Who TF is MC Double Def DP?
p2pnet news view | Kids & Kartels:- It just gets worse.
And worse.
And worse.
The non-stop assault by the entertainment and software kartells on the minds of our children.
The latest effort is a dumb-beyond-dumb sequel to 1992’s “Don’t Copy That Floppy!”
It features moronic “anti-piracy hero MC Double Def DP,” jail tattoos, a pimp, a woman being attacked in her kitchen by what looks like a police SWAT team, and a pair of Klingons.
Who TF is MC Double Def DP?
Anyhow, this really, really bad (in a bad way) example of kiddie mind-rape is the creation of the Software & Information Industry Association.
And are MC Double Def DP & Co in some way linked to Nexicon, the purveyor of the phony GetAmnesty program?
“Ten years ago, Nexicon was known as Cyco, and, according to SEC filings, was primarily involved with selling cigarettes,” posted p2pnet contributor Fred Wilhelms in 2007, going on:
“They subsequently acquired two network security firms, Orion and Pluto. Their current client list includes the SIIA (Software Information Industry Association), and I suspect their amnesty program is being conducted for them.”
We’ve seen some chronically warped, seriously demented productions, but this really should get five gold stars for being the most ridiculous corporate effort to date.
And someone was paid for this !!
No wonder the kartells are in such deep shit.
(Cheers, surfer)
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
July, 2009
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July 7th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Anybody here speak Klingon? I’m curious if they took the time to actually write that dialog in the established Klingon language or if they just wrote gibberish.
July 7th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Sorry to disappoint you guys but they are not real Klingons but actors. Any fool can see that the submissive body language is all wrong.
Dave
July 7th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
‘On the part of rich countries there is excessive zeal for protecting knowledge through an unduly rigid assertion of the right to intellectual property,.. ‘ – Pope Benedict XVI
July 7th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
This may be putting it too simply, but:
Material property = “You can’t take my CD without my permission”.
Intellectual property = “You can’t copy my CD without my permission”.
Reproduction monopoly = “You can’t copy your CD without my permission.”
The right is to property. The privilege is to monopoly.
The right is natural. The privilege is unnatural, unethical, and now ineffective.
End the privilege. Cease the monopoly. Abolish copyright.
July 7th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
here here, all hail Crosbie Fitch
July 7th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Give it time. Copyright will die.
(Right now, it’s on life support!)
July 7th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
@ DA:
“Right now, it’s on life support!”
Nope. It’s a corpse on a gurney, waiting for a trip to the morgue.
Cheers!
July 7th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
isnt there some law that can prosecute the RIAA for erroneous information distribution. copying is not a crime, its a civil infraction, sheesh !
July 7th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
@Surfer, no anyone can spread any information they like, freedom of speech protects it.
@Jon, corpses come back to life man, haven’t you see those Return of the Living Dead movies? Or Day of the Dead? Dawn of the Dead? Land of the Dead? Night of the Living Dead? Nudist Colony of the Dead?
Those are what the **AA groups are hoping for, unstoppable zombies, eating our brains to stay alive. Sounds like a pretty accurate analogy now that I think of it.
July 8th, 2009 at 1:14 am
“Who TF is MC Double Def DP?”
Obviously a brainwashed retard that didnt have the sense God gave an omeba,
to know to run like hell when asked to sing the RIAASS theme song………
Maybe he thought it was for the mickey mouse club???
stw
July 8th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Oh. My. GAWD.
Seriously, this is Reefer Madness of the digital age. How can these fuckers expect anyone to take them seriously with this kind of bullshit?
July 8th, 2009 at 11:08 am
” Seriously, this is Reefer Madness of the digital age. How can these fuckers expect anyone to take them seriously with this kind of bullshit? ”
The saddest part is the majority of people do take them seriously.
July 8th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
“End the privilege. Cease the monopoly. Abolish copyright.”
I wouldn’t go that far, although I do think that copyrights need to be scaled way, way back.
