Blogcritics: Comments on Conflation and Deflection

Comment by Phillip Winn

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:06:58 EDT

Especially in this case, where the girl's mother claims she thought is was all good because she paid about $40 for the P2P client software.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:22:16 EDT

As well they should (pay her $2000) since the commercial P2P's are not without blame in this entire scenario: "We're just the conduit, don't kill the messenger, guns don't kill people, etc, etc."

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:14:01 EDT

Y'know what would be really great if if Mariah Carey paid less than 15 minutes of her income to pay Brianna's fine. C'mon Mariah, think what a fuck you to Tommy that would be.

Comment by TDavid

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:12:35 EDT

Sorry to sever the phallic ties in this thread but ... looks like a p2p trade group has gathered to pay the 2k off for that 12 year old girl.

Comment by Phillip Winn

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:35:00 EDT

Jim, I'm pretty sure that all of the items you mention, except maybe for you, are pretty will linked already. ;)

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:55:43 EDT

Great, now I have to come up with something succinct, witty and clever which combines the music business, hairy purple-veined penises, the futilitly of arguement and me. Thanks a lot. I'll let you know when it gets down to the short strokes. Or I'll come up with something.

Comment by Joe

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:26:17 EDT

Cowper's postulate? The Epididymial deduction? Carruthers' theorem?

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:13:23 EDT

Isn't there some corollary to Godwins' law which is about dick jokes?

Comment by Joe

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:11:35 EDT

There's stiff competition to stay on the bleeding edge.

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:08:02 EDT

Confidence is defined as cutting off the top before you even know how long it will be.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:05:49 EDT

YOu are SO wrong ... this is just the tip of the iceberg

Comment by Phillip Winn

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:51:52 EDT

Any way you slice it, this will end badly. We might as well cut it off now.

Comment by Phillip Winn

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:48:57 EDT

Let me guess, is the competition cutthroat?

Comment by Joe

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:40:15 EDT

That's good money, but what if he has to take a cut?

Comment by Phillip Winn

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:35:39 EDT

Groan. Eric, you'll do anything to keep that #1 spot, won't you?

Comment by Eric Olsen

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:29:48 EDT

My cousin works in a circumcision ward for $18 per hour plus tips.

Comment by Phillip Winn

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:49:11 EDT

I really want to comment on Eric's reference to "circumcision," but it's been a long week and my wit seems to be taking a nap. Anybody?

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:46:14 EDT

That's what really bugs me about this whole file sharing thing. Here you have millions of people who are paying for their own bandwidth to distribute your data for free! They are using their own bandwidth, their own hardware, their own disc space to market and distribute _your_ product. And the first thing you do is attack a 12 year old girl. Way to go. I hope your piss up in a brewery goes as well.

Comment by Phillip Winn

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:18:21 EDT

As far as I can remember, I've never once in my life downloaded a song from Napster, Kazaa, or any other P2P network. And yet I found that Kazaa Lite is running on my computer recently. Why? Young relatives. Amusing, those relatives actually own CDs for almost all of the soungs downloaded, but find that using Kazaa to retrieve them wherever they're visiting and manage/play them on the computer to be convenient. They apparently set the settings so that they were sharing no files, but I still killed it when I found it. I knew turning the windows box over to them would be a mistake!

Comment by Eric Olsen

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:12:15 EDT

File sharing is down since the RIAA campaign was announced in June

Comment by Mark Saleski

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:36:12 EDT

the government is off in the corner getting, uh..."serviced" by aoltimewarner, clearchannel and ticketmaster.

Comment by Craig Lyndall

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:30:56 EDT

Has anyone heard what the net effects have been on Kazaa? Are there less people logging in? Less files available? Just curious. I just remembered this week to shut it down on my mother's computer. I can't even imagine the surprise if she had gotten a sobpoena for unknowingly sharing files on her computer because of me.

Comment by cjones

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:48:29 EDT

Does the gov't even work anymore? Where are they? It's become pretty obvious whose pulling the strings...

Comment by Eric Olsen

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:44:49 EDT

Yeah, they're young and ever so resilient, they probably won't even remember what happened to them, kind of like circumcision.

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:36:04 EDT

I can see a support group forming with R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, Gary Glitter and Cary Sherman. "I was just doing it to the kids"