Valentine's What?

Another year and another Valentine's Day passed by uneventfully. Hell, I don't know if I've ever done anything for Valentine's Day. I couldn't do anything this year even though I wanted to because of work. We were supposed to have some inspections today...those got canceled but I still had to work tonight. So it pretty much put an ax into anything I might have wanted to plan with the girl I've been seeing the past two weeks. We are going out tomorrow though so maybe that'll make up for it, but I doubt it would just be the same. We'll see how it goes.

In other news, and this is kind of late coming by news standards, but the MPAA has shut down another BitTorrent site. This time the victim was LokiTorrent. Not only did the MPAA shut it down but they replaced it with a graphic saying "You can click, but you can't hide." In response a site posted a similiar graphic, observe:

They pretty much hit the problem on the head at that site. The MPAA can't continue with it's current business model and expect to make the same kind of profits it 5-7 years ago. Because of the evolution of peer-2-peer networks and the internet's ability to deliver content to the consumer the way THEY want it, it will never be the same. The bigwig moguls at these company's are going to have to realize this and adapt or continue waging this futil war against websites and peer-2-peer developers. Every time they shut down a service, a newer and more flexible one springs up in it's place. Napster begat Grokster which begat Kazaa which begat BitTorrent. So keep it up MPAA and RIAA, keep digging that grave in which you're burying yourselves. Or wise up. Your choice.