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Why the Truth Police Trumps Panorama's "Net Police"
Panorama just aired an 'interesting' show tonight. Entitled "Are the Net Police Coming for You?", the BBC describes the show in the following way.
A proposed new law is threatening to disconnect the millions of internet users who unlawfully download free music, films and TV. Jo Whiley looks at how broadband use at home may never be the same, and could even be cut off
Broadcast on: BBC One, 8:30pm Monday 15th March 2010
The problem is, the show is much like one broadcast as part of Film09 last year. That show, like this one, relied almost entirely on industry views, regurgitating their talking points, and 'facts' without any attempt at journalistic integrity. Basic practice is to get confirmation on facts from two separate sources, and yet both last year, and last night, this was not adhered to. The reason why is simple, of course – there is no second separate source. The Copyright industry is the only one claiming losses. The only facts that support those claims, are studies those same industries fund. Even then they don't match up, although that little detail is swept under the rug.
Like last year though, I'm going to complain. and like last year, I expect I'll get a rather cavalier brush-off as to why the program was short on facts, counterpoint, investigation, critical analysis or basic rational thought.
Just so you understand, the film09 segment last year was basically a regurgitation of the MPAA/Rand study claiming organized terrorism is involved in 'movie piracy'. The problem is, my old friend at TorrentFreak, Ben Jones, debunked the report thoroughly weeks before the segment was shown, and he wasn't alone in it. The respnse to my complaint however, dismissed little things like 'facts'
From: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: 'Film 2009 with Jonathan Ross' [T2009040900EUS010Z5530203]
Dear Mr Norton
Thank you for your e-mail regarding 'Film 2009 with Jonathan Ross' as broadcast on 31 March.
I note you felt the report on this programme about copyright theft wasn't adequately balanced as it only featured interviews with people from the film industry. I appreciate you felt we allowed a distorted view of this issue to be portrayed and note you have strong views regarding this matter.
This report focused in on a legitimate problem for both the film industry and the authorities as they try to tackle what is an ever increasing and profitable criminal activity. We feel the report outlined the laws surrounding the issue of film piracy adequately and that the interviewees from the film industry were entirely appropriate people to comment on the problem.
Impartiality is the cornerstone of all our output, and we feel this report was fully balanced in it's coverage of copyright theft. Nevertheless I appreciate our audience has a wide range of opinions and inevitably this means that not every viewer will agree with the content of every programme we broadcast. We know all our editorial decisions are subjective and we'd never expect our audience to agree with every decision we make.
With this in mind that I'd like to take this opportunity to assure you that I've recorded your comments, including that you believe this topic deserves a more in depth investigation, onto our audience log. This is an internal daily report of audience feedback which is circulated to many BBC staff including senior management, producers and channel controllers.
The audience logs are seen as important documents that can help shape decisions about future programming and content.
Thanks again for contacting us.
Liam Boyle
BBC Complaints
And now, almost exactly a year later, we have another program, making a similar lobbying attempt, cunningly camouflaged as factual programing. The UK Pirate Party has, so far, found over twenty errors, embellishments, inaccuracies and misstatements. I imagine the number will increase as more people look closely at the program.
I for one will be sending another complaint (http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/) , and I hope I won't be alone in it. When I get a response, I'll post it straight away.
Attack of the Porn Show
Back in September 2007, TorrentFreak ran a piece about the porn industry deciding to take on pirates. G4TV was interested, and contacted them to see if one of their writers would like to appear on their flagship program, Attack of the Show, to talk about it. All the writers for TorrentFreak, are Europe-based, and G4 is a US channel, though, and Attack of the Show is done Live (or thereabouts). So, on September 14th, I was asked if I'd take part, representing the US Pirate Party, and I said 'yes'.
The segment filmed, and aired Monday, September 17th, so there was little time to prepare. I've not been a huge follower of the porn industry, or a downloader of porn, so I had to reach out to my contacts to find out more. I was lucky, in that one acquaintance of mine from a year or two earlier, was running two porn torrent sites, and forwarded me contact details for some of their admins.
Armed with all the prep, I was told that Crawford Communications would be awaiting me, and that I would be dealing with an Anh Tran as my opponent (try looking up that name when you just get it over the phone) so that was that. Crawford's a lovely company though, very professional, especially Jim Baxter, who was my cameraman/producer. The only downside, was they didn't actually get G4 on their cable system!. I couldn't even see my opponent or the show, all I could do is hear it through a single earpiece. It also meant, I had no idea how delayed things were until after the show was done, and I got to watch it later that night.
I'm in Atlanta, they're in San Fransisco. Ahn is on set or next door – there's no delay for him. Theres roughly 1.5 seconds delay each way for me. Thanks to some snappy decisions by the Director, it's not obvious, but it becomes so at the end, when I'm talking over someone – it's not intentional, it's just hard to tell.
Anyway, tell me what you think of it in the comments.
And since I can't seem to get it embedded here, you'll have to go to THIS PAGE to see it.
Why the US film Industry is Going Bankrupt.
About 2 years ago, in the January of 08, I started a little project. It was to look at the box office figures put out by the film industry, and look how p2p had impacted them. I did some initial research, which looked at US box office figures for 1996-2007.
Then, in June 07, I published an initial summery of some of my findings, with the aim that I would try and have the full study finished by the end of July 08. That (obviously) didn't happen. A mixture of real-life pressures, and ADD kept me from finishing it (plus work on the Pirate Party US/International).
Studies like this were the reason I stepped down from Pirate Parties International. It's only recently, now that the US Pirate Party has a full board, that I can concentrate once more upon things. So, I've updated the box office figures, and included 2008 and 2009 as well as 1990-95 (although some of the 09 films are still showing, so shouldn't be taken as 'final').
One thing I did notice when collecting the figures, were the figures for 2005. This is the year, let's not forget, where Hollywood claimed to lose $6.1Billion, to "Piracy" (meaning 'copyright infringement')
The thing is that while the box office figures for the US were down a bit, they weren't down by much, especially not when compared to the 90s (before 'piracy') What's more, while they may have lost a claimed $6.1Billion worldwide (1.3Billion of that in the US); the top ten films, of the 547 or so released that year, took in over $5.7B worldwide (and $2.4B in the US).
