by Ice Cream Jonsey » Thu May 16, 2002 10:29 am
Before I get started on a diatribe that will not reach the ears of those who desperately need it -- apparently the brand new copy protection that the RIAA had developed can be beat by taking a sharpie and drawing alongside the outer ridge of the protected CD. Seriously -- how useless do you have to be to work on copy protection schemes these days? I barely got through my courses at a community college and I was able to get gainful employment writing code for good, not evil. Between that and the recent Safedisc wrapper fiasco mentioned on the Morrowind thread you really have to wonder if the best and brightest in this country want anything to do with making games slower and CDs unable to be played on CD-ROMs.
But. Anyway.
Note to anyone who rips CDs: if you can't handle when to use an apostrophe and when not to, then RIPPING IS NOT FOR YOU. I just grabbed a track called "My Friend's Over You." (It's a song from New Found Glory that is not on a CD yet... admittedly, they are a band whose albums I will purchase because I like them enough to deal with the music publishing cartel to profiting alongside them when I buy their stuff.) Every emo song usually has one absolutely terrible lyric in it that prevents the genre from ever being taken seriously. And with that song, I figured the title was it -- "my friend is over you"? Jesus, that's bop.
I give the song a few listens and eventually start committing the words to memory (you know how it goes: this happens whether you want it to or not). The whole lyrics the title is derived from is "I'll still pick my friends over you." In other words, a more typical "eff off, girl" song.
The use of the apostrophe KIND OF COMPLETELY CHANGES THE MEANING OF THE SONG NOW DOESN'T IT.
Everyone around here is rather intelligent so I'm not preaching to the pews that need to hear this. But for God's sake, if you have a friend who is functionally illiterate, and surviving on the net through smoke and mirrors, delete their copies of CDex and Music Match whenever you can.
I thank you for it.
Before I get started on a diatribe that will not reach the ears of those who desperately need it -- apparently the brand new copy protection that the RIAA had developed can be beat by taking a sharpie and drawing alongside the outer ridge of the protected CD. Seriously -- how useless do you have to be to work on copy protection schemes these days? I barely got through my courses at a community college and I was able to get gainful employment writing code for good, not evil. Between that and the recent Safedisc wrapper fiasco mentioned on the Morrowind thread you really have to wonder if the best and brightest in this country want anything to do with making games slower and CDs unable to be played on CD-ROMs.
But. Anyway.
Note to anyone who rips CDs: if you can't handle when to use an apostrophe and when not to, then RIPPING IS NOT FOR YOU. I just grabbed a track called "My Friend's Over You." (It's a song from New Found Glory that is not on a CD yet... admittedly, they are a band whose albums I will purchase because I like them enough to deal with the music publishing cartel to profiting alongside them when I buy their stuff.) Every emo song usually has one absolutely terrible lyric in it that prevents the genre from ever being taken seriously. And with that song, I figured the title was it -- "my friend is over you"? Jesus, that's bop.
I give the song a few listens and eventually start committing the words to memory (you know how it goes: this happens whether you want it to or not). The whole lyrics the title is derived from is "I'll still pick my friends over you." In other words, a more typical "eff off, girl" song.
The use of the apostrophe KIND OF COMPLETELY CHANGES THE MEANING OF THE SONG NOW DOESN'T IT.
Everyone around here is rather intelligent so I'm not preaching to the pews that need to hear this. But for God's sake, if you have a friend who is functionally illiterate, and surviving on the net through smoke and mirrors, delete their copies of CDex and Music Match whenever you can.
I thank you for it.