Comments (3)By TimK in News, Webmaster on 10th January 2008
P2P has been targeted by AT&T as in need of a “Technology based solution…” and James Cicconi (VP Legal and External) states that the solution would have to be “network based…” Indeed the infrastructure giant has been in talks with Technology Companies, MPAA & RIAA, about producing a network wide block for copy right infringement. Indeed the growing problem of copyright infringement, especially through P2P technology has caused shockwaves at the head offices of music, movie and media corporations worldwide. Nick Cotton, general counsel for NBC Universal has specifically targeted P2P and suggest that the current situation “…should not be an acceptable, continuing status…the question is how we collectively collaborate to address this.” As difficult as it is to imagine the battling Mass Media companies acting as a collective, it seems that they have little choice, this issue poses a direct and real threat to these companies, as revenues decline and production costs increase the margins are being squeezed very hard indeed. Whilst I do not necessarily agree with copy right infringement, the pressure that the internet has put on the industry as a whole has had some positive effects; it has necessitated change, for the first time in a generation, in the media arts. Music has become far more accessible, and cheaper to legally download, and anybody is able to produce a song, get it on the net and get viewers (Arctic Monkeys being the eponymous web success in the UK, check out their stuff on www.arcticmonkeys.com, they rock.) Cinema has had to innovate and make viewing the product at a cinema a more appealing option to the consumer with Imax and the latest production techniques of films such as Beowulf. So if the corporations manage to blanket the ISP’s and eliminates illegal downloading will these innovations disappear, probably, at the very least the cost of maintaining such control over the web will just be passed onto the consumer in the end, making all of our media more expensive. Lets face it, even with P2P and other copyright issues, the big boys still call all of the shots and still generate huge profits. Lenin said that all art should be free, and that everybody had the basic right to information, but then again, he was a dirty commie.
Comment (1)By TimK in News on 10th January 2008
Agony Aunt? no its just the way I walk!
OK, no one has been brave enough to send me a problem, or perhaps this web site is read by well adjusted and normal people who have secure, loving relationships, whatever! So I have gone to www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/deidre/article272093.ece, which has not let me down (The Sun rarely does) Here is the problem…
“My girlfriend said that sex between us was the best that she did things with me she could never do with anybody else - but now I have discovered she’s got another lover as well as me.
She is 32 and married. I met her at a club a few months ago. I am 27 and single.
I didn’t want to get serious but she said I was the best thing to happen to her in 15 years. She was unhappy in her marriage but holding on because of her children, who are eight and six.
We had a good sexual relationship, we even did it in public places, and she had her first orgasm for nine years.
She got pregnant and I persuaded her to have a termination even though she wanted the baby badly, because of the effect it could have on her children. Things have been different since.
A couple of weeks ago she told me we should give it a break, she can’t handle her feelings for me. Little did I know she was already sleeping with another guy.
It was a real shock when she told me. She said it started as a game but now she has started to have emotional feelings for him. However, she says he doesn’t like sex and I am still the best.
She is short with me every time we talk now. If only I could persuade her to see me, I know I could convince her that the chemistry is still there between us.”
You can read Deidre’s advice on the above link, and there is also a good visual representation of the problem (semi naked chick on top of semi naked dude), but I am going to offer some little nuggets of wisdom myself. Firstly, as she was married, and you slept with her knowing this, it should not really surprise you that she is a skanky ho. This should have been a given! If you needed any further evidence of the skankiness of your Belle, the fact that she ‘did it in public’ (and I’m presuming the ‘it’ was sex, and not, say, defecating, in which case even more proof) with you should have provided this train of thought, “Wow, she’s a bit of a go-er…possibly a bit of a ho as well?” Finally, if a girl, of questionable virtue, says to you “we need to give it a break, I don’t know if I can handle my feelings for you”, you are being fed a line and she is playing ‘hide the sausage’ with someone else, this should not come as a shock. Get a grip Sunshine. Hope I have helped.