They never mention their income in the same press release as their claimed losses, and now you know why. They also never include the costs of the films, and there's another reason. The top 10 in 1990 cost around $316.5Million in 1990 dollars (521.5Million in 08 dollars), which included films like Ghost, Total Recall, and Due Hard 2.
2005's top 10 films cost a whopping $1.307 BILLION to make by contrast ($1.441Billion in 08 dollars) – 2.7x more. In fact, only two of 2005's films cost less to make than the most expensive film (in the 1990 top ten, Die Hard 2 ($70M in 1990, $104M in 05 dollars). Those were Wedding Crashers ($40M) and Madagascar ($75M)
When you want to look at a reason Hollywood, and the MPAA feel they're losing money, it's the budgets that should be looked at. People are still going, but it's the expense that drives the profits down.
Many thanks to BoxofficeMojo for lots of lovely data to work with.
An ACTA Comment to the USTR
We all know about ACTA. What we don't know is what ACTA contains. The US Government calls it a National Security issue, and points to Executive order 12958. The UK government is refusing to put the treaty on the Parliamentary record. It's a den of shadows, where nothing is clear. All that there are are rumours and drafts.
So, it's at least partially heartening that some pretense of listening to the people has occured to the US Trade Representative (USTR) in that he opened the door for comments. Naturally I, like others, jumped at the chance.
It's all too easy to go off half-cocked, and start rambling, talking about things you've heard, think you think might happen, etc. That's not the right way. If it sounds like a conspiracy theory, then odds are it'll be treated as one, and ignored. Sticking to the facts in a clear and comprehensive manner work wonders.
With only a week's timeframe, it could be hard to write something factually hard-hitting, but also short enough to avoid being ignored as 'tl;dr'. Luckily, the snowstorm that hit DC meant that there was a 2 day extension for submissions. This was not neccesary for myself, but for the US Pirate Party it meant we had enough time to get a statement out I feel was acceptable.
I'll leave it to them to publish their statement, but I'm going to post mine, just for some thoughts, should you wish to contact your representative. Especially in light of the most recent leak, 3 days after the deadline close.
Success! Your Comment Has Been Submitted
Comment Tracking Number: 80aa7e65
Thank you for submitting a comment on the following NOTICES
Document ID: USTR-2010-0003-0001: 2010 Special 301 Federal Register Notice
Your attached files:
ANortonUSTR-2010-0003.pdf Successfully uploaded
A Brief History of the Oink Trial Pt1
So the oink trial is over, and Alan won.
In a larger sense, many of us won. The Oink raid and trial was, at it's essence, a show-trial, every bit a spectacle trial (or 'spectrial') as last years Pirate Bay one – if not moreso. After all, the Swedish Police didn't do the raid accompanied by TV cameras – in fact they covered up cameras – but otherwise it was similar.
So let's go through the case. It started with a raid, covered by the BBC in a regional news program that covered the talking points of the victim (the IFPI/BPI) and the police. Worse, the police, in the form of Detective Inspector Colin Green, made definitive statements that were at odds with the facts.
"There's approximately 180,000 members, who pay subscriptions to enter the website and download any music that's available. And music that's been made available on that website, it's pre-release, it hasn't gone into the record shops"
As we all know, subscriptions were not required. Nor was music downloaded from the site. As for the pre-release claims, a small percentage may have been, but the better question is where it came from, presumably a music industry person that decided to upload, and not acquired by Mr Ellis himself.
The domain was also hijacked, by the IFPI and BPI, displaying their logos and an intimidating message. Interestingly, the representatives of the alleged victims, the IFPI and BPI, were not only participating in a criminal investigation, but headlining it. A definite conflict of interest at the very least, but the hijacking of private property owned by the defendant, by the accuser, to post intimidation and attempt to influence people, is clearly an attempt to prejudice the trial. 3 days later, thankfully, the website was redirected, but it shows the levels of influence these industry bodies have over the police.
Meanwhile, Alan Ellis, was released, and spent the next 11 months on bail before being finally charged with "Conspiracy to defraud the music industry". The UK lobby group FACT has a description of the offence which actually pretty much gave the case as a win for Ellis (and archive.org says the page is still the same as in May 06). The specimen charge they give reads
On a day between the … Day of… 19.. And the … Day of… 19.. In the county of… And elsewhere, conspired with … And with persons unknown to defraud the copyright owners of various video films by marketing/distributing/manufacturing infringing copies of video films contrary to the common law
No-one was defrauded of films, they still had them. The only way the charge could work, is if the claim is that the copyright owners had been deprived of money they might have got. Great, except that argument can be made by anyone you're in competition with. Oh, and copyright, not a property – it's an assignable right.Next time – the build up, the users, and the pre-trial playabout.
I made Wikipedia!
Earlier this week, I had a slight surprise. Someone had actually created a wikipedia article about me. Great! Nice to think I was considered notable enough in the Pirate Party movement to get a page. It's a bit light on facts though, so I thought I'd add some here (since I couldn't add them to wikipedia, as that's a "conflict of Interest"
- I'm married with 3 kids
- I was born June 24th 1980
- I used to work on BattleBots (I went from an assorted crew minion at the Long Beach event and Season 1.0, to coordinating the pits in 2.0, and was a safety inspector in 4.0 – passes are on this VASTLY out of date page from 03)
- I also took part in Robot Wars, as part of Team Liverdyne. We ran the Middleweight Hard Cheese (Middleweight champ 98-2000) and the Heavyweight Viper01
- Hard Cheese can also be briefly seen in the Spaced Episode "Mettle" – I am visible a bit more, as one of the slo-mo'd solo cheerers during the episodes battle.
And for those that want to know what 'ktetch' (more properly "K'Tetch") is about – it's a the name of a character I developed for an RPGin the mid-90s. It's of Klingon origin, and it's very handy as an on-line user name, as no-one else uses it.
Oink and the Technicolour Lie-coat
One of the core philosophies of reporting is that you only print what you're sure of. If you don't know, don't say. That way Libel lies.
