Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Great story

The subtitles.

Do distribute:


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Mr roT said...

Here I had mentioned this story, but I like the setting of the hex code to music.
What do you think about this whole thing? I think intellectual property should be protected generally. Except rap because it's antiintellectual.

5/03/2007 4:10 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

I think intellectual property should be protected generally.
Sure. But if you build your bank with paper walls, don't bitch if someone tries to break in every night. Maybe the problem isn't the thieves: maybe it's that your model doesn't belong in the banking business.

5/04/2007 9:46 AM
Pepe le Pew said...

Lemme take this one step further: you or I wouldn't dream of breaking into a bank. Now if the Hibernia around the corner left its doors wide open between 3 & 4 am with no guards, we might revisit that notion. In other words, it would be their poor business model that would generate (awaken?) the dormant thieves in us. Throwing us in the slammer would be a short-sighted way of resolving the problem as others would have the same idea. The solution is obviously to improve the security. So fuck the hd-dvd industry and their swiss-cheese-like security.

5/04/2007 9:54 AM
Mr roT said...

Yes and no, Pepe. Your local threshhold for temptation is just that, local. There are places in the world where like Porgy you don't need no lock on the door... Those places people have community and mutual respect for property.
Now, I would love it if all rap was bootlegged and posted on the Net immediately so that the criminal 'artists' that produce it would die of starvation, but what of the BSO? They beg for money all the time and barely make ends meet even with banks forgiving all their red ink.
Maybe they should actually see the money they earn.

5/04/2007 3:58 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

There are places in the world where like Porgy you don't need no lock on the door
Right - but that's not the technology world. Besides, a business model in which you have inadequate built-in security causing you to rely entirely on the court system for protection is questionable. I think it is much preferable for the patent holder to handle its own security and rely on the courts in the case of extraordinary breaches. In this case, they are so vulnerable that once the cat is out of the bag, the entire deck of cards goes down. Fuck'em.

5/04/2007 5:02 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

This story is like your going around new orleans housing projects at night with $100 bills sticking out of your pockets and threatening the hooded kids loitering in front of the liquor store with jail time if they rob you.

5/04/2007 5:15 PM
Mr roT said...

Right. Better to threaten them with a .44.

5/04/2007 10:20 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

you mean .45? and yes: that would fall under the built-in security category.

5/04/2007 10:25 PM

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