The majority of artists actually thank me, once I explain the nature of the site. They understand that Wally is another hurdle which makes their materials harder to pirate.

“Let’s hope that wally will find a proper job one of these days.”

When I think about the value of my autonomy, I doubt that many employers could afford my time.

Check this book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_%C5%A0vejk

It outlines some of the merits of individualism through non-participation. The wiki summary misses the metaphorical points. I generally agree with the author’s premises about the value of contributing to social order. As a comedy, the ideas are not presented in the kind of dull format you might expect for the topic.

http://wallywashis.name/oe/index.html

Let’s hope that wally will find a proper job one of these days.

There’s nothing there, so no damages have been incurred. If you’re hoping they get compensated for the turmoil created by the fact that they thought at one time that their music might be available on this site, they simply need to visit the pirate bay and do a search to realize that they have a much larger issue than any one guy. Millions of people are sharing any song your heart desires at any given moment. Simply start up your torrent application, route it through a VPN and enjoy downloading any song your mind can think of with impunity.

People will continue to fall for it, just because finding music in MP3 format is so easy nowadays. Torrents, NZB’s, 1-click webhosters. Some host the files themselves and take 1-2 dollars per album.

I don’t think I’ve had a sudden turn, although it’s been a couple years now since I posted this, so maybe as I head toward the light at the end of the tunnel, I’m taking a more ambivalent approach towards things of this nature. I don’t think so, however.

I doubt you’ve read any of my other posts on this site, since you came here because of Wally, but if you had, I think you would have recognized the common tenet I hold, that being one of “personal accountability”. I never posted my articles as a public service announcement. I posted things because I thought it was innovative or funny(usually, the latter). I often wrote that if you fell for it, you deserved what you got. Sent your bank account details to a deposed prince in Nigeria? Well, enjoy your newly found homelessness. Found a site with an impossible amount of music which just happens to offer you access if you’ll only fill out a few hundred of these ever-repeating surveys? More power to you. Enjoy the world’s slowest growing music collection.

People that arrive at Wally’s site attempting to download music which is protected under copyright don’t have much of a leg to stand on when complaining about the chicanery of it all. Those very few people that arrived at his site and filled out a survey or 11 to get music that is freely available elsewhere? Well, maybe they’ve learned the important lesson of searching a little bit in the future, as freely available music is….. wait for it…… freely available elsewhere, most often via torrents or the author’s site. As for the creators of the music and their complaints… as I’ve stated since the very beginning, they have nothing to complain about as no music is being shared via Wally’s site.

I’ve never felt ill will toward the subject of the post and I think it shows in the article. If anything, this post originated because I felt I was such a smarty-pants for figuring out his gig. If anything, this post is evidence of my shortcomings rather than anyone else’s.

Now this “wally” guy is acting like he is better than the rest of us schmucks. Now we suddenly should get a life, because we are spreading the news about a fake site.

Actual artists have posted messages at his site about the pirated material which he claims to have uploaded there. The basic message is that he is sharing music illegally. Stealing from people and making money of their work.

Sure, we are damnable beings for getting excited about free MP3 files. But the thing is that this guy got us all. Not just downloaders, but musicians alike. One can only wonder how many piracy warnings this guy has gotten via e-mails and blog messages. There are plenty of messages, which he did not approve.

I figured I’d hear from you soon as I got an email forward from one of your detractors yesterday and figured it would remind you to check the comments . After all this time, you still have the knack to incense a bunch of people trying to steal music. The irony of this has never been lost on me.

It seems that the majority of people that contact me are surprised by my nonchalant attitude in the face of the minutes of their lives that they can never have back. As I told the gentleman that wrote me yesterday:

“Today in the online world, there are people that try to hurt you, people that try to humiliate you and then people that try to take something away from you. Our friend Wallord doesn’t fit into any of those categories. He didn’t ask anyone to come to his site and fill out a survey. People volunteered to do so in the course of attempting to download copyrighted music. As I said in the article, they’ve done nothing more than waste a few minutes(or in the case of the more dense netizens, hours or days) of their life and he made a tiny bit of money during the course of that. Good for him.

I’ve done things in my life that bother me much more than it would if I had been smart enough to think of something like that before he did ”

Hope life is treating you well, Wallord.

You know that I appreciate this article. You wrote it using intelligence and humor. There are some other people who have written alarmist and misinforming articles. These people should take the time to educate themselves instead of spewing nonsense.

I understand that some individuals are not happy with my work. They do not have to enjoy it. They have the freedom to buy the album in a store, or pirate it elsewhere.

While I will not specify the volumes of traffic I receive here, rest assured that it is sufficient. The average visitor spends about 2 minutes on that site. How much of that time is spent looking at surveys, I do not know.

The behavior of some of my detractors (excluding yourself) is bordering on obsessive. If these people feel so upset over computers and Internet, ones and zeroes; They should take some time to go offline. Try enjoying nature for a change. Smoke some pot, have sex, exercise, relax, and enjoy your lives instead of obsessing about the 2 minutes you lost on my site. Wally is not real. There is no reason to get bent out of shape over a fantasy.

If the biggest hurdle detractors are facing in their lives happens to be my website, they should count themselves as lucky. Before going all out as an Internet tough guy, haters should ask themselves where they source this moral authority from? Are they priests sent to us by God to pirate music online?

Schwim, you know I am open to criticisms, but some people need to take a few steps back for their own mental health. They have become obsessed.

Thanks again for your informative article,
W

For some reason the guy also answers his e-mails. His google profile photo.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YAPuAUuD1l8/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/o2jFuVrcGJU/s200-c-k/photo.jpg