18 Jul 2007 was the last date you could legally buy Windows XP. Microsoft simply stopped selling them so that they can promote Vista. But XP fans there is a news to cheer ...  eXPerience has just relesed TinyXP Rev09.

TinyXP contains all the updated drivers to the day and there are several custom installation options. It’s based on XP SP3.  The best thing about this is that allows you to install Windows XP without the much hated Internet Explorer, Outlook express and Windows media player.  These are the available install options.

• TinyXP With IE/OE/WMP (With Added Driverpacks)
• TinyXP With IE/OE/WMP (Without Added Driverpacks)
• TinyXP Without IE/OE/WMP (With Added Driverpacks)
• TinyXP Without IE/OE/WMP (Without Added Driverpacks)
• TinyXP BARE With IE/OE/WMP (With Added Driverpacks)
• TinyXP BARE With IE/OE/WMP (Without Added Driverpacks)
• TinyXP BARE Without IE/OE/WMP (With Added Driverpacks)
• TinyXP BARE Without IE/OE/WMP (Without Added Driverpacks)
• TinyXP With Repair Option (Product Key Already Filled In)

Tiny XP installs thousands of registry hacks, that improve the system so much you'll never want to go back to the standard version. As if that's not enough, it even includes a bunch of cool options at boot time for trouble shooting, and even a fully functional copy of the Damn Small Linux live CD!

The installation will automatically install follwing components.

Service Pack 3 Final (Build 5512)

All Hotfixes Up To May 2008

DirectX DLL Libraries (24 to 36)

Flash Player v9.0.124.0 (IE) - / - Plugin DLL v9.0.124.0 (Firefox/Opera)

Royale Theme (Options 1 to 4) - / - Classic Theme

The following applications are also included in CD are Acronis Backup & Restore, Damn Small Linux 4.3, Hirens Boot CD 9.5 and SpinRite 6.0.  You can download the TinyXP ISO which is only 700 MB using torrents.

Here is a link to download it from The Pirate Bay - The world's most loved torrent tracker. You will also find installation instructions there.

Download

I just read Saints of Los Angeles has sold about 99,000 copies in its first week of release. And that got me wondering.. would they have sold more albums if the internet wasn't here here yet, or as big as it is at the moment.

Let's say S.O.L.A. was released in a time and place where internet does not excist!
*Whoa! Shocker!*
Would the album have sold 99,000 copies, or more/less? Allthough a lot of people say the album would have sold more without internet, because people wouldn't be able to download it, I think it would have sold less. Because I found out about the making of, and the release date and etc. of Saints of Los Angeles, thanks to the internet. I live in Holland and I have to admit, Holland wouldn't give a shit about Mötley Crüe or other hardrock bands anymore.

So I just kept on thinking.. if there was no internet where I can find news about bands and their new albums and stuff.. How the fuck would I ever know anything about it? You see? I wouldn't have bought the album because I wouldn't know it excisted.. And I wouldn't know about a lot of bands I found on the internet. The internet opened my eyes(ears) when it comes to music. Before we had internet at home, all the music I would know about was the populair music, the hiphop and shit like that.

Thanks to the internet I found out about cool (old) bands like Guns N' Roses, Motörhead, AC/DC, Nirvana, Mötley Crüe and many more. I already knew I liked the loud and hard music because some radio stations still play a little GNR, AC/DC and ofcourse Aerosmith. But I wouldn't know who it was I was listening to! I liked it, but I didn't know who that was, or what the song was called. I just remembered the terms I heard, like hard rock, heavy metal, metal, classic rock and whatever label they put on it. Then we got internet, and I just started Googeling the terms and downloading a lot of music from the bands that were labeled like that... and that's how I think the internet only helps selling albums instead of decreasing it.

For the people I just pissed off in this story because I said I just started downloading a lot of music, I have bought albums of almost all the bands I have downloaded from (check out the "Collexion" page for my.. well.. collection..) , or have a shirt or other merchandising.

