I think I like the Palestinians after all

[DaveW]

Old news, but I missed it:


http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK2.story&STORY=/www/story/08-19-2003/0002003023&EDATE=TUE+Aug+19+2003,+06:14+AM
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: The voice of the valley economy
8/19/03
Multimedia/Internet News
Earth Station 5 Declares War Against The Motion Picture Association of America
FREE Music, FREE Movies, FREE Software and Now FREE Sex Being Beamed
By Earthstation 5 to the Humans for Free

JENIN, West Bank, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the email
received today from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to
Earthstation 5 for copyright violations for streaming FIRST RUN movies over
the internet for FREE, this is our official response!
Earthstation 5 is at war with the Motion Picture Association of America
(MPAA) and the Record Association of America (RIAA), and to make our point
very clear that their governing laws and policys have absolutely no meaning to
us here in Palestine, we will continue to add even more movies for FREE.
ES5 (http://www.es5 .com) does not require any signups, registration,
credit cards and/or any other personal information to watch the first rate
streamed movies like TERMINATOR 3, BRUCE ALMIGHTY, MATRIX RELOADED, etc.
Our secure software protect our users who use our P2P application and
there is nothing that you can do to stop us, says Ras Kabir, president of
Earthstation 5 (http:/www.earthstation5 .com).
"File-sharers world-wide are learning that our Earthstation 5 software
hides the identities of its users and their IP addresses so they can now
freely share their music and movies online without the threat of a lawsuit
from the RIAA and/or the MPAA," said Kabair.
"Unlike Kazaa and other P2P programs who subsequently deny building their
P2P program for illegal filesharing, ES5 is the only P2P application and
portal to actually join its users in doing P2P."
Currently Earthstation 5 has over 15 million active online users at any
given moment of the day or night.
Earthstation 5 also has a FREE multi-user Voice and Video chat system,
FREE Dating system, provides FREE video streaming of first run movies, FREE
ten SEX channels, FREE live Sporting events, and will be releasing soon a
Voice over IP application providing FREE local and international telephone
calls to its users to communicate with each other.
Earthstation 5 is currently available in 28 languages and more languages
are coming out each week.
Earth Station 5 is provided free to its users and can be downloaded at
http://www.es5 .com.
Earth Station 5 is spyware free, adware free and contains no popups and/or
annoying advertising. Earth Station 5 is located both in Gaza and in the
Jenin Refugee Camp of Palestine.
Ras Kabir's warning to the RIAA and the MPAA, "The next revolution in P2P
file sharing is upon you. Resistance is futile and we are now in control".

Media Contact:
Ras Kabir, Earthstationv Ltd.

Telephone: 972 673 51065
E-mail: ras@earthstationv.com
http://www.earthstationv .com/

[saturnotaku]

Wow, Kudos to that little group of Palestinians. Though I personally wasn't impressed with ES5 (I was an early adopter and it's probably gotten much better) I have to applaud them for having the stones to take it to the MPAA, RIAA, et al.

[vampireuk]

Ras Kabir's warning to the RIAA and the MPAA, "The next revolution in P2P
file sharing is upon you. Resistance is futile and we are now in control".

:headbang:

[DaveW]

Another quote from a dead, but google cached, article here:



ES5 claims to be "at war" with the major media organizations. The company actively engages in file sharing, streams unlicensed first-run movies, and claims to have 200 terabytes of "free" music and software it plans to release across its network. And how does it respond to demands to cease and desist?


"Basically," says ES5 media liaison Steve Taylor, "we tell them to go f*ck off."

[vampireuk]

"Basically," says ES5 media liaison Steve Taylor, "we tell them to go f*ck off."

:rofl

ES5 may not be that good but they are sending out the right message.

[2fast4u]

leaving all my distaste for the riaa aside: tbph .. i have doubts if es5 could really be based in palestine. i mean, cmon these are areas where at often times there is no electricity, and you expect me to believe they can run a stable server from there? sounds rather fishy.

[Ninja Prime]

Meh I'd still rather point tank gun barrels at only their children with obvious intent to fire upon them... :rolleyes: ;)

[bknblk]

Originally posted by Ninja Prime
Meh I'd still rather point tank gun barrels at only their children with obvious intent to fire upon them... :rolleyes: ;)


http://members.cox.net/fastrig/hadenough.gif

[Ninja Prime]

LOL, isn't that the way 1stflight paints it? ;)

[2fast4u]

you are one sick mofo :eek:

[vampireuk]

Originally posted by Ninja Prime
Meh I'd still rather point tank gun barrels at only their children with obvious intent to fire upon them... :rolleyes: ;)

Well that incident did actually happen so its probably best not to make a joke about it;)

[Ninja Prime]

Originally posted by vampireuk
Well that incident did actually happen so its probably best not to make a joke about it;)

I don't think so...

[vampireuk]

You actually think that incident didn't happen?:rolleyes:

Edit:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3163106.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38119000/jpg/_38119221_sequence300.jpg

[Ninja Prime]

Originally posted by vampireuk
You actually think that incident didn't happen?:rolleyes:

Edit:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3163106.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38119000/jpg/_38119221_sequence300.jpg


More likely their bomb they planned on using to blow up the plaza went off too early. ;)
















I'm just screwing with you, you know... :D

[vampireuk]

Damn you to hell!!:D