Someone really should tell the Northern Echo (Update; see comments, it's written by the Press Association) that. Today, they ran a piece about the restarting of Alan Ellis' trial. Alan, if you didn't know, was associated with oink, the music bittorrent tracker. If you know about bittorrent, and the case in particular, it's a real head-slap moment. The majority of the piece appears to have been copied from the RIAA/BPI filings made to police, and 30 seconds research (even to past news stories covering this case) would prove the lie.
Let's look at some of the errors
A man suspected of operating one of the world's biggest pirate music websites from a bedsit had his trial adjourned today.
I'm pretty sure the site was operating from a Hosting company. Despite claims made by ISPs, their residential connections aren't all that fast.
"Computer equipment and documents were seized from his home in Middlesbrough in 2007 and he was charged by police with conspiracy to defraud the music industry and copyright infringement."
Actually, things seem cut and dried, but it's not quiet accurate (again). The raids and seizures were made in October 2007 (and 'coincidentally' with a BBC camera unit in tow) but Mr Elis was not charged until 11 months later. With Conspiracy to Defraud the Music Industry – a charge unheard of before (possibly because it doesn't actually exist?)
"Police and music industry investigators suggested that he could have made hundreds of thousands of pounds a year from the OiNK website, which he set up in 2004.
"Could have", yes. Did do, no. Over the same time period he *could* also have murdered 300 people, or run for the House of Commons. It's actually music investigators (the plaintiffs) making that accusation first – that's one of the things that triggered the raid.
"He is the first person in the UK ever to be charged with illegal file-sharing. "
Oh, not even close. We could cover Barwiska (although that's a civil case). The uploaders to oink that police arrested as a result of this raid, who were sentenced a year ago would also probably dispute that.
The OiNK website was a complex computer programme created to help share music and audio files amongst a community of online users.
The oink website was a fairly simple website which accessed a tracker database backend. It's no more complex than Amazon, or any other database-driven site, and is certainly not a computer program, complex or otherwise.
Members of the community would seed the system by uploading music files or leech from it by downloading music files.
Sorry, They would seed torrents, which are independent of the tracker or 'system'. Likewise, they would leech from torrents, using bandwidth from other users, not doing anything with the 'system' directly.
To do so they had to register their email address and a unique user name, and make donations by debit or credit card to ensure full access and maximum usage of the site.
Yes, yes, and no. Donations were not required – this is back to the 'hundreds of thousands of pounds' argument above. Telling the lie that you HAD to send money, means there's a minimum financial value associated with each user, which can be counted, which then leads to the money claims above. Since there was no requirement to pay to use the site, the rest of the argument falls down badly.
The technology used – a method known as BitTorrent file-sharing – had three main advantages: It broke files down into small pieces of data, which made that data more easy to share, giving a higher quality download in a shorter time.
First, that seems like only one advantage to me, and a nonsensical one at that. Higher quality means bigger file, regardless of protocol used to share, which means LONGER time not shorter. What I think they mean to say was "it breaks files down into smaller chunks of data (just like all data transfers do) which can then be distributed with a far greater efficiency than using any other protocol"
The beauty of the system was that each time a person leeched – or downloaded – an album from the internet, they became a seeder from whom other OiNK users could download the same album.
True, but only as long as the specific torrent in question was not only still in the persons client, but actively running as well, not permanently, as is suggested.
Early online file-sharing systems were so slow it could be more expensive to download an album than to buy it in a shop.
I would really LOVE to know how they came up with this statement. I suppose if you were on dialup, calling a non-local Point of Presence that was not free, you could maybe rack up some charges (7.9p/minute at current BT national call rates). Dialup (when I had it with blueyonder in 99-2002) would do approx 1MB every 5 minutes, and a 3 minute song is about 3MB. 15 minutes per track comes to 118.5p. In that way, yes it's more expensive than 99c from itunes, BUT, it's less than the cost of going to HMV or Virgin, and buying a single for 10 songs, its £11.80 – which is less than I seem to recall albums costing now, or then (and we're not factoring in travelling costs), so another false claim.
But advances in technology meant OiNK users could download very high quality music files, very quickly.
Oink users, iTunes users, BBC iPlayer users- that's not something specific to Oink. The technological advances are in broadband rollout and speed, bcause if you're still on dialup, bittorrent won't be any faster – would almost certainly be SLOWER in fact.
Ellis' trial at Middlesbrough Crown Court was adjourned until tomorrow, for legal arguments.
Wow, they managed it! They managed an entire sentence that was wholly accurate.
You want to know what's quite fun about this piece though? Since it's a newspaper, distribbuted in the area of the trial, and which contains a severely slanted perspective on the case, including a lot of factual errors, it could be considered prejudicial to the case, and cause a mistrial. Nor is it the first time such action has happened in this case. Immediately after the raid the domain was hijacked by the music industry, long before charges were made, let alone a day in court.
Fun eh? I've sent a link to this to the News Editor of The Northern Echo, I wonder what his response will be.
UPDATE:i've just been informed that the Mirror is also running the exact same story Wonder what their editor thinks of it.
UPDATE 2: Just has word from Alan "didn't even get my job right." – nuff said really.
Terrorism – How Not to Deal With It
Terrorism. An innocuous word to some, but it makes US government officials lose their collective minds. In an orgy of CYA (cover your ass) clusterf*cks, they manage to turn even the simplest blunders into terrorist activities.
Let's first reflect on the actual DANGERS of terrorism. As I wrote about a few months ago, there are more deaths, on average, EVERY MONTH on US roads, than in every terrorist attack targeting at least one US Citizen from 1994-2005 combined, and that over the same period, mother nature – in the form of tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, snow/ice and even plain old heat – killed twice as many over the same time period as the dreaded T-word. Fivethirtyeight.com also breaks down air-based terrorist incidents by miles travelled, time travelled, and number of passengers involved. Their results?
one terrorist incident per 16,553,385 departures.
one terrorist incident per 11,569,297,667 miles flown
one terrorist incident per 27,221,877 hours airborne.
the odds of being on given departure which is the subject of a terrorist incident have been 1 in 10,408,947 over the past decade
You can read their source data and maths on their article.
