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In Connecticut, World of Warcraft gets set to Shakespearean prose

Video: Theater group takes Machinima concept live, performing classic plays in video games.

Video shot/edited by Nathan Fitch. (video link)

A large assault weapon picks off an enemy in the distance, a familiar visual for any fan of first-person shooters. But the audible bang of the weapon isn't the only sound being heard. A narrator orients the audience: "I—Ismenus, Niobe's oldest son—was guiding my horse's reins when an arrow planted itself in my chest."

Huh? Perhaps a line from Greek mythology about Niobe, daughter of Tantalus, isn't the commentary or soundtrack you'd find paired to your run-of-the-mill FPS even in the most avant garde of Twitch chats. At Pierrepont School in Westport Connecticut, that's precisely the point. Members of of EK Theater (who double as students at Pierrepont) are busy preparing for their forth-coming adaptation of Osiris, a classic Egyptian story. And rather than mulling over costumes and traditional stage direction, these thespians worry about selecting a virtual gaming stage and programming the choreography.

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ASCII-Art: Der älteste aktive Torrent der Welt ist die Matrix

Der älteste aktive Torrent der Welt? Nach Angaben der Seite Torrentfreak handelt es sich nicht um Schmuddelfilme, sondern um ein Fanprojekt, das den Sci-Fi-Klassiker Matrix zum Vorbild hat. (Warner Bros, Urheberrecht)

Surfacegate: Microsoft soll Surface-Book- und Pro-Fehler totschweigen

Der Journalist Paul Thurrott hat Microsoft vorgeworfen, sich nicht zu Akku- und Hitzeproblemen beim Surface Book und beim Surface Pro 4 zu äußern oder diese zu beheben. Thurrott fordert eine öffentliche Stellungnahme und eine verlängerte Garantie für Käufer. (Surface Book, Office 365)

Dreamhack Leipzig: Skyrim, Spieler und Streamer – aber kein Stickstoff

Neun Jahre nach dem Umzug der Games Convention hat Leipzig wieder ein großes Gaming-Event: die Dreamhack. LAN-Party, E-Sport-Turnier und neue Hardware erwartet die Besucher. Golem.de hat sich auf der Veranstaltung umgesehen. (Games, Starcraft)

Open Compute: Facebook baut zweites Rechenzentrum in Europa

Es soll mit erneuerbaren Energien betrieben werden und im irischen Clonee stehen: Facebook kündigt ein zweites Rechenzentrum in Europa an. (Facebook, Soziales Netz)

Twitter: Jack Dorsey verliert sein Management

Seit ein paar Monaten ist Mitgründer Jack Dorsey wieder Chef bei Twitter, nun steht ein umfassender Umbau des Topmanagements an. Unter anderem der Leiter der Softwareentwicklung verlässt das Unternehmen. (Twitter, Soziales Netz)

Salty, ocean-based capacitors may deliver energy boost

Using a capacitor to extract energy from the mixing of fresh and salt water.

Throw some capacitors into sites like this, and you could potentially harvest electricity with the tide. (credit: Flickr user Alf Igel)

Every year, the Dutch physics community gets together to celebrate the year in physics. These are some highlights from the meeting. Since it is a meeting, it is not possible to link to published work (a talk could cover multiple papers, or just parts of papers). Where possible, we've linked to the research group that presented the work.

I remember, maybe 12 years ago, attending a talk by an environmental activist who discussed clean and sustainable energy and the difficulties in obtaining it. She was not your average activist—she had, as I recall, qualifications in chemical engineering.

One thing she mentioned in passing (and I may not have remembered this accurately) was that when fresh water flows into salt water, the process of salination releases a relatively large amount of energy, but that no one knew how to harvest it effectively.

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Space Data Highway: Esa schießt Laser-Kommunikationsstation ins All

Schnelle optische Datenübertragung im All soll der Satellit EDRS-A ermöglichen, den die europäische Raumfahrtagentur Esa in dieser Woche in den Orbit schießt. Er empfängt Daten per Laser von anderen Satelliten und sendet die Daten zur Erde. (Satelliten, Technologie)

Pirate Party Prosecuted For Operating a Pirate Site

After deliberately provoking authorities with the launch of several pirate sites, the Czech Pirate Party have welcomed the news that they’re finally being prosecuted by the police. “Our goal is to change the copyright monopoly law so that people are not fined millions for sharing culture with their friends,” the party says.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

czech pp As champions of less restrictive copyright law and advocates of greater online freedoms and privacy, the Pirate Party has stamped its mark on the online space in recent years.

