Straight off the bat, let me just say that when socially and mentally disturbed people shoot up rooms full of school kids, I have no sympathy with their cause whatsoever, except to believe that society needs to find a better solution to these types of issues than simply pumping the people who experience them full of drugs with bizarre side-effects, leaving them with a lot of time alone and hoping for the best.

Continue reading “Screw it, let’s just ban everything”

Think MySpace promotes a uniformity of ‘culture’ among its users? Yeah, me too. So, like me, you’ll probably love this picture that I found floating around teh intarwebs:

A million bad haircuts flick sideways in rage at my wrongness…I guess I, like, totally suck and stuff, and am probably ghey. Think I’ll go listen to Fallout Boy; no-one understands me, anyway.

I sure do. If I pay for a song, and album, a game or other software, I want my fair use rights as provided by law. Thing is, the media industry doesn’t want to give me those rights. Thanks to the internet and it’s cornucopia of tools for distibution of data and content, the lazy old-fashioned business models of the music film and games industries are failing. Rather than pull their fingers out and move with the times, they’d rather take the easy option of treating their customers like criminals. Continue reading “Do you hate DRM?”