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BitTorrent vs the Supreme Court of Victoria

Stilgherrian — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:42:24 +0000

Last night Channel Nine screened the crime drama Underbelly everywhere across Australia — except Victoria, where it was banned following a Supreme Court order. But thanks to the joys of BitTorrent, thousands of people have already downloaded it from the Internet. The law cannot cope in this new era.

As the screenshot shows, Underbelly was online within two hours of broadcast. By mid-morning today, 6500+ people had downloaded it from Mininova alone.

As with the Corey Delaney episode before it, this highlights the stupidity of the law in the bold new age of the Internet. I have no complaint with Justice Betty King’s decision. She’s just upholding the law as it stands. The law, alas, is hopelessly inadequate.

Who, I wonder, has this kind of law reform on their agenda. Anyone?

Bonus links:

My article for Crikey today: A torrent of interest in downloading Underbelly
Mark Pesce’s presentation Unevenly Distributed: Production Models for the 21st Century, which includes a detailed discussion of how new distribution models like BitTorrent will change TV forever.

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Corey Delaney’s Other Party

Stilgherrian — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:43:44 +0000

Hugh Atkin, the man behind the excellent Chairman Rudd propaganda videos [1, 2], has retrieved an interview from the future, when Brendan Nelson is replaced as leader of the Liberals. Hat-tip to various people, including Peter Black. (I know, a few weeks old but still very amusing.)

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Corey goes international

Stilgherrian — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:52:30 +0000

In the names of all the Gods, how could I have possibly missed the news two days ago that Corey Worthington Delaney is kicking off a three-city rave which will hit Sydney next month, followed by a tour of seaside spots in England in June, including Blackpool, Bournemouth and Torquay? Where can I get tickets?

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Heath Ledger dominates Top 100 search phrases

Stilgherrian — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:11:49 +0000

Further to my last post about The Heath Ledger Experiment, it’s interesting to note that of the Top 100 search terms which brought traffic here, 27 are Heath Ledger-related. 28 if you count “drug overdose joke”.

That compares with 33 related to Corey Worthington Delaney and 2 to Steve Irwin.

In total there are 1773 different search phrases so far this month. Here’s the full Top 100.

