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Thursday, October 09, 2003:

File-sharing should not be illegal, and it's not immoral. Not the sharing of 'intellectual property' (oh wow, what a great name for a couple of bits and bytes you're transferring through a cable) is an illegal act, but letting the files be shared. I'm not very clear here, am I? Look at it this way: When someone steals a book, and later you receive it as a present, nicely wrapped up, who is to blame? You? Perhaps you didn't even know. But even if you did, does that make you a criminal? Some say it would, but the one who really did the damage is the thief, not you. So why pay for damage you didn't inflict? Same with file-sharing. Just make sure people can't steal music, simple as that. Why the hell would you want to put your bloody music on a CD anyway? Why not on a spoon, or a cartridge, or a credit card-like device? Just something that can't be read into the computer very easily. But no, they use those nice shiny discs that fit into your CD-ROM drive. Yes, I know, the audio CD was there before the CD-ROM, but does that change anything? Try copying a record or an audio tape to the computer. Sure, some people will still buy equipment to do that, they're enthusiasts, or fanatics, if you like. But you are taking away the possibility to expose music to everyone from all those dumbass users who couldn't tell a keyboard apart from a mouse. "Uh, insert see...um...dee... click Reck... Rackoh... Rack-cord... click Finnish... double-click on muh-puh-three.... huh? Oh, am-pee-three... hey, cool! Now what's that kaazazaaa thing on my thing i use to put these little pictures on(*)?" See? If you want to discourage people from doing something, make it hard. No, make it impossible. If you want to get rid of people smoking, burn all tobacco farms. If you want to prevent roadkill from happening, ban cars and destroy roads! Don't want war? Close all the weapon factories! But alas, people like to deny the obvious.
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Haggis // 7:46 AM

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Wednesday, October 08, 2003:

Ahhnold, the new Queen of Californie-yay!!!111
Seventy years later, another Austrian rises to power. Let's hope this one won't make a mess of things. (What? It's true!)
Haggis // 3:10 PM

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Also, I finally switched to Kazaa Lite.
Haggis // 5:55 AM

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What are KaZaA thinking, man?
Haggis // 5:48 AM

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