For all the whining people do about the “crap” coming out of Hollywood, they have made some really popular movies. Personally, I loved the Spider-Man films and hope that they make more. I also loved Serenity, Coraline, Hellboy 1 & 2 and others. However, movies of this scale wouldn’t get made if the studios couldn’t directly make money on them. Without copyrights, any theater could show these films, an company could sell them on DVD and the studio wouldn’t see a dime from it. They’re not going to invest 10 million, let alone 50 million, in a movie to just give it away. All that will be left will be independent films, made on a fraction of the budget of Hollywood films.
I’m not saying that you need a huge budget to make a good movie, but without a large budget you often end up with a shaky-cam film, shot on video with really bad special effects and no-name actors who give the impression that their main qualification was that they were willing to work for $20 a day.
What about video games? Without copyrights, no company is going to invest in months of developement time for something that people can freely copy once the first copy is sold. Sure, they could try the “Pay if you like it” method, but I doubt it would make enough to make developing games profitable. Would Valve have written the Half-Life games or Portal if people could just freely copy it?
I believe that copyrights are a necessary evil, but that they should be MUCH more limited than they are now.
July 8th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Let’s say we have 1,000,000 film fans on the one hand and a film producer on the other. What makes you think these two parties can’t simply exchange money for a film? $10 each and you end up with a sizeable sum. Why do you need to suspend the public’s liberty to make copies or derivatives? But, more importantly, have you not noticed that it is actually impossible to suspend the public’s liberty to make copies?
What we’re complaining about here on P2PNet is not the inability to make copies (there is no such inability), but the continuation of a clearly ineffective law that should be abolished, as all it does is permit the RIAA/MPAA to persecute random a priori innocent families/individuals and make their lives a bankrupt misery.
Let’s abolish the 18th century privilege of copyright, stop prosecuting the public for enjoying their own culture, and get back to the business of producing good art.
The market for copies has ended. The market for art resumes.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
“Who TF is MC Double Def DP?”
He’s the guy that’s gonna be walking the 2 “pirate-sniffing” dogs very soon!
8D
July 9th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
“Let’s say we have 1,000,000 film fans on the one hand and a film producer on the other. What makes you think these two parties can’t simply exchange money for a film? $10 each and you end up with a sizeable sum.”
And when was the last time you saw something like that happen?
When Serenity came out, it was stated that all the actors were under contract for two more movies if it did well. It didn’t and the proposed sequels were never made. At the time, it was suggested that all the fans who wanted to see more movies, donate money to finance them. Serenity was made for $40 million. With enough donations, they could have easily raised $100 million and spent half each on two more films. Why didn’t that happen? The fans wanted it and were willing to donate, so why is there only a single Serenity film with no chance of sequels?
Games are much more accessable than movies and there’s absolutely nothing preventing anyone from making a full-length game and giving it away. So where are all these free games? Sure, you have remakes of arcade games and level packs for existing games, but can you point me to even a single, full-length game on the order of Half-Life or Tomb Raider that was written and given away for free? I’m not talking about length by itself, I’m talking about a game with a real story and levels that progress the plot, the way a commercial game does. I don’t know of any, do you?
July 10th, 2009 at 6:02 am
You can’t really demonstrate the invalidity or non-viability of a business model on the basis that it isn’t already widely and successfully used. In the same way you can’t demonstrate that mankind will never fly because all the flying contraptions to date have been such dismal failures or have only flown for very short distances.
But, fundamentally, if you have a million punters with $10 in their pocket and a filmmaker who’d gladly produce a movie for that amount, it seems strange to insist that such an exchange would be impossible, that what must happen instead is that a law should be made to prosecute people for making unauthorised copies, so that the filmmaker can sell authorised copies at $10 a time. Frankly, I suggest that it’s those who reckon the latter is the way to do business who have a lot of convincing to do with plenty of evidence their approach won’t fly.
Of course the exchange I outline is brutally crude, but then so were the first flying machines. The way of getting them to remain airborne and safe was continuous optimisation, repeated re-engineering. And that’s what I’m doing. See the http://contingencymarket.com as the fuselage I’m working on to help make the crude revenue mechanism into an elegant and economically viable one.