07-05-08 YeBin on Star Golden Bell Ep. 192 size: 800MB

credits: movierg & cutegiurl

Just wanted to let you know that Birdy the Mighty Decode Episode 1 is out, subbed by yours truly! Of course, I also have to give credit to my man Tadashi for timing the karaoke featured in this episode, as well as giving my work a once over.

Hope you all enjoy! This episode has some fantastic direction!

[wyvern] Birdy the Mighty Decode - 01 (704x400 H.264 AAC).mkv

Back to a short ramble, but this is really something I want to get off my chest, as I find it incredibly stupid on Virgin Media's part. So Virgin Media want to disconnect people who download illegal content from torrent sight on a basis of a 3 strikes and your out. Fair enough, but do they really expect to combat illegal downloading at the risk of losing millions of customers - because lets face it, who is going to buy a record off the internet, no matter how cheap, when they search on a perfectly legal client such as limewire or bit torrent, and get it for free. The same applies to tv shows. So I've missed an episode of Supernatural. So what do I do? Download it from mininova or the like. I find this in no way different to borrowing the episode from a friend who recorded it when it was screened. You would think that in this society we live in that sharing would be encouraged...
I also find it interesting how these ISPs are going to justify something they cannot prove. For example a person down the road could be easily using your internet to download content, unless of course they could track the computers IP back to the residence the person is living in and is registered to the company with, but I don't want to give them ideas, because not all people actually mask their IPs anyway. I don't see how it makes any difference from a horny 13 year old downloading porn to his computer illegally, and downloading a missed episode from the net - according to The Sun's Dear Deidre, horny 13 year olds visiting porn sites is completely normal - so why is downloading a torrent something punishable - O.K so the company may be losing money from it, but after all, it is only sharing, across a client that is actually legal to use. I also find it quite humourous that Virgin Media, on their site, have guides on torrent clients such as bit torrent, how to use them, and how to download torrents. Of course it does mention legal and illegal torrents, but a) how can these be identified, and b) why do Virgin Media not mention anything about downloading illegal content to be punishable by disconnection - it almost seems as if Virgin are saying "goodbye customers".
They are yet to actually disconnect a person according to BBC news, so isn't it just a complete waste of time, energy and paper (after sending out 800 warning letters to customers) on the ISP's part?

I'd just like to humiliate Virgin Media further by saying that their On Demand rarely works, they are supposed to provide you with internet access, and that is all, as it does not say anywhere that they will trifle through your content and what you are and aren't downloading, as well as the added fact that my family pay extra to block phone calls with withheld numbers, of which they have received about 3 blank phone calls in the past few days. Well done Virgin Media. A note to those who are considering moving - don't - stay with Sky or whatever, at least their Sky Plus works, and you can record anything - not just the little selections on Virgin On Demand, that as mentioned above - rarely work. I have a lot more to say about it but to be honest I have either forgot or cannot be bothered. Plus I don't want to bore you completely or make you think I'm someone I'm not by keep on moaning.

As always your thoughts on anything above is greatly appreciated - unless your here to spam or REALLY slag me off, and I'll let you be the judge of what you consider to be really slagging off. :]

[I wrote this last night on Notepad, as I couldn't at all be arsed to go downstairs and turn the internet on, and just have to say: I had a dream about Henry Fitzroy last night (Blood Ties)! Woohoo, Lol.

Direct from orkut. you would need to log into orkut to view this.
[ Google guys have major brains!]

AXXO-THE LEGEND

In real life, aXXo is probably just an average person, but on the Internet he’s a celebrity, with over a million people downloading his DVDRips every month. The search term “aXXo” is among the top searches on every torrent site, and even anti-piracy organizations use his name to trap people into downloading fake torrents.

µTorrent, para quem não sabe, é um aplicativo fácil que nem instalação precisa, mas o que esse µTorrent  faz ?

Ele baixa arquivos torrent.

Mas o que é arquivo torrent e como funciona?

Simplificando, o torrent é uma forma de download de grandes lotes, por exemplo, se você quiser baixar uma música de cada vez, pode usar os e-mule e kazaa da vida, mas se quiser baixar um filme inteiro, um CD ou coletânea completa de um artista, ou mesmo um programa completo, mesmo que sejam lançamentos - na verdade PRINCIPALMENTE se forem lançamentos - use o torrent!!!

