A Bit of Bittorrent Bother

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday March 1, 2006 @07:19AM from the even-mainstream-media-has-trolls dept.

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.'"

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First post! by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-01 07:20 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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OJ Simpson by 'aspies'+are+retards · 2006-03-01 07:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Don't tell anyone, but OJ Simpson is an "en eye jee jee ee arr."
hIgh sPEED INTERNET ACCESS by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-01 07:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

my butthole brings David Boises to the bard,
and your mom is a effin tard
and your mom is a effin tard.

A poet, especially a lyric poet.
Another moron can't spell "its". by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-01 08:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Learn to spell.