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New Michael Jackson video to be released

Posted by Shane On October - 20 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

A new Michael Jackson video is to be released as part of a boxed collection of all Jackson’s music videos, it was announced Wednesday.

The three-DVD collection, ‘Michael Jackson’s Vision’, will hit stores Nov 22, and will feature re-mastered video and audio of such Jackson classics as ‘Thriller’, ‘Bad’ and ‘Black and White’.

Produced by Jackson’s estate in conjunction with Epic/Legacy Recordings the boxed-set will also include the video Jackson made to the never-before released recording ‘One More Chance’, which was penned by R Kelly.

According to a statement by the producers, the 4.5 hours of video recognise Jackson’s ‘pioneering short films that transformed the entertainment industry with timeless, pop culture classics’.

‘The simultaneous emergence of MTV as a television force and Michael Jackson’s breakout as a global superstar provided the most epochal musical/cultural shift since The Beatles,’ the producers said. ‘Michael Jackson redefined and established the perimeters, and parameters, of an entire new medium.’

Hollywood, Hollywood Buzz

Minivona restricted to Content Distribution Service

Posted by Shane On January - 21 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

What happened to Mininova site?  This question has been arised between the Content downloaders online .  Well , the answer for that is , “mininova has stricted it service to content distribution after a fallout in court”.

Another Torrent site down. Yep, the pressure from Entertainment Industry has taken a toll on the torrent sites.  The other torrent sites which is most visited  thepiratebay.org has been stopped in many countries.

Another famous site zamunda.net is no longer available.

The Following message has been given in mininova site.

”

Hi all,

Today is an important day in the history of Mininova. From now on, we are limiting Mininova.org to our Content Distribution service. By doing so, we comply with the ruling of the Court of Utrecht of last August.

Unfortunately the court ruling leaves us no other option than to take our platform offline, except for the Content Distribution service. According to the verdict (Dutch link) we have to prevent uploads of torrents to Mininova that refer to certain titles or to similar-looking titles. We’ve been testing some filtering systems the last couple of months, but we found that it’s neither technically nor operationally possible to implement a 100% working filter system. Therefore, we decided that the only option is to limit Mininova to Content Distribution torrents from now on. We are still considering an appeal at this moment.

We launched our Content Distribution service in 2007. This service allows producers and artists to easily publish and distribute their content for free through Mininova. The launch of Content Distribution has proven to be a success. Countless content owners have used Content Distribution to distribute their content (e.g. albums and documentaries) for free to millions of users. For example, the Dutch band Silence is Sexy released their complete album on Mininova and received the Interactive Award 2009 for doing so. The Dutch television broadcaster VPRO decided to start using Content Distribution in 2009 in order to distribute documentaries.

We would like to thank you for your support. Especially everyone that contributed to Mininova receives a big “thank you!” for the effort! We hope to keep welcoming you on Mininova and our other projects (e.g. Snotr, Dispostable).

Thanks! The Mininova staff  ”

For direct viewing of the message,  click here

Thats it folks, piracy of movies will come to on end or will it raise again? what do you have to say on this?

Science/Tech

Michael Jackson Album Sales on record high

Posted by Shane On June - 28 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

The dead of their hero ‘the pop star Michael Jackson‘ has stunned everyone. Right from the US president Obama to every person in entertainment industry throughout the world showing their condolence to MJ’s family.

Whats surprising is MJ’s fan activity. Millions of fans on one side regret the loss of their idol saying  ‘its an unbearable pain‘. Where on the other end the sales of the Michael Jackson Album seems to be on record high. One of the shop keeper named Adithya reports from Mumbai that the sale of MJ Album is very high on their shop lately after Michael Jackson death.Not only in Mumbai, from all other major cities throughout India,USA,UK,Europe,Russia,Canada, Australia reports the same increase in sales of Michael Jackson music.

MJ fan showing their pain by listening to music which Michael composed. It sure will take months and possibly years for few that follow Michael throughout their life as a role model.

Entertainment, Hollywood, Hollywood Buzz

The Pirate Bay owners sent to jail by the order of court

Posted by Shane On April - 17 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

The four founders of  The Pirate Bay have been sent to jail following the orders of a Sweden Court.The Pirate Bay is the biggest network today which has file sharing in the form of torrents. It is approximately estimated that along 5 million files are shared per day.

Though it has huge popularity online.The Pirate Bay Owners were facing extreme Copyright issue problem throughout the entertainment field. Some claimed its the act of Piracy of sharing the movies,tv shows,etc.. in form of torrents.The owners of the pirate bay denied the charges throughout the trial, saying that “they did not actually host any files, they were not doing anything wrong“.

This looks pretty tricky case though.But the verdict has been issues against  Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde who are the owners of The Pirate Bay and have been sentenced to 1 year jail.

Not only have they been jailed but also they have  been asked to pay a ransom money of 30m kronor (£2.4m) as  damages to the entertainment companies.It will be awarded to the number of entertainment companies, including Warner Bros, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, and Columbia Pictures.

Peter Sunde says that this is just like a theatre to media and he is aware of the judgement before its official release itself. He also added “The Pirate Bay will continue. Nothing is going to happen if we lose, for a multitude for reasons, not least because we will immediately appeal”.

He  also added that ,” there is no difference between Google and us”.The Entertainment Industry seem to be quiet happy by the verdict as they say that JUSTICE has been done.However,the firm actually seeked 117m kronor (£9m) as damages done to them. The chairman of industry body the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) John Kennedy said the verdict sent out a clear message.

“The Pirate Bay did immense harm and the damages awarded doesn’t even get close to compensation, but we never claimed it did.”There has been a perception that piracy is OK and that the music industry should just have to accept it. This verdict will change that,” he said.

A lawyer for Carl Lundstrom, Per Samuelson told journalists he was shocked by the guilty verdict and the severity of the sentence. “That’s outrageous, in my point of view. Of course we will appeal,” he was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency. “This is the first word, not the last. The last word will be ours.”

Some claimed that the file sharing is Ok in sweden and there is some political issue behind it.Anyway,it seems to be a clear message  by the court for not  only to the pirate bay but  also many websites  owners that use Copyright content.

Science/Tech