Pra usá-lo é necessário ter um cliente torrent, que você acha em qualquer site de download, eu pessoalmente recomendo o  µTorrent.

Depois de ter o cliente instalado, vá nos sites de busca de torrent e busque o que procura, veja com detalhes cada resultado, dê prioridade para os que possuem maior número de SEEDS e menor número de PEERS que o download é mais rápido. Agora apenas espere baixar e aproveite.

Sites de busca que recomendo:
www.isohunt.com
www.torrentz.com
www.mininova.org

E como aqui download é prioridade

Testado com Kaspersky : Sem virus ou malware.

Κατ’ αρχάς, ας δούμε πόσο νόμιμη είναι και μόνο η αναφορά σε όλα αυτά. Η απάντηση έρχεται εμπειρικά. Είναι τόσο νόμιμη, όσο και οι διαφημίσεις που υπόσχονται μεγάλες ταχύτητες για να «κατεβάσετε» mp3, ταινίες και άλλα αρχεία στον υπολογιστή σας, αν αγοράσετε σήμερα κιόλας μια συνδρομή στην Otenet, Forthnet, HOL κλπ. Δεν νοιάζει κανένα τι θα κατεβάσετε, αρκεί να έχετε τη νόμιμη ιδιοκτησία στο περιεχόμενο αυτό. Ουσιαστικά, αποποιούνται την ευθύνη με μια απλή διευκρίνιση. Το αυτό θα κάνουμε κι εμείς. Μην «κατεβάσετε» λοιπόν κάτι που δεν σας ανήκει ή δεν αποκτήσατε το νόμιμο δικαίωμα από τον παραγωγό ή το διανομέα του.
Θα μου πείτε, πως είναι δυνατόν αυτό… Είναι και παραείναι. Υπάρχουν τόσα και τόσα αρχεία που παράγουν χρήστες και είναι ελεύθερα για διανομή και θέαση ή διανέμονται δωρεάν υπό περιορισμούς, όπως τα blog που δημιουργούμε και συντηρούμε και αποτελούνται από πρωτογενές υλικό, ή για παράδειγμα η υπηρεσία Youtube, που στηρίζεται εξ ολοκλήρου σε υλικό που παράγουν οι χρήστες-συνδρομητές της ανά τον κόσμο. Υπάρχουν αυτά που διανέμονται με τη χρήση κάποιας άδειας Creative Commons, αλλά είναι κι εκείνα που δεν υπάγονται σε περιορισμούς, επειδή έχει περάσει ο χρόνος προστασίας τους.
ΟΚ. Ο House όμως; Το δελτίο ειδήσεων που είχε αναφορά στην ανηψούλα μας που βραβεύτηκε και το χάσαμε; Ο ποδοσφαιρικός αγώνας της ομάδας μας που τον χάσαμε επειδή δουλεύαμε ως αργά; Η «Κυριακή στο Χωριό» που είχε το Δήμο καταγωγής μας και έπεφτε πάνω στη μεσημεριανή μας σιέστα;
Ε, τι κάναμε παλιότερα, το ίδιο θα κάνουμε και τώρα. Θα το γράψουμε στο βίντεο. Ναι το VHS. Τι; Δεν έχετε πια; Το πετάξατε γιατί πάλιωσε; Μμμμ….
Ας υποθέσουμε πως έχετε μια καλή κάρτα TV και μπορείτε να «γράψετε» το αγαπημένο σας πρόγραμμα από το λατρεμένο σας κανάλι, για να το δείτε αργότερα. Παρανομείτε; Εσείς πιστεύετε πως όχι. Ο Οργανισμός Προστασίας Πνευματικής Ιδιοκτησίας πιστεύει πως ναι. Είτε εσείς στραβά αρμενίζετε, είτε ο γιαλός είναι στραβός. Υπάρχει μια ολόκληρη κίνηση πολιτών – και στα blogs – που εδώ και καιρό προσπαθεί να εκπαιδεύσει τους οργανισμούς αυτούς πως αυτοί είναι ο στραβός γιαλός και όχι εμείς όλοι… παράνομοι. Είναι μια χρονική μετάθεση τηλοψίας που δικαιούμαστε ως καταναλωτές, και ως ελεύθερα σκεπτόμενοι πολίτες. Είναι μια υπηρεσία πάνω στην οποία βασίζονται προϊόντα ISP και συνδρομητικών καναλιών που πληρώνουμε αδρά και μας απαγορεύεται να χρησιμοποιούμε.
Αυτά τα ολίγα ως εισαγωγή, με την ελπίδα να αποφύγω πέτρες, γιαούρτια και ντομάτες από πιο εξειδικευμένους και πιο ενεργά συμμετέχοντες στα κοινά blogger.

