One of IceCube’s Articles Goes Viral
One of the great things about the internet and writing for a large website like ZeroPaid is that you never know which articles will get posted on Digg, which articles get’s posted on Slashdot, which articles go on other popular social news websites and which ones just seem to spark incredible interest in general.
The article in question this time appears to be my MPAA Admits to losing the PR war article. When I read that quote about the “Enemies of copyright” and how it’s untrue that the public interest is antagonistic to the business’ interest, I laughed and thought, “I bet I can name a few incidences” So I started writing the list. I knew going back and finding every stinking link would take weeks, so I made sure that I had a clear case in my mind that I could recall at the very least when writing the list. It was just a number of incidences that just came to the top of my head and by the time I was mostly done, I looked back at the chunk of text (which was this monsterous paragraph), I thought to myself, “You know, I think readers got the point. As hilarious as this is, people are probably going to just gloss over this paragraph after the first few examples and move on to the next paragraph.” So I ended the list before I could list them all. Now I’m regretting the fact that I didn’t make the list longer. Apparently, the post made it onto Daily Kos and someone actually picked up the story on their blog and counted every single one of them. It also made it onto other sites like MyMediaMusings and a few other sites.
At this point in time, I’m pretty tempted to go back and lengthen that list in a brand new article or something.
Oh yeah, that “Bikey Gangs” reference, if you’re a little foggy on that one, that refers to a case that happened in Australia where some idiot in power said how file-sharers/downloaders are like Bikey Gangs - one of the more wilder comments I reported on myself while on ZeroPaid. That one may have been a little more obscure for some, so I thought I’d clear that up just in case some of you were going, “Huh? I don’t remember that one too well.” Although, between that and an Australian professor saying how an unfiltered internet has no place in a democracy, I’d say the democracy comment was more outragious, but that doesn’t detract from the fact that the former comment was quite outragious in and of itself (they are pretty far up there in my years of reporting on the “most outragious comments about technology” list)
In any event, these lists may have possibilities considering I’ve been around for quite some time and have seem some insane stuff out there with regards to technology and file-sharing. Something I’ll definitely have to think about because I have a pretty good memory about these issues.