On PirateBay [2Long4aTweet]

Vincent van Wylick — Sun, 09 May 2010 08:36:49 +0000

Introducing this ’2Long4aTweet’-tagged series on Tech IT Easy, which are a short sentence or paragraph (or two) that I want to express quickly but… can’t fit into a tweet.

Media’s pursuit of PirateBay is simply another example of ‘shooting the messenger.’ What message is PirateBay (and other grey solutions) delivering? It is right now quicker to get global (US) media-content via Bittorrent then it is to wait for a global (European/Asian/Canadian/etc.) release. Instead of wasting all this energy on what is simply an expression of THE PROBLEM, media-companies should work on THE SOLUTION, which is to STOP DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN COUNTRIES & start solving the legal obstacles that encourage it.

Living in a small Country reveals the inefficiency of businesses, of Industries, of Humans.

Vincent van Wylick — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:44:03 +0000

I feel like I’ve already complained enough about the state of mobile telephone on this blog, particularly where it relates to roaming across countries, which just plain sucks. It’s not just mobile telephony, of course, it’s also public transport, where you have to get special discount cards per country, while we live in a so-called united Europe.

You don’t notice this so much within large countries, like France, Germany, and the US, but you definitely notice it living in the tiny Duchy of Luxembourg. It is therefore an absolute must to a. negotiate higher wages when you start here, to compensate for those costs, and b. the lower taxes compared to the more socialist Netherlands are a nice bonus.

That said, THINGS MUST CHANGE !!! I feel, I cannot say this enough, but there is something very wrong if you go from an all-you-can-eat mobile internet contract for €27 – €50 per month, to paying something like €1 – €5 per MB of data as soon as you move 2 metres (6 feet) across the border!

I’m as against big corporations and government as the next guy, but in this case I favour more consolidation amongst mobile operators and public transport companies (even so, just because I have a T-mobile account in the Netherlands, doesn’t mean that I pay any decreased roaming fees in T-Mobile’s birth-country, Germany, no sir!).

Rather than consolidation, I am even more in favour of large networks infrastructures that are rented out at the same price to companies in different countries, which in turn act as nothing but a language interface for those services (at a minor surcharge). I think this is actually already happening, but the minor surcharge is really abused to the max. in most cases.

Whatever the case, Business-travel in Europe sucks (even more so globally, of course), and I feel that the only way to get around it now is to make more money (as if travelling was a luxury!?) or never travel at all, both of which are, to say the least, inefficient solutions to what should be a simple problem to solve. … as long as, of course, people of all nations get their heads out of their respective a##es (That’s right, I said a## on Tech IT Easy).

End rant,

Vincent
(Apologies for all the swearing. That’s really not like me.)

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On PirateBay [2Long4aTweet]

Living in a small Country reveals the inefficiency of businesses, of Industries, of Humans.