Αποφασίστε αν είστε γιαλός, αν είστε αρμενιστές, αν έχετε το νόμιμο δικαίωμα στα αρχεία που θέλετε και πάμε με απλά βηματάκια:

Βηματάκι 1ο: http://utorrent.com/ και πιέζουμε το πλήκτρο Download! Πάει με όλα. Αν έχετε linux, τότε τζάμπα με διαβάζατε ως τώρα. Λογικά ξέρετε τι να κάνετε.

Βηματάκι 2ο: Γραφόμαστε σε κάποιο tracker (ιχνηλάτη) που φιλοξενεί μικρά περιγραφικά αρχεία κειμένου, του αρχείου που θέλουμε. Εκτός από το μεγαλύτερο, δημοφιλέστερο και πιο κατατρεγμένο από εταιρείες και λοιπές αρχές http://thepiratebay.org/, που δε θέλει κι εγγραφή, υπάρχουν και τα ελληνικού περιεχομένου http://blue-whitegt.com/ και http://www.greek-tracker.ru/ που έχουν ότι τραβάει η ψυχή σας. Χρειάζεται πολύ προσπάθεια όμως για μια εγγραφή στα ελληνικά site ή μια πρόσκληση από κάποιο μέλος με καλό ratio ή «μέσα». Εγώ δυστυχώς δεν έχω ούτε το ένα, ούτε το άλλο.

Βηματάκι 3ο: Διαλέγουμε το αρχείο που θέλουμε και το κατεβάζουμε. Το βλέπουμε και το διαγράφουμε στη συνέχεια για να ελευθερώσουμε χώρο στον υπολογιστή για το επόμενο κ.ο.κ. Προσοχή. Όπως λένε και στις διαφημίσεις και στα συμβόλαιά τους όλες αυτές οι εταιρείες, διαλέγουμε πάντα ελεύθερα πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων αρχεία και προγράμματα. Είπαμε, δεν είναι και λίγα…

Αυτά ως μια πρώτη αναφορά. Αν υπάρχει ενδιαφέρον, επανερχόμαστε.

Honyakusha no Kyoumei!

Slayers REVOLUTION!

We'll be doing it a little differently from how I do Soul Eater (and a bit the same). The .ass will be released seperately, there will be a softsub SD .mkv release, and there will also be a hardsub HD release in the same .mp4 format as my Soul Eater releases for playback on consoles, etc. There isn't a quality difference, as the HD broadcast is simply an upscale, so if you're pressed for room, the .mkv is a better choice.

I hope everyone enjoys our first episode!

Update (8:58PM): Hardsub is released. Sorry it took so long to get the HD .mp4 out, I was at work for most of the day :)

Links: [Tadashi x wyvern] Slayers Revolution - 01 (ASS)[v2].zip
[Tadashi x wyvern] Slayers Revolution - 01 (704x400 H.264 AAC).mkv (softsub)
[Tadashi x wyvern] Slayers Revolution - 01 (720p H.264 AAC).mp4 (hardsub)

Known errors:

• When Gourry says "I'm not holding back, like..." he's talking about Lina, not the pirates. I heard "koitura" instead of "koitu". (fixed)
• Amelia says "confront oppose". She's was supposed to just say one or the other. (fixed)
• It's not Grand Dasher, it's Bram Gash.

Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom.

Elite Torrents admin Dove faces 10 years.

