Sorry for p2pnet’s late start
p2pnet.net news:- Hi all. Sorry for the shortage of posts, yesterday, and the late start today.
I was wasting yet another day in Vancouver dealing with yet another completely unreasonable and totally unnecessary demand in the anti-freedom of speech case launched against me by Kazaa boss Nikki Hemming and Kazaa owners Sharman Networks more than a year ago.
Sharman dropped out, but Hemming is still there.
To compound that, there have today been a few brief technical difficulties which stopped me from getting online at my usual time.
As regular readers will know, I live on a Vancouver Island off the coast of mainland British Columbia in Canada and this new Kazaa / Nikki Hemming imposition meant crossing by ferry to the mainland, and back.
On the way over I was reading about a recent pirate attack, only this time it wasn’t Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, the members of the Big 4 organised music cartel, or their opposite numbers in Hollywood. Rather, BC Ferries had one of its vessels hijacked, said the Vancouver Sun.
“The skulduggery came to light when a website for or Kosova Sealines was posted showing the company apparently operating a ferry service along the Dalmatian coast between Trieste in Italy and the Albanian port of Durres,” it said.
“The main website art shows a vessel under a heading that reads Kosova Sealines cruising past what appears to be a wooded headland heading into the wild blue yonder that is presumably the Adriatic Sea.”
The vessel and the coastline are real, but they have absolutely nothing to do with Kosovo Sealines or the Dalmatian coast. The first belongs to the BC Ferries, and the second to Mayne Island off BC’s south-west coast.
As the Vancouver Sun points out, the Kosovo pic is an example of a dextrous cut-and-paste mix-and-match. It’s a straight lift from the about BC Ferries site, “where the same family is shown looking in a clearly marked BC ferry on his way through Active Pass to Tsawwassen,” says the story, adding BC Ferries is still deciding what it’s going to do about this new form of piracy on the high seas.
The pirated pic was still online when we went for a look at 5:30 am Pacific.
Cheers!
Jon
Also See:
Vancouver Sun – Eastern European ‘pirates’ find some Internet booty on BC Ferries website, June 4, 2007
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Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’. Do bug your local politicians. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance. Don’t just complain. Do something!
June 5th, 2007 at 9:07 am
I think we should make up a few bizarre statistics and shame their government into making this a CRIMINAL offense.
Do we have any bulky movie stars we can send over there to make them see it our way?
June 5th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
HAHAHA that was too funny.
I remember a video on You Tube of some ferry in huge waves and people couldnt believe it was sailing in those waves. And the captions always said something about it being in the Maritimes or something, but it was actually in Australia. The website for the ferry had a disclaimer on their main page telling people the video that is on the net is not their ship lol.