2010...flew by in a Google Instant

2010 was waaaaaaaaaay too good for me....

Pirate news.....RRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH, you know the joke....

Nothing to do with the Johnny Depp/Disney vehicle I mentioned previously but there are two piracy news stories that really caught my eye this morning, both fairly interesting and hilarious.
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/12/making-copyright-work-better-online.html
First of all Google is gonna be cracking down on piracy by not simply removing it completely, much like when the DMCA ruling was passed over a decade ago, but will be altering their search engine so any form of financial profit from piracy (or probably just piracy sites with ads) will be probably be sent to the bottom of the Google Search Results List. The actual chance that this will work is quite substantial considering that when people have found the awesome song Rapunzel by Drapht, they're also usually trying to figure out whether a mediafire rip of the Aussie artist's upcoming album is released. The dude is a fairly awesome independent artist and you should be buying his tracks off iTunes or give him $20 when you see him....however, apparently one of the reason it's taking long for his album to be released is the sample is severely copywritten and is gonna be lots of money to get it cleared.
http://tinycartridge.com/post/2072465614/cheeky-anti-piracy-implementation-in-michael

Do you know what this?

The Late Edition 21/11

My day has taken a strange turn of events and I am LANing again tonight with some bro's. We've got some good 360 games including CoD Blops and we plan on hitting up Nazi zombies hard, as well as some TF2, if you're on Internode later on tonight, you might see me pop up, okay now lets get to some news, but first, this squirrel has to pay the IRS for Nut Collection Taxes:

Afternoon Dump 19/11

It's been a long day for me. I know it's not over, but just been busy with stuff. Planning a new album for just a week before Christmas and played a lot of Minecraft, The Saboteur and TF2, prepping myself for a LAN tomorrow, so I may just do a daily dose in the morning and that's about it, won't be home till after midnight on Sunday. So anyway, I hope this tires you over for the weekend.

Morning Roll Call 16/11

Morning, in a great mood because I got up early and I had some great fun in TF2 this morning, so here we go:

'Someone's been listening to the new Girl Talk album'

Afternoon Dump 14/11

So I decided to go ahead with this because I needed to take a break from Translator, which I'm already a fuckton behind and if my calculations are correct I need to be at least 5000 words deep by tomorrow....fffffffffff
anyway, here's the news.

Morning Roll Call 14/11

I had an incredible time at a Bro's place last night in a NERF fight, we were up until a bit after midnight which means there was no Afternoon Dump. I may do one today, but if not, I'll still be doing links of the week.
So first off we have....oh not again

Morning Roll Call 12/11

It is morning, it is a beautiful morning and by that I mean, my album has been downloaded a few times. Share it with friends, play it at parties and enjoy that shit.
So enough about me, what's been happening today?

Afternoon Dump 10/11

GOG, a gaming delivery system site, was invaded in the night by gigantic assholes Infinity Ward. Why?
Publicity!
So what have we missed today?

Morning Roll Call 6/11

Last night I got into an hour or so of The Saboteur and it is incredible, fun and I'll probably do a very belated review once I'm done with it. Because it's the weekend I will be posting less, mainly because I have a lot to get done today and tomorrow, but that doesn't mean there won't be a Morning Roll Call and a few links during the day, as well as an update on how my NanoWriMo is going and a few stats and thoughts of being a blogger for a week.
So what have we got today?
Well let's let the puppy tell us: