Pirate Movie Sites

Is this the beginning of the end?
UK court judge has ruled, British Telecom block pirate Newzbin2 from broadcasting through there internet connection.
Seems this site that streams movies and the like, is doing so illegally and Hollywood companies feel violated by such sites, even though the average takings for movies in in the thousands, it is the legal principal that counts.

Captain America: The First Avenger Paramount Pictures $65,058,524 $65,058,524

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $47,422,212 $273,539,281

Friends With Benefits Screen Gems $18,622,150 $18,622,150

Transformers: Dark of the Moon Paramount Pictures $12,051,735 $325,841,185

Horrible Bosses New Line Cinema $11,884,319 $82,566,703

Zookeeper Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group $8,702,055 $59,206,255

Cars 2 Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures $5,655,857 $176,375,295

Winnie the Pooh Walt Disney Studios Distribution $5,162,046 $17,594,297

Bad Teacher N/A $2,610,925 $94,365,688

At the end of the summer the whys and wherefores of how this will happen,be will put in detail. In his ruling, Mr Justice Arnold stated: "In my judgment it follows that BT has actual knowledge of other persons using its service to infringe copyright: it knows that the users and operators of Newzbin 2 infringe copyright on a large scale, and in particular infringe the copyrights of the studios in large numbers of their films and television programs."

Chris Marcich, president and managing director of MPA Europe said: "This ruling from Justice Arnold is a victory for millions of people working in the UK creative industries and demonstrates that the law of the land must apply online.

"This court action was never an attack on ISPs but we do need their co-operation to deal with the Newzbin site which continually tries to evade the law and judicial sanction. Newzbin is a notorious pirate website which makes hundreds of thousands of copyrighted products available without permission and with no regard for the law."
The MPA says they will go after more ISPs.

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Virologists Working On Super Antibody

There are so many viruses out there to catch, virologist are constantly researching and studying (cause it's their job) ways to defeat the nasty ones. They are looking at a super antibody that could possibly lead to a universal vaccine.

Virologists and researchers around the world have been on a quest to develop a universal vaccine, that will attack a common denominator of all influenza that does not mutate in anyway.

Scientists isolated an antibody called F16 this targets a protein found on the surface of all influenza A viruses. After taking samples of immune cells from 100,000 patients, who had a flu vaccine or the flu.

"We've tried every subtype of influenza A and it interacts with them all, We eventually hope it can be used as a therapy by injecting the antibody to stop the infection." says Sir John Skehel MRC scientist at Mill Hill. "We eventually hope it can be used as a therapy by injecting the antibody to stop the infection."

It is a well known fact that those people who have suffered viruses develop an immunity to them, well it has also been suggested that those who have had swine flu could have developed a super immunity to other infections.


Mice that had lethal doses of the H1N1 virus, were then given the antibody two days later and survived. Professor John Oxford, a virologist at Queen Mary, University of London, said: "It's pretty good if you've got one against the whole shebang, that's a good step forward."

However it will be a few more years before the structure of the antibody can be used to make a vaccine.

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