So, on Christmas Day, we have 'an attempted bomb plot' (which is included in the figures above) that ended up fizzling. This is 8 years after the complete overhaul of air travel 'security' to prevent it from happening. After it happened, there were more TSA CYA's, including a security directive which went out to over 10,000 people worldwide. When it was made public by two different bloggers, the TSA came down on them. For making public a government document. 'Strangely', after that was made public, both the directive, and the subpoenas served on the bloggers have gone away. That indicates that there was fear of the public reaction – fear of the exposure of their tactics and methods.
Then there was the lovely incident yesterday, at Newark airport. Someone got from the public side to the secure side, and caused the entire airport to go into lock down. The 'best' part of all? Hours later they still don't know who. It is nothing more than a clear case of TSA incompetence, and lack of common sense.
What makes it even more of a farce was the White House's weekly address, published a day earlier.
Let's never forget what has always carried us through times of trial, including those attacks eight Septembers ago.
Instead of giving in to fear and cynicism, let's renew that timeless American spirit of resolve and confidence and optimism.
Fear is the entire reason the TSA exists; and it is what has been carrying the US through the last 8 years. It's been the rational for a lot of legislation over the past 8 years, and it's the bread-and-butter of both this Administration and the last one. The US Federal code even defines (18 U.S.C. §2331) as using violent acts to, amongst other things -intimidate or coerce a populace. Brandishing weapons, detaining people – both can be considered violent acts. By the circular reasoning, that the US Government loves, it gets even better. The THREAT of a terrorist act is in fact a terrorist act. If you say "unless xyz happens, there will be an attack", that is a terrorist threat.
Now we're down to how the Department of Homeland Security was created, and that's a whole other story. I leave you with something I saw on twitter, 're-tweeted' by my good friend, and political blodder, Aaron Landry, from the KARE news station in the twin cities.
RT @solace: RT @kare11: NWA flight diverted because of Christmas ornament http://bit.ly/6fWkLp really? this isn't an Onion headline?
No, it's just the state of "Anti-terrorist" paranoia in a climate of security theatre, and that's pretty sad.
Recommended Bittorrent/µTorrent Settings
As I've shown already, Oftentimes people do REALLY stupid things with their client settings. I mean beyond ordinary 'stupid'. Private tracker sites are one of the main reasons for this. The all-fired obsession with seeding as much as possible, because of the power of the intangible and all-powerful 'ratio' that must be obeyed, and adhered to at all costs.
Thus I felt that I should reprint this, as first developed by a friend of mine, a µTorrent forum moderator that goes by the name of Switeck. This was first publshed on the µTorrent forum, but in the spirit of getting it out there, and easily found, he agreed to this reprint. These settings work for pubic AND private trackers (and work better for private trackers than the ones suggested by those trackers in most cases)
Thanks again to Switeck
<<<< Begin>>>>
Almost NO Cable line or ADSL line should use settings higher than 2 mbit/sec upload speed!
This link explains my chart further: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php … 50#p422150
║(UPLOAD MAXIMUM)║Limit│Slots║ Torr│ MAX ║Torr│Down.║
║ Dial-up (28.8k)║ 2│ 1║ 4│ 5║ 1│ 1║
║ Dial-up (56k) ║ 3│ 1║ 5│ 6║ 1│ 1║
║Single ISDN(64k)║ 5│ 2║ 10│ 15║ 1│ 1║
║ Dual ISDN(128k)║ 9│ 3║ 20│ 25║ 1│ 1║
║ 64 kbit/sec ║ 5│ 2║ 20│ 25║ 1│ 1║
║ 80 kbit/sec ║ 6│ 2║ 25│ 30║ 1│ 1║
║ 96 kbit/sec ║ 7│ 3║ 25│ 30║ 1│ 1║
║ 128 kbit/sec ║ 9│ 3║ 30│ 35║ 1│ 1║
║ 160 kbit/sec ║ 13│ 3║ 30│ 40║ 1│ 1║
║ 192 kbit/sec ║ 17│ 3║ 30│ 50║ 2│ 1║
║ 224 kbit/sec ║ 20│ 3║ 35│ 55║ 2│ 1║
║ 256 kbit/sec ║ 22│ 3║ 35│ 60║ 2│ 1║
║ 320 kbit/sec ║ 29│ 3║ 35│ 80║ 3│ 2║
║ 384 kbit/sec ║ 35│ 4║ 40│ 90║ 3│ 2║
║ 448 kbit/sec ║ 40│ 4║ 40│ 100║ 3│ 2║
║ 512 kbit/sec ║ 47│ 4║ 40│ 100║ 4│ 3║
║ 640 kbit/sec ║ 60│ 4║ 45│ 120║ 4│ 3║
║ 700 kbit/sec ║ 65│ 4║ 45│ 140║ 5│ 4║
║ 768 kbit/sec ║ 72│ 5║ 50│ 150║ 5│ 4║
║ 800 kbit/sec ║ 75│ 5║ 50│ 160║ 6│ 5║
║ 900 kbit/sec ║ 82│ 5║ 55│ 180║ 6│ 5║
║ 1 mbit/sec ║ 92│ 6║ 60│ 200║ 7│ 6║
║ 1.5 mbit/sec ║ 140│ 7║ 60│ 250║ 8│ 7║
║ 2 mbit/sec ║ 186│ 8║ 60│ 300║ 10│ 8║
║ 2.5 mbit/sec ║ 250│ 8║ 60│ 320║ 12│ 8║
║ 3 mbit/sec ║ 300│ 9║ 65│ 330║ 13│ 9║
║ 4 mbit/sec ║ 400│ 10║ 70│ 350║ 14│ 10║
║ 5 mbit/sec ║ 500│ 10║ 70│ 400║ 15│ 10║
║ 8 mbit/sec ║ 800│ 15║ 80│ 450║ 17│ 12║
║ 10 mbit/sec ║ 1000│ 20║ 100│ 500║ 20│ 15║
║ 15 mbit/sec ║ 1500│ 22║ 100│ 550║ 23│ 17║
║ 20 mbit/sec ║ 2000│ 25║ 125│ 600║ 25│ 20║
║ 25 mbit/sec ║ 2500│ 26║ 130│ 620║ 27│ 21║
║ 30 mbit/sec ║ 3000│ 27║ 135│ 650║ 30│ 23║
║ 40 mbit/sec ║ 4000│ 28║ 140│ 700║ 40│ 25║
║ 50 mbit/sec ║ 5000│ 30║ 150│ 800║ 50│ 30║
║ 80 mbit/sec ║ 8000│ 35║ 160│ 900║ 80│ 35║
║ 100 mbit/sec ║10000│ 40║ 200│ 1000║ 100│ 40║
║(UPLOAD MAXIMUM)║Limit│Slots║ Torr│ MAX ║Torr│Down.║
Connection Type/ Upload Maximum = UPLOAD speed in kilobits/sec OR megabits/sec. NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH DOWNLOAD SPEED MAX! A "10 megabit/sec" cable line has that speed only for download…upload speed is likely 1 megabit/sec OR LESS!
