March 21, 2006

• Actually... for a lame, anti-piracy PSA, that wasn't incredibly awful. Don't Copy! Don't copy that Floppy!!!!
• Awww Now I wanna watch that horrible "We used to pick it, now they want us to smoke it?" hip-hop-a-licious PSA. Google Video. You've failed me. v_v
• Ahhh. *flashback to dark ages when I once had to stop buying blank floppies at a specific office supplies store, after getting nervous when they asked why I kept buying so many 10-packs so often. Oh, the stupidity of youth...*
• That was insanely awesome, until I realized it was 10 fucking minutes long. Still, the system admin at my work is going to love it. Love. It.
• Notice: I haven't watched this video Qualifier: I was forced to watch a video with the same name in my high school Pascal class. Result: It led me to a life of crime, where I have made it my mission to distroy the careers of budding young programmers by pirating their intellectual property with wanton abandon. YAR ME HEARTIES! THAR BE BLANK FLOPPY DISKS ENOUGH FOR US ALL TO HAVE BOOTY! ARRR.
• YO HO HO AND A BOTTLE OF RAM
• SWAB THE DISKS, YE LAN-LUBBERS!
• DO SOMETHING COMPUTERY ARRRRRRRRR
• I wonder if the makers of that video had the rights to shows those screen caps. Love the MC superimposed in the airplane.
• Ahrr, we'll use hex to mark the spot where we buried the cache!! Aye!
• I remember looking up from the computer one morning after my buddy and I had spent the entire night populating the BBS's in my area code with the latest in 0-day offerings. I think we had just upgraded the PC to a 16.8K modem (USR Courier HST!! It was so black and trapezoidaly sexy...) and a 200 MB hard drive. Anyways, it really boggled our minds that anyone would bother copying floppy discs to pirate software. It was a great tune though - we sang it often. Soon after that, we discovered that girls were sexier than modems.
• That was fucking awesome. Immediately after viewing it I deleted all 15 gigs of semi-legal music I own, threw out any game CD for which I don't have the original retail box, and did a full government wipe on my hard drive, reverting back to Win95b because I have a license for that. Oh I have an MS-DOS 6 certificate of authenticity too, so I guess I'm cool there as well, just in case. Now to denounce my TiVO as the easy road to copyright-infringement hell, throw it and my CD/DVD burners on a pile of tinder, douse with gasoline and let the mother burn. Gosh - It's the only responsible thing to do, 'cause I don't want the End of Technology to be all because of me! -- So anyway the video: I'm watching when the software folks come on to talk to me, and two thoughts immediately came to mind:

  1. NEEEEEERDS!!!
  2. Wha? They had chicks working on software? *head asplodes*

  For those of you who just want to make a copy to piss off the guy with the curly hair, here's Neverwinter Nights (the game he was talking about) for free from Home of the Underdogs. Ha. All that trouble to protect their rights, and now it's abandonware. :)
• The guy with the glasses is the single geekiest, nerdiest, most stereotypical programmer I have ever laid eyes on. AWESOME!
• Indeed awesome!
• According to the Wiki entry(!), DJ Double Def DP (AKA M.E. Hart) is now an attorney. Specializing in Intellectual Property, one would assume.
• Jesus christ. That second one should have gone here.
• In an unprecedented criticism of the neighbours, two USA senators send a letter to Canadian Prime Minister asking him to stop copying all them dang movies. Clearly. Clearly. Clearly.
• Great. I send Diane Feinstein a letter asking her to please do something about Iraq, Bush, etc., and she sends a letter to Canada about movie pirating. I feel SO WELL represented!