This is such a complicated matter, that you can't completely blame the companies for wanting to protect their investments. Rights that laws from each country seek to protect.

Protection is an important word in this subject, US' Copyright laws or Brazilian Authorship laws (as I've touched on before here)  were written to protect the owners and creators, creating obstacles for people with bad intentions. Problem is when those obstacles created for protection, become some big blinding wall or sluggish chains that will bind any tipe of flexibility.

A great part of interactivity possibilities that the internet allow nowadays, is that no one is really isolated anymore, despite sometimes social abilities developed through technological resources sometimes only applying to that certain environments, sharing became a requirement, even if sharing is for a selected number of people.

The thing is legally speaking, there are things you can share, and there are things you can't share, the in between area between them is what make all things so blurry and gloomy. The p2p networks which is based on broaden the reach of lending something to a friend, into another level, have both bright and dark sides. Content providers, are investing on being active in new tech, but are weary on really distributing that content, creating mechanisms to limit its distribution. It's frustrating as I pointed in part 1, when you can talk with everyone anywhere around the world, but you can't get the same content through similar online resources, because the content provider won't allow it. It bothers me that still audiences are treated by them as mostly receivers of content.

There has to be a new solution. Things have started to change, but not fast enough.  Some examples include initiatives toward creating immersive experiences, playing with public participation into fictional worlds. But still most of those proposals are limited by country boundaries, with limited interplay by audiences from any country in the world.

The Creative Commons project is a very interesting initiative that attempts to unify a license that can be used anywhere in the world, it never really stops you from also licensing your creation through specific protective channels in your native country, and it works is a lot of countries. Trouble is, sometimes create ambiguous situations, in which allowances provided by Creative Commons, are completely negated by local protective laws. Flipping it a bit protective devices provided by local law, become at some levels questionable.

A real middle ground has to be found. What sickens me is that instead of looking for a middle ground, we have people reaching exactly for the opposite road, such initiative include the Brazilian Senator Azeredo. Which is pretty much making what the New York judge just forced Google do for Viacom's sakes, sound like small joke, since every such action will become the standard procedure in Brazil.  It simply chains up, an already quite narrow law structure, it almost takes us back to the times of military dictatorship, but instead of crazy military dudes playing gods, we're just getting closer to a business run reality, in which BuyNLarge (have you seen Wall-e?) or Blue Sun type corporations with run the life of everyone in the world. Professor Sérgio Amadeu through his blog, has been doing a great coverage about this alarming issue. Even if you have to rely on translator to get the general idea, is worth checking it out.

A modern poet, once sang:

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Maybe there's a small part of my soul is one of those pure anarchists, that thinks that chaos is necessary, despite my rational thrive for order.

Maybe, I'm such a dreamer, that someday chaos and order are at the end only one, and in such chaotic harmony, things will just be figured out freedom will really be guaranteed, but creation will also be protected.

Then, you start to question, what does it mean when companies start endorsing messages that stimulate actions for people fight against those same limited laws. That was the message I got from Pirates of the Caribeean, and for such reason I wanted to start this too long discussion, quoting one of the movies, with a line that sought exactly to expose this fight, this struggle. What does this mean?

Well, we'll see as the story progress.

http://filelist.org/

This is in case people have been having trouble connecting to previous trackers. I know NyaaTorrents and DATorrents have been acting up recently, so I tried new trackers for this one. Hopefully they'll be stable enough to download from in case you're missing some episodes or some have inconsistencies thanks to DDL (these are seeded by me, so I know they're shiny).

Please help seed anything you can, my internet is slow! ^^

But where I differ from other torrent users is that I am smart.  I have common sense.  Also I can actually spell "sense" and use capital letters appropriately.

An absolute, undeniable fact is that many of the software related torrents contain malware.  I use the word malware here to describe the wide-range of computer malware categories that have arisen over the past decade.

