Peekvid will be shut down very soon but before that happens you we can use it to sample a shedload of TV shows in YouTube-style streaming video. It’s actually a really good way of trying stuff before you buy. Fr’instance, I now know the anime series Gundam Seed Destiny is fucking mental in a batshit good way. (Yes, I’m on something on a Giant Robot trip at the moment.) (via)
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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
You probably came here via a Google search or from following a link on some old blog post somewhere. I hope what you find is useful in some way, though do check the publication date - it might be rather old now.
Thanks for your eyeballs.
Pete Ashton
dont close peekvideo down its such a good websie
jus done do it
woops type eroor *just dont do it
Ah Man, The site is all done, was just getting into Kenny vs Spenny. C’mon bring it back.
dont close down peekvid man u r a dickhead if u do man it sickhead
shut it down and ur get propa vrex man dum dickead
FUKIN DUM SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
WHAT
Please don’t close Peekvid down, It is the best website ever made. Please don’t.
People, even if I somehow had the power to shut it down I wouldn’t. I’m just saying, you know The Man is going to go apeshit with the lawyer mojo when he sees this. Y’dig?
please dont shut down peekvid, i want to see prison break!! :(
Enjoy peekvid, you idiots.
Once websites like this destroy the entertaiment industry, you will have no new movies to watch, no new music to listen to, no new TV shows, no new videogames to play. You will be forced to entertain yourselves.
Congratulations!
Music thief clearly has no understanding of the mechanics of supply and demand. The only way that the entertainment industry could be destroyed would be if people didn’t want entertainment any more.
You’re all a bunch of fucking morons. Peekvid does not host the movies on their servers. They only link to movies served up on sites like YouTube and DailyMotion. There is absolutely nothing illegal about linking to illegal content, dumbasses! The one’s uploading and hosting the shit are the perps who need to cover their asses.
Haha. I like how people think you have power to shut it down.
Thanks for the recommendation!
To the generation of thieves and every last one of you who download music/videos.
Everytime you cheat and steal the music/video it not only takes away a sale but several sales. Think about it! You will most likely tell friends and they will tell their friends. The producer who created the entertainment looses sales drastically.
Now you have to ask yourself 10 years from now if everyone finds out they can steal online music and videos the producers “will” go out of business. Then I can shake every one of your thieving hands and say thanks to you, you just ruined entertainment for everyone.
All I can say is your a bunch of lying freaks because it does affect the market system and you should be ashamed of yourself.
I love the way the shills for the movie and TV Companies are posting on here calling people who choose NOT to conform to their marketing plan, “Thieves”.. It’s NOT the consumers’ fault that the Industries failed to get a jump on technology..
ummmm… as long as people keep watching the movies the producers will make more, if it a question about sales think about music, everyone downloads it from limewire but does that stop the people from making cd’s? absolutly not! some are even just posting their music on bittorrnat and not making cd’s anymore. it shows that they dont really care if no one buys their cd. i still buy movies and cd’s even if i can watch them online just because ther’re good movies and i want to watch them when i have no access to the internet. also peekvid dosent have everything and also what bout libraries that have dvd and cd collections. the people just burn them then they have their own YAY! and guess what they still make movies and pretty much give them away
Too late…peekvid is down.
information regardless of what in nature will always strive to be free. and those of us who try and make that information free will always succeed, as the technology and intelligence will always supersede laws written on paper
Wow!
You people even try to sound intelligent when you can’t even spell correctly. Like you know how the economy runs. You probably don’t even know what supply and demand are. You think you know about the economy? Try me. I’ll give you feedback on any topic, issue, or problem. For now though, you might want to stick with trying to spell because if you can’t spell you can’t “communicate”.
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Ok Jedi, u seem to think u know ur ass from ur head, so tell me how EXACTLY you think entertainment will be doomed to extinction “if 10 years from now everyone finds out they can steal online music and videos.” Im sorry man your ideas and comments are neither plausible nor possible. Explain yourself before I and all of my micro market economy major buddies to come down on you. YOU ARE A POSER
Qoute from JEDI: “To the generation of thieves and every last one of you who download music/videos.
Everytime you cheat and steal the music/video it not only takes away a sale but several sales…All I can say is your a bunch of lying freaks because it does affect the market system and you should be ashamed of yourself.”
Who The F.U.C.K Are You??? Fucken elitest prick. You not above anyone.
and why does jedi have to completely go off topic and use uncreative attacks as if he is almighty. come on man what are you doing.
Ok, chew on this:
Over $13 billion in software revenue was lost worldwide in 1995 due to software piracy and the trend appears to be growing.
The cost of piracy to software manufacturers remains about the same. By some estimates, that cost exceeds US $15 million per year.
Here is some history for those of you who are software pirates. Think you can get away with it?
