Tim Kuik, managing director of Dutch anti-piracy gang BREIN, has publicly admitted that he’s currently using a Sony VAIO laptop previously confiscated from a ‘hacker’. Although he doesn’t elaborate on how he obtained the machine, it is hard not to conclude that it has been misappropriated.

This… I… gah! I HATE THOSE FUCKERS! Someone pull their asses to court for bribing and breaking the law by taking it into their own goddamn hands?

If a man takes a photo of me when I’m in a (if I ever would) cosplay costume that I made myself and then shared it on the internet without my permission, would I fucking go take everything eletronic he has and confiscate it? No, I’d get sent to prison for that, so why the fuck do these people get away with it?

But instead of listing up Opera, they dig up two browsers I’ve never heard of out of nowhere, and list them instead…

I don’t treasure patriotism much, so I’ll skip that, but really? uBrowser and Green Browser instead of Opera? Isn’t that like choosing a Lada over a Lamborgini because “the Lada looks quirky”?

Haha, and the best part of them all!

40. WinRAR

Gratis i 30 dager, men fungerer også etterpå. Meget bra nedpakkingsprogram, som fungerer mot et utall formater. www.rarlab.com

40. WinRar – Free for 30 days, but works afterwards. Very good zip-program, that works towards a number of formats.

So, they completely skipped 7-zip, a free compression program, and probably the best, for a trial-ware, and additionally tells you it’s ok to use it beyond the trial-period… gogo Aftenposten. Wow…

Web Proxy: Allowing you to test and demo a website without launching it fully, supports a wide range of scripts and functions. Definitely worth checking out if you want to hack up your website a bit and test it real-time and quickly.

Stream media: Stream media. What it says. Supports a crazy amount of formats. Definitely worth looking into if you’re keen on sharing the odd video!

Test OpenID Provider: Make your own OpenID Provider? If I’m reading it right. Not quite what I’m into… *grins*

Robots.txt: Avoid having your Unite services indexed!

PkUnite: Publishing and storing a Public Key. I guess I’ll find out what it is in time!

Today, 09.07.2009, Telenor released a statement (tl;dr format) basically saying:

“We won’t be police, figure out how to compete with piracy since we think it’s possible, and gtfo unless you’ve got a court order telling us to block stuff”.

Google Translate here

This kind of stance certainly increases my respect for Telenor.

Looking for Boxtorrents.com? This is what you’d find.

This is what greeted me today

For years and years now this site has been my one stop shop for almost everything anime and manga. I’ve left my computer on to seed for other people for countless of hours, and it’s been one of the mainstays in my life after I discovered it. An explanation has been posted here. The crux of the matter is this part:

[Box was evasive about donations]…curiosity got the best of us, and so Jarudin wrote a script to get an idea of just how much money we were getting from donations. Note that this was based entirely on how much upload credit donators have gotten, since we have no access to the Paypal account the donations went to. When Jarudin and I saw the results, we were shocked, to say the least. We won’t say how much exactly, but let’s just say that based on the numbers (after double/triple/quadruple-checking the numbers, even adding them up manually), we haven’t really needed any donations to keep the site operaable for a long time now.

Box has always been one of the symbols of altruism on the internet for me. Seems that money can bite anyone in the ass and make them less altruistic. Regardless of the actual truth of this I have every confidence in Jarudin and Malus, they’ve done an insanely good job on BoxTorrents the last years, and from everything I’ve seen these years Box hasn’t been active at all, and thus I’m not too fussed anymore.

BoxTorrents has been replaced with the new BakaBT.com.

BakaBT, BoxTorrent Replacement