| AniRena: Searching for news posters (Anime related) |
We are searching for people that would like to post occasionally news posts in Anime and Fansub areas.
This has to be done in the way as not in posting what torrents are available, but real news.
If you don't know what I mean with the above, don't bother.
Also, be actively posting since I noticed a small grow of the users when news was posted.
If you think you can help me, please contact me at power2all[AT]gmail.com or by private message here. |
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| Some interesting occasions on TokyoTosho |
There was an interesting activity on TokyoTosho over last night. I’ll just provide an excerpt from it (all times in GMT).
18:?? - [Leopard-Raws] K-On! - 10 RAW (D-TBS 960x720 DivX685).avi (now deleted) - a 51 seconds-long fake with an octopus which is nevertheless 374MB.
19:20 - [Zero-Raws] Ristorante Paradiso - 08 RAW (CX 1280x720 H264 AAC).mp4 Comment: #Zero-Raws@irc.rizon.net Lol @ Leotards
19:34 - [Zero-Raws] K-On! - 10 RAW [24m29s 960x720 DivX685+MP3].avi Size: 301.11MiB Comment: Exclusive by #Zero-Raws@irc.rizon.net Not Fake and not leeched in share might be added later tho
19:39 - (Anime) K-ON! - 10 Raw (24m29s 960x720 DivX685+MP3).avi Size: 301.11MiB Comment: zero i think you mean exclusive by 300zx at Utatane.
19:46 - [Zero-Raws] K-On! - 10 RAW [24m29s 960x720 DivX685+MP3]zx.avi Size: 301.11MiB (!!) Comment: #Zero-Raws@irc.rizon.net by what i meant was so you wouldnt upload the same shit buddy and just die already there is no need for you~
This caused a flamewar between the raw providers via Comment sections of their uploaded torrents.
20:04 - VasyaPupkin-Raws: Utatane ... I see the end Zero Raws... =]
20:11 -Zero-Raws: End to what lol, takes more than just knowing the name and using it buddy 
20:22 - VasyaPupkin-Raws: pic about Zero and Leopard, more details on website =>> Website
21:02 - Zero-Raws: VasyaPupkin click link  --> Website
21:26 - VasyaPupkin-Raws: 2 Zero, you have disappointed me. I hoped for a reciprocal pic. .gif "=)")
22:48 - Zero-Raws: VasyaPupkin click link --> (humor learn it) Website
23:22 - VasyaPupkin-Raws: 2 Zero, these are your problems, that till now have not got used to severe Russian humor. - .-
23:26 - Anonymous provider: Lol russians are fucking retarded and have no sense of humor so GTFO, and stop randomly making up raw groups just make one big one?! fucking tards...lol
02:25 - VasyaPupkin-Raws: "Lol russians are fucking .... fucking tards...lol" - butthurt?) Even Russian community does not allow such same trash flood. >_<
02:35 - Anonymous provider: VasyaPupkin to be honest the only who are butthurt are you russians (spamming shit under 900000 group names) ;p we dont care as long as you dont mentions us :&g
03:51 - VasyaPupkin-Raws: "VasyaPupkin to be honest the only who are butthurt" My flood about Zero for fun only. Also, VasyaPupkin-Raws not group, this parody on groups. Me 2 d
04:19 - (Anime): you know, reposting raws is idiotic, but it's even worse if you do it to further prove how much of more an asshole you are, kaizoku.
04:26 - Zero-Raws: Funny how you say that sukebe tho if you didnt know kaizoku hasnt release shit since 4 months ago
04:26 - Zero-Raws: and stop hiding under (Anime) we all know its TV-J lolz so stfu and name him k?
09:36 - Raws-4U: ohoho, what's the quarrel about speed shitty raws >_<
But like a flamewar wasn't enough! Today at 06:24 CoalGuys uploaded a fansub of K-On! - 10 bundled with something called "Kokujin no Ou". A quote from their website: "It’s highly entertaining and fun to watch! If you enjoy K-ON, you’ll enjoy that too! We put a lot of effort into producing this video, so please watch it with your utter most sincerity. Thanks!". It turned out to be a 10 minute-long webcam recording with some black person (the fansubber?) ranting about people who whine about dubs. This torrent was on AnimeSuki for a while but has been removed for some reason.
