Irritated and amused by turns

[erastes]

I’ve just taken down yet another batch of illegal Erastes books from Astatalk.  The hosting sites were very helpful and very fast, and I’m grateful for their assistance.

However, I suggested this to them:

“Wouldn't it be better for you to demand proof that the person sharing the files have the right to do so, rather than the real copyright holders having to go through this time and again?”

This is something I would do if I set up a sharing site.  Ask people to say who they were, and to prove that they had the right to share the files, or owned the rights.  That way most of these bastards would be put off from uploading the stuff in the first place.  I suggest that when you contact the hosting sites yourself, you suggest this too. You never know.

True Blood is still rocking.  Best programme by far. I’m caught up on Burn Notice.  NEW SEASON PLEASE. I’m also watching “Moonlight” which is a L.A. based P.I. vampire. Well, goodness me, that’s original. Never been done before, that. No no. However looks like it fizzled out after season one, so not going to get too involved in that!!  What made me giggle was the description of one of the episodes.  “A murderer from Mick's past is released from prison, forcing Mick to deal with one of his worst fears -- his immorality being revealed to Beth.”

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Makes it a much more interesting show!

Further note on posting Twitter posts on Livejournal.  The really galling thing is that the people who do this, invariably are active Livejournal posters, so I get to hear their news twice. gah!

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Comments

[aunty_marion]

If you want to not read the Loudtwitter postings on LJ, there's a bit of code you can put into the CSS section of your customisation.

Just paste in:

.loudtwitter {
display: none!important
}

and you'll get an 'entry' with a header and whatever text ('Shipped by Loudtwitter' or whatever) they've selected, but none of the twitterings themselves.

I've only needed to do it on IJ, where people don't seem to cut-tag these entries.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. tried that, (and thanks) but it didn't work. :(

de-twitterisation...

[aunty_marion]

That's odd. It should work - did you try refreshing the f-list page after saving that code on the Custom CSS style-sheet page?

You need ALL that code, BTW - including the full-stop at the start. Oh, and I suppose if they're using something other than Loudtwitter you might need to copy/paste again with the other twitter service instead of the 'loudtwitter' bit?

[lusiology.livejournal.com]

I watched Moonlight last year and was sad when it fizzled out because it was a nice, gentle watch at the end of a hard day. And parts of it reminded me of H/D vamp fic. I stumbled onto Burn Notice and am enjoying it muchly.

I followed a link for icons of Eric and got completely spoiled. Did you know the actor was the oldest son of Stellan Skarsgaard?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I do, because I read his bio, but i have no clue who Stellan Skarsgaard is.

:)

[lusiology.livejournal.com]

He played the Saxon leader in the last film of King Arthur and was the blond chap in Mama Mia (with the boat), amongst other roles.

[fleurrochard]

This is something I would do if I set up a sharing site. Ask people to say who they were, and to prove that they had the right to share the files, or owned the rights. That way most of these bastards would be put off from uploading the stuff in the first place. I suggest that when you contact the hosting sites yourself, you suggest this too. You never know.

Depending on where the site owners are they then could run into the poroblem that copyright owners can sue them if there is stuff that violates copyrights. (At least it's apparently like that in the United States.) So I guess their lawyers would advise them not to do that.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, but surely theoretically we could do that anyway?

[fleurrochard]

Of course! It certainly can't hurt.

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

his immorality being revealed to Beth.”

Lucky Beth! I only hope his immortality gets a mention too, lol.

Oooh, Bluey has hatched!

[beckyblack]

Further note on posting Twitter posts on Livejournal. The really galling thing is that the people who do this, invariably are active Livejournal posters, so I get to hear their news twice. gah

There aren't many people on my flist who do this, thank goodness. I don't understand it. LJ is LJ, Twitter is Twitter, different beasts. I do sometimes say the same thing on LJ as I did on Twitter, but I'll generally expand a bit on it. And I don't post my Tweets on LJ. They're not that interesting!

Also, well Tweets are transient, that's part of the point. I won't go pages and pages back in Twitter, seeing what my Twitter friends were doing yesterday afternoon, or whatever. But LJ entries have more permanence.