Corporate album cover remixes
— brilliant Photoshop thread inspired by Nike’s borrowing of Minor Threat album art #Supreme Court rules against Grokster
— unanimous decision finds technology services liable for its users’ infringement #AudioFlickrscrobbler
— retrieve photos tagged with the last five artist names listened to via Flickr #Insanely great history of Suck.com
— interviews with nearly everyone involved; so very good, read this now #NYT profile of Party Poker
— online gambling is technically illegal in the U.S., but nobody seems to mind their $600m earnings in 2004 #Top 10 beams, lasers, and death rays in film
— they left out the death ray from Real Genius via Populicio.us #NY Times promotes Bugmenot
— very strange; refers to “newspaper marketers” and “those annoying site registrations” #Jason Scott's update on his podcast collection project
— he’s collected about 700GB of podcasts so far #Another World homebrew port for the GBA
— free conversion by the original author; found on 1UP’s great feature on console emulation via 1up.com #Hacking the flag-burning amendment
— using legal loopholes to make a statement; you can’t keep a good dissident down via Populicio.us #Report finds most people don't consider downloading digital media as theft
— technically, it’s not theft; it’s illegal duplication via Slashdot #eBay launches open-source Community Codebase effort
— more importantly, they’re allowing 10,000 API calls monthly for individuals via Slashdot #Crying While Eating creator discusses the rise of the meme
— they say that I linked to it first; go me! #Tom Cruise Kills Oprah
On Tuesday, I posted a link to my local copy of the Tom Cruise Kills Oprah Quicktime video that I found on an unnamed file-sharing site. Since then, the clip’s exploded in popularity. It’s been linked from MSNBC, USA Today, b3ta, and every Livejournal and message board on the planet. Right now, I’m serving about 200 gigabytes of the 4.1MB video every day. Yesterday, it was downloaded over 52,000 times and 60,000 times the day before. (Watch my bandwidth implode in real-time.)
Does anyone know the origins of the video? (Update: Found! Read the update below for details.) I know that it was later used to create the YTMND page, but nobody seems to know the source of the original video.
Between his crazy Scientology ranting, his war on psychiatry and anti-depressants, creeping out Hollywood starlets, frenetic couch jumping, and the conspiracy theories surrounding the brainwashing of Katie Holmes, it seems like Tom Cruise is the new Michael Jackson. Sounds good to me.
Update: Leonard’s hosting the video for a while until traffic dies down a bit. Thanks, Leonard!
June 27, 2005: An anonymous commenter admitted to creating the movie using audio from a downloaded version of Star Wars Episode III. He adds, “The video was created using Adobe Premiere for the shot and sound editing and Adobe After Effects 6.5 for the lightning using the ‘advanced lightning’ feature.”
I can confirm that my source originally found it on Shacknews, so this makes sense.