Well known DVDrip group DMT is back with a DVDRip of “August Rush”. This movie has a a decent 7.3/10 at the IMDB so it should be quite good. I myself don’t like these kind of films but with the decent score it has I may consider watching it. Quality is nice coming in at 1CD with a decent bitrate of 722 kbps and standard 128 kbps VBR mp3 audio. Though the movie is almost 2 hours I don’t think it has that many high motion scenes so that’s why this release is only 1 CD. Download and enjoy

“August Rush” tells the story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and a sheltered young cellist (Keri Russell) who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York’s Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger (Robin Williams), August (Freddie Highmore) uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.

Genre: Drama / Music
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (4,645 votes)
Directed by: Kirsten Sheridan
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers

Release Name: August.Rush.DVDRip.XviD-DMT
Size: 715.48 MB
Runtime: 113 minutes
Video Quality: XviD @ 722 Kbit/s
Audio Quality: VBR Mp3, 128 Kbit/s
Samples: #1, #2, #3, Video
Filenames: dmt-augrush

Links: IMDB, Trailer, Homepage
NFO: Here
Torrent: Here

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PUBLiC, a group I never heard of, released a new dvdrip of Canadian comedy Sharp As Marbles. This is rather cheapish movie with very low ratings and almost purely negative reviews. The official homepage looks like a 2-hour Frontpage work and it seriously hurt my eyes. Anyway, this is a classic STV title which won’t probably attract many downloaders but there may be still those of you who will like it.

The mis-adventures of three video store employees, George, Albert and Ernie. Albert meets the girl of his dreams, but he isn t the brightest when it comes to girls, or anything else for that matter. Lucky for Albert he s got his best friends George and Ernie to help him. Only problem, they’re just as dumb as he is. The trio constantly land way over their heads in a comical tale of the blind leading the blind.

Sharp.As.Marbles.2008.DVDRip.XviD-PUBLiC

1 CD, 700 MB, sam_2008_xvid-public
83 min, 608*336, 1049 kb/s, mp3
IMDB (3.1), HP, NFO, torrent

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I receive many mails every single day. Most of them are tips from RLSLOG readers about interesting releases or pieces of news. Some of them are not so nice mails from antipiracy organizations. And from time to time, I receive a mail from a scene group regarding certain issue. This one was different – the author of it doesn’t belong to the scene yet, but has intentions to do basically the same thing as sceners do: release movies which noone else released. Here’s an excerpt from the email.

(…) A new group (but not a scene group… yet, anyway) whose goal
is to popularize Japanese cinema.

As a new group with no scene access or contacts, we are having a
very hard time figuring out an anonymous but still efficient and
high speed way to distribute releases.

Tor or other forms of anonymization will greatly slow down
torrents, and we really don’t want to do something that will expose
our IP or even our general location.

We were hoping that if we’d email you guys, you may be able to
suggest something that will ease distribution, or maybe even
provide a helping hand until we have the resources to efficiently
distribute on our own.  (…)

I politely replied as I do with almost every mail and suggested certain ways or methods which could be used to ditribute the content without exposing the IP addresses of seeders / creators. However, I’m pretty sure you will have many other ideas and insights into this problem so I would be happy if you could express your opinion in comments below. It might help other individuals who would like to follow this group in a similar manner.

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It’s already quite an old news but the sad information about end of any filesharing site should be posted here. DivX has announced that at the end of this month they will discontinue operations of the Stage6.com video sharing site. They have already stopped user uploads and you can view sites through the end of the month. The compete traffic chart is below showing just under one million uniques in January 2008. DivX will focus on video sharing on third-party sites. With the traffic levels the site is showing and the 30,000 videos on the site, couldn’t they find a buyer? Seems a bit off to just close the service with such strong traffic levels.

The company did say that they worked on a exit plan since mid-2007. “Our core business is to work with a wide variety of partners to give consumers a high-quality digital video experience on any device or platform,” said Kevin Hell, CEO of DivX, Inc. “By no longer expending resources on Stage6, we sharpen our focus on creating a global standard for digital video while building a business that maximizes shareholder value. We will provide more information related the Stage6.com shutdown on our fourth quarter earnings call, scheduled for March 11, 2008.” I wouldn’t personally think the reasons for closure were only work- and resource-related: it might be also an enormous pressure from antipiracy organizations which didn’t like the full movies and TV shows being uploaded to Stage6.

