To be more precise, the offer has been accepted as of today, or it is about to be accepted. I have talked to Hasan Yalcinkaya, one of the partners of pilli, and he confirmed the news on the investment.

I couldn’t get the details about the amount of investment, but learned that it is an early stage. I would guess that the investment is creating a staging environment for the large-scale investments Golden Horn Ventures will invest in put.io investment in the future. Also it meets the urgently needed the server and bandwidth costs at the moment.

Yalcinkaya has used a sentence as follows: “The investment is not a very big number, we can say that Golden Horn agreed a deal with us with this investment…”

I think this sentence truly describes the size and the nature of the investment.
This news did not disappoint us as were trying to predict who would invest in put.io first. Also it is a solid proof of the fact that crisis atmosphere is getting better as I have mentioned in the previous article.
We wish success to all Put.io team, especially to Hasan Yalcinkaya and Cem Baspinar and Golden Horn Ventures for the investment and after that.

This post has been written by Arda Kutsal and published on Webrazzi Global.

The DivX movies cost anywhere between $9.99 and $14.99 and can also be licensed to your name. You can watch these movies on your computer, your DivX player, PS3 and even on your mobile phone.

These are no limitations on copying and saving. Film Fresh solely sells to the US for now. Some entrepreneur from Turkey might come to an agreement with DivX and apply the same system.

DivX first came to our lives during early 2000s as a video compressor format and is the lead architect of common usage of downloading movies from the internet. As the time went by DivX got transformed and incorporated by selling its format to electronics appliances’ users and companies. The DivX support that comes with DVD Players produced today has no good use except for watching illegal movies. In an attempt to change this, DivX came to an agreement with 4 big movie producers that paved the way for the movies to e converted to DivX format and to be sold. Film Fresh is the company that is associated with DivX through which the movies are sold.

Selling movies online is a phenomenon that is being done by iTunes and CinemaNow. The difference Film Fresh makes is the fact that it will be selling DivX formatted movies. DivX format became prominent among others because is the most widely known format that compresses high quality movies to small dimensions.

Film Fresh – which requires its users to download movies- might already be a belated venture considering the news we have just made about Supeonline’s SuperPlay that offers the same service live stream. On the other hand, Film Fresh might address better to archive lovers. The differentiating factor here will be the price. Are there going to be anybody who would prefer to download a movie for the minimum price of 15 YTL while s/he could watch it on Superplay for 3 YTL?

This post has been written by Ali Altuğ KOCA and published on Webrazzi Global.

Superonline, which has developed its own fiber infrastructure and offers wide band Internet services, mentioned that Superonline Fiber Internet subscribers with 100Mbite Internet connection could make use of this service.

After this first serious online broadcasting attempt, Superonline is now offering the service of watching movies online. This new development will benefit Fiber subscribers as well as Superonline ADSL subscribers. Just like Amazon Video Demand service, this application offers one can watch the movie s/he prefers in exchange for paying a small fee.

It is noted that the broadcasts are offered at DVD quality and users will not need to download the movie. Superonline has already made an agreement with Warner Bros concerning the movies it will broadcast and is also after other interviews. You can get detailed info at Superplay’s webpage.

On the other hand, we are also aware that there are movie storages on torrents and millions of movie lovers enjoy watching movies free by sharing. Expensive DVD and movie tickets caused this organized sharing. Can we stop this? Can the possible harsh punishments, which 5856-numbered legislation that will be amended / will might bring, deter users from sharing?

This post has been written by Fırat Demirel and published on Webrazzi Global.

Copyrights and Theatre General Manager Abdurrahman Celik informed the sector on this topic, mentioning that with Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay and the participation of Sector representatives, they aim to make the mentioned amendments ready with a two-day workshop by October. Celik added that increased Internet usage with non-copyrighted information share affects art production and said except the trade usage rights investigation that have been implemented until today, users will face some restrictions and service providers will provide the needed support.

While Celik highlighted the fact that with the initiation of this prohibition mechanism in the United States, %70 success rate was seen and application of big penalties would be inevitable, the law case that ended with a $675.000 indemnity in the U.S came to minds.

The case was against a Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum who confessed to have downloaded and distributed a music file. He was found guilty of breaking the Law of Intellectual Property Rights and was sentenced to pay $675,000 to four record companies. The doctorate student for whom it was impossible to pay the amount had also some dispute over the issue and started to work on solving the case. There is still a website supporting him and heated debates are ongoing on Twitter.

