¿Es el enemigo?

«[Oiga, ¿es la agencia Reuters? Que se ponga. que soy el de los piratas, que] echamos en falta a más de treinta de nuestros amigos que salieron al mar en las dos últimas semanas para llevar a cabo secuestros».

No, no es de Gila.
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El timo del banco africano (IV): La documentación

¡Bien! Nafisa-Farfisa-Rabiza me contesta, ¡y por fin manda fotos! Ésto es lo que me dice:

My love,
its a thing of pleasure to have heard from you, and understood all you have explianed, just that its as if you dont understand my situation here, i am a refugee here , i dont know any body i am only surving by the help of the catholic missionaries here who have been helping us here, to feed is not easy, as i am talking to you i can only feed once a day, i cant even aford to buy some inner wears to change the old ones, in my mensuration periods, most time i use pieces of cloths tired togather as toiletary pad because i can not afford to buy some pad,

My dear, in the attachment i have scanned the documents on this transactions, please try to convience your editor beyound every reasonable doubts that i am geniue and sincere, even if it means coming here with him, no problem. but all the same i will prefer you contact the bank by writting them a mail lets hear from them first and know the formalities of claiming this fund. but sincerely i will be happier if you can come down here with your editor to see things your selvies ok.

my dear, i am counting on you, you are my last hope i believe in you and togather we shall build brighter future again, i want to belong to a family again and to have a home of my own again, i am just like a living dead here.

hope to hear a good news from you, also let me know the bank responds to you as you contact them
thanks with love
Kiss you
Nafissa

Adjunto al correo, me manda fotos de documentos de una autenticidad equiparable a la de un Judas de plexiglás.

Si tengo que elegir entre esto y una etiqueta de Anís del Mono, dudaría.

No os perdáis las letras puestas a ordenador sobre la foto en plan fotomontaje cutre. ¿Lo han hecho con el Paintbrush?


Creo que el carnet del Club Don Mickey tiene más validez como identificación que esto.
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El timo del banco africano (III): ¿Pero aún no se han dado cuenta?

Farfisa-Rabiza-Nafissa, mi timadora africana de cabecera, se lanza:

my dear,

how are you doing today? i hope all is well with you,i received your mail and address you sent to me, dear i all so want you to be truthfull and honest to me like i am to you when the money get's into your bank account please, in other hands i want you to help me and stand on my behalf in area of transferring the money that my late father deposited in the bank some years ago which he made me the next of kin in to your bank account OK.

My dear i will like you to contact the bank with this contact details below,tell them that you want to know their requires on how to transfer the money into your bank account because i have send a nomination letter to the bank now on your behalf for them to know that you are the person that will stand on my behalf during the transfer and they are now waiting for you to contact them as my trustee/partner, please contact the bank quick for verification. Here is the contact information of the bank. DEPOSIT DETAILS.

Name Of the Depositor: DR.JOHNSON BAW
Ref Number:ITB / N°.. CAD/897521/XI/00
Account Number..( 66699269198 )
Account Type(escrow fixed deposite)
Total Deposit ( USD $ 7,4000,000.00 )
Date of deposite...14/09/1998
Place of deposite...LIBERIA
Next of kin:Miss NAFISSA JOHNSON BAW

BANK DETAILS
Bank Of Africa ( B.O.A )
Av. Leopold Sedar Senghor.
BP 1992 RP - Dakar
Siège Social.
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Agence Zone Industrielle
3-5 route de Rufisque.
Dakar Senegal
Phone (+221- ) 765313071
FAXNUMBER: (+221- ) 33 894 54 05
Email ; boa.cust.service@mybestmail.com
Email ; boa.customer.service@oued.org

CONTACT PERSON: Mr. Maxwell Richard/Head of Operations

Director International Remittance Department. Here is the information which my late father used to deposite the fund.Next of kin Miss Nafissa Baw, Deposited Dr. Johnson Baw,Date 14/09/1998,Country of Origin from republic of Liberia,Amount deposited ( USD $ 7,4000,000.00 ),Seven Million Four Hundred Thousand USD,The account number ( 66699269198 ) .

