Noise and Multiplication

As a future woman in technology, I want so much more for you than I can articulate. Hopefully, things will have seen some change when you are ready to make this world your own. If that is not the case, here is what I wish for you, for every young woman, and for this industry.

We can all work to make the future of tech (and everything) that way.

“We are outraged by this behavior. People must understand what is right and wrong. Stealing material like this on the internet is a threat to economies worldwide,” a Pirate Bay spokesman told TorrentFreak.

“We feel that we must make a statement and therefore we will sue them for copyright infringement,” the spokesman adds.

I guess copyright infringement is different when they do it.

Recently I did an interview, an excerpt of which you can find here, with Hitman Absolution director Tore Blystad. If you haven’t been keeping up with the franchise, a recent trailer for the game got the internet up in arms, as it depicted sexy dominatrix nuns being violently dispatched by the protagonist Agent 47. Blystad is a nice, well-meaning man that simply doesn’t understand why anyone is mad about the trailer for his game. This is actually a very large part of the problem. 

Blystad isn’t sure why this trailer in particular upset people, when he feels this is the way the series has always presented itself. When I asked him why these ladies were in dominatrix gear, and why they had to remove their nun costumes before coming to kill Agent 47, he said the ladies are “dressing as something less conspicuous, getting up to their mark, and revealing their true colors.” 

He does not realize that giving these women dominatrix outfits as their “true colors” is the problem. 

Ugh. Very good article, but depressing.