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Firefox add-on - MAFIAAFire now adds "PirateBay Danciing" - quick review

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IainB:
A clever Firefox add-on - it always seemed to me that MAFIAAFire Redirector was an intelligent response to the corporate psychopathic (QED) dinosaurs' efforts to impose their outmoded business model on us all by limiting freedom on the Internet.
This seems to me like just another form of Fascism, and it is fortunate that Mozilla have reputedly refused to be coerced by the RIAA/DHS to take down the add-on.

The "sister" add-on MAFIAAFIRE: Gee! No evil! is clever too. I intensely dislike that Google were apparently obliged by the likes of the RIAA/DHS to discriminate against any terms I might put in my search bar - e.g., "torrent" - by filtering/blocking it.

Now I see that the MAFIAAFire people have introduced the brilliantly simple add-on ThePirateBay Dancing!:

* See ThePirateBay Dancing! FAQ
* See article: ‘The Pirate Bay Dancing’ Add-On Killls DNS and IP Blockades
* See YouTube video (use headphones, but take care - use  with volume down a bit): ThePirateBay Dancing!
I don't think I have ever used PirateBay (at least, not as far as I am aware) or torrents, but I wholeheartedly support the concept of freedom on the Internet - said freedom seems to be getting progressively eroded by corporations in cahoots with government. But not yet the Swiss government, it seems.

For an amusing music artiste's take on this, if you haven't already done so, then you could always download Weird Al Yankovic's "Don't Download This Song" mp3 from his website. There's a YouTube version as well, I gather. It was released in 2006. I think I downloaded it in 2009. My daughter Lily likes it and thinks it is funny too.

app103:
And then there is the lovely RIAA Radar to help you avoid purchasing any music produced by any label that is a member of the RIAA. No extensions or plugins needed, works in any browser. Just pop in an artist, album, or label name into the search box and it will tell you what is safe to buy and what is not. Good for if you really care where your money is going.

But if you want to make it even easier, there is a greasemonkey script available that will put the status right on albums at amazon.com.

Firefox add-on - MAFIAAFire now adds "PirateBay Danciing" - quick review

Just install the 2nd one listed here (first one is a dud): http://www.riaaradar.com/help.asp#greasemonkey

IainB:
Thankyou, @app103!        :Thmbsup:
I was downloading some single tracks (mp3s) of music for my daughter Lily a while back and wishing I had something like this.

That's just one more good thing about this forum - there are a bunch of knowledgeable people about who often have useful/helpful tips like this, sometimes exactly what you were seeking an answer to.
Now I can vote with my feet and my wallet as well as my PC.

app103:
I also have a Sherlock search plugin for Firefox that I made for RIAA Radar years ago, but you have to manually install it by dropping the files in the correct folder (and I can't remember which folder that would be). Never made a way to install it from the web, but when I finally get around to rewriting my site, I probably will (and add some of my other search plugins, too).

http://appsapps.info/mozillasearch.php

JavaJones:
But if you want to make it even easier, there is a greasemonkey script available that will put the status right on albums at amazon.com.
-app103 (December 02, 2011, 08:52 PM)
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Now that is damn cool! Thanks App. :)

- Oshyan

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