Please my dear discuss with the bank on how they will transfer the money into your bank account ok.
I will be waiting for your quick respond as soon as you contacted the Bank.Thanks and God Bless you.
Nefissa Johnson Baw .

Evidentemente, he de contactar con su «banco» para darles mis datos bancarios reales a cambio de los suyos falsos. Ahora dudo si dejo la bromita o me pongo en contacto con los banqueros, lo que supondría bifurcar el hilo de la conversación...
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Hi my deariest deary dear Farfisa,

I'm really sorry I couldn't write you earlier. As you probably know if you read the newspapers, I was all the week in the German Democratic Republic signing books in the Stasi Bookshops chain and supporting the Berlin Wall, so I was really busy, but wishing all the time to come back and write to you. I will scan and send you the article Gorvachev wrote last week in Pravda about my literary work. I'm sure you'll be really proud of having a love affair with such an important writer as I am. I'm wishing to begin with the operations, but as you were told, my artistic agent, Mr. Goethe, is a bit suspicious, and he thinks you're just after my money because you know I am a famous and rich writer, and you just want the profits of my best selling books. I do not think so, though. I think you're a sweet trustful little person who deserves to be loved and bukkaked. Have I told you that I've already bought you a designer latex suit with holes estrategicaly disposed over it for our future watergames when we meet in my house in Oz. I hope it is your size. Anyway, it's not me who must be convinced, but Mr. Goethe, and I think we should appeal to his feelings. I think that a picture of you holding a sign that says "I am completely honest" in German will be enough. ("I am completely honest" means "Ich bin eine Dreckshure" in German".

Please, let your bankers know where to contact me, either my phone, my agent in UK or my email.

Love,

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Por lo pronto justifico el pasar olímpicamente de sus requerimientos, no sin antes soltar una buena tanda de gilipolleces. Vamos, si me quiere encontrar en mi casa de Oz, con que siguiera el camino de baldosas amarillas le hubiera bastado, ¿no?

My dear,
thank you very much for your mail, i am very much happy to have seen your concern towards me, its also so sad that you allowed some around you to bring misunderstanding among us, i am sorry i am not in here to please any body but you that i know and also if you belive that i am contacting you for your wealth, then forget about me, because that does not make me feel that you are the right person for me, as you may know i am really suffering here, life have refuse to pay me a good visit, on the fund with the bank, i want you to know that you are the one to contact the bank not the bank to contact you, the bank has nothing to loose they will be there to wait for us not us waiting for them, please if you reallky want to help me, contact the bank by writting them a mail asking them the formalities on how to claim and transfer my family fund to your position, also understand that if you wish to come down here and do this transaction face to face with the bank, do also let them know as they promise that if my partner wishes to come they can asist you with invitation letter that will enable you obtian your visa in any senegalise embassy around you, also they will lodge you in there guesss house during your stay here for this transaction.

hope to hear that you have contacted the bank
thanks
kiss
Nafissa

Ehehehe, ¡quiere que vaya a Senegal! Seguramente querrán desvalijarme en persona. Es que en el fondo son entrañables. Pues no vamos a quitarles la ilusión, ¿verdad?

Dear Farfissa,

Please, don't misunderstood me. I really trust you with all my heart and my soul, but as I told you before, I have some "mental problems" and I must spend times interned in an instititution, and due this matter people think I am trustworthy enough. One of those people is my editor, who has some influence over me, because he can talk with my therapist and enlarge my stances in the institution (where I don't want to be at all).

You should know that I'm really interested in making you leave your actual location, not only for bukkaking you, but for making you my wife and therefore legally resposible of me, so I will have to stay in the instituition never ever and we will expend together my money in BDSM stuff for neverending sessions of bizarre and painful intercourses.