search phrase views % of searches

heath ledger jokes 2286 30.8 %

corey delaney 544 7.3 %

heath ledger dead jokes 335 4.5 %

heath ledger joke 219 2.9 %

heath ledger 175 2.3 %

heath ledger death jokes 142 1.9 %

jokes about heath ledger 140 1.8 %

steve irwin jokes 98 1.3 %

stilgherrian 98 1.3 %

corey worthington delaney 94 1.2 %

corey delaney naked 79 1 %

corey delaney child porn 55 0.7 %

heath ledger dead joke 55 0.7 %

www.vodaphone.com.au 45 0.6 %

ledger jokes 34 0.4 %

heath leger jokes 28 0.3 %

corey worthington 28 0.3 %

corey delaney myspace 28 0.3 %

personal 23 0.3 %

vodaphone.com.au 22 0.2 %

corey delaney pornography 22 0.2 %

jokes heath ledger 22 0.2 %

corey worthington child porn 21 0.2 %

heath ledger jokes death 19 0.2 %

dead heath ledger jokes 18 0.2 %

corey delaney t-shirts 18 0.2 %

corey delaney child pornography 17 0.2 %

heath ledger jokes dead 16 0.2 %

used knickers 16 0.2 %

jokes about the death of heath ledger 16 0.2 %

corey delaney quotes 15 0.2 %

business 15 0.2 %

heath ledger tasteless jokes 13 0.1 %

corey delaney worthington 13 0.1 %

child porn 12 0.1 %

corey delaney porn 12 0.1 %

tasteless heath ledger jokes 12 0.1 %

corey delaney website 12 0.1 %

corey worthington porn 12 0.1 %

corey delaney shirt 11 0.1 %

corey worthington child pornography 10 0.1 %

corey delaney party 10 0.1 %

heath ledger death joke 10 0.1 %

jokes about heath ledger s death 10 0.1 %

howard 10 0.1 %

heath ledger joke dead 10 0.1 %

heath ledger is dead jokes 10 0.1 %

steve irwin joke 9 0.1 %

cory delaney 9 0.1 %

drug overdose jokes 9 0.1 %

heath ledger and jokes 9 0.1 %

false 9 0.1 %

jokes on heath ledger 9 0.1 %

heather ledger 8 0.1 %

paul neil milne johnstone 8 0.1 %

corey delaney jokes 8 0.1 %

corey worthington shirts 8 0.1 %

stilgherrian.com 8 0.1 %

corey delaney shirts 7 0 %

enmore 7 0 %

corey worthington naked 7 0 %

daylight 7 0 %

supernaut 7 0 %

corey delaney video 7 0 %

space 7 0 %

samanta fox 7 0 %

corey delaney photo 7 0 %

leila mckinnon corey 6 0 %

corey delaney cartoon 6 0 %

heather ledger jokes 6 0 %

natasha 6 0 %

fruit carving 6 0 %

corey worthington arrested 6 0 %

corey t shirts 6 0 %

sam connell 6 0 %

steve 6 0 %

flickr 6 0 %

steve irwin death jokes 6 0 %

corey t-shirts 6 0 %

lolcat 6 0 %

bernadette mcmenamin 6 0 %

thai brothel 6 0 %

heath ledger jokes tasteless 6 0 %

ledger joke 6 0 %

samantha fox 6 0 %

gay navy sex 6 0 %

heather ledge 6 0 %

www.vodaphone.com 5 0 %

stilgherrian.com/personal/prussia_net_vs_skank_media/ new prussia 5 0 %

heath ledger overdose jokes 5 0 %

search phrase	views	% of searches
heath ledger jokes	2286	30.8 %
corey delaney	544	7.3 %
heath ledger dead jokes	335	4.5 %
heath ledger joke	219	2.9 %
heath ledger	175	2.3 %
heath ledger death jokes	142	1.9 %
jokes about heath ledger	140	1.8 %
steve irwin jokes	98	1.3 %
stilgherrian	98	1.3 %
corey worthington delaney	94	1.2 %
corey delaney naked	79	1 %
corey delaney child porn	55	0.7 %
heath ledger dead joke	55	0.7 %
www.vodaphone.com.au	45	0.6 %
ledger jokes	34	0.4 %
heath leger jokes	28	0.3 %
corey worthington	28	0.3 %
corey delaney myspace	28	0.3 %
personal	23	0.3 %
vodaphone.com.au	22	0.2 %
corey delaney pornography	22	0.2 %
jokes heath ledger	22	0.2 %
corey worthington child porn	21	0.2 %
heath ledger jokes death	19	0.2 %
dead heath ledger jokes	18	0.2 %
corey delaney t-shirts	18	0.2 %
corey delaney child pornography	17	0.2 %
heath ledger jokes dead	16	0.2 %
used knickers	16	0.2 %
jokes about the death of heath ledger	16	0.2 %
corey delaney quotes	15	0.2 %
business	15	0.2 %
heath ledger tasteless jokes	13	0.1 %
corey delaney worthington	13	0.1 %
child porn	12	0.1 %
corey delaney porn	12	0.1 %
tasteless heath ledger jokes	12	0.1 %
corey delaney website	12	0.1 %
corey worthington porn	12	0.1 %
corey delaney shirt	11	0.1 %
corey worthington child pornography	10	0.1 %
corey delaney party	10	0.1 %
heath ledger death joke	10	0.1 %
jokes about heath ledger s death	10	0.1 %
howard	10	0.1 %
heath ledger joke dead	10	0.1 %
heath ledger is dead jokes	10	0.1 %
steve irwin joke	9	0.1 %
cory delaney	9	0.1 %
drug overdose jokes	9	0.1 %
heath ledger and jokes	9	0.1 %
false	9	0.1 %
jokes on heath ledger	9	0.1 %
heather ledger	8	0.1 %
paul neil milne johnstone	8	0.1 %
corey delaney jokes	8	0.1 %
corey worthington shirts	8	0.1 %
stilgherrian.com	8	0.1 %
corey delaney shirts	7	0 %
enmore	7	0 %
corey worthington naked	7	0 %
daylight	7	0 %
supernaut	7	0 %
corey delaney video	7	0 %
space	7	0 %
samanta fox	7	0 %
corey delaney photo	7	0 %
leila mckinnon corey	6	0 %
corey delaney cartoon	6	0 %
heather ledger jokes	6	0 %
natasha	6	0 %
fruit carving	6	0 %
corey worthington arrested	6	0 %
corey t shirts	6	0 %
sam connell	6	0 %
steve	6	0 %
flickr	6	0 %
steve irwin death jokes	6	0 %
corey t-shirts	6	0 %
lolcat	6	0 %
bernadette mcmenamin	6	0 %
thai brothel	6	0 %
heath ledger jokes tasteless	6	0 %
ledger joke	6	0 %
samantha fox	6	0 %
gay navy sex	6	0 %
heather ledge	6	0 %
www.vodaphone.com	5	0 %
stilgherrian.com/personal/prussia_net_vs_skank_media/ new prussia	5	0 %
heath ledger overdose jokes	5	0 %