Another similar case was held last month in Minnesota. A mother of one called Jammie Thomas-Rassett was charged with 1.92 million dollars for sharing twenty-four songs, making each song $ 80 thousand worth. According to the US law, record companies are allowed to get between 750 and 30 thousand dollars in compensation. If the Jury decides that this violation of law is on purpose, the penalty could go up as much as 150 thousand dollars.

I remember heated debates in one of the first meetings in Turkey that was around the first time of the anti-MP3 distribution process at which Mu-Yap General Manager was briefing after getting information on illegal MP3 distribution. Within this process, Mu-Yap closed hundreds of websites and forums but services that sell a song for 1 TRY could not survive in the market. Then, the fact that big names like TTNET, AVEA and Turkcell offered users copyrighted songs free under the name of sponsorship did not benefit singers for album sales.

While we are dealing with these problems here in Turkey, a political party named Pirat Partiet (pirate party) with extensive focus on copyrights in the cyber space was established in Switzerland in 2006. Thanks to its fight against political censorship and copyright laws, this party gained youngsters support and in 2009 had seat both in country parliament and in the European Parliament. With this different point of view, the party aimed to create equal rights for users and managed to affect other countries and lately in Turkey we have witnessed “Pirate Party” debates, while initiatives have started.

From now on, stricter punishments are to come and we have already started to wonder what kind of sanctions will be enforced by the government in an effort to protect the patent and copyright of the music and movie industry. The users consider sharing content with or without its copyright a right. Will the fact that everyone except for those who are involved in the process for trade reasons be punished quicken the already mentioned reactions in our country? Who will win this game? We have held our breath and are waiting to see the outcome.

In the span of new law talks, which companies in the sector with knowledge about the subject matter will be involved in the process is not known yet but we would like to shed light to the future by the help of our important readers.

This post has been written by Fırat Demirel and published on Webrazzi Global.

After downloading the torrent files by using the database that has more than 873 thousand torrent address files, you can use other torrent trackers as well. I consider that not many users will download the 23 GB file; however, with the ones who download the file, Pirate Bay’s heritage will definitely be endeavored to be revitalized in other addresses.

The Pirate Bay broke so many laws concerning copyright. However, on the other hand, it was achieving a great job by providing easier access to hundreds and thousands of files for Internet users, and they could never find them somewhere else. To explain the resemblance here, I assume that the best example would be to remove the Google from the Internet. What would it be to find something from the Internet without Google? Here it would be the same to download a file without The Pirate Bay. When you think that the Pirate Bay also fed the torrent sites, it will be understood in a better way.

After a short time, it is expected that the new site with its new owners will be a paid file selling point. Thus, there comes the end of another era. In fact , there is hope -even if little- among torrent users. I think that the users who have experienced, from time to time, the closing and opening of the biggest torrent sites, are thinking of Pirate Bay’s reborn. At least it comes to my mind…

This post has been written by Ali Altuğ KOCA and published on Webrazzi Global.

Booming as a start-up in 2006, the project developed more with $3m investment from Venrock investors in total in 2008 and people started to call the project the YouTube of the presentation world with its similar motto. In fact, SlideShare took this so seriously that, it compared itself to YouTube on name based search results.

Making up a vital shortage in the market, SlideShare has became a sharing network offering highly valuable presentations on the Internet, mobile, and marketing world in time. In this concept, particularly the integration with LinkedIn has been an important leap for SlideShare. By adding voice synchronization, SlideShare presentations, already shared on any kind of web environment, took on a more interactive dimension and gained popularity in Turkey.

In addition to developing technically, SlideShare aims to increase its awareness and members by running contests since 2007. Judges of this year’s contest which is highly regarded by its participants are Guy Kawasaki (gkawasaki), David Armano (darmano), and Padmasree Warrior (padmasree). Three judges will select the Best Adobe Acrobat Presentation, which has separate prizes. Other than this, there are nice prizes for top 3, and category winners will be granted Adobe Acrobat 9.

You can participate in the contest in 5 categories with 10 presentations, on a subject you can choose freely. We hope attendants from Turkey will participate in the contest, which accepts presentations until September 8. I believe that this contest will help participants gain effectiveness in preparing presentations, which is particularly important for Internet initiatives and personal demos.

We will be giving place to the presentations of the participants coming out in the contest in Webrazzi.

By the way, if you wish you can have a look at Webrazzi presentations on SlideShare here.

This post has been written by Fırat Demirel and published on Webrazzi Global.