My editor doesn't control my email, but a nurse does, and I'm pretty sure she tells him everything I do. If I contact your bank with animus iocandi myself, he will get nuts and I don't want him to be angry with me, because he will not bring me anymore to Ankh-Morpork, that is the most remarkable place ever. (I promise you I'll bring you there to the Mended Drum bar, where everybody will be really pleased to engage a gang bang with you).

I indeed love you because you are the only person who understood me and didn't judge me by my mental wealth but by my huge phallus, and for that reason I thought you would understand that there're things that depend more in other people than on me. One of them are my personal relationships with who rs. I am sure that a stulty girl like you will understand and will help me with these little problems.

On the other hand, maybe we can arrange a book signing day for my books there, so I can go in person as you sugested and charge every expense to my editorial. I think that it could be awesome, don't think so? I think maybe it is the best solution, I will call my editor and ask for a promotional tour in Africa. How are my books selling there? In Europe, USA and Betelgeuse they're selling amzingly good, but I have not information about Senegal. Can you go to a book shop for I have some information for discusing with my editor the travel? I will bring the designer latex suit with holes strategicaly disposed I bought you for having good BDSM from the beginning! I'm really excited!

Looking forward for your answer,

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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El timo del banco africano (II): 3 dislates por renglón

Seguimos con la correspondencia con mi timadora africana favorita. Parece que o no entiende bien el inglés o no lee las respuestas o es que directamente es subnormal. Tomad asiento, que vamos allá:

Hello My Dearest,
Compliment of the season. I appreciate your concern and your willingness so far please l wan't you to come out and be bold enough for assisting me, the most
important thing I need from you right now is your honesty and trustworthyness. I choose you in this transaction, based on my present status here in Dakar as a refugee under asylum.
According to the financial governing laws of this country, people under refugees
are not allow to participate into monetary transaction or operate personal bank account with large sums international or locally.

I want you to understand more about my situation here in the camp, I am e-mailing you from the office of the Rev.Father who is pastoring at the church in the refugee camp, I have explained to him a little about my life though not everything, I told the Rev.Father about my communication and he permitted me to access my e-mail in his office computer twice a day, here in the refugee camp, meanwhile life is just not easy since I don't have any body here to take care of me,

I don't have access to further my education, no access to clean water, no access to good food here in the refugee camp, life has not been easy for me. I only surviving through the aid of the Rev.. Father who is pastoring at the church in the refugee camp,
Moreover, I went into serious discussion with the bank where this fund is deposited into, for them to advise me on what to do in order to have access to my late father's property, the legal department of the firm told me that in a situations like mine, that the best solution is by soliciting for assistance of a reliable person who can assist me
claim, receive the fund on my behalf while because of the law governing refugees on financial matters.
I then decided to contact you, hoping that with your advanced knowledge we can be able to work together, so that if all things works out for us, we can go into life partnership if you wish because I am not yet married. Though it took me time to make up my mind to
contact you and offered you this proposal of mine of which my whole life depends on.
Please understand that there is no illegality involvement in this transaction, you are going to deal with the bank directly. What I'm required to do according to the Finance procedure, is to provide you with a letter of authorisation here as my partner,authorizing you by the law of the Finance to claim and receive the fund on my behalf.

I will send to you the contact of this bank where the fund is, for you to establish immediate contact with them for the released and transfer.Finally, I am suggesting that if we can go into life partnership as husband and wife, i am really in love with you, and will
like to spend the rest of my life with you please dont delay this any more, and I am
putting my entire inheritance of my late father to your care because I want you to be in total control of my funds as soon as the fund arrives your country,i will present you as my foriegn partner for them to tell us how this fund should be
transfer to your position,So right now i will like you to send all this information as below,


1..Your complete full name
2.Your fax and phone number


As soon as you sent this informations;i will send you the contact information of the bank where this fund was deposited by my late father before his death,
My Dearest,Once again i say thanks and may the Good Lord blessed this relation,
Thanks,Yours
Nafissa,

Ajajá, ya empieza a desvelar sus verdaderas motivaciones. Pero aún hay mucho que exprimir de estos correos. Lo mejor es pararle un poco los pies y que se tenga que currar el timo. ¿Creéis que una digresión puede ser suficientemente disparatada como para que se mosquee? Si así es, seguid leyendo y ved cuán equivocados estabais...