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Heath Ledger spikes my website, Day 1

Stilgherrian — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:18:35 +0000

Further to this morning’s post about The Heath Ledger Experiment, here’s a graph of my website traffic so far this month.

As you can see, traffic roughly tripled yesterday after my little game. The data for today is only for midnight to roughly 4am, so that’s why it’s so low.

The increase in traffic from 15 January is due to Corey Worthington Delaney. Most of that is to the page Corey Delaney, freedom fighter (for the right to party), even though I’m much happier with Arrest of “teen party host” highlights stupidity of law.

The Corey traffic was sustained for several days thanks to continual news updates. Will Ledger traffic decline more quickly because the news will pass and I’ve stopped Google-fuelling it? Or will people get over the initial mourning phase and start looking for the jokes?

My gut feeling is that it’ll decline faster. Corey was an object of ridicule, while Heath Ledger is a respected actor whose personal life has been relatively straightforward. The main focus of the jokes has been childish, anti-gay stuff, and I reckon that juvenile attention spana will move on.

Also, at this time yesterday a Google search for “heath ledger dead joke” returned my page as search result number 4. Since then the media sites have been all over this story. Many mention his role as The Joker in the new Batman movie. As far as basic Google searches are concerned, “joker” and “joke” are the same thing. I’ve dropped to 6th place, and presumably will fall further.

Stay tuned…

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Heath Ledger dead: jokes here please

Stilgherrian — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:58:55 +0000

Yes, Australian actor Heath Ledger is dead, possibly from a drug overdose. So now it’s time to collect all the jokes, ‘cos he can’t sue you for libel. Please add them in the comments.

Tasteless? Yes. Exploitative? Probably. Too soon for this? Yeah probably that too.

So why do it?

It’s an experiment…

More than a year after the event, a collection of jokes about Steve Irwin’s death is still one of the most heavily-visited pages on this website. More than half of the searches bringing people here are for Corey Worthington Delaney.

Tasteless is what you want, so tasteless is what you’ll get.

We’ll even throw in the phrases “heath ledger porn” and “heath ledger naked” to help things along. Index that, Google!

The comments will be moderated, but not heavily. They may take a while to show up because — oddly enough! — there are other things to do.

[Update: Scroll down to find the comments thingy. Try to spell properly. And if you're going to whinge that "It's too soon to make jokes," then at least suggest how long someone has to be dead before they're not sacred any more. And try to spell properly.]

