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A Bit of Bittorrent Bother
Lave writes "A journalist at the BBC is replying to complaints about its recent Newsnight show, where it stated that using Bittorrent to download copyrighted material is theft. It's a very frank and honest account about the perceived realities of the internet and how traditional media represents it. From the article: '[One] answer is that we're totally scared of new media, because new media is railways and we're canals, and you all just know how that's going to end. So we seek to equate the internet with all bad things to scare you off it. At some corporate Freudian level, there's some truth to that accusation.'"
Sounds more like BitterTorrent.
It is true that downloading copyrighted material using bittorrent is illegal... As is downloading it using FTP, or HTTP, or Carrier Pigeon, or any other means...
get. a. fucking. life.
Link. me. to. hot. pics. of. T'Pol.
wait, what? i got sidetracked.
Note that you are on Slashdot, a self professed "News for Nerds" site. So not only are you (by posting here) a nerd, you're also lousy at it. You're a wannabe of the outcasts. You're not just a nerd -- you're the idiot nerd the other nerds make fun of.
Sucks to be you.
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Looks like SOMEONE forgot to wear their tin foil hat when they walked past a record store this morning!
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You play games online? How dare you waste my bandwidth in such a trivial pursuit. How am I going to download the next episode of LOST? How dare your entertainment interfere with mine;-)
If you had told us you were female we would've proposed marriage instead of making fun of you. Though your lack of sexual desire for female sci-fi stars would interfere with a few of my fantasies...
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