Megaupload had servers in the US, so they were easy to hit. Rapidshare are based in Germany, where copyright laws are different - I believe. I think the next site to get hit will be Filesonic. Also Us based.
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They made an example of Megaupload, by taking out one of the two biggest filesharers on the net. The other is Rapidshare. I suspect they'll be getting a knock on the door any time soon.
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Inevitable. It got too high profile. The owner was flaunting it. And the high-profile celeb campaign pretty much drew a big fat target on its back. Expect the other well-known ones to be taken out this year too.
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QuoteSilver Dagger BBC TV tonight showed a clip and incredible clip of David Bowie and The Spiders From Mars playing The Jean Genie, totally live on Tops Of The Pops in 1973. It was first aired in Jan 1974. There's a one minute clip here. Now, if only they could find that 1968 NME Pollwinners film! Great post, Dagger. Thanks.
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QuoteGravityBoy I like the story concept in this vastly underrated album: It's atmospheric, weird and wonderful. Bowie and Eno... magic. But my favourite (today anyway), is Heroes. They all nearly all great though. Outside is one of my Top 5 Bowie albums. It's an incredible record. I saw the UK leg of the tour at Wembley Arena three times, and it was superb.
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He'll be out in eighteen months to two years, and he'll make millions from the book and interview circuit.
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Nice review Mr Dagger. I don't think the Quadrophenia CDs sound different to the 1996 remaster. A little EQ has been applied here and there, but that's it. Shame they couldn't release the remaster of the original mix, which was used for the AMAZING Classic Records 200g vinyl reissue. If you want to hear the best ever version of Quadrophenia to date, that's the version
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AWESOME CD.
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QuoteCome On QuoteNikolai QuoteCome On where can I watch it on the net? Knock yourself out: Paysites? Nah that incredible fighters can't they possible be....latest fighter I would have pay to watch were Oscar de La Hoya...Incredible sting there... Oscar de la Hoya was a great fighter. No doubt. He almost beat Mayweather, but he was too old and ringworn by the time they met. He r
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QuoteManuelStones Let's do a mental exercise Had Marquez been declared the winner, would it have been so much controversy? I think Pacquiao would have been the first to raise Juan Manuel's hand. I think there would have been as much controversy, because it was a very close fight. But you're right - Pacman would've accepted the decision and called for (and been granted
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QuoteCome On where can I watch it on the net? Knock yourself out:
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QuoteNo Expectations Have to disagree. It was a close fight but Pacquiao won I've watched it again, twice. I think Marquez was definitely the better fighter, but his trainer told him he was winning and he took his foot off the gas in the last four rounds, when he should have been applying pressure. Pacman - and Freddie Roach - knew he was losing it. Pacman kept crossing himself be
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QuoteManuelStones Arum didn't want his biggest payday ever (Pacman-Floyd) to go down the drain. Sad. That's exactly it. Marquez has always had Pacman's number. And I felt he won last night. He dominated all but the last four rounds. On the strength of Pacman's performance yesterday, I think Mayweather will beat him with ease. His fight with Marquez was so one-sided
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Quotekowalski Being a fan of Mr. Lou Reed music, I find this album one of his best in years. It's straightforward and very emotional unlike his recent previous works. Obviously him and Metallica's had something to share. I also like their performance at Jools Holland TV show. You can see Lou feels very concerned by his music, which hasn't always been the case the past years.
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Quotewhitem8 Whew! That is so sad. Love Lou, but man did he look and sound bad on Jools. White Light especially, seems like he didn't even remember it... Hey Whitey! How you doing man? Long time. Anyway, Lou ... Terrible on Jools. I saw him in London on his most recent tour and he sounded utterly f-ing dreadful. He also looked dreadful too, with a belly the size of a basketball.
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Quotetatters Gilmour doesn't seem eager to do much of anything. He's always been lazy. What has he done in the last 17 years? One album, and one very short tour. I think he played 12 shows. That's absolutely true. Three studio albums in 24 years says it all.