[Update 27 January 2008: The two rules about relevance are now being enforced. Comments will not be published if (1) they repeat jokes which have already been posted, unless they're substantial improvements, or (2) they're just some anti-gay comment that doesn't have any relevance.]

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Corey Delaney meets Life Streaming (sort of)

Stilgherrian — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:14:08 +0000

With little energy after last night’s massive session of Silent Hunter III, I haven’t written an original essay today. Instead, let me suggest you read two things I’ve commented upon. 1. The redoubtable Laurel Papworth’s analysis of Corey Delaney’s page being deleted from Wikipedia. 2. Duncan Riley’s polemic on life streaming and whether we should still draw the line on privacy somewhere.

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A Corey Delaney cartoon for your pleasure

Stilgherrian — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:14:27 +0000

Rhys McDonald, who comments here and lives ~~in our village~~ a long way from our village up the coast somewhere, is apparently too shy to pimp his rather amusing cartoon of this week’s poster boy for post-natal abortion. Enjoy.

Actually, it’ll be interesting to see what sort of satire is generated by this boy. Do tell me if you see anything.

[Update 21 January 2008: For some reason I thought Rhys was a local. I was wrong.]

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Corey t-shirts available, website traffic doubles

Stilgherrian — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:30:39 +0000

Yes, Corey t-shirts are now available from BustedTees.

While it’s a day since Alex Willemyns posted this, one still wonders what took them so long. They had hours! Will Corey demand a cut of the profits. Or are the shirts are already courtesy of his agent?

Alex also posts what I agree is one of Corey’s best quotes.

Over the past couple of days, traffic to this website has doubled thanks to people eager for Corey news.

I’d particularly like to commend the 48 people who were searching for “corey delaney naked”. Class act, folks.

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Arrest of “teen party host” highlights stupidity of law

Stilgherrian — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:37:02 +0000

Yesterday a Melbourne teenager was charged with creating a public nuisance and producing child pornography. Reuters tells us he “became a controversial media star after a wild party at his parents’ house became a near riot, forcing police to call in a helicopter and the dog squad”. Hands up if you think you know his name.

Now, keep your hands up if you’re completely bloody sure you know his name.

OK, hands down.

Yet again we see how Australia’s laws have failed to adapt to the Internet age.

Everybody and their dog, globally, has been reporting the rise to fame of glamorous Melbourne socialite Corey Worthington Delaney. I’ve written two essays already [1, 2], and this third one probably won’t be the last. My friends at Crikey published The Corey Timeline yesterday (republished by Peter Black too, if the Crikey original is behind their paywall).

Now, under Victorian law, as in many other democracies, the media cannot identify minors charged with criminal offences. Nor can they identify who’s brought before the children’s court. Fair enough. Once upon a time we all agreed that youthful indiscretions shouldn’t mar our reputation for life.

So now we have the ludicrous situation where National Nine News and The Age and everyone else is talking about “a 16-year-old boy” as if we haven’t noticed a flood of media reports about a specific, named 16yo who — in an amazing coincidence — held a wild party on the weekend where the police were called, including a helicopter and the dog squad.

Happens all the time. Could well be someone else.

Even before the Internet this law was flawed. Radio and TV broadcasts were ephemeral (at least until we all got recorders), and newspapers could stop mentioning a name. But that couldn’t prevent you popping down the library to check last week’s edition. And it couldn’t stop people talking about what they already knew.

Today, thanks to blogs, Twitter and Facebook and the rest, even casual gossip is on the public record. Forever. Even if a web page is removed, we can still recover it thanks to Google’s cache and the Internet archive’s Wayback Machine.

You can’t take the piss out of the swimming pool.

Yet those tireless, dedicated soldiers of the mainstream media trudge through the ritual, typing “the youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons” and pixelating photos — even though we can still recognise faces we know.

So what do we do here? Do we ban all media identification of minors? Or just accept that The Truth Is Out There and drop the charade? Maybe we can do the latter and make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of anything we did as minors.

