Stilgherrian » underbelly http://stilgherrian.com All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive le poisson rouge sauvages! Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:23:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en © stil@stilgherrian.com () stil@stilgherrian.com() 1440 Live Internet broadcasts from Stilgherrian. All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. stil@stilgherrian.com No no http://stilgherrian.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/sla_144w.jpg Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com 144 144 2 Web Crew podcast finally online http://stilgherrian.com/media/2web_crew_22_online/ http://stilgherrian.com/media/2web_crew_22_online/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:22:15 +0000 Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/media/2web_crew_22_online/ The episode of the 2 Web Crew podcast we recorded last Wednesday is finally online. The Podcast Network’s Cameron Reilly, Laurel Papworth, TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley and I chat about Underbelly, P2P networks, BitTorrent and distribution, telcos and innovation, Crikey and media impartiality. The audio quality’s a bit dodgy, but hey. I’ll also be on the episode being “recorded live” tomorrow at 1300 Sydney time on Ustream.

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]]> http://stilgherrian.com/media/2web_crew_22_online/feed/ BitTorrent vs the Supreme Court of Victoria http://stilgherrian.com/media/bittorrent_vs_supreme_court/ http://stilgherrian.com/media/bittorrent_vs_supreme_court/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:42:24 +0000 Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/media/bittorrent_vs_supreme_court/ Last night Channel Nine screened the crime drama Underbelly everywhere across Australia — except Victoria, where it was banned following a Supreme Court order. But thanks to the joys of BitTorrent, thousands of people have already downloaded it from the Internet. The law cannot cope in this new era.

As the screenshot shows, Underbelly was online within two hours of broadcast. By mid-morning today, 6500+ people had downloaded it from Mininova alone.

Screenshot of Underbelly downloads available on Mininova

As with the Corey Delaney episode before it, this highlights the stupidity of the law in the bold new age of the Internet. I have no complaint with Justice Betty King’s decision. She’s just upholding the law as it stands. The law, alas, is hopelessly inadequate.

Who, I wonder, has this kind of law reform on their agenda. Anyone?

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