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When you write someone an email, it's possible
to add a subject to the mail. If the recipient
decides to reply, usually an email program will
add "Re:" to the subject line.
When you have an email in your in-box that says
"Re: pirate rastas", it means that
someone is responding to an email that originally
had the subject "Pirate Rastas".
I got an email that had "Re: pirate
rastas" as the topic. The fact that I
couldn't remember to have written an email with
that topic as well as the name of the sender, drew
my interest.
The email informed me, that the Dubroom contact
pages were not working. Still, the sender somehow
knew my email address and he wasn't responding to
an email I had send him.
The email turned out to be written by the
producer of the video "Rent A Rasta".
The video was reviewed in September 2007 and
recently, some very interesting background
information about the documentary surfaced on the
Dubroom Message boards that added, let's say,
extra dimensions to the whole thing and not very
positively.
The guy wrote me to remove a page from the
Dubroom website, claiming that it linked to a
"pirated copy" of the video. Since the
video was uploaded to Google
Video, I wrote him back that if he
thinks the video should not be on the Google Video
servers, he should write to them.
This is where he became kind of nasty.
He wrote me back and more or less announced,
after calling Google a "typical Babylonian
corporation", how he would start to spread a rumor
that the video was actually uploaded by the
Dubroom or at least in cooperation with the
Dubroom.
Strange...
I wondered why he would do such a thing. Would
he be writing this to all the websites that may
have his video embedded? After all, it's simple.
If he thinks the video shouldn't be on Google
Video, he should write to Google and not to
websites that have the video embedded. If there's
truly a mention of a "pirated copy",
then Google will take it off and the websites that
have the video embedded will not "link to a
pirated copy" anymore either.
I wondered if it had anything to do with the
things that came to the surface on the Dubroom
Messageboards after the review was written. A
positive review, by the way, for which the
producer of the reviewed material had no interest
whatsoever.
It was all about money, so it seemed. Even
spreading false rumors was apparently allowed in
that cause!
This was exactly the same vibe we got from the
information that surfaced on the Dubroom Message
Boards.
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