Hello Rabiza,

Thanks for you communication. I'm really concerned about your present situation, because I myself suffered something similar when I was interned in Guantanamo internation camp. What kind of food are you eating there? I hope not pizza with anchovies, because I do hate anchovies. Do you like anchovies? I think they're the most disgusting fish ever, and ordinary fish is disgusting enough. I'm more in the salami side, but I wouldn't say not to a good piece of bacon either. What do you think? This days they aren't so good though. I don't know what they feed to the animals nowadays, but in the old good times they were much tastier, weren't they? It's a shame these youngsters of today feeding shit to the cattle. In my times we used to give the animals cordon bleu and they looked much glossier.

Willing for helping you,

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Nuestra timadora africana no se da por vencida y vuelve a la carga:

I will send to you the contact of this bank where the fund is, for you to establish immediate contact with them for the released and transfer.Finally, I am suggesting that if we can go into life partnership as husband and wife, i am really in love with you, and will
like to spend the rest of my life with you please dont delay this any more, and I am
putting my entire inheritance of my late father to your care because I want you to be in total control of my funds as soon as the fund arrives your country,i will present you as my foriegn partner for them to tell us how this fund should be
transfer to your position,So right now i will like you to send all this information as below,


1..Your complete full name
2.Your fax and phone number


As soon as you sent this informations;i will send you the contact information of the bank where this fund was deposited by my late father before his death,
My Dearest,Once again i say thanks and may the Good Lord blessed this relation,
Thanks,Yours
Nafissa,

Si se ha tragado semejante gilipollez, ¿qué no se tragará? ¿Qué pasaría si hiciera un brainstorming con discos del Chivi?

Hello, Farfisa,

I'm glad that you are in love with me. Not many people understand me and lot of girls run away when they see an old cripple dressed compeltely in latex with strategical holes disposed begging for electrical discharges in his bollocks while eating a coprophagic meal. Can you believe that they say that I am a pervert? The problem is that I showed your proposal to my editor Mr. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and he says that all this stuff could be a fraud, because you know that I'm a famous writer with some "mental inestability" who has "lot" of money and you want it. Please, don't misunderstand me, I indeed trust you with all my heart and I'm completely sure that you are honest, but if you can send me something for proving him that you are for real, everything will be easier. Note that he is German, so it would be really kind of you if you send a picture of you holding something written in his mothertongue. For example, "I am completely honest" is "Ich bin eine Dreckshure". Yeah, I'm sure this one will touch his heart. As soon as I receive your picture with that, I will show it to him, and I'm sure I will manage to do it with that, trust me.

My complete full name is Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and my phone number is +34 8 15 16 23 42.

I'm looking forward to see your picture and show it to my distrustful editor. Another important thing. I don't want you to think that I am helping you because your money. You have to know that I am extremely wealthy in this aspect myself, but I need somebody to share my life and bizarre BDSM sessions with.

Yours,

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Sólo decir que Ich bin eine Dreckshure no quiere decir "Soy honrada" ni de coña. Tiene que ver con cosas más mundanas. Señoras mundanas, en concreto. Le especifico que Goethe es alemán porque, aparentemente, los timadores africanos no están muy puestos en literatura y el nñumero de teléfono... ;-) Lo más importante, dejarle claro que me sobra la pasta.

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El timo del banco africano (I): engañando al timador

El otro día recibí el correo electrónico que copio más abajo de una tal Nafissa Baw (en negro).

