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The Bootlegger IQ Test


April 25, 2008 | Tags: none

WARNING: self incrimination ahead. This doesn’t happen often, so bask in my admittances.

For the most part, I’d like to think that I’m a fairly intelligent young woman. I can pass a test with little effort, I can remember obscure facts about obscure things, and I can hold mature conversation about a plethora of topics. I’d also like to think I have a good balance of street smarts, but ask around and that may be able to be debated. However, I also realize that I still have a lot to learn.

So, I learned something new the other day – I should never attempt to rob a bank/convenience store/random passerby. Shit, I can’t even steal music these days. I feel like certain file sharing sites are constantly testing me or something. Some sort of twisted IQ test that you have to pass to get what you want. I mean really, what the fuck is this shit:

I have 20/20 vision (no, seriously, I was just at the eye doctor a week ago and they told me so!) and these damn verification codes still manage to trip me out. Is this some sort of industry joke? Is this some Rapidshare plot to get people to pay for those premium accounts? I can’t call it, but this shit is getting old. Fast.

Let’s examine this for a second. As if it wasn’t hard enough to tell the difference between the letter “O” and a zero, they slant the numbers and letters, and hide the little cat and dog looking things behind the numbers and letters. You then have to examine the rear ends of the animal looking things to properly identify what pixilated species they are. Then, if they’re resting alongside a circular shaped character, you then have to decide if it’s a zero or an “O”. What the fuck, right?

When you take a test for school or something, if you fuck up the punishment is a lower grade. The reward for doing well is a good grade. In the case of the musical bootlegging, if you pass, you get your music. If you fail, you have to wait another  1.8 fucking minutes to retake the damn test! Sure, not as bad as if you fail your driver’s license test, but damn son! You rob a bank? You wanna get in and out. Quickly. Don’t leave time for things to get messy. Stealing music should be the same way!

…OK, maybe not. But you have to admit, this is frustrating.

The other issue I’ve been having lately is with zshare. I love it for the fact that I can preview a single track before downloading it, but the downside is that I normally am working on other things while I’m previewing the track. Sometimes I get so wrapped into what I’m doing that I forget that I left the zshare window open while I was waiting 30 seconds for the download link to appear. Go to click on it again? And your thirty second wait period is now null and void and you have to start over from scratch. Go through the damn ads again, go through the waiting period…and honestly, I give up sometimes. Sometimes the track just isn’t worth it. I may not be paying money for all of my music. But I sure am paying with time and brain cells. Oh, and of course my early onset carpal tunnel syndrome. I’m always getting one click closer to losing the feeling in my hand. Stealing? I think not*.

Thank goodness there are still good file sharing sites out there. I refuse to call them out by name though – it’s like the mom and pop pizza place around the way. Call it out by name, then the next day all the hipsters start blowing up the spot. Next thing you know they’re commercialized, overcrowded, and the prices are shooting up. Rapidshare can kiss my ass, though!

My apologies go out to anyone who is about to comment on this blog and has to enter a verification code. If I had any control over it, I’d find you some way around the obstacle. At least DX doesn’t make you find the hiding cats.

 

   

 

 

*The validity of this statement, in a similar manner to my level of common sense, could be debated.

 Sidenote: I hope some of you NYC dwelling heads have marked the Harlem premiere of “The Other Side of Hip Hop” on your calendars. Saturday, April 26th, 6pm. Be there.

DMV Heads: Tonight at George Washington University’s Mitchell Theatre (514 19th St. NW), you can catch a FREE Kev Brown, Kenn Starr and Oddissee show at 8pm. Get there early, max capacity is only 150 people.

Saturday is also the Immortal Technique / The Roots show @ Towson University's Tigerfest. Tickets are pretty cheap. Don't sleep like I did yesterday on the free Kidz in the Hall show. Shame on me.


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