This guy actually used a Blu-Ray laser from a Playstation 3 in a Star Trek Phaser. Awesome!
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Anon User Gives Pirate Bay Access To Steal IFPI.com
“It’s not a hack. Someone just gave us the domain name. We have no idea how they got it, but it’s ours and we’re keeping it.”
With those kinds of ties, I’m sure we’ll see more shenanigans afoot very soon.
Unreal Tournament 3 Demo Now Available!
During some nerd-based event in North Carolina, the Unreal Tournament 3 Demo was leaked to selected members of the press. Happily enough, a lot of those members of the press have uploaded the demo to fellow Internet-users and can now be enjoyed by everyone in the world!
The demo weighs in at 741 MB and is expected to be peppered throughout every torrent site by later tonight.
UK Garage being sued by UK version of RIAA for using radios.
So you’re at work right now, maybe listening to your favourite oldies or easy listening station (or whatever it is the kids are listening to these days), and your co-workers might be walking by, or you work in a retail store and theres customers around who can hear your Barry Manilow you wouldn’t assume that you’re doing anything wrong would you? You certainly wouldn’t assume that you’re doing something illegal. Well if you live in the UK, according to The Performing Rights Society (PRS) you’re a filthy criminal and should pay up for royalties.
Workers at the Kwik-Fit car repair shop who brought in their own personal radios to listen to music while they work are being sued for £200,000.
The PRS argues that the playing of these radios amounts to public performance and there for royalties should have been paid.
What’s next, the guy in his car who has his radio turned up too loud is going to have to pay royalties too? Ridiculous.
Playstation Home Beta Testing To Start Nov/Dec 2007
According to an Interview with Phil Harrison via Gamespot, Playstation 3 users will be able to start beta-testing Playstation Home, beginning November 2007. Despite numerous push-backs, Harrison says that the service will hopefully still be going live sometime in 2008, although a definite date was not specified.
Many PS3 owners have been popping huge e-boners over the Home service, which aims to create an online 3D world akin to Second Life but without the sex and pornography and with more video game stuff.
More Asthetic Problems with Halo 3 Afoot!
According to The Inquirer, there are more problems with the Halo 3 collectors edition. This time, the DVD holder hub had low-grade adhesive applied to it and subsequently causes a gummy, sticky mess when pulled off accidentally. Apparently one reader didn’t even know the hub had come off before he put the game into his Xbox 360 and ended up with gooey-sticky-tight DVD-drive that refused to open.
The glue is most likely semen of ejaculating fanboys that participated in the Halo 3 beta.
Darth Vader Plays The Blues
I’m pretty sure this is one of the funniest Star Wars clips I have seen in a while.
Halo 3 Limited Edition Tins Cause Scratches on Disks
Retailers are reporting that gamers are in an angry rage today over scratched Halo 3 disks that have become loose in their original “Limited Edition” tins and knocked around. Several copies have been returned to stores already but replacements will be scarce: after such a large record-breaking launch, pretty much every order will be snatched up by video game fanatics everywhere before victims have a chance to grab a new copy.
I suppose that terribly sucks for anyone that ordered the tin. Master Chief would definitely be shaking his head in disapproval at Microsoft for this blunder.
TheDailyJump.com Site Downtime Caused By Toby Mcguire
Yesterday we experienced some serious site down-time. After several minutes of searching, we found who we believe to be Toby Mcguire hidden in one of our server closets, trying to overlock the CPU on our main server. He had also created what looked like a “human rats nest” in the room, consisting of various pieces of hay, garbage, and bits of feces. We got out our big broom and swept Toby out from the closet, and called in Bug-Rid to get rid of the nest. Things seem to have stabilized for the time being.
