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Cinema chain Cineworld in the UK now has a policy banning anyone from carrying a laptop into a theatre, even if it is not used. The management claims that this is an anti-piracy move on the advice of the Federation Against Copyright Theft, the source of all kinds of dubious anti-piracy statements. When it was pointed out that the laptop had no camera, the management made a temporary exception.

For customers, the message is clear: leave your laptop in the car. For pirates, the message is clear: there is more money to be made slinking around cinema car parks looking for laptop bags.

Mobile phone with a camera? Go right ahead. Laptop in a bag with no powersuply? Get the fuck out of here!

Upgraded sound quality… sometimes, Lots’o'muzak, It’s all Ron’s fault, Chepe’s dog raping stuff, Metalscape sucks.

Playlist:
Gorod – Disavow Your God
Sonata Arctica – Flag in the Ground
Magic Kingdom – Iron Mask
Ensiferum – From Afar
Argamemnon – Ved ’08
Magane – Tofulafi
Ahab – The Divinity of Oceans
D.R.I. – No Religion
Wilfrido Vargas – El Africano
Augie Rios – Donde Esta Santa Claus
Vio-Lence – Kill on Command

Metalscape 119 - Because of the Black People

As some of you know, Nine Inch nails is doing the farewell tour wich will end in los angeles. And for me, thats good news. I have his first album Pretty Hate Machine, and i think its pretty cool. But now, every dude and their mother seem to be fucking jacking of to them. I usually dont hate a band because many people listen to them, but half the NIN fanbase is probably kids who think they are so awesome, cool and goth because they listen to nine inch nails, paradise lost and candlemass, wear black cloths they got from the supermarkets cloth department and wear a bit too much makeup. This pisses me off. So now atleast i dont have to see some big headlines with about “trent reznor getting into a new dispute”. And hopefully I also wont hear anymore retarded scenekids talking about how “cool and awesome” the new NIN album is.

Ensiferum just released the video for the title track on the new album “From Afar”. It’s the first song I’ve heard off the new album and it sounds pretty good.

What struck me right off the bat was the use of a full live orchestra, the brass hits at the beginning of the song are excellently done and bring a new atmosphere to Ensiferum, who were beginning to get a little stale.

The video has fairly high production values but I have no fucking idea what’s going. The chick with the dreads is cute as a button though, she looks like she’s from Whoville. The camera also shakes whenever Petri looks into it while he’s singing, I understand it’s supposed to give of a powerful vibe. But if you’ve ever seen the man in person, he’s kinda frail/anorexic looking. Check out the video below.

Metalscape 118

After six long weeks, Zach and Ron are back together. To record the next episode of Metalscape, and listen to Rap. Why not? Ireland adventures, Ron gets laid, Chepe’s stealing family, Chepe in the chatroom, System of a Down, Save Chi!

Playlist:
Behemoth – Daimonos
Subway to Sally – Besser du Rennst
To-Mera – Parfum
F.K.U. – Twitch of the Thrash Nerve

Links:

Worst Hostel EVAR!
First Guitar EVAR!
Best Pictures EVAR!
Best Pictures EVAR! Pt. DEUX!!
Zach and Ron, together for…EVAR!

Hey everyone. Sorry about not hearing from us. I’m currently off in the Emerald Isle until next week. Ron told me he would be posting his nicaraguan photo journal to show that they are a civilized country. But I haven’t seen any proof yet.

Stay tuned for a new batch of episodes and lots of drunken irish tales!

VoloMedia announced today that it has been awarded what it called the ‘patent for podcasting.’ According to the press announcement, patent number 7,568,213, titled ‘Method for Providing Episodic Media,’ covers: ‘…the fundamental mechanisms of podcasting, including providing consumer subscription to a show, automatically downloading media to a computer, prioritizing downloads, providing users with status indication, deleting episodes, and synchronizing episodes to a portable media device.’

Here’s what the patent claims:

1. A method for providing episodic media, the method comprising: providing a user with access to a channel dedicated to episodic media, wherein the episodic media provided over the channel is pre-defined into one or more episodes by a remote publisher of the episodic media; receiving a subscription request to the channel dedicated to the episodic media from the user; automatically downloading updated episodic media associated with the channel dedicated to the episodic media to a computing device associated with the user in accordance with the subscription request upon availability of the updated episodic media, the automatic download occurring without further user interaction; and providing the user with: an indication of a maximum available channel depth, the channel depth indicating a size of episodic media yet to be downloaded from the channel and size of episodic media already downloaded from the channel, the channel depth being specified in playtime or storage resources, and the ability to modify the channel depth by deleting selected episodic media content, thereby overriding the previously configured channel depth.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically providing the user with an indication of the availability of updated episodic media via the channel dedicated to the episodic media in accordance with the subscription request.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising synchronizing the updated episodic media automatically downloaded to the computing device associated with the user with a portable computing device communicatively coupled to the computing device associated with the user.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein synchronization of the updated episodic media automatically occurs in response to a predetermined user setting.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein synchronization of the updated episodic media occurs in response to a request received from the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the updated episodic media is made available to users not associated with the computing device over a local area network.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the automatic download is further based on a priority assigned to the channel.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein the channel dedicated to the episodic media is reduced in size during synchronization in order to fit available cache storage within the portable device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the channel dedicated to the episodic media is modified in size by removing one or more episodes of episodic media.

First there was the “how to brew mead” with amon amarth, now the swiss metallers Samael begun to sell their own wine

“Some of you could feel it coming… today we’re proud to present you the first SAMAEL wine. ‘Alliance’ is a fine assemblage made from grapes of Gamay, Diolinoir and Sangiovese. It should surprise the connoisseurs by its mixtures of dark and deep aromas. Only a very limited edition of this 2009 vintage is branded SAMAEL, so if wine is ‘your cup of tea,’ don’t lose time. You can order your bottle right now from the SAMAEL online shop, www.samael.info/shop.”

I personally dont drink that much so i cant say if its good or not but if its as bad as their music, I wouldnt even look at it

Sup guys. We had a listener survey out a while back, but now someone is actually interested in seeing it!

The problem is, some of that stuff is a little outdated and we could use some new/updated thoughts on the show.

So even if you’ve taken the survey before, it’d be cool if you could take it again. It would really help us get a feel for our, you know, demographics and other large words we often use in the biz.

It won’t take long, and chances are you’ll get laid if you go tell people you took it.

Take the Listener Survey now!

EDIT:

There is now an abbreviated survey. It’s questions are a bit more focused on the show specifically.

Take the Abbreviated Survey

Showing a new-found resolve to crack down on self-serving edits, Wikipedia has banned contributions from all IPs addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology. According to Wikipedia administrators, this marks the first time such a high-profile organization has been banished for allegedly pushing its own agenda on the ‘free encyclopedia anyone can edit.’

The Register has the full story.”