Hello.

My name is Nafissa in search of a man who understands love as trust and faith rather seeing it as a way of fun, but a matured man with good sense of humor, reading about you i develop interest on you, i believe we can start from here, waiting for your reply so that i can send my pictures and further introductions.

kisses Nafissa ..
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Hola..

Mi nombre es Nafissa en busca de un hombre que entiende el amor como la confianza y la fe en lugar de verlo como una forma de diversión, si no un hombre con una maduración buen sentido del humor, la lectura acerca de usted i desarrollar el interés en ti, creo que podemos empezar desde aquí, a la espera de su respuesta para que yo pueda enviar mis fotos y más presentaciones.

Nafissa besos......

Como ya había leído en la web Ebola Monkey Man -cuya lectura recomiendo encarecidamente-, temas parecidos, me propuse tomar el pelo yo también al que pretendía tomarme a mí, más que el pelo, el dinero. Ni corto ni perezoso, respondí tanteando al timador (en azul):

It seems you have mistaken the person. I am postrated in a wheelchair -luckily I have inherited several funds from my parents and I have no need to care about my condition- so I have no experience in love, as you can imagine... I had once something like a relationship, but it was before I quitted Alcoholic Anonymous and falled in alcoholism again. Please, let me know where you read about me, because I was told by my therapist that he wouldn't publish my personal info in his article.

Kind Regards,

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

No fue necesario esperar demasiado hasta que recibí una contestación a la sarta de disparates que había escrito, convenientemente ilustrada con supuestas fotografías de la remitente -supongo que tomadas en el archiconocido campo de refugiados senegalés del reverendo Padre Benjamin Patrick Colli-, como la que se puede observar a la izquierda de estas líneas. Esta querencia de los timadores africanos por retratarse, buscando darle un viso de verosimilitud a la correspondencia, resulta muy útil para chanzas posteriores -como se puede ver en Ebola Monkey-, dándole una vuelta de tuerca, más jocosa aún si cabe, al intercambio epistolar.

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Dear, I am writ ting this letter with due respect and heartful of tears since we have not known or meet ourselves previously I am asking for your assistance after I have gone through a profile that speaks good of you. I want to find out if it's possible for you to deal with individual as to investment. My dear i will be so glad if you can allow me and lead me to the right channel towards your assistance to my situation now.I will make my proposal well known to you. I would like to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you. Well I am Nafissa johnson, 23 yer old girl from Liberia in west Africa,i am a daughter of late Mr Johnson Baw my late father was the personal advicer to the former head of state president Charles Taylor who is now in exile, before the rebels attacked our house one early morning killing my mother and my father It was only me that is alive now, and i managed to make my way to near by country, The main reason why I am contacting you now is to seek your assistance in the area of my future investment and also to help me to transfer the money that he deposited in finacier company over to your possession. the amount is ( USD 7.4 Million dollars ) he made this deposit some years back,the money was deposited as a family tresure which i am the nest of kin.I am now asking you to stand on my behalf as my partner, and in time of claiming the money and investment as well. I have made up my mind to offer you 25%of the total money, while the remaining will go into a productive business for me or you take me as your daugther to manage the money,

As I have mention earlier I will make the procedure to this transaction to be well know to you. Pls attach your direct and full contact address asyou reply to me. Thanks and God Bless you,

This is my address Villa No 75 Fadia Avenue Dakar Senegal You can reach me with this telephone number ( 00221 - 765238993 ) the number belongs to the reverend Father his name is reverend Father Benjamin Patrick Colli, when you call tell him that you want to speak with Miss Nafissa Johnson Baw so that he will send for me ok.

yours,
Miss Nafissa Johnson Baw.