What's going on? Do these things happen all the time? I can't tell since my anime experience is just slightly over two years. |
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| BitTorrent: ACS:Law Anti-Piracy Lawyers Copyright Infrigment |
(Taken from TorrentFreak)
Lawyers ACS:Law have entered the anti-piracy revenue generation scheme previously inhabited by Davenport Lyons. They write to alleged file-sharers demanding payment of hundreds of pounds or face legal action. However, those same individuals can point the finger straight back, since ACS:Law are copyright infringers themselves.
We recently reported that ACS:Law appear to have taken up where notorious UK lawyers Davenport Lyons left off, sending threatening letters to alleged BitTorrent and eDonkey copyright infringers demanding payment of hundreds of pounds or face legal action.
Sadly, ACS:Law don’t appear to be practicing what they preach, despite taking the moral high-ground with the hundreds of recipients of their letters.
In an article published on their site entitled “20th Century Fox hit by illegal downloads” (Google cache copy here, since the page has now been removed). ACS:Law appear to have taken the easy option and instead of writing their own article, chose to cut and paste paragraph after paragraph of other people’s work, passing it off as their own, without so much as a link to any source or a mention of an author’s or publication name.
Paragraph 1 of ACS:Law article
Almost a month before Wolverine hit the movie theaters a workprint copy of the movie was “leaked” onto the Web. It was a copy that was half finished as far as the special effects were concerned with green screens and wire framed character models visible for all the world to see. The great fight scene at the top of the nuclear reactor was more stickman like drawing that anything to do with the actors. In the end it was an incomplete movie that really only left the majority of those that watched it wanting to see the real thing
Original source article: Written by Steven Hodson over at inquisitr.com
Paragraph 2 of ACS:Law article
AFACT’s director of operations Neil Gane thanked the member of the public who had called attention to the racket and claimed Australian businesses suffered greatly from piracy.
Original source article: Written by Suzanne Tindal for zdnet.com.au
Paragraph 3 of ACS:Law article
“That pirated copies of X-Men Origins: Wolverine were discovered amongst the haul is especially disappointing. The film was made in Australia, employed over 1000 Australians, engaged over 100 Australian companies and contributed over $80 million to the local economy. The flagrant sales of pirated copies of the film is a slap in the face to the hard work and creativity that so many Australians put into the movie,” he alleged in a statement. The film has not yet been shown in cinemas worldwide
Original source article: Written by Suzanne Tindal for zdnet.com.au
Paragraph 4 of ACS:Law article
The woman’s arrest and the discovery of the discs led police to what was allegedly a disc burner lab in Sydney’s Westmead. The lab allegedly had the potential to produce 378,000 pirated discs a year, worth $1.8 million on the street.
Original source article: Written by Suzanne Tindal for zdnet.com.au
Paragraph 5 of ACS:Law article
Marketed as one of this summer’s blockbusters, downloads topped 75,000 within hours of the film being uploaded to BitTorrent and 20th Century Fox, the studio behind Wolverine, said the uploaded version was “stolen, incomplete and early”
Original source article: Fraser McIntyre and Jennifer Whitehead for The Scotsman
Paragraph 6 of ACS:Law article
The computer-generated imagery had not been added, there were missing scenes, sound and music and Wolverine himself had not yet acquired his enhanced strength with the wires attached to the actor Hugh Jackman still visible on screen.
Original source article: Fraser McIntyre and Jennifer Whitehead The Scotsman
Paragraph 7 of ACS:Law article
Reviews based on an unfinished film and which have already cost influential Fox News columnist Roger Friedman his job. He was fired for commenting on illegal footage. Richard Mollet is from record label trade body the BPI. He says the industry lost around £200m last year because of illegal downloading.The illegal copy became available on the internet on March 30. According to the Hollywood Reporter, “at last year’s average ticket price of $7.18, the piracy could conceivably – though not likely – have cost Fox $28.7 million.”
