Strangely Perfect

There’s now an official UK Pirate Party. It’s founded on the guiding principles that all art & creativity should be free for people sat in their bedrooms and that those people in the bedrooms should have absolute privacy! True. They want the Swedish model of the convicted file-sharers in the UK.  Also, they want Google [...]

I got an unusual (for me) comment spam this morning at 01:58 from a Kuala Lumpur spammer.  His modus operandi is to trawl WordPress blogs looking for the word “RapidShare” and then dump a deliberately malformed warez-type URL to a zip file promising unlimited super-fast Rapidshare accounts that have been compromised. I had such a [...]

Ode to Ploy caring, sharing, wearing, furring, file-sharey blurring, obfuscatingly daring, morbidly hearing, Hazel Blearing, warring factions, dreadful actions, pink and fluffy, end of stuffy, no longer huffy, hubric music, weird, a-feared, fusing losing, oozing bruising, file sharing good.

Many moons ago, I read a short Sci-Fi story in a paperback book I’d bought called Business as Usual, During Alterations by Ralph Williams The book is a 1972 Pan edition of an earlier compilation by Damon Knight called “100 Years of Science Fiction” and is well worth a read if you can get a [...]

Following the judgement against Isabella Barwinska, see Noose Tightens on Copyright Theft (Fixed Penalties for Downloaders Next!),before the day is out, UK law firm looks to begin prosecuting file sharers. The bleating’s going to get unbearably loud in the forums.  I’ll have to get some earplugs.