Man am I glad to be home.  Work was awful today and I’m just glad that I don’t have to go back until Friday. Now onto the point of this post. I stopped at Gamestop on the way home from work today and got some new games. I got Pure for PS3, Line Rider 2 for DS (which  I’m probably going to give to my mom after I play it for a bit to see if it’s something she’d like for her DS) and I preordered Guitar Hero 4.

The minimum deposit for the whole band bundle was 25 bucks but I went ahead and paid for the whole thing. This Saturday night me and a buddy of mine are going to go out and pick it up at the midnight release and play it all night. What’s a bummer is that it comes with only 1 guitar yet you need 2 for a full band. I’ll have to hold off on that though. It does come with 1 wireless guitar, 1 wireless drumkit, 1 wired microphone and a set of drumsticks.

Something really cool is that the Guitar Hero instruments will work on Rock Band and vice versa so I can buy just the Rock Band game and use all my Guitar Hero stuff on it and it’ll all work fine. There’s some really good songs on Rock Band 2 that aren’t on Guitar Hero and since the instruments work cross platform, I can play them all without needing to buy 2 sets of instruments.

This weekend is going to rule.

Later,
Dave

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In its proposed state, the act could grant the government permission to seize all computers and compatible devices from a home if a single, pirated MP3 was discovered on one of the machines.

I’m all for stopping piracy; don’t get me wrong. I have nothing to hide and there is not a single pirated file on my hard drive. I fully believe that artists are entitled to compensation for their work. What worries me is how the government will be collecting the information which tells them who has illegal files.

Also, seizing your cell phone and PSP because they found (presumably through shady means) a single illegal file on your hard drive is absolutely ridiculous. The government is in no position to decide that you were going to violate the law and copy more MP3s just because you have devices which can play MP3s. They’re making unreasonable and unfounded assumptions, and it’s basically theft.

I didn’t see the government invading people’s privacy to stop my bike from getting stolen a few years ago. So why is it that they can violate my rights to protect the rights of these millionaire artists, when I myself have done nothing wrong?

Anyone who knows anything about the Internet knows how to avoid getting caught. All they’re going to do is end up busting the casual users who aren’t the root of the problem in the first place.