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Following high level talks with the IFPI and very public declarations on national TV, it recently became clear that Bulgarian authorities would start taking down torrent sites and other file-sharing services. This week the Ministry of Affairs has been busy targeting what it describes as a "criminal network" of file-hosting services which allegedly generated more than $3 million.

In late April a memorandum was signed by Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry and the IFPI which effectively declared war on music piracy in the country.

Within days of this announcement Yavor Kolev, the head of Bulgaria’s Computer Crimes Department, stated on national TV that he would begin taking tough action against BitTorrent sites and other file-sharing locations, especially those that profit from their activities.

“We will shut down Zamunda and Arena BG and their servers that supply pirated movies and music and take money from their users via premium SMS,” Kolev told the media. However, neither site takes money from BitTorrent users in this way, instead generating income from advertising. This week it became clear that other sites would be targeted first.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it has just carried out “the largest ever operation against Internet piracy in Bulgaria”.

Four file-sharing sites were targeted – nanoset.net (which advertised new releases via Twitter), rapidadd.com, 4storing.com and afasta.com. They are accused of distributing music, movies, books and software without the permission of copyright holders and as of today, all four remain down.

After several months of investigations, on a judge’s authorization and under the supervision of the Deputy District Prosecutor, on Thursday authorities moved against the sites. It is being claimed that they were being operated by “an organized crime group” which employed “sophisticated mechanisms for concealing the location of their servers”.

Nevertheless, as can be seen from the photos below and the video here, servers -18 in all containing a claimed 120TB – were found. Computer equipment and documents were also seized from the office of a 37 year-old man who is claimed to be the organizer behind the “criminal activity”. He was arrested.

Seized Hardware

More Seized Hardware

The Ministry goes on to state the operators of the websites had been profiting from the distribution of copyright content to the tune of $3.34 million by charging users to access material via premium SMS services. One TorrentFreak reader familiar with the situation noted that SMS providers in Bulgaria can take as much as 40-50% of each SMS payment, so the amount allegedly generated should be treated with caution.

While the four busted sites did accept SMS payments, as with many one click hosters, premium accounts with greater features were available for a price. The sites also gave users the ability to use their facilities for free.

Although the head of Bulgaria’s Computer Crimes Department had threatened action against Zamunda and Arena BG “and their servers that supply pirated movies and music and take money from their users via premium SMS”, both torrent sites remain operational today. However, research on the backgrounds of two of the raided sites, 4Storing and Afasta, appears to show some earlier links to ArenaBG although the exact nature of these connections remain unclear.

Article from: TorrentFreak.

submitted by yminsky
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Right now, I have:

Properties:

• Red
• Green
• Blue
• Hue
• Saturation
• Value
• ColorInteger (color as simple integer/long value)

Methods:

• Darken ( Amount )
• Lighten ( Amount )
• Desaturate ()

Any other ideas? I plan on learning by writing classes that I can use later one once I'm better, and I want to make them as good as possible to avoid having to rewrite them too much later on.

I've already written a pretty good string class which acts just like a string from Visual Basic 6 since that's the language I'm coming from. I probably won't use that one though since the C++ STL string seems pretty comprehensive.

I plan on making some other ones afterward: Animation, Date, and other redundant/probably unnecessary classes for the sake of learning.

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Here's the site I'm working on for an upcoming video project I'm starting with a friend.

The problem is when I look at the page in Chrome, sometimes the page is really wide. The page itself looks okay and lines up okay, but there is a horizontal scrollbar. And then, sometimes, when I simply refresh, it's gone.

I can't replicate this glitch in Firefox, Opera, Safari, or IE. But since Chrome is my main browser, it's driving me crazy.

If anyone cares to take a look at my code and help me figure out what's wrong, I'd more than appreciate it. Just let me know how I can repay you. ._.

For the record, I modified this theme.

• Bokake.com

• style.css

• Current, modified version of Wordpress theme, rar'ed

EDIT: Going to sleep now, but I promise I'll respond in the morning if anyone out there was kind enough to help. Thanks!

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submitted by Seedrick
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BookRoom is a realistic, beautiful, downloadable desktop environment that allows you to read eBooks on Windows system. Take advantage of a growing number of e-Books while enjoying the convenience and features of BookRoom.

Main features:

• Natural user interface
• Customizable desktop
• Library Management
• Supports a large variety of formats, such as epub, htm, chm, rtf and txt
• Supports multiple Bookmarks
• Supports Add Text highlight and Annotations
• Singe Key Page Turning
• Remember your last reading

submitted by brianjherman
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submitted by glibc
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I really like the idea of creating programs... I really suck at learning programming too. (I've only really used AS3) I've made my own websites with this. From scratch, no add on or plugins. What I end up with is really shitty code. Lots of unnecessary repeated code. I just can't wrap my head around it though. I just recently understood the IDEA of a function and a variable but I still can't implement them well...

I am a visual person. That's why I like flash AS3. I can create stuff quickly and manipulate it. The connection between the object and the code is obvious to me and makes sense. It's the world of logic that programming lives in that I'm finding hard to penetrate. I've said "Hello World" many times and have yet to get a response. I have lots of ideas. I want to be able to make them a reality.

I feel like if there was a really good book or series of tutorials that I could work on I would be able to understand programming enough to feel confident in making whatever I wanted. I'm willing to put in time.

I'm not saying I would become Stephen Wolfram after reading a few books. Just more capable.

I don't specifically need help with AS3. I need help with the logic of programming in general. At least that's what it feels like.

Anybody have any good advice/book/brain for transplant?

Thank You

(I imagine taking some classes would be an obvious answer but that's not an option for me unless it's online and free)

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