Proprietary formats

Posted by bb on Monday 12th of March 2007 at 12:31 pm;.
Filed Under Rants 

As you will see from this post I use the bittorent network from time to time. Never for copyrighted material obviously, just for stuff that is in the public domain. Using it for copyrighted materials would be a very very bad thing and if we all did that, you never know, ThePowersThatBe might have to start producing some quality material that we are prepared to pay for. Like this maybe.

But that would really just not do now would it? They might have to fire some of their lawyers and get some creative people in instead. Blasphemy of the highest order! Anyone who thought it was a good idea should hang their head in shame!

Anyways, back to bittorrent. If you were looking for a cd image, you might resonably expect it to be in one of several formats – ISO or RAR being the most popular. It takes a certain degree of cunswuppery to release files onto a sharing network in proprietary formats. See if you can spot the flaw in this otherwise amazing bit of logic :

  1. Share file with 1000’s of other people
  2. Release in format that only 1% of the 1000’s of people will be able to read
  3. ????
  4. Profit

Flawless – bloody flawless. No … idiots, bloody idiots.

Sometimes I think cunswup may just lack that killer bite to describe some people … but these sort of people probably couldn’t find out what cunswup meant if they tried 🙂


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One Response to “Proprietary formats”

  1. Cathal on April 11th, 2007 8:53 am

    I keep reading your posts, and they all provoke replies! This one made me think of the “and then a miracle happens” image, ever seen that one? It’ll probably be the first on a Google Image search, or look here: http://www.physics.uci.edu/~jeff/grfx/miracle.gif

    I think you should be a little more explicit in step 3 .. 😉

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