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My status as the teflon kid is now totally in dispute, and I’m not entirely sure what to do about it…
Its been a mighty week, and many monumental things have happened while the Tumor has been down, almost like it was all… planned… by somebody listening to my phone calls and peeking through the window.
No, that’d be paranoia…

Many of those monumental things we’ll discuss in coming days here, as we recover huffing and puffing from this weird week at the beginning of May, some of them you don’t ever need to know about, and some of them are too insignificant to dwell upon.

To me, the biggest thing in my mind is… they caught me…

Kinda.

See, I’ve been ranting all big and loud about how the pigs in the content industry are tightening the thumbscrews on Fair Use, (not that you can read the posts, at least not until I get the friggin archives loaded into the SQL table) and I feel strongly that we’ll all lose something nice when they get their way and lock down every piece of technology from doing anything they don’t want you to do with their content. (Don’t know what I’m talking about? Read ArsTechnica)

Regardless, right now Johnny law is on their side, and they busted me on the wrong side of it, with a nice fat DMCA cease and desist order. BaDOOM!

The sad thing is,
1) We just started dl’ing movies when we canceled Netflix to save a buck
2) The movie they clocked me downloading didn’t even work. I thought about emailing them bitching that if I’m going to be busted downloading movies, they damn well better send me a real DVD.

Because this is how I feel. It ain’t stealing. Flat out. If I were getting packaging and quality of recording/image exactly like what they sell at Best Buy, then yes. Its probably somewhat ethically wrong on some level or another, but so is not getting over in the left lane so that guy can turn right onto your road.

Anyway, it ain’t legal action, in that I’m not getting sued. If they busted me getting music, it might be a different story, which is why I’m being cagey with that these days, but it was a movie. The interesting thing is that none of these cases have been ruled on by a judge yet. Yep, in the 2 years or so, only a handful have made it to court, and none have got the hammer laid down. I’d be of the representing myself to save a buck mindset, so I’d be the first to lose.

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