Speaking of: I know piracy is a crime and I’m going to burn in hell, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, but this is the third film in a row that I’ve had issues with technically and I’m beginning to fall out of love with the idea of torrenting with reckless abandon. It’d be nice to jump into someone’s Netflix account someday.

Point of curiosity: the court ruling to block The Pirate Bay in this country (unprecedented as far as copyright law goes, and a testament to quite how in bed with major record labels and film studios the UK government really is) has created this weird, many-headed hydra that refuses to die. Earlier this month, there was a second block of tpb.piraten.lu; within minutes, the still-unblocked pirateproxy.net sprang into life.

Piracy is still something that keeps me curious - I think there are avenues where it promotes creative growth, and others where it damages it, and those who have firm pro- or anti- stances around it regardless of context generally don’t know what they’re talking about. But this is interesting, if only as a study of how the law is woefully equipped when it comes to dealing with the internet.