Saturday, June 6, 2009

Things They Like #18: Respect for People They've Never Met

There are people who watch TV for free on the internet, and there are unpopular girls.

Unpopular girls feel an innate responsibility to not only refrain from reporting the people who upload copyright-infringing content, but to join their ranks. Unpopular girls will spend hours conducting google searches, copying embed codes, and copy-editing episode descriptions for their favorite shows from the late nineties or early aughts that no one else decided to stream before.



"Hey," they'll post on websites like Sidereel, "all the megavideo links for 204 are invalid, can a mod please delete them?"

Unpopular girls would almost even forego a DVD-commentary track watching opportunity, just for the chance to see a page of episode links and pridefully think they they created that TV show page, and added those links to copyrighted content that they uploaded via torrents it took a long, hard two days to download.

And you wondered why they never fulfilled their high school community service requirement.

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