Party Time: Illegally Downloading Windows 7
When I started blogging I sort of decided not to just be yet another linking blog (YALB). You know the kind of blogs I mean; ones that don’t have any original content and just link over to other sites that do have interesting stuff. Not that such blogs are a bad idea, or that there is anything wrong with them. I go to at least a dozen such blogs every day. But I figure that there are enough of these YALBs and the Web does not really need anymore.
So, having said that, I just came across a really funny video at a site and I feel the need to share it. Here is the link to the entry that made me laugh: http://www.funnyordie.co.uk/videos/ef83afc272/hosting-your-windows-7-torrenting-party
This link takes you to a two minute video called “Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrenting Party”.
In this video you have your politically correct group of people preparing for a ‘so called’ Windows 7 Torrenting Party. There is the token black person who is obviously the sharp IT manager at a leading law firm (well, that’s how I read him anyway), the young upwardly mobile (marginally overweight) dude complete with glasses, a smart well presented young IT savvy woman (probably representative of a switched on journalist from the New York Times), and an older person who has discovered computers and the Internet and is ‘totally’ getting into it. They are joined, near the end, by your representative annoying drunkard. This is an excellent catch by the producers as many Microsoft video presentations tend to overlook this wide and growing socio-economic group (drunkards) when planning their promotional programmes.
Just in case anyone gets the wrong idea here, this video is a comedy spoof. Nobody is actually suggesting that you or anyone should go searching the torrent feeder sites for downloadable cracked copies of Windows 7. Also, Adobe Photoshop CS5, which it is mentioned was the focus of a previous torrenting party, does not exist yet. If you want or need Windows 7 for testing, play, or evaluation there are far better legal ways to obtain a license than downloading a torrent. And if you need it for serious home or business use then purchase an upgrade to your Windows XP or Windows Vista license.
Having got that out of the way, this video is obviously aimed at the recent Microsoft campaign to get regular people to set up and host world-wide Windows 7 Launch parties. As readers of this journal will be aware, I was one of those who tried to get a ticket for such a party (link to trying to get a party, link to failing to get a party).
Many of the things they say will ring true with anyone who has tried using torrents. Like waiting 15 hours to get down Star Trek 7 only to find you have downloaded the Spanish version. Dammit. Grrrrrrr.
Anyway, I hope you find this funny. If you have no idea what torrenting is then you probably won’t.
Barry.