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Paul Schrader is a big name in Hollywood, known for  classics such as “Taxi Driver,” “Raging Bull,” and “American Gigolo.”

The writer-director’s more recent movies haven’t been all a success and Schrader suffered setbacks on other fronts as well.

In 2014  he lost control over the movie “Dying Of The Light.” The film was taken over by others after the first cut and was re-edited and released without his input.

This caused quite a stir at the time. When Lionsgate subsidiary Grindstone released the poster and trailer the director and others were not happy. However, because of a “non-disparagement” clause, they had to stay silent.

“Here we are, Nick Cage, Anton Yelchin, Nic Refn and myself, wearing our ‘non-disparagement’ T shirts,” Schrader wrote at the time.

Although it was not an option to burn the film to the ground, verbally, the director didn’t let the project go completely. Instead, he decided to go rogue and create his own cut, on his own terms.

With help from  Benjamin Rodriguez Jr., who also edited the movie “Dog Eat Dog,” he pulled original footage from workprint DVDs. Eventually, this resulted in a brand new cut titled “Dark.”

Early last year the director gave a ‘making off’ masterclass at the Rotterdam Film Festival, which is available on YouTube, and a detailed writeup on Indiewire shows how much of a challenge the project was.

The latter article also has an interesting comment section where someone suggested putting a copy of “Dark” on torrent sites.

“If it can’t be released in a commercial way, why don’t they use a torrent site to distribute ‘Dark’ worldwide? You’ll reach a much bigger audience & it would be a perfect fit for this subversive enterprise,” Carter wrote.

Whether Schrader saw this comment or not, he did indeed release a ‘torrent’ of the movie. This was revealed in an interview with Vulture this week.

“I made ‘Dog Eat Dog’ to redeem myself from the humiliation of ‘Dying of the Light,’ which was taken away from me. Nic [Cage] and I disowned it, I subsequently did my own edit, put it on torrent,…” he said.

The article itself doesn’t go into more detail, but we were rather intrigued and started digging. This search eventually led us to a torrent that was uploaded to The Pirate Bay a few months ago.

The torrent in question is titled 2018-Paul.Schrader.Dark-Dir.Cut.Dying.of.the.Light and comes with a personal message from the director. Most of the message is taken from Schader’s website with the following addition:

“Dark was not created for exhibition or personal gain. It is for historical record.- Paul Schrader”

TorrentFreak reached out to Schrader to confirm that this is indeed the copy he uploaded, but we haven’t heard back yet. This is, however, the earliest upload of “Dark” we could find.

What we also know is that the user in question tried to upload the torrent to The Pirate Bay several times, up to the point where the account was banned. A month later, another version was uploaded to the site which is still well-seeded.

Schrader doesn’t go into detail why he chose to share the film on The Pirate Bay, but we assume that it’s a defiant move to make it available worldwide, as was suggested.

Since he doesn’t own the exclusive rights to the footage, this may lead to potential copyright troubles, but we doubt that the rightsholders want to rattle this case.

For those who prefer to see the movie without venturing into the tricky waters of The Pirate Bay, Schrader also has some offline options.

“A digital file of the film can be seen by prior request at the UCLA Film Archives in Los Angeles, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin and the Museum of Modern Art film department in New York City,” he writes.

The Pirate Bay team, meanwhile, informs TorrentFreak that Schrader can have his account reinstated if he wishes.

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Loomio has already come up a few times on this show. It’s an open-source civic platform designed to help people make decisions collaboratively, and it’s been used by everyone from Pirate Parties to City Councils.

In this episode I met up with with Loomio’s Rich Bartlett to discuss the relationship of software to social change — how platforms like Facebook and Slack embed coded ideas about how people should relate to and interact with each other, and how Loomio is trying to design for new modes of interaction and consensus springing up in and around the social movements.

We discuss how a truly decentralised, horizontally organized society might look and talk through Loomio’s attempts to build the software to power it. Finally, we talk about how to upgrade what Rich calls our ‘cultural operating system’. Where does change really start: with our social organization, with our software or with ourselves?

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Late 2018, authorities in the Philippines announced a new bill that, if passed, will attempt to tackle the ongoing piracy problem in the region.

In common with many other countries around the world, the Philippines is considering the introduction of site-blocking measures which would compel local Internet service providers to prevent access to named ‘pirate’ sites.

In most jurisdictions, where site-blocking is already underway, ISPs are compelled by court order/injunction to block sites following a legal process. However, the Philippines has a more aggressive mechanism in mind.

The bill, introduced by Senator Vicente “Tito” Castelo Sotto III , would “empower” the country’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to force local ISPs to take “reasonable steps to disable access to sites whenever these sites are reported to be infringing copyright or facilitating copyright infringement.”

However, should they not comply, they could be put out of business.

“If the recommendation of the IPO to cancel the license of the ISP is proper and meritorious, the Commission shall facilitate the prompt cancellation of the license of the ISP,” the bill reads.

