jailbroken firmware 2.0 using SSH. The main application was patched to exclude the SHA 1 checksum of the game, and the process should work perfectly.
So far posts following the report have been mixed with users commenting that the game does work while others confessing they could not get it to work.
If the hack does prove to be legitimate, the AppStore could be facing a major issue. Super Monkey Ball for example, sells for $10 USD on the store and is protected with the DRM that Apple has been using for years on its music and videos in the iTunes store.
The original post on Haklabs also provides step-by-step installation instructions for the game and hopes other hackers will help share cracked iPhone apps.
There has been no comment from Sega or Apple as of yet.
Two former uploaders for the music torrent tracker OiNK have been cleared of all charges today after being arrested in the UK earlier this summer. Four others still remain charged.
There was little known about the identities of the uploaders but we do know that one was a 18 year old male and the other was a 28 year old female.
The users were arrested this May in conjunction with Operation Ark Royal. The charges were “suspicion of conspiracy to defraud the Music Industry as well as the standard copyright infringement offenses.
At its peak, OiNK was one of the largest private torrent trackers, home to hundreds of thousands of high quality album releases as well as audiobooks, ebooks, and software.
The site was taken down in late 2007 by British and Dutch law enforcement based on mostly false intelligence provided by the IFPI and the BPI.
LG, the world’s fourth largest mobile phone distributor, has announced they have signed a deal with Dolby which will allow for Dolby Mobile surround sound technology to be added to upcoming handsets.
The idea behind the deal is to give LG users improved sound quality for their music files and video files and follows in the trend of phones moving towards full fledged multimedia devices.
According to the Washington Post, the service features: “Mobile Surround, which delivers a realistic surround sound experience using headphones– Sound Space Expander, which creates a wide, rich, and spacious soundstage experience especially suited to music playback– Natural Bass, which adds powerful boost and bass extension– High-Frequency Enhancer, which enhances music and other content by restoring high-frequency effects– Graphic EQ, which helps tune the audio experience for different content types– Sound Level Control, which helps level out audio for a more consistent playback volume– Mono-to-Stereo Converter, which improves the playback experience of user-generated content.”
The phone maker is the first to include “Dolby Mobile” in its phones however analysts believe the technology was mostly created by Coding Technologies which was acquired by Dolby last year. Coding Technologies already had customers for its surround audio technology, including the world’s largest cell phone maker, Nokia.
RELOADED group released cracked version of newest game from FlatOut series - Ultimate Carnage. If you like arcade style driving with crashing ‘n’ smashing and ability to perform various tricks / combos, then this one is definitely for you. Enjoy it. Let’s hope that is properly cracked.
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For all fans of arcade games, here is a new candy for you. Aces of the Galaxy is small (~50MB) game with impressive gameplay and graphic (if you consider a game size). Also game have highest ratings on various gaming related sites, so there is no doubt in quality. I bet some of you will [...]
CORE group came up with new(est) build of this well known defrag software. And finally they have explained all about their “virus infected” keygens. READ NFO for further explanation!
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