The malware for the most part will either be a botnet rootkit or keylog/redirection spyware.  But wait, you use anti-virus software and always scan files first right?  Consider this, as a malware creator, what would be the fastest way to distribute your fancy new rootkit?  Infect a popular P2P file and seed it through a public tracker.  AV software to differing degrees use historical data to protect your computer.  While it's scanning your pr0n folder it's looking for known malware signatures.  How will it find malware that it doesn't know about?  It probably won't.  Your AV software has to make a decision, is this file suspicious?

How do we combat this?

Prevent the malware from ever getting onto your system.  This requires critical thinking when making torrent selections.  Is the "Windows 2011" torrent safe?  Not even remotely, and yet people will download it and run it without thought.

AV stacking.  Instead of running just one or two different AV scanners, why not run 10+?  Make use of the websites that will do scans using multiple engines.

STOP USING THAT SHITTY FREE AV SOFTWARE.  You know the one I'm talking about.  One of the most ridiculous statements you can read in a torrents comments is that it scanned clean in A*G.  On that matter, don't think you can skip scanning because some 12 year old from Brazil with the typing skills of a hippo says it's clean.

Use a sandbox or a disposable VM.  The crack groups in the real Scene write these fabulous little keygens for multitudes of software.   As long as that file stays within the Scene, it is almost positively clean.  Once it hits P2P all bets are off.  But just because some jackass in the former Soviet republics wants your WoW login you can still safely utilize a non-scene sourced keygen in a properly controlled sandbox or VM.

I need to adjust the tinfoil and will update this further in a bit.

Won't be providing the content I promised at the of yesterday's post, instead I'll do it tomorrow, and point to the same discussion elsewhere.

Basically, I'm switching the gears a bit here, I'd like to point the few readers here, to follow me to a certain Whedonesque thread, where important issues about this are being discussed. Well, at the end of the day I was going to tie everything up with the release of Dr. Horrible after all, so better early than late.

http://whedonesque.com/index2.php?comments=16770

I think I might actually post a few more comments there, before coming back here. But, stick around for part 3, where I'll attempt the distill a few more words in this really long discussion.

Translation notes:

• 闘狼拳(tourouken) - Literally "Fighting Wolf Fist" = Fist of the Fighting Wolf. My friend suggested this, and I went with it because it sounded similar to a martial arts style.
• ６文字狩り(rokumojigari) - Moji means character or symbol and gari is from majogari. I went with Sixhunter.
• 不死の一族 (fushi no ichizoku) - Immortal Clan, keeping with the convention I started with hoshi no ichizoku (Star Clan).
• ウールッフウルブス・ウルフウルブス - This is literally wollff, wolves, wolf wolves. I made it latin (Luppuss lupi, lupus lupi) cuz it sounds all magical... and stuff.
• 氷錐体 (hyousuitai) - Lit. Ice drill form, drill in this case meaning any kind of 3d triangular shape. I thought Ice Spike described it well enough and sounded like a spell name.
• 氷柱体 (hyouchuutai) - Ice pillar form. I dropped the 'form.
• 魔眼砲 (maganhou) - Demoneye Cannon. Literal.

I'm having a little problem with the trackers, so my apologies if you can't get a solid connection.

Also, I listed this website as .org instead of .com on TokyoTosho, apologies for the confusion.

I know, it's hard to take someone seriously, when this someone is quoting a fictional character from Pirates of Caribeean, instead of some academic, with some text that says mostly the same thing. But, bare with me, there's more to it than meets the eye.

How much did it bug you when, after reading some interesting post from a blogger about a very interesting subject, but then you find an embedded video from hulu.com that's essential for the post setting, and you try to watch it, but end up bumping into the non-availability message.

Let's see what they tell us...

Q : Why can't I watch your videos from outside the U.S.?

For now, Hulu is a U.S. service only. That said, our intention is to make Hulu's growing content lineup available worldwide. This requires clearing the rights for each show or film in each specific geography and will take time. We're encouraged by how many content providers have already been working along these lines so that their programs can be available over the Internet to a much larger, global audience. The Hulu team is committed to making great programming available across the globe.

