
Check with. The place I live (I'm renting a flat in the center of Bergen), has got this hopelessly open wifi network, nobody administers it and every day someone just resets the router because I'm sure everyone in the local neighbourhood knows about it and uses it. As long as it works ok for me I don't mind.
So tonight I come home, and there are two new computers in my Finder sidebar, Feinschmecker and Mint. Well hello there, don't be a stranger. Of course I check them out, hey Mint's got a shared Music folder. Organized by letter. Naturally I check out U first, and indeed, not only Resound and Cinematronics, but also a bunch of independent Ugress tracks from ages ago! Wow, 'spect, neighbour!
I'm now copying the Ugress folder to myself. Is this pirating? I mean, it's my music, but I'm copying it from someone I don't know. By definition I'm pirating. I have not paid for that exact copy of the music. Will the RIAA sue me? I'm sure they'd find a way to. But I already own... I TOTALLY PWN, this music. Yet what I'm doing right now is illegal. It isn't right. See how this is a division-by-zero minefield?
Anyway, what kind of person is behind Mint? Let's see, what else is there... Oooh, a folder named "Audiobooks". Let's check it out.

The person is a genius! Lot's of physics and science subjects. Brilliant! There you have it, my neighbours are very smart academic intelligent people, and they got wonderful music taste too. They listen to thermodynamic lessons one minute, and cinematic beats next.
Oh crap, I hope this is not the guitar guy living below me playing insanely crappy Chris Isaak licks at 4 AM in the morning.




