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Swedish Authorities Attempt Pirate Bay Shutdown 348

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday August 24, 2009 @04:44PM from the like-a-virtual-bullfighter dept.

Several sources are discussing the recent attempted shutdown of The Pirate Bay by Swedish authorities. It seems that following the recent court defeats and the pending civil actions, Swedish authorities threatened TPB's main bandwidth supplier with a hefty fine in order to get them shut down. Not surprisingly TPB has relocated and is back online although the tracker still seems to be down. As a gesture of their "appreciation" TPB plans on sending a mocking t-shirt to the people believed responsible for the takedown attempt.

Comment No Link to Actual Content (Score 1) 948

by joshuapurcell on Saturday May 30, 2009 @02:54PM (#28151087) Attached to: Harsh Words From Google On Linux Development

Where's the link to this developer's comments? Would be nice to read all of what he has to say rather than just what you want us to read.

Submission + - New DX10 Benchmarks Do More Bad than Good

Submitted by

NIMBY

on Wednesday May 23, 2007 @01:12AM

NIMBY writes: "An interesting editorial over at PC Perspective looks at the changing status between modern game developers and companies like AMD and NVIDIA that depend on their work to show off their products. Recently, both AMD and NVIDIA separately helped in releasing DX10 benchmarks based on upcoming games that show the other hardware vendor in a negative light. But what went on behind the scenes? Can any collaboration these companies use actually be trusted by reviewers and the public to base a purchasing decision on? The author things the one source of resolution to this is have honest game developers take a stance for the gamer."

Comment Re:Fuck Blizzard. (Score 0, Troll) 550

by joshuapurcell on Saturday May 19, 2007 @11:10AM (#19190749) Attached to: Blizzard Announces StarCraft 2

The reason may not be laziness, but that still doesn't mean that it's not 2007, and I have to think the game marketshare of Linux is running neck and neck with Apple systems. Blizzard is showing that it is worth it to port to MacOS, so why don't they also feel the same about Linux? It's pathetic considering Blizzard is probably the biggest gaming developer out there... if anyone has the resources then they do.

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