Veni, vidi, vici

When I say I’m not going to drink

whatshouldwecallme:

And then someone offers me tequila:

(via conormoore)

I’m sorry

Dear Somebody That I Used To Know,

I know I’ve hurt you and I want you to know I am deeply and sincerely sorry for hurting you.

I swear to God I didn’t mean to. It wasn’t intentional… 

I had to make a choice and I had to follow my heart. It only belongs to one person and I choose him.

Maybe someday it’ll happen for us. Perhaps in another life…

But for now, in this lifetime, I know you’ll find somebody you deserve. Somebody who will make you content… somebody who you’ll choose over anybody else.

I wish you the best and thank you for your time and for making an effort to make me happy for even a short while.

Love,

Rochelle

*Note: This letter is addressed to the people who have been a part of my life… one way or another. 

Dear S.N.

You’ve been on my mind

I grow fonder every day,

Lose myself in time

Just thinking of your face

God only knows

Why it’s taken me so long

To let my doubts go

You’re the only one that I want

I don’t know why I’m scared, I’ve been here before

Every feeling, every word, I’ve imagined it all,

You never know if you never try

To forgive your past and simply be mine

I dare you to let me be your, your one and only

Promise I’m worthy to hold in your arms

So come on and give me a chance

To prove that I’m the one who can

Walk that mile until the end starts

The Pirate Bay

INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012.

Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would “do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear”. He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture.

Because of Edison’s patents for the motion pictures, it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures in the North american east coast. The movie studios therefore relocated to California, and founded what we today call Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent. There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them - like Fantasia, one of Disneys biggest hits ever.

So, the whole basis of this industry, that today is screaming about losing control over immaterial rights, is that they circumvented immaterial rights. They copied (or put in their terminology: “stole”) other people’s creative works, without paying for it. They did it in order to make a huge profit. Today, they’re all successful and most of the studios are on the Fortune 500 list of the richest companies in the world. Congratulations - it’s all based on being able to re-use other people’s creative works. And today they hold the rights to what other people create. If you want to get something released, you have to abide to their rules. The ones they created after circumventing other people’s rules.

The reason they are always complaining about “pirates” today is simple. We’ve done what they did. We circumvented the rules they created and created our own. We crushed their monopoly by giving people something more efficient. We allow people to have direct communication between eachother, circumventing the profitable middle man, that in some cases take over 107% of the profits (yes, you pay to work for them). It’s all based on the fact that we’re competition. We’ve proven that their existence in their current form is no longer needed. We’re just better than they are. And the funny part is that our rules are very similar to the founding ideas of the USA.

We fight for freedom of speech. We see all people as equal. We believe that the public, not the elite, should rule the nation. We believe that laws should be created to serve the public, not the rich corporations.

The Pirate Bay is truly an international community. The team is spread all over the globe - but we’ve stayed out of the USA. We have Swedish roots and a swedish friend said this:

The word SOPA means “trash” in Swedish. The word PIPA means “a pipe” in Swedish. 

This is of course not a coincidence. They want to make the internet into a one way pipe, with them at the top, shoving trash through the pipe down to the rest of us obedient consumers.

The public opinion on this matter is clear. Ask anyone on the street and you’ll learn that noone wants to be fed with trash. Why the US government want the american people to be fed with trash is beyond our imagination but we hope that you will stop them, before we all drown.

SOPA can’t do anything to stop TPB. Worst case, we’ll change top level domain from our current .org to one of the hundreds of other names that we already also use. In countries where TPB is blocked, China and Saudi Arabia springs to mind, they block hundreds of our domain names.

And did it work? Not really. To fix the “problem of piracy” one should go to the source of the problem.

The entertainment industry say they’re creating “culture” but what they really do is stuff like selling overpriced plushy dolls and making 11 year old girls become anorexic. Either from working in the factories that creates the dolls for basically no salary or by watching movies and tv shows that make them think that they’re fat.

In the great Sid Meiers computer game Civilization you can build Wonders of the world.

One of the most powerful ones is Hollywood. With that you control all culture and media in the world.

Rupert Murdoch was happy with MySpace and had no problems with their own piracy until it failed. Now he’s complaining that Google is the biggest source of piracy in the world - because he’s jealous. He wants to retain his mind control over people and clearly you’d get a more honest view of things on Wikipedia and Google than on Fox News.

Some facts (years, dates) are probably wrong in this press release. The reason is that we can’t access this information when Wikipedia is blacked out. Because of pressure from our failing competitors. We’re sorry for that.

THE PIRATE BAY, (K)2012

Rest in Peace, Dad.

“My little angel”, he whispered softly as he gently caressed my face.

I stirred slightly and opened my eyes to see my stepdad looking at me. I asked him if everything was alright and he patted me on the head and told me to go back to sleep.

In that simple moment, I realized that he was the father figure I always wished for and needed. This is one of the fondest memory I have of him.

I will forever remember him in my heart and I pray that his soul may rest in peace.