[Note: The pixelated image is for illustration purposes only. I pixelated an image of Corey Worthington Delaney (right) and a friend taken from Channel 7. I have no idea whether he was one of the youths arrested yesterday. How could I possibly know? The police have not said.]

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Where is Melbourne, AFP?

Stilgherrian — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:36:49 +0000

Why is this news agency illustrating a story about an event in Melbourne with a photo of a helicopter in Sydney? Daft bastards.

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The Madness of Corey Worthington Delaney

Stilgherrian — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:15:29 +0000

The Corey Worthington Delaney story symbolises everything that’s bad about our mainstream media.

They simplify everything into a simple binary questions of good versus bad. They give this attention-seeking waste of carbon atoms exactly what he wants: the oxygen of media attention. And they get basic facts wrong just to make a catchy headline.

OK, I’m giving him oxygen too. And I’ll be honest, I’m revelling in the glory of such a moron becoming Australia’s new global representative. But here’s what I don’t like about it.

First, Corey doesn’t face a $20,000 bill. That’s just a number being kicked around indicating the cost of the police operation to shut down his elegant soirée.

Michael is right, the police just can’t start billing people. As an Adelaide criminal lawyer put it to me this morning:

[I] don’t know if the situation is different in Victoria, but don’t think it is from the comments I’ve seen from lawyers on TV etc.

I like the “dangerous new precedent” angle for this. People who throw a party that gets out of hand scared to call the police for fear they’ll be billed for it!

The people who get ordered to pay cops back are usually the ones who have made a false report, who have to pay for the investigation, but that is something that the Court imposes.

When I first heard [Victorian police commissioner] Christine Nixon, she did not sound as though she was saying any more than they were going to look into ways to make him pay for it, but somehow that has been turned into “a $20,000 fine” by sections of the media.

My lawyer friend says to Google the phrase “skins party” for some interesting reading on the topic of these sorts of parties.

The other aspect which shits me is the “binary opposite” simplification of the story.

“Legend or Loser?” asks the Sydney Morning Herald. What, are they the only options? One or the other?

Of course for the SMH’s middle-class readership he’s no legend, so we can expect a flurry of outraged letters to the editor blaming all and sundry for… well, a party got out of hand. And the “enormous cost” of the police just doing what they’re paid to do.

Anyway that’s what I think. What do you think?

[Update 3.40pm: I've changed Corey's surname from "Delaney" to "Worthington". Apparently Delaney is his parents' surname but not his. Or something.]

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Corey Delaney, freedom fighter (for the right to party)

Stilgherrian — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:03:58 +0000

I’m pretty sure I know why my story about “protecting kids on the Internet” was bumped from Crikey today. How can I possibly compete with a newsmaker like Corey Worthington ~~Delaney~~ (pictured)? And how can I possibly compete with Crikey’s comprehensive coverage of this new Australian success story?

It’s not so much about protecting kids from the Internet, but protecting the Internet (and us!) from Corey.

Any promoter would be pleased with a turnout of 500 for a simple house party with no outlays, just an invite sent out on MySpace. But then a helicopter arrived on the scene, some police cars got damaged, Mr and Mrs Delaney found out, the neighbours were p-ssed off and the Police Commissioner called a press conference.

It looked like Corey was set to be devoured by a salivating news pack. The sixteen-year-old came with shades, a naked friend running down the street, a pink doona doubling as sarong, and the quote “I can’t remember. I was just off my head”.

Crikey lists much of the good media coverage — including a talkback caller who somehow managed to blame John Howard. For me, though, the highlights are The 7.30 Report’s serious piece (including child psychologist and police youth worker), and A Current Affair’s Leila McKinnon doing the extended interview ~~(where they get his name wrong)~~.

The irony is, today the Victorian claim their tougher new powers to target rowdy behaviour around Melbourne nightspots have been a great success.

[Update 16 January 2005: I've changed Corey's surname from "Delaney" to "Worthington". Apparently Delaney is his parents' surname but not his. Or something.]