First, I find it quite amusing you call yourself a writer. Your grammar and sentence structure are, at best, atrocious.

Second, Not only is your post ironic, but it is downright hypocritical. You indicted Jon for not reading the release, yet you failed to read and ‘attribute’ the post immediately preceding yours. At least Jon had the integrity to admit, to his embarrassment, he erred when originally proclaiming SafeMedia sponsored the event in question.

Third, you are obviously a SafeMedia apologist; from which I would hazard to speculate in some way or form you are receiving financial consideration from the company. Nevertheless, it is safe to assume that you are intimately familiar with SafeMedia and their marketing and PR efforts. Those efforts amount to a slew of press releases that dish out highest form of hyperbole and dubious juxtaposition of statements from ‘authorities’ outside SafeMedia; which is simply perceived as PR pulp.

Furthermore, SafeMedia has yet to independently prove any of its product claims in any environment, let alone in true production. Additionally, SafeMedia has ZERO endorsements from anyone or entity in academia, the rights holder or telecommunications industry.

Why? Because SafeMedia purveys FBOS (Flaming Bag of S#!t) technology…by presenting would be customers, and their influencers (e.g. politicians) with the sense of urgency of a fire; and at the end of the day all they have is feces on their shoes with little else to show for it. The funny thing is that the MPAA, RIAA, et. al. are well aware of this, yet SafeMedia and MAYO persists with their bimonthly amateur-hour screeds.

I am no fan of the majority of perspectives levied by p2pnet, and do not fancy myself as a writer. However, do know, and loathe, intellectual dishonesty when I see it; and, Sir, your post above is a prime example.

I leave you with a sentiment expressed by my favorite quote from your post:

“You lost my credibility with you”

Cordially,

MNG

SafeMedia did not sponsor the event. I read the news release and attended the weeklong event. It was put on not by the what you inaccurately reported, but by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with “US Anti-Piracy Awareness Week.” The reason the MPAA, RIAA, LA Mayor and Wendy Greuel were on the panel is because they formed the task force to educate the uneducated people like yourself on the loss of jobs and wages due to counterfeiting and piracy.

SafeMedia only attended, they did not sponsored or put on the event as your reported. At least Google the news next time you try to do a half decent job in reporting an event. I have nothing against critics, but Yellow Journalistic critics in my opinion are far worse than a liar, cheat or thief. You lost my credibility with you. I see your stuff in the past, also went nowhere fast. You need to go to school to learn Journalism 101. #1 rule – attribution before assertion.

You are a Gentleman and a Scholar.

Best!

DYH

Yup. You’re right. (Blush) I try but I’m always doing three or four stories at the same time and I got this wrong. (Hangs head in shame.)

And having said that, I should also take this opportunity to humbly apologise to Sherman, Villaraigosa, Greuel, the MPAA, unnamed law enforcement folks, etc and so on, for even thinking they’d be seen anywhere near the likes of SafeMedia.

Cheers!

Shouldn’t that be, we are laying off people so we can pay less out making even more profit, and we are choosing to blame piracy cause it makes a great scapegoat?

And really Jon you should stop bugging them, you really distract them from important work, like counting their imaginary money.

Did you actually read SafeMedia’s press release? Here’s a surprise…This was NOT a SafeMedia sponsored event NOR did they even participate. SafeMedia is a bunch of HACKS and the MPAA & RIAA know it!!! http://mediaguru-mayopr.blogspot.com/2007/08/lawmaker-proposes-to-strengthen-anti.html is a typical SafeMedia BS job, splashing quotes all sorts of lawmakers and trade association officials, but never an endorsement or merely a reference to SafeMedia, from outside people. Simply PR spin at its hackiest!!!

You give these Jackasses WAY too much credit…

DYH

sorry but how would you cross the atlantic with home wifi? and as wifi will only suport 253~ computers or nodes it will be a small internet replacement.

No but this is the cool part:

If they manage to steal internet, we will develop a second open source internet running on wifi. The software taht alow that aready exist leting computers with a wireless card to nework directly to near buy computer without carrier.

And guess what? It will be faster than internet.

Yes! I just downloaded a set of tire for my car on Kazzaa. Cool!

This is what you are seeing with the continual onslought of the infringement cops and the constant nibbling a bit at a time over internet freedoms. What they see as acceptable conditions will result in the death of the internet as we know it.

At that time, I won’t have much need of the internet but you can be sure I will carry a life long hatred for those responcible for such changes. It is already to that point with the most vocal that push for such changes now. You can be sure that those companies that are behind these sort of actions already are on that list. My reaction is simply to never purchase again their products as long as they behave in a manner I disagree with.

How odd it is that in the same day, on the same page of this site, you can read of all the woes of lack of money brings them while at the same time reading how many millions they have made in profit for the quarter. Makes you wonder just how dumb they think we are. Of course, this play from the play book isn’t for us, it’s for those in Washington and elsewhere that really matter to them in influancing what they are after for today. Tomorrow will be a new set of wants.

In this they expose to everyone but it seems our isolated pro-corporate lawmakers, just how stupid and fake the whole arguement is. Never do they look at their own shortcomings but rather they look for a reason to blame that pushes the agenda they wish to have seen.

When and if this comes about, you can kiss my internet connection business goodbye. I have no more wish to be on such a tightly regulated communication line than I wish to have tv in my house, either public or pay for. I get neither nor want either at present. They aren’t worth paying for and not worth the time it wastes to view. Their bias views and what the media megagiants think is entertainment long ago parted with what I consider entertainment.

Good! Fire all of them. This bag of shit of Robinson, This parasite of Chitman, This slamy worm of glueman, all of them all of them! out! This nation does not need parasites. Prepare the feathers and tar.