UPLOAD Limit = Max Upload Speed in KiloBYTES/second
Upload Slots = number of peers to upload to at once on EACH active Torrent.
Connections Torr = Maximum Connections allowed PER active Torrent
Connections MAX = Global Maximum Connections allowed
MAX ACTIVE Torr = Total Maximum Active Torrents (This is Downloading PLUS Seeding!)
MAX ACTIVE Down. = Total Maximum Downloading Torrents
Hope these settings help you.
P2P Hurts UK Music Sales?
… or so we're told.
There is a belief, that music sales are being harmed by the internet. MP3's and peer-to-peer (p2p) networks have made swapping music easy, ever since Napster burst onto the scene in 1999. There is even a section on the BPI's website that deals with it (strangely titled "File-sharing FAQ's"
Why is it a problem; does filesharing damage music sales?
Aside from the fact that filesharing infringes and undermines the rights of the creators and investors in music, it's enormously damaging to music sales.
Is is true though?
Well, according to figures from the UK music industry themselves, the answer is No.
I have already published this info once, in my recent consultation response submitted to the UK government. What I didn't do, however, was show what those figures look like. After all an arcane group of numbers might look like anything, what's needed are some illustrations.
Without further ado, let's get to the data then.
The data is provided from two sources. The data comes from the Official UK Charts company information pack, And the BPI "Top market lines" publication. Also, as the BPI notes, digital album data was only collected from Q2 2006 onwards, so prior to that, any sales were unrecorded.
Lets's start with Albums. First, the raw figures (figures are in millions of units)
And likewise the singles figures (again, figures are in millions of units)
This might look like boring data, so lets add the graphs.
Album sales look like this
While singles sales look like this
Doesn't look all that damaging to sales to me.
One last test though, let's look at all those sales numbers combined, see just how much the sales have been 'hurt' over the last 10 years by P2P.


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This one was pulled off his website, and apparently they've stopped using Google Translate, so this is all Omri, no translation required. Less work for me. A lot of major events and interesting happenings have gone on in the NBA in recent weeks, led by the blockbuster trade between the Knicks and Nuggets last night. First off, honestly, when I sat and watched the Rookie-Sophomore game, I felt a sense of disappointment that I was not there. You have to remember that all players who played in that game are leading players and starters on their given teams, while my season hasn't quite gone that way. It definitely hurt a little in my chest, in my heart, I wanted to be there with them. But it's an opportunity for me to work hard and prepare myself for, maybe, getting real All-Star invitation one day - the sweetest thing there is. On our team, in Israel and here in Sacramento, we think the Melo was pretty fair, and both sides benefited in some way. I personally think the Knicks really strengthened their squad, not only because of the signing of Carmelo, but the addition of Chauncey Billups. Melo, on any given night, is the world's best player, but the guy who really makes the difference in the trade is Billups, a "Money Time" player who will add the a lot to the Knicks backcourt. It will be interesting to see how the new duo of Melo and Amare Stoudmire will play under Mike D'Antoni. I have no doubt that they will be a tremendous force together and that it will be a good combination, how good of a combo? Well, we will have to wait until the playoffs to find out. In any case, the Knicks will be very difficult in the East, up there with the good teams in Miami, Boston, Orlando and Chicago. It's just too early to know if this trade can lead them to Finals this year. Many people automatically make the comparison to the incredible trio in Miami. No doubt the duo for the Knicks is great, but Miami seems to have a slight advantage. Their trio of stars is better right now, especially since New York will have to learn a new system with new players, just as they did in Miami, and that in a month and a half the playoffs start. With all due respect to Miami, and the improvement of the Knicks, I don't see a team in the east that can beat Boston in seven games, not even LeBron and friends. On the other side, the Lakers did stutter, but when the money is on the line in the playoffs, there is no one in the league that can win a series against the Lakers. They are favorites in my opinion, with the best player in the league, the most decorated coach, and a great big man in Pau Gasol. In any case, it will an interesting battle to see, because everyone seems to have gotten better this season. We had a big opponent the other night in the Miami Heat. Unfortunately, there were clear differences in talent levels, they controlled the game without question.. On our side, it's going to be hard to beat them away, in their house, in a game they expect to win. In general, it's not easy to play knowing that our season is over, actually. However, each of us need play for his own dignity, future, career, the fans, the system and the families behind us. Our goal now is to use the remaining games to improve. It's easy to say "we have nothing to play for, time to hit the beach", but we need to do the opposite - to work on our weak areas improve throughout the year and keep our dignity in this league. The actual end of his blog was about his basketball camp in Israel this summer, and I don't think anyone here cares about that, so I just omitted it.

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This is my first post...never wanted to participate in blogging but I can't take it any more. Never draft on need (unless your playing fantasy football). Buddy understands this. Stay true to your board. In 2006, Minnesota went 6-10 and had the number 7th pick in the 2007 draft. They had a 1000 yard back in Chester Taylor and they had a good number two in Moore. When thier turn came to pick, they choose the BPA on thier draft board. They didn't need a back. We all know what AP went on to do. Spiller is the bomb! This kid can play and can be the face of the Bills... check him out on You tube. Jackson is good but he is never going to break a run for 80 yards. When was the last time we saw that. CJ (my son's name) will be exciting. I like the pick.
You have to trust that Buddy knows what he's doing. When he was hired around the league...everyone said he was a football guy...that he help build the talent that turned San Deigo around. Just sit back and chill...we are the second or third worst team in the league...we can only go up.