I don't blame Hulu for it, as they deal mostly with content provided from mainstream providers, it's just some mind warping issue regarding legality, which I'll try to assess today. I'm no law specialist, but I like to reflect on the amount of frustration. I won't try to discuss ethical issues pertaining disrespecting the authors and creators of the content, as it will take another ten pages of endless discussion.  Won't try even to start to consider online trolling, into the equations, as online social environment, is another long endless subject. I'll stick to the corporate view.

The access to content environment has changed a lot in the recent years. The Youtube explosion is only the best example of a sucesss of the .flv protocol for video proliferation, as there are other hundreds of other websites (I've been using the download helper add-on for Firefox, and there's even a ranking), that try to emulate it's approach, or prefer to be explore specific types of videos focused towards a specific public. Despite rules against it, it's not only about getting people access to original content created by the users, but also, allow people to get content otherwise unavailable, even when it means breaking the terms of use, by posting copyrighted material which was not created by the user. How many times have you caught yourself reminiscing about some childhood memories though a show or cartoon (or even only the opening), that someone did upload to one of these websites. A lot of times, the easy access to these tool, just provided easier outsource channels to grassroots movements that have existed for years.

Science Fiction and fantasy fans from all over the world, might be the ones most experienced into this field, as years ago was even harder to get content from the things you are fan of.  Fansub is a common word for Anime fans, as it is defined as an unofficial video tape release of an anime that has been subtitled to a western language by fans.  Technically illegal, it was born as a grassroot movement, in which fans weren't getting the content from anywhere else, and found a way to do it themselves. Most experienced Fansubbers follow the strict rule, that they'd stop distributing a fansubbed production, whenever an official distributions arises. Profitting from it is illegal, but fans do try to compensate the hard work that's put into it.

Nowadays, fansubbing can even be considered to be a much wider movement, with fans from around the world, translating and creating subtitles for movies and simply every tv show which is ripped daily. A simple google search can get you access to lastest bittorrent file for the most recent episode of Battlestar Galactica, Lost or even Law & Order. Another simple search will get you to websites providing with the subtitles for the episodes, for those who are not native speakers, even then, sometimes people from the US, have trouble to understand slangs and quirks from british english.

Is any of this legal? Not at all.  Mainstream content providers face a major issue, in which they are simply uncapable of keeping up with the beat required on the web, as people around the world can get an episode a few minutes after it been shown for the first time in it official time slot.  Well, some international viewers might even get to watch something, before US viewers on pacific time zone. What happens to the market when country borders become a major obstacle. When official channels, still provide blocks to international viewers, to access the content, the only solution available is to seek for illegal sources, which and the end of the day, even friedlier, because they are for free.

What happens when internet is a major issue?Just like time has pretty much hurt news coverage, time is also an issue here. Fans (which are exactly the type of people who will and have the income to invest on what they enjoy) don't want to wait another month or on worst case scenarios over two years to get content that'll be discussed hours later in message boards around the globe. In such context, users try to treat each others as equals, even as people on more high end points of tech saviness attempt to include tech newbies. Problem is, from the market point of view, they're not equal. How do you sell a show time slot to companies when the market share becomes a blurry concept. I expect another several long years for any possible initial agreement towards rights, monetization and how this will affect content distribution. It won't be something that will be solved in a day or two.

(to be continued... tomorrow I'll be back with more about why this "us against them" thing is what's hurting the market, why change is needed, I'll come in with my 2 cents about a polemic project from a old minded senator from Brazil, and try to conclude this long post on why the hell I quoted Pirates of the Caribeean on the first place).

Sinopsis:

"¿Quién alguna vez no ha tenido un día tan malo, que tan sólo deseabas que se acabara de una vez? La clase de día en el que nada te sale bien y todo se vuelve en tu contra. ¿Qué pasaría si no pudieras dejar ese día atrás... literalmente? Taye Diggs (Kevin Hill) protagoniza Day Break, una serie llena de intriga y acción que coge un mal día y lo multiplica por infinito. El detective Brett Hopper (Diggs) está teniendo un día infernal y ya le tarda el momento de llegar a casa y olvidarse de todo lo ocurrido... sólo que no puede, porque está a punto de vivir el mismo día una y otra vez."

Day Break - Asia-Team.Tv - V.2.0