I got a fun e-mail this morning. A "Copyright Violation Claim" from my ISP. That's fucking special. And oddly enough, nobody was even home at the time they claim it happened.
Thankfully, it's only a "warning" and the copyright holder hasn't requested personal information thru a supeona at this point. Hopefully, it just blows over.
And in the meantime, I changed my wireless password in case someone decided that my house would be a good place to download an episode of a mediocre tv show.
But this does once again prove something I've talked about a couple times recently. Seriously... everyone... stop fucking bootlegging movies & watch your ass. If you're going to do it, use a proxy or TOR or something. Annonymize yourself in any way possible. Or just spend the $1.50 on iTunes for an episode of a tv show if you only missed one. Or wait until the fucking season hits dvd, borrow it from the library or get it from redbox or netflix & rip that shit if you REALLY need to watch it on your laptop instead of the tv.
It's strange how easily they are tracking IP addresses at this point.
Hell, it's amazing how easily they're tracking us everywhere at this point.
The supreme court is hearing a case pretty soon about warrantless gps tracking. And it seems like it's happening more and more every day. To just everyday citizens.
I've never been a fan of the Post-9/11 patriot act crap. I can understand the need for some things but a lot of the tracking is getting grossly abused. A lot of the whole "war on terror" thing has been used for going after people for everything from movie piracy to pot smoking. But I still want my fucking groping & some "enhanced screening" at the airport if I'm gonna be stuck in a 2 hour long line.
But it does, again... prove the same "slippery slope" that others love to discredit in discussion claiming "that'll never happen" only for it to happen & then disregard the "slippery slope" argument the next time someone uses it again. The slippery slope ALWAYS happens. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow... but eventually. Because, like with any great authority granted to any single or group of people... eventually someone will be the "bad apple" that spoils the bunch & starts it going down that slippery slope.
So keep questioning authority. Keep seeking more freedom where you can. USE the slippery slope argument when it applies. Because someone WILL think of a way to corrupt power. And it's always the people that truly seek power that will do it.
And no, the solution to abuse of authority is not giving another authority the oversight to watch THAT authority. It's to strip that authority from anyone of power. Because you can't solve a corruption problem that stems from having too much authority by creating an even greater level authority to oversee the first authority. It's a vicious cycle that can only be fixed by stripping authority & making government smaller.
And there's my political rant for the next... hopefully a long time.
Now I'm thinking about pancakes. And what Deadpool I'm going to give you today. So here's some Deadpool & pancakes at the same time. The best of both worlds.
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