The first two episodes of Futurama season 6 leaked and are now all over the internet.

Since the various industries don’t seem to understand, I thought I help them out a bit and show them what they are doing wrong.
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This time it was Razor 1911 who removed the Ubisoft DRM from the game. As you probably noticed Skidrow has successfully cracked Assassins Creed 2 last week. Hopefully this sends a message to Ubisoft and other publishers that their DRM is only good for one thing: Annoying the shit out of paying customers. Here is an excerpt from Razors nfo: read on

Posting about another documentary, that is. This time it´s “RIP: A remix Manifesto”. It just won an award at the European Media Art Festival (EMAF) in Osnabrück Germany. The open source documentary deals with the copyright and remix culture and is a product of many iterations of remixing itself.

So I found yet another one of this mini documentaries over at vbs.tv. Here is what the creators have to say about it:

We went to London to tell the story of pirate radio – secret urban studios that transmit music from concrete tower blocks to the city, and met with DJs, and station managers, rappers and MCs. We met with DJ Scratcha from RINSE FM, MC Flirt from old school KOOL FM, J2k, Jammer, and Logan Sama. We uncovered how they stay underground and away from the authorities, while still setting the new music standard across London. We sailed to the source, where it all started – massive concrete and steel forts that sit at the mouth of the Thames River. We met the people who pioneered the spirit of pirate, and played the music that London wanted to hear. They set the standard, and when the authorities shut them down, pirate sounds went into the urban underground.

a2knetwork.org has released a 15 minute long documentary about copyright. It features some rather interesting people like Hank Shocklee – Co-founder of Public Enemy – or Fred Von Lohmann who works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Here is what the creators have to say about their movie:

For centuries, copyright law has existed to protect creative production whilst promoting public access. But the digital age is challenging this balance and fundamentally changing the nature of the way we produce, access and distribute content. Suddenly, copyright rules no longer do what they are supposed to do. They have gone bad.

This is a film about how copyright has become one of the most important consumer issues of the digital age; why corporate lobbying risks criminalising the actions of hundreds of thousands of people; and what the future holds for the fight for fairer copyright laws.

You probably heard of the infamous Ubisoft DRM which forces the gamer to be online at all times in order to play the latest Ubisoft titles. This DRM has now been cracked by Skid Row. I have to admit that it lasted longer than I thought it would.

Read what Skid Row had to say about their release after the break.
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“Patent Absurdity” is a 30 minute long movie based upon several interviews conducted during the Supreme Court´s hearing of in re Belinsky. This case could have very serious implications for the patenting of software in the US.

Patent Absurdity explores the case of software patents and the history of judicial activism that led to their rise, and the harm being done to software developers and the wider economy. The film is based on a series of interviews conducted during the Supreme Court’s review of in re Bilski — a case that could have profound implications for the patenting of software. The Court’s decision is due soon…

The film is released under the Creative Commons license and can be streamed or downloaded here.

iSendr offers you on the fly P2P for you to send stuff to your friends.

iSendr is an on-demand direct file transfer system. It makes transferring any size file between two people as simple as clicking a link!

A parody of the famous “Downfall” clip dealing with the very taking down of “Downfall” clips by Constantin Films. Watch it while it is still up.

There are hundreds of parodies of this “Downfall” clip. The studio, Constantin Films, has ordered takedowns of some of them, and eventually even had this parody removed from YouTube. In this clip, Hitler is the producer, and his lawyers tell him why he can’t do a DMCA takedown and how the EFF could stop him. He desperately searches for other ways to protect the movie.

Hitler, as “Downfall producer” orders a DMCA takedown from Brad Templeton on Vimeo.