As part of my hip young gunslinging lifestyle that I frequently fail to mention I'm an Oxford Brookes student, which among other things means that I get weekly e-mails from Oxford Brookes telling me things like "COMMERCIAL PLACEMENT OPPORTUNITY WITH BIG COMPANY FOR GRADUATES!","EARN £60 QUID A DAY BEING POKED BY NEEDLES!","NEW BUS TIMETABLES!". It's well educated spam delivered as regular as clockwork from the good administrators of Oxford Brookes. Whatever though, it's the first of these types of e-mails that concerns me now.
"2nd EMI Commercial Placement - CONTENT PROTECTION": This is both an exciting and incredibly challenging time for our Content Protection team who are working on a variety of initiatives to overcome and combat the problems associated with music downloading. Briefly, this includes: The development of solutions to deliver all music to relevant parties in a ‘protective’ and ‘effective’ manner. Yadda yadda yadda write reports on how people downloading music are evil yadda yadda. Why is this of any concern? Because under the job description later on it has the following bullet points:
Don't you wish you could be an Oxford Brookes Graduate so that you too could get a placement with EMI and spend a few hours a day trawling eBay for people selling on promotional CDs? And then e-mailing the promo department telling them who's being naughty and shouldn't be given promo CDs? Awesome job! How to clamp down on music piracy; the grasping at straws method.
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Benjamin
I wish Oxford sent out job applications like that... all I get is jobs in the City or other jobs that seek to rob you of your life as you know it.
Whereas this... sitting in front of a computer screen looking through eBay... it's like my dream job!
Nice Psalty link, I had some of "his" tapes when I was little. Quite amusing stuff.