Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 20:08 GMT
Warner sits on the board of the Motion Picture Ass. of America, which has alleged that the operators of the Pirate Bay are profiteering criminals.
Profiteering criminals, hmm, there must be a word that means that. Nope, I can't think of it.
Posted Thursday 29th November 2007 21:43 GMT
... dunno, mafia ...., cartell, hmm. Doesnt sound right. And even having enjoyed an old Sid Meier game staged in the 16th and 17th in CGA graphics back then i cant find an appropriate word.
Posted Friday 30th November 2007 05:57 GMT
"And even having enjoyed an old Sid Meier game staged in the 16th and 17th in CGA graphics back then i cant find an appropriate word."
I've got it - Colonists! Although we call them Americans now and they might get upset if you go around refering to them as profiteering criminals.
You were thinking of Sid Meier's Colonization, right?
Posted Friday 30th November 2007 13:56 GMT
"Although we call them Americans now and they might get upset if you go around refering to them as profiteering criminals."
lol - I dunno, seems pretty fitting for most US business's.
btw - I hate seeing z's in there... I remember laughing with 4 other people for hours at how stupid a cop was on "Cops", he kept saying "So sir, have you been burglarized?".... only to find out a month later that it's an actual work in the american language. I think thats criminal... what was wrong with the word burgled that they had to butcher the language so?? :(
Posted Friday 30th November 2007 20:38 GMT
Is actually an acronym-- MPAA, also see synonym RIAA.
Posted Saturday 1st December 2007 00:28 GMT
"btw - I hate seeing z's in there"
Actually 'z' is the prefered letter according to the OED. It ws even used to solve an Inspector Morse case where the murdered English prof would never have used an 's' because they would know to use 'z' so you can't get much more British than that! It only became the fashion to use 's' in the latter half of the 20th century. So you can't really blame the Americans for that.
Posted Saturday 1st December 2007 15:43 GMT
The same code used by TPB was actually written for a Firefox extension for Oink. Pretty cool actually. The only difference I assume is that this is hosted server-side, not in the users browser, so presumably this could be blocked by last.fm if they wanted to?
Last.fm is great, but it would lose a lot of its standing if the new paymasters demanded tpb was barred.
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