Original source article: Fraser McIntyre and Jennifer Whitehead The Scotsman
Even though there are clearly no references to any sources, links back to the original articles or mention of the author’s name in the ACS:Law article, TorrentFreak contacted all three publications to double check that permission had not been granted. Of the trio, Duncan Riley editor of Inquisitr.com was most vocal, telling TorrentFreak;
“No, we have not given permission for the content to be used. What perhaps is the height of hypocrisy, besides the wholesale theft of the text word for word, is that the paragraph they have taken is from a post that argues that piracy helped Wolverine, and then they’ve added anti-piracy statements to the end.”
We must admit we are very confused. On the one hand ACS:Law speak constantly about how their clients suffer at the hands of copyright infringement, yet the company itself appears to have a different approach when it comes to its own dealings.
Just recently, a support site set up to help recipients of ACS:Law letters cope with their predicament was ordered to stop its activities by ACS:Law (under threat of legal action) after they objected to the link between the site’s domain name (beingscammed.com) and their firm. The owner of the site was forced to publish an apology on the site’s homepage. As expected, another site has taken its place.
ACS:Law have forced others to publish an apology on their site too after comments were made that the law firm objected to. In the interests of fairness, it seems fitting that that Mr Andrew Crossley, as main partner of ACS:Law, publishes his own apology on his site’s homepage for making use of other people’s copyright works and exploiting them for commercial gain.
Andrew Crossley was already fined by the UK’s Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) for engaging in “conduct unbefitting a solicitor” (pdf) back in 2006. We believe that a law firm claiming to uphold copyright law on behalf of its clients but infringing copyright in the process warrants the same label, but we’ll let the Conduct Investigation Unit at the SRA decide.
And to those that think these infringements by ACS:Law are small ones to be brushed off or discounted, then in an ideal world, yes, you would be absolutely correct. No one should care about small infringements of copyright. No-one should have to write articles about petty copyright infringement, but these are the depths to which this arena has sunk.
But consider which games these threats and lawsuits are all about. Two Worlds from Reality Pump is available on Amazon for £12, Topware’s Dream Pinball 3D is available for under £10, Call of Juarez by Techland much less than that. At absolute best ACS:Law has evidence that copyright was infringed via an IP address for a mere second on a few kilobytes of these titles. For these equally small infringements, ACS:Law demand around £600 from the public to satisfy them and their clients, backed up by the threat of ruination in court.
That’s how low we’ve sunk. It must stop, all of it. |
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| BitTorrent: Pirate Bay Judge Indeed Handpicked |
(Source: TorrentFreak)
In the aftermath of the Pirate Bay verdict the controversy surrounding judge Tomas Norström grows bigger and bigger. Most recently, defense lawyer Per E Samuelsson sent a letter to the Appeal Court in which he explains that the younger generation has lost faith in the legal system because of the shady selection procedure.
Unlike other criminal trials in Sweden, the judge in the Pirate Bay trial wasn’t selected at random. Instead, he was chosen because of his expertise with copyright related issues. Indeed, as a member of various pro-copyright organizations, Norström is very involved in the issue.
However, the ties to these lobby groups might also cloud his judgment and thus the verdict, some claim. It is therefore highly dubious that Norström was handpicked and not randomly assigned as is normal procedure in cases like this.
Defense lawyer Per E Samuelsson has now sent a letter to the Court of Appeal where he addresses the issue and seems to confirm earlier rumors he shared with the press. “The young generation’s trust in the judicial system is at stake here,” he told the Swedish news agency (TT) in a comment.
“I don’t want to say that the randomness of judge selection has been fixed, but the case has been handed to Norström mainly because he is considered an expert on copyright. That raises questions since this is a criminal case. A large majority of the young generation believes that what is going on here is a farce,” Samuelsson added.
Tomas Norström at his best:
According to Samuelsson, there is no doubt that all the suspicious connections to pro-copyright groups indicate that Norström had preconceived ideas on the issues addressed during the Pirate Bay trial.
“I have a hard time to let go of the thought that he kept quiet about this because he had the intention of using his opinions in the case. I don’t hesitate for a moment when saying that this is bias,” he said.