In United States v. Rothberg – a case in which SIIA was actively involved — the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois sentenced the defendant to 24 to 30 months in prison. Rothberg pleaded guilty to conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. Section 371 to commit copyright infringement in violation of 17 U.S.C. Section 506(a)(2) and 18 U.S.C. Section 2319(c)(1). Rothberg, was one of 17 defendants convicted in connection with the prosecution of the Pirates With Attitudes (PWA), a web-based network that made $1.4 million worth of computer software available to paying members to make unauthorized copies. SIIA and its member companies assisted the government in creating the case against PWA. PWA’s server log files indicated that approximately 55,000 files had been uploaded to the server. Using the number of pirate programs on the server at the time it was seized (instead of the log files), determining that 94 percent of the programs on the PWA server were functioning and establishing that the average retail price of the programs found was $384, the court set the value of the infringing items at least $1,424,640.
In 1997, the No Electronic Theft (NET) Act became law. The NET Act provided for enhanced protection of copyrights and trademarks by amending provisions in titles 17 and 18 of the U.S. Code. The NET Act permits federal prosecution of large-scale willful copyright infringement even where the infringer does not act for a commercial purpose or for private financial gain. This amendment closes the gap in statutory protection discussed in United States v. LaMacchia, 871 F. Supp. 535 (D. Mass. 1994).
On December 11th, 2001 the U.S. Customs Service, in coordination with its law enforcement counterparts in the United Kingdom, Australia, Finland, Sweden, and Norway, executed approximately 70 search warrants worldwide in the initial phase of Operation Buccaneer. This was then the most significant law enforcement penetration of international organizations engaged in the criminal distribution of copyrighted software, games and movies over the Internet. Operation Buccaneer successfully targeted the suppliers, crackers, and leadership of multiple top-level warez groups that specialize in the supply (aka “release”) of new pirated works to the warez scene. These so-called “release” groups included DrinkOrDie, Razor1911, RiSCISO, MYTH, and POPZ. Additionally, the investigation successfully targeted members of several leading “courier” groups that specialize in the illegal distribution and trading of copyrighted works over the Internet, including the groups RequestToSend (RTS), WeLoveWarez (WLW), and RiSC. Collectively, these warez groups were responsible for illegally reproducing and distributing over the Internet hundreds of millions of dollars worth of copyrighted works. Operation Buccaneer was conducted by the United States Customs Service and the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Department of Justice in coordination with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, foreign law enforcement, and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices across the nation.
Do you remember when U.S. federal authorities won a four-year jail term for convicted software piracy kingpin Sean Breen last year or how about Razor 1911 which was a major underground piracy operation, all of which is illegal?
Each and every one of you will begin to see a “pay-as-you-go” software over the Internet. Meaning you want to download this movie, sorry it’s going to cost you first. Thanks to you our nation, which you are a part of, just lost 15 billion dollars in revenue for this year. Thanks guys! As long as software piracy exists, there will be fewer jobs, less research and development, increased costs and lower standards of living. Guess what happens when you don’t buy products in the market? They go out of business.
Something to keep in mind: The losses suffered through software piracy directly affect the profitability of the software industry. Because of the money lost to pirates, publishers have fewer resources to devote to research and development of new products, have less revenue to justify lowering software prices and are forced to pass these costs on to their customers. Consequently, software publishers, developers, and vendors are taking serious actions to protect their revenues. Umm… ya, come again when you guys have a better argument.
The last bit of information I will throw at you is, please if you can’t think of better words than curse words for an argument, don’t respond. There is no depth in your words and further more it makes you have a lack of vocabulary.
p.s. Who wrote the phrase: “You not above anyone”?
Thanks to you our nation, which you are a part of…
Sorry, which nation is that?
^^^
Nice cut and paste job from SIIA.net I guess you’ll stand up for copyrights but not plagiarism?
Blah blah…losses…blah suffering…blah…
All you have shown is that the only defense the holders can come up with is to SUE the infringing party. I think perhaps these people you support JEDI are focusing too much on legal battles and not enough on technology to straight up prevent it. When the internet was created it should have been set up with parameters to detect and remove copyrighted material… when your done reading THIS> http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
You can tell my why your argument is retarded
:) P.S. – NO one is FORCEING the people you support to continue doing bussiness. If they don’t think they are earning enough money$ they should just say ‘Fu.ck you very much’ and peace out… quit your bitchin’…whiny baby.
We can qoute others too,… see…” The last bit of information I will throw at you is, please if you can’t think of better words than curse words for an argument, don’t respond. There is no depth in your words and further more it makes you have a lack of vocabulary.”
KILL YOURSELF….COMMIT SUICIDE….TAKE YOUR OWN LIFE!!! backwards ass puntz
Like I said no depth and no argument but a huge lack of spine and vocabulary. Is that the best you can do, call names and threaten. Wow, America’s finest on this blog. Yes, I looked at your wimpy back-up website. I don’t care where the internet derived from and what it’s intensions are. Here is a question, If you went into a music store and stole 2 cd’s equivilant to the price of $25.00. What’s the difference if I downloaded the songs off the net? Its stealing!
