Ouch ! Piracy hurts !!

This post was first published on 2nd October 2006 at 06:51 PM on my previous blog

Today, just a little while ago, I got a taste of what it is like to be standing on the other side of the priracy divide. Sniff... So there I was, logging on today after a day of activities in the 'real world' and I decided to check up on my email (Now the percentage of useful mail that anyone gets in a single day is always negligible but we check it religiously anyway). Got a couple of useless spam crap mails and a couple of forwards from an old old friend of mine. Deleted the spam and clicked on the first forward (almost mechanically) and hmmm... something about being a better Muslim and all... read through it... next... AND WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS ?!?!?! WHOA ! HOLD THE PHONE... HOLD THE PHONEEEEEE !!!!!

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I recognised what was written right away ! 'I' had written it ! A looooong time ago but had only decided to post it on my blog a few days ago ! It was all me ! So i scrolled up and down... no... NO... NO CREDIT ! I check the mailing list... its been forwarded to all contacts.... ALL CONTACTS !!

:'-/ All contacts from Orkut... thats like sending it free across the planet ! And without even a simple acknowledgement ! The blog was 'Un-Official Road Rules and Laws of Delhi'. Also, Delhi had been changed to India to make it relevent to everyone. I promtly mailed a protest to my friend but I guess the damage has been done. Its 'out there' now... in the public domain !

So... this is it... this is what it feels like. Maaaaannnnn... Piracy blows... The worst part is that I was going to send that blog to this publication and now... Damn disappointed.

Hmmm.. but can't even blame my friend. Bet he didn't really think about what he was doing. I knew him for a long time and am pretty sure he meant no harm. I only wish people are more careful. What makes us think that we can just take anything off the Internet and its ok ? We all do it all the time. Only this time I am at the 'other' end of the stick !