Mindless Twaddle

This video is mindless twaddle.
If anybody can figure out exactly what they are getting at - or indeed in most cases who they are, be sure to let me know.
The 'Veronica' chicks seem to be trying hard, really hard to get a thought together between them and the one on the right is gagging for a Fosters and a quick shag...not interested, frankly you're all too shite...
Before we proceed - just watch it - does it mean anything or have a message? It is awful.
Well according to Torrent Freak this is part of an anti-piracy initiative. Can't really tell what they are getting at in the video, other than - attention seeking. Never heard of you, you don't look good on camera, what's your bleeding point mate?

Anyway, it is not all on the up and up and typically the AA group responsible for this vid has mislead people. Won't be the first time obviously.
Not my problem.

Derek Sivers of CD Baby sounds off on piracy

Derek Sivers sounds off on Piracy and gets it right in my opinion - he even manages to be funny about it!

"More people are killed by pigs than sharks each year, but because shark attacks are more newsworthy, they seem more prevalent. Piracy gets all the attention, but I don’t think most of you in this room have lost more than $30 to piracy.” (I got a big “Booo” from the audience for this.) “Obscurity is your real enemy. Fight obscurity until you’re a household name, then piracy will be more of a problem than obscurity. Until then, worry about pigs, not sharks.”

can't break out of the block quote thing here - may need to do the wordpress thing...

I just had a thought about this. Derek makes the unfortunate use of the 'household name' thing implying that that is what one should be about. Wrong! Make yourself known, but to the people who want to know about you. Isn't the world in general sick and tired of pathetic creatures with no talent at all and all of the money backing to make them household names? Derek is rather conservative it appears. But at least he is willing to change. I'm not partial, but piracy is indeed here to stay and unless something better is offered, the music industry will fade. Not a problem for me. I'm just one of those fools who does it because he loves it...

Adios Torrent Spy

Ars Technica ran this obit recently...

Piracy is OK!

This pokes a finger in the myopic eyes of the MPAA!

“People today have all this equipment available at home, and it’s a simple thing for them to copy movies and music. This is the time to play on the same team as the ones who make available this kind of materials. I hope those who watch this copy will think the quality is bad, and go watch it at the movies instead.”

Crazy mixed-up NBC...why I oughta...

They don't really know what they are doing, do they?

Ireland to be Guinea Pig in ISP piracy battle?

IFPI Takes Irish ISP (Eircom) to Court
Let's just hope this suit gets thrown out.
Eircom’s lawyers...say that Eircom was “not on notice of specific illegal activity that infringed the rights of the companies”, adding that it was under no legal obligation to monitor traffic on its network.
I agree wholeheartedly...

More on the same subject

Publishers Abandon DRM

Publishers Phase out Piracy Protection on Audio Books
...but who actually 'reads' audio books?
Anyone?

FCC Hints at Taking Action Against Comcast

FCC Hints at taking action - exactly what kind of action is completely unclear. What is also unclear is if Comcast are continuing to go beyond acceptable network management activity or if they have been shamed into opening up the pipes to unthrottled P2P traffic again.
Does anyone know?

ISPs Choking Bandwidth?

Yes - it is pretty obvious they do as described in this article:
Comcast nefarious activity
I believe Network Solutions also does this. Correction, I should say RCN as they are the ISP I experienced this with. Network Solutions suck in other ways. Their 'hold' 'music' is some of the worst on the planet and their help people are mostly rude attitood exuding assholes. Though to be fair i have talked to a couple of very decent helpful people there...
Regarding the bandwidth choking, it all goes to show that the ISPs have no idea what is legal and what is illegal P2P activity.