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Listed below are comments made by colonel_white between Thursday, 8th January 2009 and Friday, 17th April 2009.

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Pirate Bay beached but not sunk 11:25am on 17 Apr 2009 "One thing strikes me here - if the Pirate Bay has been found guilty of copyright infringement just for allowing third parties to use their servers to swap media, why are the IFPI and MPAA not going after the software makers such as BitTorrent? After all, if it wasn't for Torrent software, Pirate Bay wouldn't even exist?"

That's because you could legitimately say that BitTorrent could be used to distribute other file types, such as pictures or documents, that might NOT be subject to copyright.
Your stories of unemployment 7:47pm on 08 Jan 2009 I've been made redundant twice before over the last 15 years - once during the economic downturn of the early 90s, once during an outsourcing deal India - and I am likely to be made redundant again this year. Why? Because I one of the most experienced (and therefore one of the oldest) people at my firm, and because I am at the top of my promotion grade. The company I work for has a history of getting rid of its top earners during hard times and replacing them with inexperienced (but cheap!) graduates who they hope will "pick up the job" quickly.

To be honest, I would welcome it. The redundancy payoff would clear my mortgage, and I am confident I could find a contract quickly. Even if I didn't, I have redundancy insurance cover (which would pay the bills for a year). And, as I wouldn't have a mortgage, I could afford to take a lesser paid job. In many respects, the worst that could happen would be for my unappreciative company to keep me on!

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