Henrik Pontén, lawyer at the anti-piracy bureau didn’t want to comment on Samuelsson’s letter to the Appeal Court, and said he will await the court’s decision due to be announced a few weeks from now.
The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde told TorrentFreak that the current developments amount to yet another plot twist in the tragicomedy that their trial has turned into. “We will win in the end,” he said, promising a happy ending. |
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| Help: Key 10th Anniversary Letter project |
(Taken from Key10th.info)
If you somehow have gotten to this page, then someone must have sent you this pretty link that greets you with the beautiful calligraphy of 岡崎最高. Basically, this is a project which collects messages and illustrations addressed to Key to commemorate their 10th Anniversary (technically that's July 21, 1998) in English. These messages will then be compiled into a letter by whoever that wishes to volunteer, in both English and Japanese. The letter will be sent on the release date of the Key 10th Memorial Box compilation, about one month after the original release date of Kanon.
In order to meet this projected date, messages and illustrations will be accepted until at least a week before the said release date. The letter will then be compiled, as a number of illustrations are being picked from the entries. The letter will be printed in A4 papers, while the illustrations will be printed in glossy photo paper. The envelope must be postmarked three days prior to the compilation's release date in order to keep the project under a low budget while delivering on time. If this date cannot be met, dates will be rescheduled to meet the release date for Air's tenth anniversary.
Please submit your messages and illustrations to Key in the Submission board, and discuss about anything Key-related in the Discussion Board. Please note that offensive language, explict artwork, and illustrations not created by you are strictly forbidded. While this remains to be debated, all illustrations featuring Key characters most likely falls as derivative works. If, for some reason, they do not, or your illustrations does not include any Key characters (such as starfish, taiyaki, or dango), you agree to allow the Key 10th Project to publish your work.
- Cloud668, head of project
Please help Cloud668 with this nice project ! |
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| Anime: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Third Season |
This year's 21st issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine announced that a third television anime adaptation of Kôji Kumeta's Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei manga has been green-lit. Zan: Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (懺・さよなら 絶望先生, literally Repent: Goodbye, Mr. Despair) will premiere on UHF television stations throughout Japan in July.
The first television series aired in 2007, and the second series, bearing the prefix Zoku (俗, meaning 'vulgar', which is homophonous with 続 meaning 'continuation'), aired in 2008. A set of three OVAs titled Goku: Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (獄・さよなら絶望先生, literally Prison: Goodbye, Mr. Despair), now promoted as "Series 2.5", were produced between October 2008 and February 2009.
The official website for the third series has launched.
Source: Anime News Network |
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| Anime: New Haruhi Suzumiya Episodes |
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is currently re-airing on a number of Japanese television networks. Unlike the original 2006 broadcast, the episodes are being aired in chronological order and their total number will be 28, which is twice as many as in 2006. This means that we will see 14 new episodes.  One of them has aired already on May 21 - it's the eighth episode which is called 笹の葉ラプソディ ("Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody"). Yes, you can get it on our tracker.  |
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| BitTorrent: Pirate Bay Judge Judged by More Judges |
(Taken from TorrentFreak)
To determine if the verdict in the Pirate Bay case was biased, the connections of Judge Tomas Norström to national and international pro-copyright lobby groups will be reviewed by another judge. However, the judge that was initially appointed has already been replaced because she was linked to the same organizations as Norström, and her replacement is not exactly unbiased either.
Pirate Bay judge Tomas Norström’s objectivity has been called into doubt because of his ties to national and international pro-copyright lobby groups. Furthermore, one of the defense lawyers claimed to have evidence that Norström was handpicked and not assigned to the case randomly.
To investigate these accusations of bias, the appeal court appointed a judge, Ulrika Ihrfelt. Her task is to decide whether or not Norström’s verdict could have been biased since this issue must be resolved before they will look into the appeal request. If it’s determined that Norström was indeed biased, the case will be resubmitted to the district court for retrial, meaning that an appeal is not needed at this stage.
However, soon after the appointment of Ulrika Ihrfelt, it became known that she too had been a member of the same pro-copyright organizations as the ‘biased’ judge. The appointment was criticized by several judicial analysts who said she wasn’t fit either. Judicial praxis dictates that the court must not only be unbiased, but also be BELIEVED to be unbiased, which is clearly not the case here.
