All It Takes is a Few Ukrainians

Well, well, the "masterminds" of a famous torrent site are just some greedy Ukrainian peasants. You know the type. They're like the Russian-Serbian-Croatian tourists who swagger through the airport, snap their fingers, spit when they talk, and speak with high-pitched whining and surly shrugs.

"Git me a keb! I go to hhhhh-otel now. Tell dat Hinglish beetch I vant sleep wit whore. I Serb! I heff munny! Do hass I seyyyy."

No big deal, eh? Shrug, shrug. Copyright? "Vat dat? I start vebsite make big munny. I buy honly da best WODKA! You want I work for leefing? Eh!"

As always, the criminals are portrayed as Robin Hoods Giving away copyrighted material makes them "heroes" and "beloved," and their own greed is written off as if they deserve to be millionaires. THIS prick is another Kim Dotcom. Don't send him to jail. He was doing it for "freedom of speech." We were all having FUN.

Yes, yes, he "goot man. Have growing sun. Like play da tinnis und di squish. Why dey peek on heem?"

One of the many disturbing factors here is how easily lone wolf assholes and a small wolf pack of idiots can create chaos. Think of Mark Chapman. Think of the Manson Family. All it takes is some fucking Vaulin prick and a few pals, or Assange, or a fat sobbing Dutch douchebag who wanted to be loved. Admired. Called the Ayatollah.

There's no honor even among thieves. The same immoral selfish fuckheads who make life difficult for copyright owners can just as easily make life miserable for fellow-crooks. ONE asshole can blow up a forum. At the moment, one of the more famous private torrents has been down for a week because they tossed out one argumentative prick and he retaliated with Denial-of-Service attacks. Insiders speculate that if he has the money to pay a hacker, he could keep the torrent site off-line for a long, long time.

So no matter what side of the free downloading phenomena you're on, or if you waver in the middle, you know all it takes is one, two or three fuckheads to wreck it all.

How fragile and delicate IS the fucking Internet?

Every day we're told to "go paperless," and use our credit and debit cards, and think Paypal is a pal and "Google is your friend." And how many of us have fallen for a spammer, got scammed, noticed a friend sending us weird e-mails because the account was taken over, or received news from a bank or a store; "Our information has been compromised..."

Meanwhile, all people can think of is when Kickass will come back, and if we've really seen the last of Kim Dotcom. People go to forums to discuss how to avoid paying for a TV license or Cable TV and where the illegal streams are, and how you can simply have GooTube and feast on all the music and movies you want.

Already people are screaming that Vaulin should be set freeeee. All he did was "freeeeedom of speeeech." Yeah. I hope the same people say that about the hacker who gets access to their social security number, or runs up a huge bill on the credit card that was on file at their favorite Internet store. Don't cry "Jail him for ever," say "Nice going, Dimitri. You people in Russia deserve it. That goes for you too, Nigerian Prince, My Nigga..."