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Boris Smirnov

Game Of Thrones Season 3 Premieres To Record Ratings, Piracy | TechCrunch - 0 views

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    Game of Thrones, the fantasy series that came out of a series of novels written by George R. R. Martin and adapted by HBO has just recently aired its third season with a bunch of people watching it during its premiere. The bad news is that the amount of people pirating the show is more then half the amount of people who actually watched it on HBO. With the premiere having around 6.7 million viewers and the amount of pirate viewers at 4.4 million. These stats are quite impressive but HBO can expect a lot more views when it counts on-demand, DVR, online streams with a gross audience of 11.6 million viewers when counting non-live viewers. On the other hand, TorrentFreak claims that GoT has been the most-pirated show over the past year and that the pirated audience is growing even faster. A few hours after the first torrent of the show was uploaded, it had around 110,303 leechers and 52,786 seeders, a total of 163,088 people. This number actually broke the previous record with 144,663 peers for another show called "Heroes".
Matthew Fantauzzi

Pirate Bay Censorship Turns Proxies Into Local Heroes - 1 views

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    Many countries recently blocked access to The Pirate Bay, a torrenting website, in order to prevent the illegal downloading of films, music, programs, and more. However, these efforts were futile, as many users are simply turning to proxy servers to allow them to bypass their countries censorship. Torrenting sites have always been risky territory for users, and as of late, more and more sites have been taking down in order to prevent pirating. The Pirate Bay has an insanely high volume of traffic, and it hasn't slowed down in recent times. It is noted in this article that the only way to rid of TPB is to physically shut down the servers, but even if that were to happen, users are simply going to move to the next site. Whether or not piracy negatively affects the income of the producers of the material being distributed is debatable, however the fact remains true that this process is completely illegal.  As a frequent torrenter, I hope that TPB will continue to thrive at it's current level. My hope is that all these pushes against torrenting will make the industries behind said files realize that users refuse to pay the ridiculous prices and taxes on content. This realization will hopefully lead to cheaper costs on retail products in the media industry, thus removing the need for pirating and torrenting. It will take awhile, but as long as the high price industry standards are in place, torrenting will continue to occur, and no legal matter will be able to stop it. If the internet is to truly be 'free', than laws and limitations should not be placed on content provided. #BarbieJXoXo
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    #BarbieJXoXo
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    This is the greatest article of all time.
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    I am not the same guy as this poster, but I think he is beautiful
johnathan suen

Halo 4: Master Chief redesigned and campaign mode widened | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    "Master Chief is the heart and soul of Halo and as gamers we missed him," said executive producer, Kiki Wolfkill. "We wanted to contiune his story and map out his journey over the next 10 years. It was a real challenge to think about how we take this beloved hero and move him forward."
Winnie Huang

Playing 'Pokémon' with 35,000 people is frustratingly fun | The Verge - 0 views

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    This article is about a channel on a game streaming site that allows users to 'join in'. The channel's creator, Polygon, has formulated a way in translating chat comments into control inputs. Over the past few days this Pokemon game has received over 35 000 players typing in commands all at the same time, causing lag and a lack of cooperation. However, despite the slow progress in leading the hero around the playing field, players are still determined to defeat the game's eight gym leaders. What is really amazing about this is that Pokemon even after all this time is very popular and people are still finding different ways to program and play this game. It also shows that you don't have to create a new advanced system or another pacemaker to be successful in computers.
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    I'm not entirely clear what the connection is to careers in computing. Please clarify
jpleafs67

US military's 'Iron Man' armor will be ready for testing by June, says admiral | The Verge - 0 views

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    I find this article interesting because my favorite super hero is Iron Man and for military's to start building Iron Man armor for battle. this would be so cool to see because of all of the cool features on Iron Man which includes missiles coming out of his soldiers, a J.A.R.V.I.S system etc. In this article it states that the first prototypes will be ready for testing in June and the suit will undergo an evaluation period and hopefully be field-ready by August 2018
jonathan molloy

The Dark Knight Rises (2012) - IMDb - 0 views

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    This is going to be an amazing movie.  I am a huge fan of Batman and am definitely looking forward to this movie as i feel it will make a large amount of revenue and be an indication to other movie producers to expand on their superhero movies and recreate the ones we have missed for many years
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    Can't wait for this movie ... why is this related to our course again?? Also, tag appropriately.
Marquise Swaby

Dominos launches new app that lets you make a pizza on your iPad and order it in real l... - 0 views

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    Dominos Pizza has launched a new marketing campaign using the iPad. The pizza giant has made a new app called Dominos Pizza Hero available on the App Store that lets customers make a pizza and then order it in real life.
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