a whole lot more

The effect on me of the raid and shutdown of Pirate Bay has been that I have learned a whole lot more about how to download torrents and, especially, how to find magnets without the aid of a piracy search engine; and how to do all that far more safely. The MPAA and the RIAA have done more to promote piracy than they’ve done to inhibit it. Every time they make some dramatic move, piracy increases by leaps and bounds. I seriously doubt there’s any way to stop it now short of shutting down the internet. It seem inevitable that democracy (of a libertarian sort), though it may not prevail within the system as a whole, will become the order of the day on the internet—or at the very least on the Dark Net.

systemic bigotry

I wrote, a while ago, ten or twelve years maybe—and this opinion may have been (a bit) truer back then; or else I may just have been deluded)—that systemic bigotry against minorities was slowly but significantly disappearing and all that was left was (more or less) isolated individual bigots acting outside of the official policies and procedures of the system. Whether or not that was more the case back then, it is certainly not the case now. Either I was wrong or we have backslid as a culture; or some combination of both. This is the case, at the very least, among police departments, but probably it’s true throughout the “system” that “runs” our culture; bigotry prevails as a systemic problem, and it seems to be getting worse. Bigots react against the bits of freedom and equality that minorities win for themselves via protest, persistence, and activism. The rock-headed and/or brainwashed Neanderthals and their clinging, sycophantic women can’t stand it that society is gradually turning to the left. It always does, except when the fascists rebel against it to temporarily set back the course of history and intelligence. And they are backlashing now, in the persons of police officers who stand defiantly against a culture that is intent upon changing for the better. The cops represent a large bloc of idiots who are crawling out of their holes in the earth to “support their local police.” Can you say “race war”?

thugs or idiots

♫Just like every cop is a criminal…♫

All cops are either thugs or stupid. You have to be a thug or an idiot to want to become a police officer in the first place. And, for a majority of cops, you also have to be a Neanderthal. If someone would do a long-term study, they’d discover that all of the rookies who would have graduated into good police officers quit after a few years when they find out what it’s really like to be a cop. I base this premise on the fact that those cops who would otherwise actually be good cops are in fact not, simply because, in order to be that good cop, they must choose to turn a blind eye on what’s going on among their fellow officers, which is what makes them a bad cop. You can’t be a good cop and ignore the bad ones in your ranks. Frank Serpico was an extreme rarity. As a law enforcement officer, you have a duty to weed them out. That’s why every cop is a criminal, by deed or by implication and association.

ineffectual property

The music industry, and later the movie industry, weren’t on top of the technology; they let it get way out ahead of them, probably because it would have cost too much to gear up to it. So how much is it costing them now? Hundreds, maybe thousands of times more than it would have if they hadn’t been looking to make the greatest profit possible and failing to develop long term plans. They deserve privacy. They throttled down the public’s access to their products because they couldn’t find their way to a business model that would incorporate the new technology. So consumers went ahead and developed that technology themselves, and released it onto the world for free. Then, out of their desperation, instead of taking their licks and gearing up as Johnny-Come-Latelies, the corporations went crying to the government to help them protect the “intellectual property” that “pirates” were “stealing” as a result of the industries’ own incompetence. This is a perfect case of blaming the victim for what you do to yourself.