my first real post
Tuesday has rolled around and as usual I was at work, thankful that I got to stack the freezer with the stock that had just arrived. You wouldn’t call IGA the hardest place to work at, especially when the hardest task is probably having to face the heat upstairs to bring boxes downstairs. Anyway, my point is I get a lot of time to think while working, and today I thought about what this first real post should be about. Without further ado, here it is.
Before you read this article, I warn you: have a bucket nearby your computer because when you read this there is a good chance of projectile vomiting from sheer disgust.
Congressional ethics report leaked onto the internet. Cue shitstorm
tl;dr (too long;didn’t read) a Congressional Ethics investigation was leaked accidentally onto the internet by an employee. The employee was allowed to work on the file from home on a computer that happened to have P2P software installed on it (i.e. Limewire). The employee claims that he/she didn’t know how P2P worked, and so was oblivious to the fact that people started downloading the document to their own computers. The report summarised confidential ongoing investigations relating to 33 members of Congress and some Congressional staff. The employee involved was fired but a few questions remain.
Who is to blame in all this?
To sane people (me), it would be the guy with the extra chromosome who didn’t realise that P2P is fucking retarded in the first place, especially if you have no clue about how to properly use the programs.
However, to the usual band of misfits that enjoy jumping on any excuse to urge Congresss to pass laws and pretty much present P2P as a national security threat are at it again. Those folks may be going a bit far in saying that this could be NSA related, but it does have a slither of substance to it - the Ethics chairwomen said in a statement about the issue that this was an “isolated incident” - you would like people to think that wouldn’t you? Oh, did I forget to mention who these people are?
You may know of the MPAA and/or the RIAA. Yes, these guys again. They are trying (note trying) to say that the P2P is to blame in this. Sure, the staffer put the file on his computer but it wasn’t his fault that people saw it when browsing the network and decided to download it!
FUCK
This is clearly the type of shit that the world does not need. Lets forget the fact that P2P is illegal, and just focus on the employee who has a severe case of down syndrome. The leak is entirely his fault and what do the people in charge blame most? People downloading the file from his shared network. There is no justice in the world for stupidity.
