Remember Debacle last summer? Well Element skateboards just dropped their own version of it, Get Busy Living. Meet the Element European team,


Michael Mackrodt, Madars Apse, Phil Zwijsen, Guillaume Mocquin, Pirkka Pollari and also featuring Bas Janssen, Jo Lorenz, Ruben Rodrigues, Janne Saario, Alex Amor, Jarne Verbruggen, Ross McGouran and Nassim Guammaz.


Now personally I have never heard of these fine young lads, but I sure wish I had known about them sooner, they absolutely slay it. Not only that, but you, kind reader, have the pleasure of viewing them in High Definition. Get Busy Living is just shy of half an hour and it is available for your viewing pleasure free of charge on the Element website. However, as an added bonus, it will be available for download on July 16th, so mark your calenders. With this fine display of skateboarding from the European Element team as well as the unforgettable Adidas European Team Video, Diagonal, I believe that the European invasion of skateboarding is imminent. Watch out for those European skaters because they are definitely packing some serious heat in their bags of tricks.

In an article written for the New York Times, U2 frontman Bono said that internet service providers were essentially “reverse Robin-Hooding” by benefitting from the music industry’s lost revenue over music pirating.

“A decade’s worth of music file-sharing and swiping has made clear that the people it hurts are the creators…the people this reverse Robin Hooding benefits are rich service providers, whose swollen profits perfectly mirror the lost receipts of the music business.”

The article was originally intended as a call-to-arms for Hollywood to heed the warning from the music industry and not fall to the same pirating measures that have plagued physical music sales in the last decade. “The immutable laws of bandwidth tell us we’re just a few years away from being able to download an entire season of ’24′ in 24 seconds.”

Shockingly enough, Bono went on to suggest that China’s efforts to curb and monitor internet content and social networking were a positive move in the name of “fairness to creators and artists”. In a particularly controversial statement, the Irishman went on to discuss how the US’ “noble efforts to stop child pornography” and China’s “ignoble efforts to curb online dissent” as being proof that music and movie pirates could easily be brought to justice. Read more