National Pirate Day: share and share alike
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “I think we need more obscure national holidays,” blogs Dan Tynan.
And he has one in mind.
National Pirates Day, “not to be confused with International Talk Like a Pirate Day, which occurs every year on September 19 (arrrgh, mateys).”
Good idea.
Dan goes on »»»
I choose it in honor of college student Brittany Kruger, who’s published an open letter on P2Pnet detailing how the RIAA and its jackal attorneys have hounded her for over the past two years.
Kruger, who works at a Dairy Queen part time, says the record companies are asking her to pay two years’ worth of salary to settle their dispute.
On National Pirates Day, everyone will swap copyrighted content with as many people as possible.
Just open up your digital music and video libraries (and, of course, your lovingly preserved copies of the Cringely blog) and let fly. Of course, you’ll delete it all the next day.
It’s just to prove that the global economy won’t utterly collapse (at least, more than it already has) and the world will not end just because of a little file swapping.
“Let me repeat that,” he adds.
“The world will not end. So there’s no need to continue that apocalyptic debate over here (you know who you are).”
blogs Dan Tynan – National Napping Day: To sleep, perchance to dream, March 9, 2009
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March 11th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Ummm, i’m on a 100mbps line in Sweden with uTorrent constantly on, its already been “National Pirate Day: share and share alike” for months/years already :p
Would like to dedicate my daily seeding to Brittany Kruger but.. knowing the MAFIAA scumbags they might go after her again for “secondary infringement” or “aiding and abetting”.
I like the idea though, except for this part “Of course, youâll delete it all the next day. ”
do you have any idea how long it takes to delete from 1TB disks?
March 11th, 2009 at 9:38 am
“Of course, youâll delete it all the next day”
Tongue in cheek, perhaps?
Cheers!
March 11th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Day? DAY?!? I’ve been celebrating International Pirate Decade!
March 11th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
A review for anonymous p2p apps is needed. I downloaded so much I need to share all that wealth.
Of course I could put an HTTP server as an invisible Tor service, but there must be something better.
March 12th, 2009 at 9:26 am
NEWBIE. Just want info on how-to’s please