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Apni ISP Copyrights Issue

by Sarosh Waiz on December 16, 2009 in Internet, Random with No comments
ApniISP.com

ApniISP.com

Being a regular internet user from the sub-continent its highly likely that you have heard about a website known as “ApniISP.com”… And if you know about this website, you would also know what it is famous for. Yes,  it got famous for offering people with the option to download pirated latest Indian songs. You are most likely to find all the new songs there, and with that aspect, it is a great offering for the internet public.

As a business idea, it is great as it is offering people what they need. I respect the person who launched it and I do respect people who are coming up with such wonderful ideas to cater to a certain need in the market and make money. The website drives tremendous amounts of traffic and is ranked 8,896 by Alexa out of the millions of website. It is ranked 100th most visited website from Pakistan.

A few days ago, someone I know, pointed out that ApniISP.com used to make money out of Google Adsense. It still is making money by Adsense as it currently has a banner or two on its website by Google. Now my question is, isn’t offering pirated material against the Google terms of service? Google bans such accounts if they find that someone is violating its TOS. Its funny that its been ages but no one pointed this out.

But the good part for ApniISP.com is that they have diversified themselves in terms of their revenue streams by selling ads to local clients. I don’t know if Google will ever find this out, but until they don’t, ApniISP.com is going to continue making some good money out of this.

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Amir Khan Got Me Hooked To Boxing!

by Sarosh Waiz on December 15, 2009 in Boxing, Random with No comments

I have not been a ‘boxing’ fan all my life. In fact, I found it rather boring because I never understood the rules and how it really worked. Similarly, I was never a WWF or a WWE fan, although I did try to follow it will ‘all-my-heart’ because of peer pressure at school. All I could remember today are three names: The Undertaker, Hitman Heart and The Rock. The Rock is an interesting character overall.

It wasn’t that as a kid I never used to like fighting sports, but it was more like it looked ‘lame’ when I saw these guys fighting on WWF. As I grew up, WWE was nothing more than a funny entertainment for me, which of course doesn’t mean that I was a fan.

I liked real fighting as compared to the lame ones. Ask me about Kung-Fu sometime. I loved it. I also happened to practice the basics of Kung Fu for sometime. It was an interesting experience, but I will leave the Kung Fu story for a later date.

Coming back to ‘boxing,’ the sport never inspired me because maybe I never saw it earlier. Or there was no peer pressure that made me follow it. Or another possibility can be that because of PTV only in those days, we never had access to a lot of games and information. All I knew about boxing were two synonymous names of champions, who were Muslims: “Muhammad Ali” and “Mike Tyson”

It was not until recently that I partially got hooked to this sport. I had been hearing about this British Pakistan youngster named “Amir Khan” who made history by winning the WBA World Light-Welterweight Championship in July this year. He is also commonly known as “King Khan” or  the “Pride of Bolton.” Well I never knew all this until Amir Khan defeated Dmitry Salita on 5th December 2009 and the hype reached my ears.

Amir Khan

Amir Khan

Dmitry Salita was the first challenger of Amir Khan’s title, who was a much senior and a more experienced fighter. Dmitry Salita is a Ukrainian American from New York, who is an Orthodox Jew. Now with Amir Khan being a practicing Muslim, the media termed this fight as the “fight of faith” and the “holy war.” The interesting part was that Salita was never defeated in his entire career and a lot of people did not think that Amir Khan would be threatening enough for Salita.

Dmitry Salita

Dmitry Salita

The fight was expected to last for 12 Rounds of 3 minute each as this match was being considered as one of the toughest matches. As soon as the match started, Amir Khan knocked Salita down with his first punch in less than 10 seconds. It was hilarious. Salita managed to get up, but he was knocked down second time again by Amir Khan within seconds. The third time he got up again, and was knocked down thrice in the first round. Amir Khan won the fight and retained the title.

KhanSalita

Khan & Salita

It is a must watch match. This got me hooked up to boxing. It won’t even waste a lot of your time if you are not a boxing fan. Here is the complete video of the match between Amir Khan vs Dmitry Salita:

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