BitTorrent Brings Evil Villain Back from the Dead
Written by enigmax on September 02, 2007When anti-piracy outfits describe BitTorrent users, very often they demonize them by labeling them as evil thieves who do nothing but bad. Their collective propaganda departments will blow a fuse when they discover that at least one user has downloaded material in order to bring an evil villain back to life.
Most BitTorrent users know what it’s like to be treated like 2nd-class citizens on the internet. If anti-p2p organizations had their way, everyone would believe that every user is a thief, dedicated to bringing the media companies to their knees with illegal downloads and decaying morals. If they aren’t closing down BitTorrent trackers around the world, they’re taking legal action against individuals to bully them away from their hobby and putting out triumphant press releases declaring that ‘good’ has triumphed over ‘evil’.
Most people in the file-sharing community know that BitTorrent users aren’t evil and people generally see through the propaganda. However, like it or not, sometimes the likes of the MPAA are right.
At least one BitTorrent user is bad and has used his client for pure evil.
Klaw is a character from the Fantastic Four comics who designed a device able to convert sound waves into physical objects. After many complex twists and plots, Klaw was transformed into a being made from ‘living sound’ and after further adventures that this writer can only dream about understanding, Klaw was attacked by Ms Marvel who absorbed his sound blasts causing ‘his form to lose cohesiveness’ and he was sucked inside his own weapon. Painful.
Now, in a turn of events likely to inspire further wild anti-piracy propaganda, the character Wizard from the comics has done the unthinkable. He fired up his BitTorrent client, downloaded some sound samples and used them to clone Klaw back to life. Marvel Comics discovered this nefarious BitTorrent use and has documented it in Fantastic Four Issue #549.
It’s not clear which samples he downloaded or if they were copyrighted or not but rest assured, should the MPAA or RIAA lawyers come knocking, Klaw should be able to deal with them.
Ironically enough (again), people are obtaining the comic - you guessed it - by downloading it from BitTorrent.
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You have got to be fucking kidding…what are they going to invent next?
ha ha ha funny stuff
“Cloned you, ironically enough from a sound sample I obtained on bittorrent.”
Too funny!just show how evil bittorrent is, haha.
Proud to be part of the evil community.
Something that evil could only be leeched from an Avril Lavigne song
Man pure evil
That’s fantastic! Anyone got the torrent so I can have my own super villian?
I’m a regular comic reader and get ALL my comics from torrents…. am I a villian…nay a super villain.?? YES!!!
LOL- I would NEVER buy the comics anyway, its only since I got the internet I read them again (Last comic I picked up was when I was 10) But if I lost the Internet 2morrow, I still wouldn’t buy them.
Rage: ROFL :D
Lol, I’m thinking it’s more a joke than trying to make bittorrent look bad. Just think of how many kids will now go out and wikipedia it to figure out what the hell it is.
Just the other day I torrented the source code of Satan’s very soul from Bittorrent. I plan to unleash it in to the water supplies of nearby cities.
I seed. I seed EVIL.
What is “ironic” about people downloading the comic from the net (I think you may be misusing the word in this context). In any case, after saying “BitTorrent users aren’t evil” - you indicate they are stealing the comic through bittorrent.
Sorry, again, isn’t stealing evil? Or are the morals different. Refusing to pay for someone else’s creative output (which has a listed price on the cover) seems like non-moral, evil, activity.
I tried to download this supervillain MP3 file. However, the torrent’s stuck at 63% with no seeds. Could someone please seed?
[quote] What is “ironic” about people downloading the comic from the net (I think you may be misusing the word in this context). In any case, after saying “BitTorrent users aren’t evil” - you indicate they are stealing the comic through bittorrent.
Sorry, again, isn’t stealing evil? Or are the morals different. Refusing to pay for someone else’s creative output (which has a listed price on the cover) seems like non-moral, evil, activity.
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Why do so many people have to come on this site and post their twisted definition of stealing? I always have to corrent them ;)
Stealing implies taking something away. Digital files are different then physical CDs, or any other physical object that you can steal. When you copy a digital file, no one looses anything (you might say that the artists loose money: No, they don’t, no money is taken away from anyone. They potentially don’t gain money, but that can be caused by anything; Someone walking by a theatre and not going in to it could have been a potential gain of profit if they had gone in, but it’s not a loss). When you take a CD, the previous owner is deprived of it.
Digital files are like ideas. You can copy them, but copying them deprive anyone of the ideas.
Copying is not stealing. Get over it ;D
Slight error;
“Digital files are like ideas. You can copy them, but copying them deprive anyone of the ideas.”
should be;
“Digital files are like ideas. You can copy them, but copying them doesn’t deprive anyone of the ideas.”
I bet it was a sample of the modem sound signing onto AOL…
what the fuck?
aside from the connotations of BT being evil, anyone else find it incredibly lame?
[quote comment="157673"]what the fuck?
aside from the connotations of BT being evil, anyone else find it incredibly lame?[/quote]
no
about time someone did something creative with all these crazy schemes the anti-piracy groups conger up…
Ahaha… hilarious ^^
I don’t understand why it was “ironic” that they cloned Klaw from bittorrented music downloads. Was Klaw, like, some sort of anti-piracy supervillain?
bittorrent is the shit. and if you think different, go jump off a cliff. :-)
I agree thats a really lame story line.
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That’s not the ironic part. The ironic part is the comic is trying to condemn the use of BitTorrent; and then the comic itself is downloaded by BitTorrent.
Kind of a virtual slap in the face, lol
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