The program was created with the music and film industry and the largest Internet firms, with some prodding by US government. The system had been set to take effect late last year but was delayed until early 2013 by the Center for Copyright Information, the entity created to manage the program. Participating in the program are the five largest broadband Internet providers — Comcast, Time Warner Cable, AT&T, Cablevision and Verizon — covering some 85 percent of US residential customers. A Verizon document leaked on the TorrentFreak blog suggests that the big Internet provider would deliver warnings for the first two suspected offenses and for the third and fourth incident, redirect customers to a page where they would have to “acknowledge” the warning. For the fifth and six offenses, Verizon would “throttle” the Internet download speeds of customers to just above dial-up speeds. Customers could appeal the actions by paying $35 for a review by an arbitrator. Other leaked documents showed AT&T would block users’ access to some of the most frequently-visited websites and that Time Warner Cable would temporarily interrupt the ability to browse the Internet, according to TorrentFreak.

Four sick teams, 20 ripping skaters, head-to-head across America. The cover, the cash, and the crown: one team takes it all. Download the King of the Road video, in its entirety, right now for free.

Last week I was stumbling through my garage, searching through old storage bins, when I came across some old beat CDs from my days as a signed Interscope rapper. I was shocked to find that two of them, both given to me in ‘01, had the name Kanye West on them. These two CDs, which I believe are the oldest Kanye beats ever released, now celebrate their 10 year anniversary.

Now it’s taken me a long while to even make a dent in this ‘rave archive’ – the sheer quantity of this collection is impressive enough (6630 files, to be exact). But what really makes this smorgasbord a true gem is the quality of the selections… Rare live recordings of some of the truly innovative artists whom defined the scenes as a whole: a select number of sets from one of the Acid House innovators – DJ Pierre, Digweed during his breakout, early Nightmares on Wax sets (and even some work under his initial moniker of DJ EASE), Simon “Bassline” Smith’s victorious D&B days, several sets from Old Skool-er Phantasy, and a plethora of legendary sets from both Carl Cox and Grooverider…