As a consequence and in order to avoid more negative press, the appeal court sent out a press release today in which they announce that Ihrfelt has been taken off the case. She has been replaced by three new judges from a separate division of the court.
In the press release, the appeal court writes: “The reasons for this is that the question of whether the original judge was biased needs to be tried by other judges other than those that later may have been given the case. Furthermore, because of the content of the claim of bias, it has been deemed proper that the question should be answered by a division that is not specialized in copyright.”
“None of the three judges are or have been members of the [pro-copyright] organizations in question,” the appeal court announced. But is this really the case?
With a simple Google search Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde has already discovered that one of the replacements, Anders Eka, is connected to the The Stockholm Center for Commercial law, together with movie industry lawyers Monique Wasted and Peter Danowsky who represented the music industry in the Pirate Bay trial.
Nevertheless, the appeal court does not intent to replace the new judge(s). “The group Anders Eka is member of has no connection to copyright issues and the interests that are present in the case. I cannot see how this specific connection could lead to that Anders Eka isn’t suitable to try the question of bias,” Fredrik Wersäll, the president of the appeal court said.
The court will not look at the appeal case before the question of Norström’s bias is settled. The bias issue will be given priority and should be settled “in a few weeks at the maximum”, according to the appeal court president.
With all the commotion and judicial incompetence displayed after the Pirate Bay trial it seems almost unthinkable that a retrial won’t be granted. It is therefore no surprise that the entertainment industries try to get some cash off the defendants before it’s too late. |
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| BitTorrent: Record Labels Increase Pressure on Pirate Bay |
(News post directly taken from TorrentFreak)
As everyone is now aware, defeat in the Spectrial did not lead to the closure of The Pirate Bay. Now, after being able to download hundreds of their own albums via the site, the record company plaintiffs from the case want action, and have applied to the court to issue fines to the defendants for every day they continue to infringe copyright.
Despite a resounding court defeat against the combined might of the music and movie industries, The Pirate Bay continues to operate - at any given moment there are in excess of 20 million peers connected to the tracker. In any event, the verdict is subject to appeal and could drag on for years yet.
The music industry plaintiffs from the case, Universal, EMI, Sony and Warner, have had enough of this situation and through their lawyer Peter Danowsky, have applied to the court requesting it starts imposing additional fines on three of the defendants for as long as they continue to infringe their copyrights.
According to DN.se, the application to the district court describes The Pirate Bay as an “infringing service”. The plaintiffs claim that they have been able to download 467 music albums to which they own the copyright, via The Pirate Bay.
Because of this, the record companies have demanded that the operators of The Pirate Bay - Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi - take steps to ensure that it is impossible for Internet users to download any of the works to which they own the copyright, using The Pirate Bay.
Additionally, in what appears to be an attack on The Pirate Bay’s bandwidth supplier, the plaintiffs are demanding that the ISP ‘Black Internet’ stops providing services to The Pirate Bay.
Worryingly, the application also asks the court to start applying the requested financial penalties before the District Court actually rules on it and that the four defendants shouldn’t be allowed to comment.
IT security expert André Rickardsson told DN.se that he was surprised the record companies have asked for The Pirate Bay operators to be fined;
“Swedish law applies in Sweden and their Internet service isn’t even in Sweden,” he said. “I don’t understand why the district court has anything to do with this. The Pirate Bay operates in countries where the activity is permitted.”
“They are acting like a bull in a china shop and this isn’t going to generate any sympathy for them in the matter.” |
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| AniRena Blogging Page (kinda) online ! |
AniRena's new blogging page is up.
It's still in a forum-way but atleast we have a news page active now.
Please feel free to give any comments regarding the new page, since it's in testing phase now. |
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Tracker Information:
| Registered Users: | 32,843 |
| Torrents: | 20,678 |
| Torrents Dead: | 12,663 |
| Total Peers: | 70,934 |
| Seeders: | 37,978 |
| Leechers: | 32,956 |
| Seeder Percentage: | 115.2 % |
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