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Tuesday, December 02, 2003
SOCAN can kiss my ass
SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) is asking the supreme court to levy a tax against all internet service providers as royalty payments for music that can be shared on the internet. Those greedy bastards already levy a 21 cent tax on all blank media purchases (CDR's, tapes, MDs), even if you're using them to burn music you legitimately paid for. These bean counting assholes are arrogant enough to think that the internet is now used SOLELY for music piracy?! I'm sorry, but the internet is used much more heavily for PORN. So what's next? The Adult film industry levies a masturbation tax?
Think about this for a sec, progressive companies such as Apple are coming up with innovative ways to legitimize the use of the internet for music distribution. You pay for downloads. Along comes SOCAN, who want to charge ISPs (and face it, the end user will be the one paying) royalties because of the internet's "potential use" to download music? Why the hell would you keep paying Apple for tunes, when you're getting taxed again?!
As in the case of those Joe the Set Painter ads, and the RIAA lawsuits against music downloaders, this is a clear example of the dumb, reactive thinking that plagues our arts/ entertainment industries. If this becomes legislation, do your part - DOWNLOAD AS MUCH MUSIC ILLEGALLY AS YOU CAN, cause you're paying for it regardless...
Read more here.
Currently listening to: Jet - Are you gonna be my girl
SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) is asking the supreme court to levy a tax against all internet service providers as royalty payments for music that can be shared on the internet. Those greedy bastards already levy a 21 cent tax on all blank media purchases (CDR's, tapes, MDs), even if you're using them to burn music you legitimately paid for. These bean counting assholes are arrogant enough to think that the internet is now used SOLELY for music piracy?! I'm sorry, but the internet is used much more heavily for PORN. So what's next? The Adult film industry levies a masturbation tax?
Think about this for a sec, progressive companies such as Apple are coming up with innovative ways to legitimize the use of the internet for music distribution. You pay for downloads. Along comes SOCAN, who want to charge ISPs (and face it, the end user will be the one paying) royalties because of the internet's "potential use" to download music? Why the hell would you keep paying Apple for tunes, when you're getting taxed again?!
As in the case of those Joe the Set Painter ads, and the RIAA lawsuits against music downloaders, this is a clear example of the dumb, reactive thinking that plagues our arts/ entertainment industries. If this becomes legislation, do your part - DOWNLOAD AS MUCH MUSIC ILLEGALLY AS YOU CAN, cause you're paying for it regardless...
Read more here.
Currently listening to: Jet - Are you gonna be my girl
Sunday, November 30, 2003
HTTP 403/ Forbidden
I was messing around with setting up page permissions so that I could just dump random files to my any directory on my site, and access the directory through the web. However, default permissions give you a 403 error when you try to view a directory without an index file. I've since decided that the 403 error is way more fun than being able to see directories, so here's what I came up with -
HTTP 403/Forbidden
Currently reading: Adbusters #50
I was messing around with setting up page permissions so that I could just dump random files to my any directory on my site, and access the directory through the web. However, default permissions give you a 403 error when you try to view a directory without an index file. I've since decided that the 403 error is way more fun than being able to see directories, so here's what I came up with -
HTTP 403/Forbidden
Currently reading: Adbusters #50
Old School
Earlier this week, I finished Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. It was quite entertaining (even despite destroying all sense of productivity in my life). Two days after beating it, I was feeling some serious withdrawal so I started playing Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance. In other words, I spent all yesterday and today playing the game (only took one break to go to the gym, and one to sleep). Productivity = NIL! The one cool thing about Harmony of Dissonance is that after you finish it, you can do the old Konami code (Up up down down blah blah blah - like with the original Contra), and it lets you play as the original Simon Belmont, reproduced in all his perfect 8 bit glory.
I was thinking of buying myself a videogame console for Christmas, but now that I realize how easily addicted I get to these games, I'm not so sure anymore.
Currently: Fighting off sleep to finish this post
Earlier this week, I finished Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. It was quite entertaining (even despite destroying all sense of productivity in my life). Two days after beating it, I was feeling some serious withdrawal so I started playing Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance. In other words, I spent all yesterday and today playing the game (only took one break to go to the gym, and one to sleep). Productivity = NIL! The one cool thing about Harmony of Dissonance is that after you finish it, you can do the old Konami code (Up up down down blah blah blah - like with the original Contra), and it lets you play as the original Simon Belmont, reproduced in all his perfect 8 bit glory.
I was thinking of buying myself a videogame console for Christmas, but now that I realize how easily addicted I get to these games, I'm not so sure anymore.
Currently: Fighting off sleep to finish this post