Demonoid: Not The First, Not The Last

You know, lately, everyone thinks the world is ending, everything is getting worse, blah blah blah. There’s much negativity in our thought processes recently. I see it everyday on Facebook – people just blowing each other away, lashing out like mad dogs at anything and everything. I, myself, am a compatriot of this problem. We’re so quick to bash everything nowadays – celebs, fashion, social networking. It really does seem quite … disheartening; at times. But I say, the more we fan the flames, the bigger people we don’t really like are going to get, which most people do not seem to understand. If you want something to go away, stop talking about it. Simple as that. The more we pay attention to these people or ideas that do not matter, the more they will come back to haunt us. Now I’m not saying that we should totally ignore some crazy leader in a different country threatening us — I’m saying ignore celebrities if you don’t like them. I understand, today, they are being shoved down our throats more and more and it’s very frustrating at times (especially when you have kids or are older and understand the meaning behind the meaning).

Moving on, in the same respect, we can relate this to the file sharing site Demonoid that was taken down, albeit abruptly. There is much discord today, and I believe that the politicians that currently govern our laws and way of life are very out of touch with our modern technology. Now, please don’t take that as me bashing them. (Although, there’s many reasons to – we’ll try to stick to the issue at hand here). These guys don’t understand that some of us need to hear the new Kesha CD – and not pay for it. Although, really, when you think about it, the same songs are really plugged over and over our radio stations daily – recycled plastic thoughts for an extremely fragile economy and government. Albert Einstein once said that “insanity is the act of repeating the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Now, some of us already do that – maybe we’re insane. I’m not a psychologist; just a modern day 21st century blogger with a digital soapbox.

It seems to me, at this point, something drastically needs to change. Limewire was a great way to get file sharing more … mainstream. (I know many people that paid for the services); and, adversely, they shut down the servers, and killed it – and didn’t refund anybody. I think that was probably the best collaboration we could have possibly had; before it was destroyed totally. Now I’m not defending piracy, either. I’ve rarely used it (I don’t listen to much but metal bands anyways; so it’s not like I’m ripping the new Katy Perry CD or anything faux paus).

And, I would like to remind all you negative nancies out there….let’s not forget grandpa Napster; the original P2P network file sharing network (at least for my generation). Most people had no idea, back then, what “P2P” even meant (and most still don’t). Everyone swore it was the end of everything; including piracy. But I think, what these companies – mainly the RIAA and the MPAA, are not clearly understanding; they are only creating a bigger problem by ‘whacking the mole’ as I like to think of it. It’s like the old story of the young man who keeps trying to plug the holes in a dam; but more keep springing up – piracy will never totally be diluted (unless we’re all given government mandated IP addresses; in which case, you might as well move to China – lol).

So, I know I didn’t have a ‘totally’ clear path here, and I’m pretty foggy feeling (lack of sleep is killing me lately) but I wanted to touch base with this site, hats off to us; I feel like we’re doing the general populace a great favor by speaking our minds and tell you guys….gals…everyone….it’s going to get better – we just have to let it; and stop letting all this self-doubt and judgement cloud our decision making as well as our ability to rationally and logically come to terms and stop being so negative! The downfall of Demonoid, the rise of Justin Bieber and the continuous walking atrocity American Idol are not going to destroy all humankind – but ignoring the real issues WILL (and we’ll touch base on those the next time I have time to sit down and actually write something / form a real thought).

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