Random Thought Of The Day #537

Day 537

So... yeah... I was waiting for this one. Some dude actually just got time in the klink for movie piracy. For uploading a single copy of a film to a torrent site. Granted, it was an unfinished bootleg version of a movie that had, at the time, not yet hit theaters, but still... a year in the poke for online movie piracy is kinda ridiculous.

Once again reminding you... watch your ass, kids. Or you might be watching it in the communal showers in county. Cause shit's getting real in their stupid war against... well... at this point? I guess it's against the internet in general.

Just because they won't adjust their distribution model for the ways that consumers actually want to consume media in the 21st century.

Between this and the pust for SOPA, we'll be lucky if there's anything left on the internet by the time they're done. Stock up on your intarwubz porn now, kids. There won't be anything left by the time they're done with it.

And this is also going to turn our court system into a fucking circus. Seriously. There's so many people that are going to be bringing chargers & sueing, so many people that are going to be prosecuted and so many other people that are going to get fined for shit they do all the time...

I mean... I'd be hit for thousands of dollars or worse just for my blog. And I'm not making a penny on this thing (anyone wanna pay me to write this? Please? I'll even make you a sandwich) but the little bit of Deadpool that I post or the random funny shit on here... all of that would be subject to take-down notices or outright deletion of whole blog posts, pages or even the whole blog just for having them up there. Because they're all from piracy under the rules SOPA establishes. And it grants the rights-holders (namely, a shitload of corporations, intellectual property holding companies, production houses and publishers) the ability to just go onto the web and take down EVERYTHING they don't want out there. And they don't even need to prove that they have the right TO take it down.

I'm waiting to get sued by DC for having some Deadpool up here at that rate. (Hint: Deadpool is owned by Marvel which is owned by ABC/Disney. DC is owned by Time-Warner... they're not the same.)

Oh well... I'm just kinda preparing for a future where you can find nothing but social networking (without anything but drunk party pics or artsy nature photos), the mainstream media & a shitload of pay-for-any-content sites. And a youtube filled with stupid cat videos. It'll suck. And be boring as shit.