Well, back in the early 90′s, it wasn’t Superman or Batman that protected classics like Monkey Island and Wing Commander 2. No, it was a bad-ass rapper, come super-hero that the really reached out to the kids. 

In this ‘caught on camera’ expose, witness the mighty ‘Double Def’ preventing two innocent kids from taking their first steps into a life of crime:

If the Internet-Police had such speedy countermeasures today, we could all rest easy!

Little is known of what happened to the MC, however it is rumoured that he was accidentally deleted in the late 90′s, whilst trying to stop a kid from copying Quake…for shame…he wasn’t just def…he was DOUBLE def!

Ken Eakins

BoingBoing has reported a new twist in the fight against Internet music piracy:

I was just alerted that the House of Reps has passed HR 4279, with the lovely name, PRO-IP (Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008). Like the doublespeak PATRIOT Act and Peacekeeper missiles, PRO-IP puts local law enforcement in a position to demand the forfeiture in criminal proceedings of stuff used to violate copyright. Which means that instead of the RIAA simply trying to collect fines, they can also incite local authorities to collect all the computers and related gear that was used to pirate.

This sounds, to me at least, like yet another example of governments failing to properly address the issue of music piracy, and instead of helping to find a happy medium between the end users (listeners of music) and producers (record companies), inflict horrible new Orwelian laws which, in my experience (see Anonymous) will only provoke downloaders, hackers and pirates further.

On a brighter note, our interview with Trey Spruance has begun to provoke an interesting, and more productive, discussion on how music could be handled in the light of piracy, check this link to join the discussion.

I think that is a subject we’ll be covering more in the future. 

We return with the second part of our interview with Trey Spruance of the Secret Chiefs 3 and ASVA. This week we discuss running Mimicry Records, Mysticism, Internet Piracy and Weird Little Boy. Massive thanks again to Trey for doing the interview!

Background songs taken from Book M and Book of Horizons.

Included songs – Secret Chiefs – Hypostasis of the Archons – Book of Horizons (Mimicry Records), Secret Chiefs 3 – Emir of the Bees – First Grand Constitution and Bylaws (Mimicry Records)