C'mon work! Sat here waiting for work to start, really need more coffee.
Hmm, that's not long enough for here, I might get away with that on twitter, but not here. Must add further content irregardless of the relevancy or value.
As a "pirate" I suppose I should maybe provide some of my political views on all the copyright madness going on right now (and frankly has been going on for quite a long time now).
I am opposed to disconnecting in any situation. The Internet is now vital in many peoples lives. If I lost my connection for example (will never happen), it would ruin me as most of my work is based on this thing (and has been for a long time).
In my youth (I'm not old now though, I mean younger youth) I bought a lot of music, mostly vinyl; imports, white labels, small indie labels (probably around £10k or more over the years), and repeats on "new media" like cassette and eventually CD. I used to be quite the vinyl junkie. So I already have more than enough music thank you. Nowadays I tend to spend on gaming, merchandise, and gigs.
I used to spend in the cinema's and buy DVDs too, but due to the way that Hollywood views it's fans, I chose along time ago to decline to fund such an industry. The same is true for the music industry. Their "fight against piracy" is the one thing that stopped me buying.
However, I still do buy DVDs, because I have no choice but to buy Four Lions (I'm a relatively big fan of Chris Morris, but I hate the word "fan" when applied to myself, so I use it with this disclaimer). I'm not going to wait for it to turn up on iPlayer (which it likely never will). I will buy independent stuff, I love it when people try new ways of doing things - The Yes Men and Pioneer One being two prime examples.
Notice how I didn't say TV back there? That's because I haven't watched TV in a year now, I prefer to watch my programmes on the Internet. I get no adverts, no enforced breaks, and I can pause it, rewind, ffwd. That's what I like, and I really think that anyone who thinks it should be different is living in the Stone Ages.
Admittedly, at the moment I actually can't watch iPlayer on Ubuntu x64 or frankly any other x64 *nix OS (although the news and sports work, which is odd), thanks to the wonderful world of closed source Adobe Trash. We have a better one now BBC, you can stop feeding in to the Adobe machine. You already know about HTML5, right?
Instead, I have to use get_iplayer, which the BBC doesn't like, but I don't like what the BBC is forcing me to do to watch the shows I have paid in for.
There, I think that should do it, I've gone on long enough now.