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QuoteThe Sicilian Recently, I have heard stories about ongoing feuds with various musicians in bands that had me thinking, why are so many British bands destined to have nasty or even amiable breakups? When you stop and really think about it, some of the best rock music bands in history, many originating in England, windup disintegrating over money, women, and ego squabbles. Even the death o
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Quoteab Just guessing, but maybe they'll deliberately avoid replacing him with one man and take the Miami Horns on the road with them from here on. Assuming the Stones are done with large-scale touring, Bobby Keyes could be a good fit: big lungs, pedigree, etc. But he's almost 68, and there might be issues between him and Bruce if substance abuse is still a problem for him. DC
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QuoteFather Ted According to British banker Joanathan Davis, all the global banks are insolvent. Interestingly, he said that the UK did not recover from the 1929 crash until 1954. That's because of the Second World War. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the UK didn't recover from both the 1929 crash and paying for WW2 until the late 80s. We were so broke in the late 1970
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QuoteErik_Snow QuoteNikolai QuoteRoll73 QuoteGlam Descendant >The super deluxe has the two cd's and a DVD - is the DVD the Texas concert? No, that's a separate release. So what's on the 'Super Deluxe' DVD then? Anyone know? I'm guessing it'll be another backslapping making-of album documentary like the Exile one. That's my guess, as well But -
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QuoteRoll73 QuoteGlam Descendant >The super deluxe has the two cd's and a DVD - is the DVD the Texas concert? No, that's a separate release. So what's on the 'Super Deluxe' DVD then? Anyone know? I'm guessing it'll be another backslapping making-of album documentary like the Exile one.
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Quotecrawdaddy Actually I may be proved wrong.The Mail gave it a very good review. Daily Mail review Christ, it must suck AND swallow.
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Straight To Hell Magnificent Seven Charlie Don't Surf City of the Dead White Man in Hammersmith Palais
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QuoteHandova This might seem irrelevant, but what about the actual album? ... Will they just re-release the UMG re-master? ... Or will they offer yet a new re-master to gain even more interest? It might be sacrilegious, but a perfect goal would be to feature the original longer versions replacing the album (shorter) versions. You could always go and play the original release in any incarnatio
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QuoteDuane in Houston Quotedcba The Met guys should hire Reed as a permanent singer and Hetfield (whose voice is completely shot these days) should concentrate on the rythmn guitar. Have you heard Lou Reed sing lately ?!? Yeah, I did. Last Monday. In London. Terrible gig. He looked frail, barely played his guitar at all (he had two guitarists in his band), and had a whopping great belly o
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QuoteGreenblues Quotepeoplewitheyes does have any info on the upcoming Beach Boys release? tracklisting etc? the couple of (fairly lame) BBs forums i've checked dont seem to have much to offer... There's still no official release date out. I was looking up the Capitol records web site yesterday and it still only offers the press release from arch 14, stating that a global release dat
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QuoteGlam Descendant Lou does an interesting version of "Peggy Sue" on that new Buddy Holly tribute disk btw. I guess I'm the only person that likes THE RAVEN. No, you're not. I think it's very good. Highly underrated. Had he released it in 1993 instead of 2003, it would probably have had a much warmer critical reception. That said, it's a sharp drop from hi
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I'm a big fan of Sly's - to the point where I can find something to recommend about the WB era (the last three albums he made before he went AWOL), BUT this 'comeback' looks dreadful on paper.
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QuoteThricenay Are U2 scheduled to go onstage after this abject performance from Morrissey? He's not exactly warming up the crowd for them. He's making them look good. I saw Moz supporting Bowie at Wembley Arena in 1995. Three times. The first night he was good - up for it, engaged and dead good. But Bowie came on and you forgot Moz had ever been there. The next two n
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RIP. I think his finest film role was playing himself in Wings of Desire. He was superb.
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