From Popular Mechanics v.188 No. 10 (October 2011)
I can't find it at their site, but the magazine is widely available for reference:
The Accidental Pirate
My family and I don't illegally download movies or music (as far as I know, at least). We do, however, use a ton of bandwidth - Netflix, gaming, music streaming, etc. I read that Internet service providers are cracking down on downloaders and pirates. Does that change anything for us?
Unless your kids are sneakily downloading movies on BitTorrent, then, no, the new Copyright Alert anticipatory system shouldn't affect you. The standardized warning system, designed by ISPs and the Center for Copyright Information - a coalition of film, music and TV companies - is targeted at people who actively share content illegally.
The new system works like this: A content owner notifies an ISP that one of its users is hosting illegal material on BitTorrent or a similar service; the ISP warns said pirate that he's been caught; if the pirate doesn't cease and desist, the ISP throttles his connection to 56K modem speeds until he does.
I'm just sayin' you guys, if everyone's been gettin' away with it it's only because technology needed time to catch up with crime. If you're all about makin' money (and you say that's what sets you apart from people who are all about makin' trouble), don't you wanna do the best you can to keep enough of it to enjoy the time and effort it took to make it? You can probably make a beat that you'd own (and could then also sell), or if you can't then don't discount your friends' abilities; put them to work, keep 'em all busy doin' somethin' you can all enjoy until your ripe old age, even if only because it's a chance to hang out with your best, oldest friends from time to time. (Or you could be, ya know, RUSH, or Pink Floyd, or Styx, if ya don't die between now and then or piss off everyone who wants to see you succeed. Those guys are old, yeah, but they're havin' a great time, and makin' a nice living doin' what they love. Still, it's a career, which means a job, which means there's work involved and whether you like it or not that work will be proportional to the pay you receive, because even when you have 'people' to do your 'thangs', you'll need to manage those people. Check the Diddy version of The Apprentice. He's where you want to be (whether you like what he does or not, if you don't give him props for his success then you are incapable of even approaching the same level thereof 'cause you's a blessed foo', mo-fo), he runs an empire, and he's a busy, busy guy. Yeah, he's havin' a lotta fun, but he's always workin', always aware of the business of the moment. That's what makes him a superstar.) Everybody who 'is' someone was once 'just' someone, and one or two of those people you think you're just fuckin' around with 'cause they're 'just your buds' might, together with your talents, create something legendary, you never know about that. Or you might have a brilliant solo career, but not without people in your life who genuinely care about your well-being, not to mention the need for a fair number of adoring fans (who may also care about your well-being, but don't actually know you), and those people will fall away and fall away if you don't care about theirs (even your fans'). If it's always about the 'next best friend' who's gonna be there that can and will stick when the shit hits the fan? And it will, if you start your career in an unstable way. Even when he was young, I'm bettin' Diddy knew the difference between gold and pyrite.
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