Quantcast
Channel: Geek News Central » mpaa
Browsing all 23 articles
Browse latest View live

Intel Executive tells Congress how he broke the Law!

You know I am a very vocal proponent of Fair Use, but because organizations like the MPAA and RIAA have their lawyers hiding in alleyways waiting to slap and injunction on every citizen of this country...

View Article



Broadcast Flag Battle is far from over!

The EFF has a update on the Broadcast Flag battle, and for those of you that reacted from the posting on this website, Thank You. [EFF] I support the EFF with a yearly donation, and encourage those of...

View Article

Rent my DVR!

Missed recording some shows on your DVR don’t worry head over to Rent my DVR. People are asking some of the obvious copyright questions but apparently the site has been up for a while and people are...

View Article

Would you Pay $17.00 for a Video on Demand

There is a catch to that question. What if you paid that $17.00 and then several days later received the DVD of the movie you just watched. Personally I don’t think the model will work and here is why....

View Article

Hollywood Studios Fair Use Public Enemy Number One

I hate to say it but here we go again. Hollywood has fielded some new legislation that makes the broadcast flag initiative look insignificant. From BoingBoing I read the following and my jaw hit the...

View Article


BitTorrent creator to help stop Downloads of Movies!

Do I sense a war brewing. Their are going to be a lot of pissed of people if they cannot download the last episode of lost or a syndicated television show. Think about this for a second, when I was...

View Article

Movie released on DVD same day it is to Theaters causes firestorm

Many of you may have already heard that the movie the “Bubble” was released on DVD the same day it was made available to Movie Theaters and and some of the theaters are refusing to run the movie and...

View Article

RIAA and MPAA want to freeze the progress of consumer electronics!

Don’t believe that their are all kinds of sinister acts happening now. Well you need to wake the heck up and listen to some of the stuff I have been talking about. If the following two articles don’t...

View Article


MPAA cannot abide by it’s own Copyright rhetoric

In the second most hypocritical thing I have seen in recent weeks the MPAA has admitted to copyright violation by copying movies. This is the same organization that wants you thrown in jail for...

View Article


Senator Inouye Democrat Hawaii supports the Broadcast Flag

I normally do not talk politics in this blog, but I have to call my Senator to the table. I have received a number of e-mails tonight from Hawaii residents all saying that they saw the Senator on...

View Article

Broadcast Flag praised in Senate Hearing!

These Senators that are on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in large part do not get it.They had a lot of wool pulled over the eyes today. I am sure the Motion Picture Industry is...

View Article

Could your cable company become your DVR?

Cablevision Systems is set to unveil a test that will allow consumers to time shift TV programming with their regular set top boxes. Instead of having a DVR in the home, you will now be able to use the...

View Article

TorrentSpy fighting the MPAA!

TorrentSpy a torrent search engine who is in takedown war with the MPAA is not laying down, they are fighting back and I think they have a pretty good chance of getting the case dismissed. TorrentSpy...

View Article


MPAA is charged with hiring a Hacker!

As you all know the MPAA sued Torrentspy.com some time ago but it is being alleged that the MPAA paid a hacker $15,000 to steal information from the company which supposedly included e-mail and company...

View Article

MPAA versus the EFF

In a cross-talk interview done by the BBC resulted in a some good dialog from the knight in shining honor at the EFF and the evil empire leader at the MPAA [BBC]

View Article


BitTorrent moving into Mainstream File Distribution

Is it not time that Apple, Microsoft, MPAA and the RIAA acknowledge that BitTorrent is good when applied legally, and incorporate BitTorrent into applications such as iTunes, Windows Media Player etc....

View Article

Questions for the Entertainment Industry

The EFF has posted some great questions that you can ask if you ever get in debate with a representative from either the MPAA or RIAA. [eff.org]

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

GNC-2006-08-18 #197

This show is packed end to end with a lot of content with a special appearance of Chris the two year old who brings the house down. We have a new spokes person for GoDaddy in his segment! Sponsors:...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Copy Never Flag has TiVo Series Three signing the blues

A TiVo Series Three Receiver was on my shopping list for this Christmas season. I have been watching the reviews of the unit and the new C|Net review of the Series III that I saw today makes me wonder...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

GNC-2006-10-20 #209

Great debate at the end of the show and I have fun smacking both Microsoft and Apple around today with a lot of hot topics that you are going to want to hear my commentary on! Ohh and a Old School...

View Article
Browsing all 23 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images