While this kind of threat wouldn’t normally be welcomed by providers, Globe Telecom, one of the Philippines’ largest operators of mobile, fixed line, and broadband Internet, is giving the bill its full backing.

“The economic and social impact of online piracy is profound,” Globe President and CEO Ernest Cu said in a statement.

“Revenue loss are in millions and thousands of jobs are affected due to a myriad of illegal streaming websites and illicit streaming devices or ISDs [llicit Streaming Devices].

“More importantly, these illegal sites and devices put customers at risk not only because of its content but specifically, malware. Globe will continue to support efforts that will help stop online piracy,” he added.

While ISPs coming out against piracy is a growing trend (take Canada, for example), baking harsh punishments against them into law is new. However, since Cu recently joined the Board of Directors of the Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA), which is a hub for anti-piracy enforcement, the move shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise.

Neil Gane, General Manager of AVIA’s Coalition Against Piracy, is also a supporter of the proposed legislation, which centers on the blocking of pirate sites through an administrative process and tackling the growing problem of piracy-configured set-top devices.

“There is no silver bullet to deterring online piracy,” Gane said in a statement.

“What is required is a holistic solution to include consumer outreach, cooperation with technology platforms and other intermediaries, enforcement, and critically, capability to disable access to egregious piracy websites through effective site blocking.

“AVIA’s Coalition Against Piracy welcomes the Philippine Online Infringement Bill, which, if passed, will provide an important building block for the Philippine content industry to tackle online piracy,” he added.

Back in 2013, the Philippines found itself at the center of a high-profile copyright dispute when it ordered the seizure of a .ph registered domain belonging to the now-defunct torrent giant KickassTorrents.

In response, however, the site simply changed to another domain, a tactic that is clearly still remembered by the architects of this new site-blocking bill.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and more. We also have VPN reviews, discounts, offers and coupons.

Late 2018, authorities in the Philippines announced a new bill that, if passed, will attempt to tackle the ongoing piracy problem in the region.

In common with many other countries around the world, the Philippines is considering the introduction of site-blocking measures which would compel local Internet service providers to prevent access to named ‘pirate’ sites.

In most jurisdictions, where site-blocking is already underway, ISPs are compelled by court order/injunction to block sites following a legal process. However, the Philippines has a more aggressive mechanism in mind.

The bill, introduced by Senator Vicente “Tito” Castelo Sotto III , would “empower” the country’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to force local ISPs to take “reasonable steps to disable access to sites whenever these sites are reported to be infringing copyright or facilitating copyright infringement.”

However, should they not comply, they could be put out of business.

“If the recommendation of the IPO to cancel the license of the ISP is proper and meritorious, the Commission shall facilitate the prompt cancellation of the license of the ISP,” the bill reads.

While this kind of threat wouldn’t normally be welcomed by providers, Globe Telecom, one of the Philippines’ largest operators of mobile, fixed line, and broadband Internet, is giving the bill its full backing.

“The economic and social impact of online piracy is profound,” Globe President and CEO Ernest Cu said in a statement.

“Revenue loss are in millions and thousands of jobs are affected due to a myriad of illegal streaming websites and illicit streaming devices or ISDs [llicit Streaming Devices].

“More importantly, these illegal sites and devices put customers at risk not only because of its content but specifically, malware. Globe will continue to support efforts that will help stop online piracy,” he added.

While ISPs coming out against piracy is a growing trend (take Canada, for example), baking harsh punishments against them into law is new. However, since Cu recently joined the Board of Directors of the Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA), which is a hub for anti-piracy enforcement, the move shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise.

Neil Gane, General Manager of AVIA’s Coalition Against Piracy, is also a supporter of the proposed legislation, which centers on the blocking of pirate sites through an administrative process and tackling the growing problem of piracy-configured set-top devices.

“There is no silver bullet to deterring online piracy,” Gane said in a statement.

“What is required is a holistic solution to include consumer outreach, cooperation with technology platforms and other intermediaries, enforcement, and critically, capability to disable access to egregious piracy websites through effective site blocking.

“AVIA’s Coalition Against Piracy welcomes the Philippine Online Infringement Bill, which, if passed, will provide an important building block for the Philippine content industry to tackle online piracy,” he added.

Back in 2013, the Philippines found itself at the center of a high-profile copyright dispute when it ordered the seizure of a .ph registered domain belonging to the now-defunct torrent giant KickassTorrents.

In response, however, the site simply changed to another domain, a tactic that is clearly still remembered by the architects of this new site-blocking bill.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and more. We also have VPN reviews, discounts, offers and coupons.

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Das Wall Street Journal berichtet, dass Apple 2019 wieder drei Smartphones auf den Markt bringen will, darunter zwei OLED- und eine LCD-Variante. Das Spitzenmodell iPhone 11 soll ein dreifaches Kamerasystem auf der Rückseite bekommen, wie es auch einige Android-Smartphone besitzen. (iPhone, Apple)

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