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Photo: The Standard, Friday May 12, 2006
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It looks like Hong Kong is taking a different approach to filesharing than the rest of the mainland.
A 16 year old Hong Kong student was arrested yesterday by the Hong Kong Customs Anti-Internet Piracy Team for hosting and sharing 600 pirated songs and about 20 movies. …
Continue readingHong Kong is tougher: arrest of another file-sharer
Teenager drops out of high school. He pursues writing. He enters Sina’s online writing competition. He wins. He receives high praise from the judges. He is to be published by Zhaohua Publishing House.
Is this a one off phenomenon, or is the internet providing alternate gateways for expression (for those who don’t follow the traditional path of school)?
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Continue readingWeb Novel Makes Splash
网易社区, Netease’s online social space, located at club.163.com has been hacked! See:
The question (floating around the Chinese web) is, what did they do to provoke this, and who did they do it to?
Via PostShow.
Get a sense of the thriving art scene in Lijiang, Yunnan Province (like Dali, Lijiang is a home-away-from-home for China’s elite artists, from film-makers and painters to sculptors and writers).
Lijiang Studio provides living space, working space, and facilitation
for international, Chinese, and local artists in two locations: one
rural location,…
Continue readingFeatured Art Space: Lijiang Studio
The May Day vacation has apparently succeeded in spurring Chinese consumers onward and upward. This Sichuan water park has 20,000 revelers. As one Netease commentator asks: is it vacation or is it misery?
Link for more photos of May Day vacation crowds.
Samsung Motorola has recently put forth a patent for the Feng Shui Phone, which, according to Unwired View, does the following (and I quote):
Continue readingFeng Shui Phone (from Motorola)
The original internet spoof of the grandiose Chinese movie, the Promise (blogged previously), called 《一个馒头引发的血案》 (The Murder Caused by a Bun) has inspired multiple sequels in the past few months.
The first is called 《一个馒头引发的麻烦》 (The Troubles Caused by a Bun) and uses film clips from movies with the Hong Kong star Stephen Chow:
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Continue readingThe Bun Murders Sequel (馒头 Strikes Back!)