A few hours ago the new version of Istheshit.net went live, no problems so far lets hope it stays that way.
Hopefully the new site will be such an injection that we want to actively develop the project further. The original specification is from 2005 so don’t judge us to hard if some of the functions might seem a bit oldfashioned ;).
Istheshit.net is currently a joint project between Bytelove and Samworks.
Funny to see how many ppl actually do unboxing and that kind of stuff: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=bytelove
http://www.flickr.com/photos/syncaddict/3525468897/in/photostream/ <- apparently arrived oki
Oh, we just got new securitex letters with our logo, they are just amazing … really hard to break.
Currently PeoplePath is running a design contest at 99designs.
The competition was up for about 14 hours and I think we already recieved several interesting design entries. I must say that even though the final design is of course overpaid by itself its hard to beat the 99designs concept when it comes to achieving a variety of designs.
The Pirate Bay Verdict has fallen and its clear that the judges was influenced by the government and they in turn by the old world copyright lobbyists. The debate regarding copyright is not an easy one. If it was possible for eg an artist to say; “I don’t want my music shared on the internet” and due to some strange super duper algorithm that would be possible …. this would actually be a debate where it would be hard to say yes or no regarding if we need to change copyright laws or not.
The fact is though that in order to uphold todays copyright laws on the internet there would be a need for such a major monitoring of internet traffic that we would live in a surveillance society such as we have never ever seen before (and we are almost already there).
| The establishment (both this government and the previous) in Sweden is disregarding the public opinion (which probably makes me vote blank the next election) and runs the errands of the nonagile developinghindering coorps instead of the people. This trial was not mainly about The Pirate Bay, because the verdict sets the tone for what is about to come and its not a good one. |  |
If you wanna help promote these questions in your country you can go here: Piratpartiet International (if they could just change their stupid name).
Their Copyright Rights is not worth our Integrity and Freedom of Speach Rights!
Since our beta site of istheshit needs a new home when it goes live, the Bytelove traffic is increasing and due to the fact that our current managed server solution seems to be managed by kids (who gave us like 3 days downtime the last 3 months of which 1.5 was purely due to their incompetence) we thought it time to invest in a new server at another colocation place :).
1U Rackserver 4*SAS/SATA 2*XEON 5405 8GB 667 fb dimm, 3 Ware 9650SE 4port ML RAID, 500GB 32MB SATA-II, IPMI 2.0 with virtual media over LAN & ded lab KVM over lan
Woho :).