Source: CenterNetworks

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PROCYON yesterday released not only a videogame based on TV show LOST, but also an expansion pack for popular ship simulator Silent Hunter 4. The original “Wolves of the Pacific” is required to install this add-on called “Uboat Missions”. Once again, as in case of every PROCYON’s release, there’s no crack to bother with. The size is also acceptable for users on slower connections.

With the arrival of the German campaign in U-Boat Missions, players gain control over additional strategic resources other than their own submarines. These resources can be used towards the goal of sinking enemy shipping by either helping the player locate enemies – i.e. the scout planes – or by directly attacking them.

Game features:

* Operate off Japanese naval bases including Penang, Singapore, Jakarta and Surabaya.
* Call in air and surface support to defeat superior enemy forces.
* Command the submarine crew and become a distinguished hero of the sea.
* Includes new upgrade system, new intelligence information, new navigation maps and much more…

System requirements:

• Windows XP/Vista Only
• 2.0GHz Processor Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon or equivolent (3.0GHz Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon recommended)
• 1024MB RAM (2048MB recommended)
• 6GB Hard Disk Space
• 4x speed DVD-ROM Drive
• 128MB DirectX 9.0c compatible Video Card with Pixal Shader 2.0 (256MB DirectX 9.0c compatible Video Card with Pixal Shader 2.0 recommended)

Release name: Silent_Hunter_4_Wolves_Of_The_Pacific_Uboat_Missions-PROCYON
Size: 1 CD, 680 MB, pro-sh4um
Developer, publisher: Ubisoft

Links: gamespot, ign, nfo, torrent

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The European Commission (EC) fined Microsoft 899 million Euros or $1.35 billion for non-compliance with the Commission’s March 2004 decision. According to the EC, Microsoft has become the first company in fifty years of EU competition policy that receives a penalty for failure to comply with an antitrust decision. The organization found that Microsoft did not follow the obligations imposed under a decision dating back to March 2004 prior to October 22, 2007. Back then, The EC fined Microsoft 497 million Euros or almost $700 million for charging “unreasonable prices” for access to interface documentation for work group servers and had abused its dominant position under Article 82 of the EC Treaty. According to the decision, Microsoft was required to disclose interface documentation which would allow non-Microsoft work group servers to achieve ”full interoperability with Windows PCs and servers at a reasonable price.” This ruling was upheld in September of last year.

The $1.35 billion fine is imposed in addition to the original $700 million. “I hope that today’s Decision closes a dark chapter in Microsoft’s record of non-compliance with the Commission’s March 2004 Decision and that the principles confirmed by the Court of First Instance ruling of September 2007 will govern Microsoft’s future conduct,” said European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes in a statement. The EC said that Microsoft initially demanded a royalty rate of 3.87% of a licensee’s product revenues for a patent license and 2.98% for a license giving access to the secret interoperability information (information license). In May of last year, the company reduced its royalty rates to 0.7% for a patent license and 0.5% for an information license for sales within Europe, while leaving worldwide rates unchanged. I guess Microsoft will not hesitate with sharing the source codes after this experience…

Source: TG Daily 

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Guys from BestDivX released another low-budget horror: Lake Dead was featured at After Dark Horrorfest and it doesn’t really fit into usual crappy category – there are actual some decent actors and budget of $2.5 million allowed producers to make it a slightly better experience. Classic 1 CD rip in usual quality.

Three sisters and a group of their friends take a trip to the home of the recently deceased grandfather — who died a particularly grisly death — to learn more about the promise of an inheritance, only to encounter a family of psychos who have taken up residence in the old man’s cabin.

Lake.Dead.DVDRip.XviD-BeStDivX

1 CD, 700 MB, bestdivx-lakedead
86 min, 640×352, 982kbps, mp3
IMDB (5.8), hp, NFO, torrent

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