As a niche political movement it has often taken a guerrilla approach to its activism, with strategies often designed to provoke a fierce response from perceived enemies.

In July 2011, the Czech division of the party did just that with a brave move designed to stir up sentiments against the Czech Anti-Piracy Union who had targeted a 16-year-old accused of posting links to infringing material on his website

Under the slogan “Linking is not a Crime” the Czech Pirate Party launched its own movie download site. Tipnafilm.cz had an attractive layout with links to content plus movie covers, embedded trailers, and links to reviews on sites such as iMDb. A second site, Piratskefilmy.cz, carried 20,000 links to more than 5,800 movies.

“We challenge the Anti-Piracy Union to stop bullying the under-aged and to aim its preposterous claims at the Pirate Party,” the pirates said.

Declaring “open war” on the anti-piracy outfit, the Czech pirates later launched TV focused site Sledujuserialy.cz (I Watch TV Series). With the previous two sites faded away, it is this site that has finally elicited the response the pirates had longed hoped for.

“A landmark political trial for Czech Internet is about to take place!” the party has just announced.

“On Thursday 21st January, the Czech pirate party was officially notified that it will be prosecuted in criminal court. The reason is their long-term political campaign “Linking is Not a Crime” in which the party ran a non-commerical website ‘sledujuserialy.cz’ highlighting an absurd interpretation of copyright monopoly law with regard to the Internet.”

Although it has taken more than four years to come to fruition, it appears the pirates’ plan progressed as predicted. Their taunting of the Czech Anti-Piracy Union resulted in the anti-piracy group filing a complaint with the police. The police are now prosecuting the Pirate Party over their TV piracy site.

Unusually for torrent site operators, the Pirate Party say they are glad they’re in trouble with the law.

“[The Pirate Party] welcomes the criminal case. Until now, the Czech Anti-Piracy Union has targeted only randomly chosen individuals with its bullying. The victims were in an unfair position as they faced expensive lawyers of lobby organisations which push the current repressive copyright monopoly regime. This time it’s different,” Czech Pirate Party chairman Lukáš Černohorský explains.

“Instead of teenagers, copyright industry lobbyists are now dealing with a political party which didn’t run the website for money but because of our conviction that linking is not and should not be a crime.”

The Party says it has been forced to take this action to fight the persecution of linking online, adding that sites including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube don’t face any action for doing the same, even though they operate their sites for-profit.

That being said, it’s unclear how Czech copyright law will draw a line between the party’s hand-curated TV show download site and user-generated content sites like YouTube, but finding out is clearly one of the party’s aims.

“Our goal is to change the copyright monopoly law so that people are not fined millions for sharing culture with their friends. However, until we achieve that, we will fight in courts over interpretation and enforcement of the law,” Černohorský concludes.

The Party says that in the coming days it will call on all organizations who care about the future of the Internet to join them in a massive demonstration against oppressive copyright regimes and recent proposals for increased online censorship and surveillance.

Pirate parties have a long history of supporting pirate sites, particularly The Pirate Bay.

At times the Swedish Pirate Party famously hosted parts of The Pirate Bay’s infrastructure which put them on a collision course with authorities there. Over in the UK, the local Pirate party was threatened with a lawsuit from the music industry after refusing to take down its Pirate Bay proxy service. It eventually complied in December 2012.

Most recently, last year the Norwegian Pirate Party announced its own DNS service to bypass ISP censorship of The Pirate Bay.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

Messenger: Whatsapp-Beta verknüpft Daten mit Facebook

Immer wieder betonen die Macher von Whatsapp, dass ihre App unabhängig von Eigner Facebook bleiben soll. Eine Betaversion für Android weist nun doch auf eine Verknüpfung von Daten hin. (Whatsapp, Soziales Netz)