[christopherolah]

I'm usually not a music person.

But this is brilliant. The amount of effort that must have gone into making something like this... Timing the typing and speaking to the rhythm. It helps that I disagree with the modern state of IP.

I hope it goes viral. Dear Lily, why you being so silly...

[skolor]

I particularly liked his last line: But when you're between the devil and the deep blue sea, you need to stop worrying about pirates, and adjust your sails. It seems particularly apt in the current state of the internet.

[KC8ZKF]

It breaks the analogy, though. When you have the devil to pay, adjusting your sails won't do any good. Pirates or not.

[anigbrowl]

FYI, the phrase originates from the difficulty and danger of carrying out certain adjustments on a sailing ship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_the_Devil_and_the_Deep_... - it's not about having the Devil to pay, but what you risk if you don't get the job of adjusting your 'sails' done.

[KC8ZKF]

Those certain adjustments are "paying the devil." The "devil" being the gap between the main deck and the hull; "paying" being filling with pitch. When you are doing that, you are hanging over the side, "between the devil and the deep blue sea." When you are between the devil and the deep blue sea, paying the devil, the sails are down. Adjusting sails has nothing to do with it.

[anigbrowl]

ah, I see. +1!

[skolor]

I believe that was a pun. "Adjust your sales".

[KC8ZKF]

I understand the pun. It still breaks the analogy.

[anigbrowl]

Well there's software that can help with that ;) But yes, I love the execution, a great combination of serious argument and witty presentation. Another few years of Autotune development and we can have plugins that render HN as opera.