Following a link from pozorvlak, I read a review of a public information film: Don't Copy That Floppy! As the name suggests, this film is trying to persuade people that software piracy is a Bad Thing. The review is quite funny, although I probably have more sympathy for the underlying message than most people who are watching it (as I've previously ( Read more... )

While I'm off work, I'm trying to clear my backlog of "LJ posts that I've been meaning to write for a while", so next on my list is piracy. Basically, I no longer have any dodgy copies of computer programs/songs/videos/e-books, and this is an attempt to explain why. I've discussed this with a few people in the past, and there's nothing really new ( Read more... )

I've been working fairly long hours lately, between my job and SJA, so tonight I had an evening off. That's partly because I needed to go to Tottenham Court Road in search of a wireless antenna (which none of the shops actually had), but anyway...

When I got back to Croydon, I stopped off at the cinema to watch "The 40 year old virgin", which I ( Read more... )

Looking at my "The Page You Made" link at Amazon after a recent order, it says "Customers who bought 'Writing Secure Code' also bought: 'Building Secure ASP.NET Application', 'Threat Modeling', 'Star Wars Trilogy DVD'" Demographics are a marvellous thing ( Read more... )

The past couple of days have gone pretty well ( Read more... )

After considering this for a while, I've decided to "go straight" in terms of music piracy. In practical terms, this means that I've freed up about 5 Gb of hard drive space, by deleting about 1350 files. I'll add a page to my website in due course, explaining my reasons in more detail, but in brief I'm leaning towards the "piracy is theft" point of ( Read more... )