ATTENTION GIRLS!! IF YOU HAVE NASTY BLISTERS ON YOUR PUSSY DON’T TAKE PHOTOS!
THIS IS JUST FUCKED UP
Internet providers to begin warning customers who pirate content [source]
It is about to get a bit more difficult to illegally download TV shows, movies or music online.
A new alert system, rolling out over the next two months, will repeatedly warn and possibly punish people violating digital copyrights. The Copyright Alert System was announced last July and has been four years in the making.
If you use AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner, or Verizon as your Internet service provider, you could receive the first of one of these notes starting in the next two months.
The Internet provider is delivering the message, but the legwork is being done by the copyright owners, which will monitor peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent.
They use a service called MarkMonitor, which uses a combination of people and automated systems to spot illegal downloading. It will collect the IP addresses of offenders, but no personal information. The IP addresses are turned over to the Internet providers, which will match up the address with the right customer and send the notification.
The warning system is described as a graduated response. First the Internet provider will let the customer know that their Internet connection is being used do download content illegally. The note will include information to steer them away from their life of crime, including tips on how they can download content legally.
There will also be tips on securing Internet connections, just in case you were unaware that your neighbor was downloading season three of “Dexter” using your unprotected wireless network.
“The progressive series of alerts is designed to make consumers aware of activity that has occurred using their Internet accounts, educate them on how they can prevent such activity from happening again,” the CCI said in its announcement today.
After the educational phase, the customers will be asked to acknowledge that they received the warning. If they continue to download content illegally, the alerts will threaten mild punishments, such as forcing the copyright violator to read “educational materials,” or throttling their Internet connection so that it is slow, making it harder to download large files.
Today’s announcement claims that terminating the Internet service is not one of the options.
If a customer feels they are being wrongly accused, they can ask for a review, which will cost them $35 according to the Verge.
The entire system will be overseen by an organization called the Center for Copyright Information, which includes content owners, such as the Motion Picture Association of America and Recording Industry Association of America, as well as individual members including Disney, Sony Pictures, Fox, EMI and Universal.
Each ISP will have a slightly different version of the system.
I got another press release today about Girlfriend Films releasing some more. Who know what the fuck the name of it is. Some lesbian movie or whatever #937. What amazes me though, is all the money they spend on PR, nobody once ever thought to sit these people down and tell them that they have the worst fucking box covers ever and that their box covers make their films look like shit?
The sad thing of it is, they have some decent movies but most people will never know that because if you go on first impressions and most people do, their movies will go overlooked do to the box covers.
Today I heard the news that former porn star Bree Olson and Charlie Sheen goddess hit 400,000 followers on twitter @breeolson
Pretty fucking impressive.
So I clicked her twitter profile and seen a new pic of her. Damn she doesn’t really look the same at all. Sure she was kinda cute before, but she’s a lot fucking hotter now.
While there is no confirmation about this rumor, recently I’ve been hearing things about Audrey Hollander making a comeback in porn. Could the rumors be true? Could she be making a return to the industry? I would have just written off the rumors, including one who swears they seen her partying with porn stud Evan Stone and some other porn chicks in LA last month, but look what she just tweeted!
Her twitter account @RealAudreyXXX has been inactive for awhile now Then suddenly, without warning … BAM! She tweets this. Lending credence to the earlier rumors of her secret return to porn.
What do you think?
Update: Apparently she is making a return and recently launched BookAudrey.com.
Lots of retirements lately. Of course we’ve already reported on Mark Davis this week but also add to that the Nick Manning who XBIZ reported on his retirement from porn and move into mainstream.
Today Lukeisback announced that Molly Cavalli from Molly’s life is calling it quits too.
Good luck to them all in whatever their future endeavors may be.
If you follow porn stud Mark Davis on twitter @MarkDavisXXX, on Friday you might have seen his goodbye to porn tweets.
OK here it is people, as of today l am retiring from the PORN BIZ. This is not a joke and it’s been a great ride. (September 28, 2012 at 12:18 pm)
Thanks for all the support and LOVE. Much appreciated. (September 28, 2012 at 10:04 pm)
So it’s official. Mark Davis is retired.
I got an email today informing me that I have to renew one of my dot com domain names. The first thing I noticed is that they yet again increased in price to $14.99 per year plus if you do not renew your domain(s) during the 12-day Renewal Grace Period, you may incur a fee of $80.00 in addition to the domain renewal fee. During this time, the domain name(s) will be moved to parked nameservers and any website or email services associated with the domain name(s) may stop working.
$14.99 per year to renew a dot com, really? Which is a $2 increase over the previous rates of $12.99 per dot com and and the previous rate before of $8.99. So basically within a calendar year they’ve had two rate increases, from $8.99 to $14.99.
Godaddy really gained in popularity because of their low rates. When they first came to be, Network Solutions was charging us each $35 per year per dot com. At the time, GoDaddy came in and said, move to us and we’ll only charge you $5.95. Eventually other cheap domain companies have come about but due to some creative Superbowl ads, GoDaddy has really remained the king for awhile now.
I just wonder with all the other godaddy issues will they start to lose customers now with the continued rate increases?