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Linn County Auditor Joel Miller, who oversees elections, says Cedar Rapids should consider scrapping its post-general election runoff for unresolved City Council races in favor of an October primary.
Exhibit A: a turnout plunge.
Just more than 22 percent of Cedar Rapids voters turned out for the November general election but failed to boost any of seven at-large candidates past the 25-percent threshold to win a seat outright.
So the at-large race was tossed into a four-way runoff Tuesday. The turnout for this post-Thanksgiving add-on election was just 8.7 percent. And that drop is consistent with past runoff votes.
If one of the objectives of building an election process is to encourage robust participation by residents, and we think it should be a top goal, then it�s clear that this structure isn�t working. As disappointing as general election turnout is, runoff turnout is abysmal. The election of two council members to represent the entire city became a forgotten afterthought.
We think the general election should be the final word. And we believe that there would be more voter interest in a process that leads to that end. So any electoral winnowing process designed to cut a large field of candidates down to size should be conducted before the November election. An October primary would do that.
It�s a change city leaders should consider, although switching from runoffs to primaries would take a change in the city�s home rule charter. The charter can be amended by the council, although any amendment also could be subject to a public vote, if residents petition for it.
We also think there�s merit in another idea, instant runoff voting. Voters would rank their ballot choices, and if candidates failed to clear a victory threshold with first-choice votes, second-choice preferences would come into play, and so on. It would take legislative action to allow instant runoff voting.
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Sometimes I think we can be so consumed by these issues that it takes a life of it's own. But we're talking about sex. And we're talking about a pg-13 movie. The idea behind these is that commonly kids can watch it with out asking certain very difficult questions that really needs to be in the hands of the parent to address.
This is entertainment. Certain real life issues really needs to steer clear of entertainment. If view discretion becomes and issue...then trek has really mutated. I want my kids to watch trek with these sort of questions coming up. Give me the chance to decided when they exposed to this real life stuff. This isn't a slavery black/white issue, it's sex...and I think Star Trekk nemesis was creepy enough that I don't endorse kids watching it untill 15... But explaining what's going on to my daughter or son is not something I'll ever look highly upon when it shows up and I know it will.
The Crusher thing with the Trill was not as obvious.
But guys in most cultures don't kiss unless there is something more going on then friendship.
Well there already is plenty of sex in Star Trek, Elizadolots already pointed out, Kirk was always after the girl. And in most cultures, men don't kiss women unless there is something else going on there either.
But I'm not talking about including sex. Why not just a reference to a loving committed relationship?
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When you are literally the last line of defense during a tie game with the puck on your stick, the last thing you should do is something stupid. Like tripping. Or whiffing on a pass.
Jets defenseman Zach Bogosian did both.
That goal from Corey Perry was the game-winner in a 3-2 win for the Ducks.
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As we heard towards Superbowl 48, I want to take a minute to talk about the kinds of things I'd like to see from our front office this offseason to move us closer to getting back in championship contention.
Disclaimer: John Idzik has done nothing to make me doubt him yet, so I firmly believe that whatever moves he make are the best moves for the team.
With that, I'm going to break the offseason down into a few sections:
Antonio Cromartie, Cornerback:
Cromartie is coming off an injured, poor performance in 2013 and it's clear that he doesn't warrant a $15,000,000 cap hit next season. Luckily for the Jets, Cromartie can be cut with a relatively small hit of $5,480,000 and an additional $9,500,000 in cap space to use on free agents and rookies.
Mark Sanchez, Quarterback:
The dead money in Sanchez's contract drops in 2014 from more than 17 million to almost 5 meaning that Jets fans can breathe a sigh of relief as the former first-round picks $13,100,000 cap hit is erased from the books.
Santonio Holmes, Wide Receiver:
The Jets can save more than 8 million dollars by cutting the oft-injured receiver in the 2014 offseason. Anyone who has watched the Jets offense in the last two season should agree that no one on that side of the ball is playing like they're worth $10,000,000.
David Harris, Inside Linebacker:
The 29-year-old linebacker who has been the focal point of the defense for the last several years is due $7,000,000 dollars in 2014. With only $2,000,000 of the contract guaranteed money, Idzik and company should look to extend Harris on a team-friendly deal that lowers his cap hit.
Free Agency:
Jeremy Maclin, Wide Receiver:
Dream contract: 1 year, $3,000,000
Maclin is coming off an ACL tear that ended his 2013 campaign before the first regular season game. The explosive Eagle would add depth to one of the league's worst receiving corps while allowing the Jets to benefit from a "prove-it" contract.
Bernard Pollard, Safety:
Dream Contract: 3 years, $10,000,000
Pollard is a former Raven, meaning he has experience in a defense that Rex Ryan built. Couple that with his ability to fly to the ball and his history of reeking havoc on the Patriots, he would be a welcome addition to an ailing secondary.
Ed Dickson/Dennis Pitta, Tight End:
Dream Contract: 4 years, $18,500,000
It's likely that the Ravens won't keep both of their starting tight ends, which means the Jets could scoop up the other on a relatively comfortable contract to provide another new target for Geno. (Stay away from names like Jermichael Finley and Fred Davis here)
The Draft:
I don't have enough knowledge of college players to address pick by pick what I expect the Jets to do, so I'll address the first round and talk generally about the rest of the draft.
Unless something wholly unexpected happens, the 18th pick will be a graveyard for offensive playmakers. Marquise Lee is too raw a target coming off of a weak year for the Jets to depend on and Mike Evans will be inflated due to his high-profile nature. I would like to see the Jets trade out of this pick and look for someone like Davante Adams (Fresno State) or Kelvin Benjamin (FSU) later in the draft.
As far our general strategy, the Jets have enough picks to strengthen the roster in a big way during the draft, but I think it's important to stay true to our needs. Rex has proven an excellent talent developer on the defensive side of the ball, so we should look for raw defensive talent in the later rounds. With that in mind, I'd like to see the interior offensive line and skill positions addressed in the 1-3 rounds.
I think if our offseason plays out in a similar fashion to this, capitalized by low-risk moves to strengthen the depth of the roster, the Jets will be formidable moving forward.


