Comments on: ‘Rehabilitating’ BitTorrent

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:22:50 +0000

ermm…i thought the point of star wars was to make tons of money for george lucas with 3 good movies and 3 crappy movies.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:14:21 +0000

“the chance of the file-sharing program BitTorrent serving a positive function is as likely as Darth Vader joining Habitat for Humanity,”

Ermm.. actually, the whole point of starwars WAS that Darth Vader wasn’t all bad.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:02:37 +0000

BitTorrent should be left alone, and so should all the other free filesharing programs that perform well. These programs are being used to rehabilitate our culture which has been poisoned by the media cartels. BitTorrent can also be used to spread home movies that spread real culture. Leave BitTorrent alone. It is doing just fine.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:56:38 +0000

I wasn’t aware that Bit Torrent needed rehabilitation. Did it misbehave? Did it drop bits? Corrupt the hash of a torrent? Fail to put all of the pieces in the correct order? Mine is working just fine.

Perhaps it isn’t Bit Torrent that needs rehabilitation, rather the people that use it.

But, oh, wait a minute, it’s not fashionable these days to hold people accountable for their behavior so we’ll just blame whatever objects or technology they use to commit their misbehavior with.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:47:43 +0000

Clearly, the editors of The Gray Lady are still endeared towards this type of journalistic license to colloquialize.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 05:10:35 +0000

Seriously, we have an industry devoted to creating culture?

My high school history and geography teachers must have been mistaken when they said that culture is an organic phenomenon that reflects the experiences of a society.

The New York Times basically said that culture just rolls off an assembly line like a car or a microwave.

“Show business” is fine.

“Entertainment industries” – I’ll have to accept the term.

“Culture industries”? F*ck off. My friends and I create our culture. It doesn’t come shrinkwrapped at $19.95 per unit.

Shame on you New York Times. Send the author, Charles Solomon, to a Social Sciences evening class before letting him write this kind of LAMEstream article again.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:11:45 +0000

“A well thought out and well structured sentence will always beat out an over used clichÃ©.”
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lame comments like yours were “humorous the first time it was used, but it has worn thin.”

get a life. contribute to the discussion of the article, and save your linguistics history lesson for people who care.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:11:35 +0000

like, well, “so” over used?, thats like “so” yesterday:)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:36:07 +0000

“…file sharers to, well, share files.”

This type of sentence structure is so over used. It was humorous the first time it was used, but it has worn thin. A well thought out and well structured sentence will always beat out an over used clichÃ©.