The Cash Trio

The Internet is used by a lot of people to download music, movies, games and various other soft wares for free.
The legality of this practice is, and will be for a long time, a hot issue. Some countries want to totally stop the downloading of copy wright protected materials, like the U.S.A. Other countries, like France, want to allow this type of downloading, but only for personal use. And there are quiet a few countries who do not care at al.

The Internet has no borders, and it will be a very long time before all the counties of the world have agreed on how to legislate this music, movies and games downloading.

Of course there is an ethical issue.
A lot of people consider the downloading, for free, of copy right protected material as theft.
I have heard all the arguments by now.I did hear them in the 70’s when cassette recorders became available and very popular.I heard them when CD copiers became available and I hear them now when downloading over the Internet is becoming more and more popular.

In my opinion it is theft if you copy anything and sell it.
If you copy something for your own use, that is OK with me.
I have noticed that I, and a lot of people I know as well, still buy the “real thing” if we like it ,and I also have noticed that I am getting selective.
I hardly buy anything anymore from the real top performers .I think they simply earn enough as it is.
If I come along a new group I like, I usually copy a few songs, and I might go out and score their CD if I really like them.
I noticed that I must have been doing this for a long time.I had a look at my CD’s and saw that most of the originals were indeed the earlier work of a certain group.If I had more of them, it were usually copies I had made or copies I had downloaded somehow from the Internet.

I know there are quit a few people who use this “selective downloading”.A friend of mine loves the music of a certain performer, but, as he told me, he refuses to pay for his records.He refuses to contribute a single penny towards the legal team that is defending this guy in a child molest case.He has downloaded the music of this performer, for free, from the Internet.

But all this free downloading has a downside. A lot of people are having computer problems because they downloaded something from the Internet. The Internet is a jungle and there are a lot of predators around that are searching for their prey. Predators like spy ware and ad ware. Little programs that you sometimes download as well and that hide on your computer without you knowing it. Some can be very harmful indeed, like the so called key loggers. These programs “remember” every keystroke you make, and send this info to their “owners”. This way sensitive info, like passwords or credit card numbers, can get in the hands of the wrong people.

I advice every one who wants to download music, movies, games or any other program for free from the Internet to be very careful. Make sure your computer has very good spy-and ad ware protection, and when in doubt, do NOT download.

If you are not a very experienced Internet user than the best way to download music, full length movies, games and various soft wares for free is to get a download site membership. These download sites will provide you with the right soft ware to search for, and download, all sorts of files from the Internet. They also provide a helpdesk in case you run into difficulties and need some assistance.
Henk Rekers

Henk Rekers is WM of
http://www.stroompje.nl

Climber from Nepal, 77, oldest climber to climb to the top of the Mount Everest Hall was frostbitten and severely disoriented due to altitude sickness. Andrew Brash returned a hero to Calgarians. His first found him within 209 metres of the peak when his team stopped to help a fellow mountaineer who was left for dead. Two years later, Bahadur Sherchan, a University of Calgary alumni, returned to Everest to finish what he had started.

With the Chinese preparing for the impending summer Olympic Games, Min Bahadur Sherchan noted that the government’s actions hardly reflected the Olympic spirit. The 75-year-old man from Nepal is now the oldest person to have reached the top of Chomolungma or Mount Everest. Min Bahadur Sherchan and four climbing guides reached the 29,035-foot (8,850-meters) summit of the world’s highest mountain early Sunday, said Ramesh Chretri, an official with Nepal’s ministry of tourism.

They flexed their muscles this year all the in name of the Olympic spirit, but it was hardly spirited at all.”

More than 3030 people have climbed to the summit since it was first conquered in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary, who died in January, and Nepal’s Tenzing Norgay.

“The Chinese weren’t allowing anybody on Mount Everest. They ended up commandeering it for themselves, even though Chomolungma is shared by two countries. The Chinese were flying their airplanes over Mt Everest and had Chinese officials in Kathmandu. Nevertheless, he was all too aware of the potential dangers the Mount Everest could bring. Certain parts of the climb are more dangerous than others and it is important for climbers to remain focused Now that Bahadur Sherchan has successfully scaled the tallest mountain in the world, he is once again ready to focus on his family. “Mt Everest this year became a political pawn,” he said with some frustration.

This year French mountaineer Anthony Loeff is reporting the scales for Chomolungma or Mount Everest after reaching the peak of Mont Blanc in France earlier this season.

However, the decision to actualize a long-time personal goal left Andrew Brash with some internal uncertainties, he cited the political actions of China and Nepal as providing the greatest adversity he faced on his journey. Sherchan just 14 days away from his 77th birthday beat the age record set last year by 71-year-old Japanese teacher Katsusuke Yanagisawa.

They basically coerced the Nepali government to not allow any climbers past camp two on the Nepali side. Min Bahadur Sherchan last attempt resulted in the rescue of Lincoln Hall, an Australian climber who was left by his team in the “death zone.”

Min Bahadur Sherchan returned this week from Nepal after successfully climbing to the summit of Mount Everest. As he planned for the climb, Sherchan told reporters he wanted to inspire fellow senior citizens. He also said many Nepalese have established records on Everest, so it was only fitting that the record for the oldest climber to reach the summit should also belong to a Nepali.