Although my title is from a Depeche Mode album, the content of this article is a bit different.

I was watching some videos on YouTube today, because I wanted to find some good songs for my mother to buy from i-tunes for the i-phone. One of them was Bjork’s Army of me. Now, I could see the video but I could not hear anything and I noticed this message below the video: NOTICE This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by all copyright holders. The audio has been disabled.

I have to clarify that I have quite many cds and two collectible dvds with her best video clips, because I really like her. But I rarely use them to watch videos or listen to music on my pc. So, I use YouTube, to watch a video and then do whatever it was I was doing in the first place. So what is really the purpose of this “restriction”? You might tell me okay, you have those cds and stuff, but not everyone else does.

But how am I supposed to convince my mother, who lives in another country, and therefore I cannot give her my cds, that Bjork is really worth her money? I mean sharing music makes artists become known, does it not?

I have been using Irc for many years now. Most of the times for the fun in the main chat rooms. Some others I played with the stupidity of men in private chats. Rarely for some good general discussions. Like music, politics, racism, even history.

No. I don’t want to meet anyone through a chat even if they send me their photo. I have already met a lot of jerks in real life to be blond enough to meet guys from Irc too (I use the word blond cause there is a popular belief that blond girls have a lower IQ).

It is fun to see them try though. Sometimes with stupid arguments like that they are bussinessmen, that they have a Mercedes or a BMW car or a house with a view and swiming pool. Who cares? Others (the most fun to play with) try to impress by saying that they are hackers, smart, good-looking or both. They all argue that they are simply trying to find a woman through Irc because they do not have the time to go out. Seriously, do they think we buy that? They are naive if the think we are naive enough to pay any attention to what they are saying.