¡Bingo! Se había tragado el anzuelo hasta el fondo. ¿El anzuelo? El anzuelo, la boya y poco le faltó para empalarse con la caña. ¿Esta gente lee lo que les escriben? Una oportunidad así no podía dejarla pasar; por supuesto, le respondí, pero esta vez llevándolo un paso más allá. Ya no sólo soy un inválido, alcohólico y con problemas psiquiátricos llamado Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, sino que mi psiquiatra se llama Sancho Panza y soy de una iglesia satánica con sede en Narnia. Mi agente artístico no es menos literario:

Hi Nafisa,

Luckily I'm recovered from the sedation they gave in the Asylum. I will be happy to help you but first I have to arrange some afairs in order to leave the mental institution where I must stay these last days. My therapist, Dr. Sancho Panza has told me that I will allowed to come back home maybe in a week, as long as I keep with my medication.

Unfortunately, my beliefs forbid me to talk with a christian priest, so it'll be impossible to phone you, but don't care, I will ask the priest of my Satanic Parish for being excused by the Unholy Greatest Antipope of the Unholy Black Church, but as for sure you are aware, the request must be sent to Narnia where His Unholiness lives, and it will take some time.

Since I'll be not at home for a while, I'd rather keep in contact by email, but if you really need to contact me by ordinary post, feel free to contact my artistic agent, who will be pleased to kindly attend you, in this address:

Mr. Sherlock Holmes
221B Baker Street
London NW1, UK

Kind Regards,
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Los autores cortarán 4500 líneas de acceso a Intenet

Recientemente ha salido a la luz el acuerdo que ultiman Redtel -asociación de operadores de
telecomunicaciones con red propia, de la que forman parte Telefónica, ONO, Orange y Vodafone- y la asociación presididad por Eduardo Bautista, una de cuyas medidas es la desconexión de 4500 líneas de los «primeros difusores», atacando al resto de usuarios si en el plazo de un año el intercambio de archivos no

El cómo lo harán, no lo han explicado. Esta medida supondrá que, o cortan la línea de cualquier usuario que descargue contenidos en su ordenador, independientemente de si se está descargando contenidos protegidos o contenido público y libre, o bien identifican el contenido del tráfico generado, lo que supondría violar el derecho constitucional a la inviolabilidad de las comunicaciones.
se ha reducido en un 70%.
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Si ocurriera lo segundo, sería divertido, aunque no por ello menos ominoso. Me gustaría ver sus caras cuando comprobaran que nadie quiere sus obras ni regaladas. El que ofrezcan un producto que, pese a que hemos pagado nosotros su producción -y seguiremos pagando ad æternum a base de canon, derechos de emisión en televisiones públicas-, no queremos ni regalado, no entra dentro de sus planteamientos. O tal vez sí entra -visto lo visto, los únicos tontos que hay somos los que apoquinamos-, pero no quieren renunciar un modelo de negocio tan lucrativo como es el parasitar al ciudadano. Después de todo, ellos también conocen el dato de que, con descargas o sin ellas, el 87% de las entradas de cine que se venden son de producciones extranjeras. Es más rentable culpar a Internet, supongo.

Sea como fuere, el que la Cosa Loro haya recibido un ministerio en pago a los servicios prestados no augura un fututo prometedor para las comunicaciones libres, el desarrollo tecnológico del país y la difusión de la cultura. (El grupo de Facebook de la de la ministra que han infiltrado los poderes fácticos ya cuenta con casi 30.000 miembros en menos de un mes de vida).

Quiero recordar que existen compañías ajenas a Redtel que no se han conchavado con los enemigos de las libertades, por lo que recomiendo a todo aquel que quiera seguir usando Internet libremente que solicite el cambio de operadora, haciendo constar el motivo de su baja. Quiero recordar que hay compañías ajenas al contubernio Redtel que ofrecen 20Mbps a precios más ajustados que la 6Mbps de Telefónica y, desde luego, con mejor rendimiento que la 0Mbps de la línea cortada que ofrecen los cofrades de Redtel a los que ejercen su derecho a intercambiar contenidos.

