Jun 252009
From Billboard…
A Dutch entertainment industry group has demanded Swedish file-sharing site The Pirate Bay be shut down in the Netherlands and says Pirate Bay founders have been sent their court summons via Twitter and Facebook.
Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN said it used the social networking sites to deliver the court summons as it was unable to pinpoint the exact location of Pirate Bay founders Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg. A lawyer for BREIN said they are expected to appear in court in Amsterdam on July 21.
Kind of ironic isn’t it? Guys making money by running a site for people to steal music getting served on Twitter.
Woah! You can get served on Twitter!!!???
court in Amsterdam on July 21. …putting this one through an Occam’s Blender:
Question: What do Amsterdam Dutch have to do with lyrics and music?
DIALECTICULAR SONGS AMONG THE DUTCH
Oh, I am bound for Wisconsin, that’s right among the Dutch,
And as for conversation, it won’t be very much,
But by signs and by signals I’ll make them understand
That the spirit of good nature lies in this Irishman
For the most part, the Dutch of dialect songs are neither rapacious Prussians, nor pietistic Lutherans. Rather they are stout, good-natured, musical, hard-working, slow-witted, and frumpy folk, fond of beer, pretzels, sauerkraut, sausages, and small elongated dogs… In other words … TWITTERS !!
___________Also:
Drunk last night, drunk da night before,
Gonna get drunk tonight like I never got drunk before,
For when I’m drunk I’m as happy as I can be,
For I am a member of da Dutch Company.
Oh da Dutch Company is da best company
Dat ever came over from old Germany.
Dere’s da Amsterdam Dutch and da Rotterdam Dutch,
Da Potsdam Dutch, and da goddam Dutch,
Singing: Glorious, glorious, one keg of beer for da four of us.
Glory be dat dere are no more of us,
Cause da four of us can drink it all alone SOURCE]
Pribek posted something about the dialect humor of Midwest Radio shows before, somewhere and now I totally get it. Could a good serving on Twitter be the Dutch way of avenging two centuries of ‘der gutenschloggin and bittenbinder?’ I think so.