Well the news yesterday that Eircom and 4 major record labels are on the attack against illegal Mp3 downloaders came a bit out of the blue tbh.
Basically its a 3-strikes/warnings and you get disconnected. This is going to cause such a storm and how eircom are going to police it will remain to be see. I stopped downloading Mp3’s at least 2 years ago and joined the I-Tunes bandwagon as much i hate I-Tunes at least now there are going “DRM-Free” so you can play your “legally purchased music” on other Mp3 Players.
From what ive read on various forums it seems folks are going to be using there neighbours un-secured Wifi connection to download Mp3’s which is probably gonna end up with innocent folks getting wanring letters and maybe even disconnected.
It looks like its going to be a free-for-all so if you have a WiFi (Wireless Net Connection) make sure its secured.
Some links on the story;
Torrentfreak.com
boards.ie
I recently installed the new Realtek audio Drivers for my Vista 64 installation only to notice that while i played Youtube videos there was a bit of slowdown during the videos.
Today i was searching my Music libaray and i realised that something was wrong, i didnt quite know at the time but then i remember that Current Operating system i was runing (ive got 3 setup) didnt have the “Coldplay” album i had bought from I-Tunes 5 months ago. After searching i found the album but of course the files i found where “.m4p” i.e they were “protected Mp4” music files so i couldnt have them in the Mp3 format.
“It cant be as bad as the last one?”, is something i always say to myself every new year. I just hate the “New Year’s” Celebrations, the older you get the more this seems to increase until you get to a point where you just wanna hide really until all the fuss is over.
I hate to single out one song in a whole year but since i heard this song a week a go in my sisters place in dublin along with that new “Girls Aloud” song theyve been in my head ever since. But the Killers song is just awesome and its like they made another “Mr Brightside” all over again. The song from there new album “Day & Night” is just awesome, 
Its over a month now since WOTLK launched and ive seen just about everything there is to bar the Raid Boss encounters and ive come to the conclusion that its just more of the same with a few new quests. Bare in mind that i play a lot of WoW and ive 8 level 70’s, yeah thats a bad sign of addiction i guess which ive beaten. But i just dont get the whole level 80 thing, i put a lot of time and effort into the last expansion TBC with my main warlock toon and my 7 alts and now im expected to do some of that all over again? Im sorry but its not good enough that Blizzard raise the bar again with another level cap and more quests and more gear. I dont want to do that all over again. I guess my problem is that i may have too many alts and i dont know what one to be my main or it could be that im just sick of the same crap Blizzard spew out each time.
Not being in love is one of the few things in life that ive not yet experienced. Sure ive had crushes on girls when i was in school but ive never been able to meet a girl and well fall in love. Being in love is easy, getting the other person to feel the same way is the hard part.
The pile of UK TV shows getting “Translated” to “US” is growing faster than ever it seems. Currently “Little Britain” is running in its “US” version which i can understand as the original is very “British” which of course is the point of the show. Ive seen a few episodes of the “US” version and its still got the same shocking disturbing comedy to it. Some of the characters are quite poor and not funny really the “Lady with the Dog” for one.