Wednesday, 27 May 2009

High Jinx on the High Seas

...if you thought that Pirate Bay was history, and the perpetrators were behind bars facing millions in fines then you've been reading the wrong media again, but surely now, as this comical farce reaches closer to implosion, yer usual media hounds will be howlin for it! until then here's a precis...
...NO-ONE HAS BEEN TO JAIL!...
...NO FINES HAVE BEEN PAID!...
...PIRATE BAY FUNCTIONS AS NORMAL...

...but that's just the start, before the cries of APPEAL had died down, the judge in the case had to admit upon questioning, to be a member of the same anti-piracy club/lobby/cabal as, wait for it...YES, the PROSECUTION!...

...as the guffaws died down, the swedish public, angered by such blatant bullying lined up behind the only political party that could help them, the Pyratban, the original creators of said pirate bay, in such numbers that they are now the third largest party in the country (and growing) and in line for several seats in European Parliament...

...THEN came the statistics from various quarters suggesting that the people who download music from sites such as pirate bay (and many many others) just so happen to be TEN TIMES MORE LIKELY to BUY MUSIC than people who don't! therefore proving the theory that so-called illegal downloads are a form of MARKETING, like a sort of cheap payola...witness the new dj dangermouse album campaign (you can't BUY it for love nor money, but there's still PRODUCT to ship and you'll hear it EVERYWHERE this summer, cheapest campaign in history, promoted by YOU the PIRATE, for not ONE PENNY, just the love of music)...

...in steps judge no2, who, before he can draw breath, is revealed to be ANOTHER RINGER from the SAME CAMP/CABAL/CONS PIRACY as his predecessor, the prosecution's gimp...

...STAY TUNED FOR HI-JINX ON THE HIGH SEAS OF PIRACY pt2...

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