messing with the record industry
i don’t know if anyone else has seen this, but at OSU, the security group has been getting notifications of music piracy from record companies like sony who are basically asking (read threatening, though with unknown consequences) us to remove offending material (i.e. mp3s) from the network. i think it would be funny if people mistagged mp3s of something inane (e.g. iain and marco singing flower of scotland, richard stallman singing the free free software song, pimp daddy wellfare, etc.) that is the same length as a copyrighted song, and see if the record industry’s cronies come knocking. “actually, anti-piracy@sonymusic.com, that’s not really korn’s new single, it’s a seminal central ohio rap “artist” (calling pdw an artist is sort of like calling that lady who photographs the babies in flower costumes an artist) called pimp daddy wellfare”. i suggest doing this with artists like korn because the nu-metal kids who will download the file will double the amusement by receiving something that is even (marginally) worse than their favorite addidas, no wait, puma, no wait pony-clad so-cal pretty boys.