And to answer the question of which nation. ummm…that would be the one I fight for everyday but not for sorry punks like you. No, you just sit there and indulge on your freedoms as an American and think of ways to screw people over. Do you even know what work is? You know, actually working a full 18 hour day for three years just so you can keep you and your family going.
Ok, and so I forgot to site the website, If you want websites to look at and correct your opinion on whether or not it’s legal I would be more than happy.
Don’t even start with your crap about its legal. You know its not and that is what the law says. The law is law and you can’t change it. The fact that you defend piracy tells me its valuable to you. You would do anything to keep it, Right? People like you will be arrested, trust me! lol
Yes, I looked at your wimpy back-up website.
Sorry, do you mean me? It’s kinda hard to tell.
(and it’s “cite”. You cite a website.)
jedi is a fag
http://www.OVGuide.com has some good peekvid clone sites.
Is this the new equivalent of the “Working Gloves” thread, only with more ad-hominem attacks?
You seem to have accepted your new nationality in sanguine fashion, Pete. I’d have asked questions if I’d found myself transferred thusly.
Arrrr shiver me timbers! All this talk of pirates makes me want to dress up and play the part.
Jedi, at first I thought you made sense and seemed okay but (understandably actually as everyone is having a go at you) now you’ve just gone a bit too far and everyone thinks you are a dick. Piracy will always exist until measures are put in place to prevent it, and until now no such measures exist. Whinging about it merely telling everybody to stop because it is illegal is a pointless effort, people will continue to do it because it is free and too easy. I suggest stop wasting your breath, it is falling on deaf ears and no one here wants to hear it. Just my opinion of course.
hmmm. Jedi is nothing but a fool…
Most people WON’T spend money on the stuff they see on peekvid you dunce cap… so where are the losses? and why don’t you buy everyone a TV as well, so that they don’t lose money from people not even owning a TV.
Last I checked these guys were rolling in big dough… i work and they make in an hour what i make in a week… i don’t feel bad… and you’re a complete moron!
hm
looks like you’ve got another ‘runner’ pete…
but then thing that concerns me, is like – do all these people arrested in Operation Buccaneer – were they like raking in loads of cash (& presumably hiding it in offshore accounts (the modern day equivalent of ‘treasure islands’)
i thought a lot of this was about kudos? I mean if you’re cracking software & then offering it on the net for free, then there’s some sort of disparity between effort & reward there.
I supose being a small press comics geek I kind of identify with that disparity.
I would imagine that they have a greater prosecution rate than those arrested under anti-terrorist legistation (just a little UK thing) – i mean – redistribution of ‘wealth’ is frowned upon somewhat is it not?
jedi, i don’t like name calling , but ur a gimp!
did i spell gimp right?
Yes, but if it helps you missed with ‘you are.’
Random thoughts in one paragraph: This may all be technically illegal, i.e. contrary to the laws of the land, but I think you’d need to have severe social and psychological problems to deliberately refuse to watch a free streamed ’24′ (for example) and instead go and pay to rent it. As others have said, it’s up to the movie companies to move with the times when there are no physical means of enforcing the law. At the moment they are artificially enforcing them through the courts. And, as someone else said, they are free on TV. The TV companies still pay for movies however many possessors of TVs don’t watch them on their TVs. If in the future everyone is watching movies online for free then the movie industry will have to find other ways to make their money. That’s life/progress. It’s like the Post Office insisting we all buy stamps when we can send emails for free.
Not paying such ridiculously high salaries to the leading actors would be a start…
jedi takesit uptheass, i like it mate!
To the pirates:
I will personally see to it that movies that haven’t come out yet are available for everyone to view on the net but it will cost a minimum fee in which the procedes will go to the producer.
Thanks for playing and sorry you lost!
Ok, my point exactly!
See there are other people that feel the same way I do. Thanks for whoever posted that, you are thinking the right way!
Jedi,
I can see your point of view and good job for standing up for what’s right I comend you. One thing you might want to work on is backing up your information on these points.
why are you going to shut peekvid down we are paying for are internet service should not be part of the pack and it is legit because you upload your own thing and watch it so is bassically file sharing
Pete Ashton is shutting Peekvid down because he doesn’t like you, Ass. Just you.
S’right. I hates you, Ass. I hates you.
So,
Any other takers? What nobody else wants to challenge my mind? I told you this would happen and every time nobody seems to believe. You can not steal, plain and simple. Even though it’s right in front of you you still have the option to not click and watch. I repeat it is “YOUR CHOICE” that makes it wrong or right.
Agads, sir, I challenge your mind to a duel.
Pistols at dawn. Only then will honour be satisfied.
Bring it on Russ L. will meet in times square.
j/k
I’ve always been of the opinion that if no-one wants to argue you with it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve won, just that no-one wants to argue with you.
But hey, it’s just my opinion. Maybe you have won!
Congratulations on winning! Have a cake.
Thanks Pete!