Nota: No incluyo las siglas de Somos Grandes Atracadores y Estafadores para no darles más relevancia en Google y demás buscadores.

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Si eres legal, compartes cultura

Como parece que ZP se pasa la crisis por el arco de su ceja, ni corto ni perezoso ha decidido marcarse una campaña propagandística de apoyo a una sociedad privada a costa de nuestros impuestos y por todo lo alto: tv, internet y toda la virgen. Lo más gordo es que además de robarnos nuestro dinero para pagar los servicios prestados en la campaña electoral a las mafias del bodevil, lo hacen valiéndose de mentiras que ya han sido rebatidas contundentemente, exponiendo los sucios embustes en los que despilfarran nuestro dinero para beneficiar a antisociales cuyo negocio se basa en atacar el bien común y sangrar las ya misérrimas economías de los ciudadanos para que sus difuntos padres -léase el de Alejandro Sanz-, aumenten su patrimonio en opacas cuentas de Liechtenstein. [Continúa]


PD Si algún capo de la mafia leyera estas líneas alguna vez, y además coincidiera que supiera leer algo más que balances en B, le interesará leer ésto, a ver si se aplica el cuento.

PPD Get On Your Knees, de los Canarios. Un temazo de northern soul que recomiendo descargar, copiar y distribuir, a Teddy Bautista le hará feliz que se recuerde su último éxito :-P


y de regalo un entretenido juego de mesa. Pincha sobre él para agrandarlo.
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Haz lo que yo digo, no lo que yo hago

Hace dos días que se celebró el octogésimo aniversario del natalicio del roedor de la foto que acompaña estas líneas. Debería llevar ya 32 años y dos días en el dominio público pero, como por desgracia todos sabemos, las leyes afectan de distinta manera a los ciudadanos según sus posibles y, en casos extremos como el que nos ocupa, incluso pueden modificarse ad hoc para que satisfagan los intereses de algún grupo empresarial -siempre y cuando su economía sea lo suficientemente boyante para comprar voluntades en los círculos de poder-, sin tener en cuenta que la enmienda sea flagrantemente lesiva para el interés general. Los políticos acatan la voz de su amo y los pecheros solo importamos en la medida en que puedan servirse de nosotros. Sólo tenemos derecho a pagar y callar y cualquier cosa que no sea eso es extemporánea. Y para mantener esto no dudan en hacer y deshacer leyes a su antojo, ya que están supeditadas todas ellas a otra ley inmutable y de rango superior: la Ley del embudo.
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En 1976 Disney se las apañó para que sus prerrogativas pesaran más que el interés público y se prorrogaron sus derechos de 56 a 75 años. En el año 2000, cuando vieron los cuernos al toro de nuevo, se volvieron a ciscar en el bien común, estya vez mediante la Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, en honor al nombre del senador que la perpetró y conocida por mal nombre Mickey Mouse Protection Act, le quedan otros 16 años para que el ratón pase al dominio público.

Ahora pensemos en Alicia en el País de las Maravillas. Lewis Carroll publicó su inmortal obra en 1865 y Disney estrenó su película fusilándolo en 1951 y sin pagar ni un duro en concepto de derechos y aún hoy siguen haciendo beneficios a su costa. ¿Y si se hubiera aplicado lo mismo que ellos ahora demandan?

¿Qué pasará cuándo la última triquiñuela llegue a su fin? Lo más seguro es que venga una nueva aún más ignominiosa, tal y como ha venido sucediendo pero, de no ser así, su uso no será tampoco libre ya que no sólo está protegido por los derechos de autor, sino que también es una marca registrada asociada a The Walt Disney Company, cuya vigencia podría prolongarse hasta el fin de los tiempos.

Podríamos entrar también en cuanto a los derechos de autor que tiene derecho un autor que lleva muerto 42 años, pero eso es otra historia.
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