The Sookie Stackhouse Books ~ Charlaine Harris

March 19, 2009 · Posted in Book Reviews · Comment 

Sookie Stackhouse Books I caught vampire fever after watching the first season of “True Blood”. Now, I don’t normally read these type of books. They are a bit girly and predictable. Having said that, I actually got caught up in reading them. Of course, I was spending a lot of time in hospital waiting rooms and didn’t have much else to do. The boxed set contains the first seven books of the series:

  • “Dead Until Dark“
  • “Living Dead in Dallas“
  • “Club Dead“
  • “Dead to the World“
  • “Dead as a Doornail“
  • “Definitely Dead“
  • “All Together Dead“









The eighth book in the series, “From Dead to Worse“, is due out in paperback on March 31st and the ninth book is slated for May in hardcover. I might as well keep on reading.

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The Pirate Bay Spectrial ~ Final Days

March 19, 2009 · Posted in Nerdy Stuff · Comment 

I sort of got caught up in the “bullshit that is life sometimes” and didn’t get a chance to post any of the Pirate Bay trial updates for the final days. Nothing earth shattering happened and it is such old news now that I’m not even going to bother with updates.
You can read all you need to know at the TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Trial Day 9: BitTorrent Is Not Evil
The Pirate Bay Trial Day 10: Calls for Jail Time
The Final Day of The Pirate Bay Trial

The verdict is due on April 17th.

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The Pirate Bay Spectrial ~ Day 8

March 3, 2009 · Posted in Nerdy Stuff · Comment 

Day 8 primarily focused on the music and movie industry executives detailing how the Pirate Bay was the cause of all of their monetary woes. You can read all of the whining at the torrentfreak.com.

There were a couple of comments from the day’s proceedings that stuck out for me. They were both from John Kennedy who is the CEO for IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry). I thought that it was interesting that Mr. Kennedy has no idea how the Pirate Bay even works. And yet he knows for a certainty that the Pirate Bay is to blame.

Kennedy was asked if IFPI has taken any action against the actual sharers of the music made available via TPB, as detailed in this case. He said he couldn’t say and didn’t know who these individuals are. He then admitted to not knowing how The Pirate Bay works so the defense lawyers put it to him – if you don’t understand how TPB works, how can you say they are to blame? Again he was pressed why he took no action against the actual sharers but he said he didn’t know and admitted “It’s probably unlikely we took action.”

The other tid-bit I found interesting was the amount of money the IFPI spends on the “War Against Piracy” – £75 million. Which equals US$105 million at the current exchange rate.

This caused me to take a little look into these two industries to see how bad things really were…
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