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We all get asked "are you okay?" by loved ones or friends, and we give stock answers like "I'm fine" and "Don't worry about me, I'm good." Are these answers truthful? For some people they are. Other people…not so much. It's just a self-defense mechanism that has been learned from a lack of an emotionally supportive childhood.
Adults that were abused as children often have feelings of worthlessness, low self-esteem and long periods of depression. Often these fellow human-beings are prescribed medications that become a necessity, because quitting them leaves you with terrible withdrawal symptoms, which are worse than being on the medication. These "medicines" leave you apathetic with an empty feeling deep inside of you, that seems as though it will never be filled with anything, but sadness, rage, hopelessness and a poor image of self.
Many people abused as children, suffer many medical conditions during adulthood. Many contemplate and even plan suicide, often, if not a good part of the day. Abused Adult Children (AAC) are NOT more likely to abuse their own children, that is just a cruel theory invented by some dipshit with a fancy degree hanging on his wall.
The truth you ask? Well, it is individual and different for everyone. Some people NEVER recover from the abuse. I know that AACs are more likely to have pain, especially in the gastrointestinal and pelvic areas. I know these individuals are prone to isolation and a total lack of self-esteem. Many times these individuals feel it is always their fault, no matter the situation. These adults, abused as children, always make apologies for their actions. Many have issues with intimacy and even sexual dysfunction over the abuse.
Men, especially, don't usually tell about their abuse as a child, especially if it was sexual abuse. Men in the American culture always have been taught to be stoic…seldom do they speak of past abuse or they simply have blacked it out. Men feel it is something that shouldn't be spoken of, or any emotion given to it… after all, that might be considered weakness, and in America, men shouldn't be weak, right?
PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is very common in this classification of person. PTSD results in anxiety, panic attacks and long bouts of depression. Many give up trying to speak of it because it would indicate weakness in their eyes. PTSD is a sad condition. The hyper-startle response or lack of any startle response. PTSD sufferers may have flashbacks, obsessive thoughts and violent nightmares. These nightmares may include pieces of the abuse that occurred as a child. 22 veterans commit suicide EVERY day in America. Think about it, that's almost 1 veteran, every hour, every day, every year!
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Former Amir Khan opponents Paul McCloskey and Breidis Prescott will face one another on September 10 in Belfast, with both looking to stay in the conversation at 140 pounds.
Prescott (24-2, 19 KO) has built a somewhat marketable name and career out of his 54-second sparking of Khan back in 2008, but before and after that fight has not looked like quite the formidable puncher you might expect him to be based on that fight alone. Still, he mostly wins, even if it's against mediocre competition, and has only ever lost to Miguel Vazquez, a crafty lightweight who now holds a title, and Kevin Mitchell, who is a legit contender at 135, too. His last three fights have been at 140, and he's been fairly unimpressive but victorious against Bayan Jargal, Jason Davis, and Harrison Cuello.
McCloskey (22-1, 12 KO) is a former European junior welterweight titleholder who gave up that belt to face Khan in April. The fight was ugly, sloppy, and one-sided, as Khan wound up shutting out McCloskey over six rounds before the doctor and referee sent it to the cards on a cut.
It's a fine matchup for both, really, and will likely serve to weed out one as a pretender more than a contender.
As usual, Prescott is sticking to hyping the one reason he's got any name:
"I promise that if Amir is watching, and he happended to forget what occurred back in 2008, I will give him a reminder by my performance on 10 September." said Prescott on Tuesday.
"I can only hope that after I win, Amir keeps his promise and gets back in the ring with me."
It's not often you see a fighter who won have to try so hard to land a rematch, but the truth is since that fight, Khan and Prescott have gone in vastly different directions. Khan has done nothing but win, while Prescott had his bubble burst in a big way. Prescott knows very well that Khan is his best chance at a major payday, and it probably is part of the reason that he has scaled down the competition since being outclassed so thoroughly by Mitchell, after losing clearly to Vazquez (even though judge Dave Moretti had an absurd 97-92 Prescott scorecard). He wants that second fight with Khan, which will be worth more money than he can make with anyone else, because he's only really a major sell in a redemption/revenge/reckoning/rewhatever storyline there.
It's actually pretty intelligent business-wise, to be honest. But now he has McCloskey in front of him, which I think is a 50-50ish kind of fight. The style matchup could really benefit Prescott if he unleashes his straight right hand against McCloskey, a southpaw who loves keeping his hands at his sides even though he's not that quick and his reflexes aren't great. Or McCloskey could just plain be too good for Prescott, who is really up-and-down in every fight, with some rounds where he looks quite good, and others where he looks like a fraud.
I'll add this, too, in bullet point form:
- If Prescott beats McCloskey and looks good
- and Khan beats Judah on Saturday
- and Khan cannot land a fight with Tim Bradley, or won't fight the winner of Guerrero vs Maidana, and doesn't move to 147 immediately for a good fight
- then Khan should just rematch Prescott
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Hi Denelle,
As mentioned in my email, the STO codes will all the XB as the alphanumeric two-digit codes. These are configured in the ICH system.
As for the Form C question below, I will get back to you on it.
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From: DUNCOMBE DenellePosted At: October-26-11 6:50 AMPosted To: SIS Forums - Requirements & FunctionalityConversation: OAR-STO Name ConventionSubject: OAR-STO Name Convention
11/10/11 Any update/reply available yet?
ISPG Section 12.19 provides a sample structure for the OAR pax files.
How are Student Organizations used here as either billing or billed entity?
The structure shows AA-001 and BA-125 – but STOs do not have a 2AN code. We can use either S01 (3ANN) or 2801 (4NNNN) (taken from IATAs STO examples). What configuration is to be used in this application for STOs?
Also, the layout for Folder Level 0 indicates that "FORMC" should be in Field 1. However, the Form C Sample Structure still shows "PAX" in Field 1, the same as the Pax OAR file Field 1. Which is correct - the layout or the example?
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Please find below the 2-digit and 3-digit accounting codes for the various STOs.
STA Travel Group
rds-Reisedienst Deutscher Studentenschaften GmbH
ISSTA Lines Ltd - Israeli Students Travel Ltd
CTS VIAGGI Srl
NSTS-National Student Travel Foundation
Please note that in the IS-IDEC file, the accounting code will be converted to numeric (if not already) as follows: A=10, B=11, C= 12, etc. So for example S01 = 2801 in the IDEC file.
From: NYAGA DanielPosted At: November-15-11 1:59 AMPosted To: SIS Forums - Requirements & FunctionalityConversation: OAR-STO Name ConventionSubject: OAR-STO Name Convention
In effect as sput by Hoanga - the STO Alpaha code will be XB and what will be the numeric code for STO be? For example Kenya Airways is KQ-706
Daniel Nyaga
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The correct layout for the OAR file for folder Level 0 will be FORMC-P-AA-001-20111129 (e.g. Form C receiving carrier is AA-001).
We will need to change the example (which shows as PAX) in the next version of the ISPG.
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Any update available yet on the Form C part of the question, please?
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Lance Pugmire of the Los Angeles Times had a really nice piece from the Mayweather camp as Floyd prepares for his May 4 fight with Robert Guerrero on Showtime pay-per-view, focusing on something that has been mostly quiet, but was surprising news earlier this year: Floyd Mayweather Sr is definitely the lead trainer for his son's camp this time around, with Roger, the uncle and man who has led most of Floyd Jr's pro career, pushed into a secondary role.
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"The less punches you take, the longer your career lasts," Mayweather Sr. said as his son sweated through a workout that included jumping rope with ankle weights on.
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There was also reportedly some awkwardness with Roger, as he seemed bothered by the public confirmation that Floyd Sr is the trainer, and when the "one big, happy family" idea came up, he said, "I don't know about all that."
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Crystal Palace midfielder Adlene Guedioura has been talking about the stresses and strains of transfer deadline day from the perspective of the players.
The 28-year-old midfielder is in the perfect place to comment having endured the waiting game on the last deadline day, only to become the final completed transfer of the summer.
Guedioura joined Palace from Nottingham Forest on a three-year for an undisclosed fee.
After suffering a puncture lung at WBA in November, the Algerian has earned plaudits for his performances since.
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Nokia decided to make that URI unique. As far as I understand the RFCs up today, you can write anything into that URI as long as it matches you.
Nokia decided to make that URI unique. As far as I understand the RFCs up today, you can write anything into that URI as long as it matches you.
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You probably have a far better understanding of this, however why is it that on all other SIP devices the contact URI shown/sent to the proxy is the username@NATAddress while VoIP Settings 3.x sends randomly_translated@NATAddress .
Whichever device I test this on (Siemens Gigaset, PC software dialer, Nokia VoIP Settings 1 & 2.x) it sends the real username chosen by the user, I don't understand why Nokia decides now to make things more complicated since this used to be working fine as it was in previous releases... if there's a real decision behind this I'd like to understand the rationale behind it.
A Nokia device might run several SIP applications and Nokia wants to make sure the content is correctly routed internally of the device. Just my two cents.
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We also have a similar problem with pbxes.org and incoming calls. We can make outbound calls, but incoming calls can't get through. On N97 mini using the latest voip setting app for 5th edition. I found another thread where other people reported the same problem with other pbx systems
Can you paste the link to that other thread you're refering to ? I wish Nokia would at least take that reality of compatibility with existing systems into account (and not just their interpretation of the SIP RFC) in a patch where you would get a setting choice for this. Unfortunately I understand VoIP Settings is not officially supported by Nokia.
Apologies for throwing my two pennies in but I can understand that the E72 may send additional information in the SIP message, for instance my E72 send the following when registering:
Contact: <sip:email@example.com;transport=UDP>
So why does the E72 decline the invite from the PBX using the very same details?
Which status code/message do you get?
Any updates on this issue. If there is going to be no workaround for this issue regardless of who needs to patch their software, E72 will not be a choice for a lots people looking for a voip mobile device, it is hard to push Internet telephony providers to patch their servers because they will claim it works and they'll throw the ball in nokia's court.
Does E71 have the same issue?
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And why is it that only GIZMO has build a configuration download for this device? Obviously not so many voip providers can support this interpretation of the RFC. It is not a good idea to be stubborn about who is SIP compliant and loose a lots of sales as a result. Nokia needs to make a wise decision here and update their software to provide an option to turn off this unique feature. After all they are after making money, not just providing a SIP compliant feature without an urgent need for it.
I met the same problem on E52.
Is there any workaround solution to fix it? Is there a way to change the voip 3.2 on E52 back to 2.x.
My E71 works perfectly.
i must admit that e52 and e51 are both expiriencing same problems as far as recieving calls is concerned. you are getting calls but you can not hear voice from the other end while caller can hearing your voice perfectly well. any idea how to correct?


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United States lineup (4-4-2): Nick Rimando; Edgar Castillo, Michael Orozco-Fiscal, Oguchi Onyewu, Tony Beltran; Brek Shea, Stuart Holden, Kyle Beckerman, Joe Corona; Landon Donovan, Herculez Gomez
Cuba lineup: Odelin Molina, Jorge Clavelo, Aliannis Urgellés, Michel Márquez, Yoel Colomé, Renay Malblanche, Jorge Corrales, Jaime Colomé, Ariel Martínez, Alberto Gómez, Jose Alfonso
Klinsmann has set up his team in both a 4-4-2 and 4-2-3-1 formation with this personnel. Landon Donovan has been better as a second striker than as a wide player in this squad's two games, but Corona could play as an attacking midfielder and Donovan could play on the right wing. Holden, who recently returned from two years out with various injuries, makes his first start since 2010 for the national team.
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The Blake Winter collection honors the traditions of craftsmanship and pride in one's work. The footwear in this collection are handmade and handsewn, using premium stonewashed leathers that have been refurbished with oils and waxes to give the look of a vintage boot that's been worn and repaired over the years.
Premium Horween® Chromexcel® leathers have been stone washed to give the appearance of age, then refurbished with oils and waxes to bring the leather back to life
Hardware has a salt wash finish for a vintage look
Mini lug forefront delivers durable wear and helps maintain slip resistance
Built to be worn, repaired and appreciated for a lifetime
Made in the Dominican Republic
Please note that differences may be present in the right and left boots due to the natural, worn aesthetic
Or try it on for size at:Blake Winter 6-Inch Boot Black


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