Thursday, July 7, 2011

Mission Parrys : Bill Gates buys a PS3


Bill Gates concludes his inspiring Purdue University Speech with an anti piracy statement on how well they have worked with the FBI in controlling piracy. Soon an Indian student pops up and shouts - You are not only barking up the wrong tree but the wrong forest Mr. Gates.

While the Professors are shocked and surprised the students burst in to laughter. As the security gets closer to the Student, Gates shocked but not embarrassed asks them to stop and give the student a mike.

Random Indian Student:

 My name is Gandhi Reddy Mr. Gates. I am a huge fan of yours and Microsoft. No matter how sick I am I never ate an Apple, no matter how bad my OS sucks I never bought a MAC. You should visit Parrys Corner in Chennai, India to understand how freely and creatively piracy works. It is there where you can track back to the roots of this evil spread across other countries and fight them. And only then can you claim that you have control over it.

Taking up the challenge, Gates meets up with the FBI and tells them that he wants to be there in person for ‘Mission Parrys’.

FBI:

You have to wear a wire Mr. Gates. As soon as you press the button on this watch we will ride the place. This micro satellite device will allow us track your location. Two Drone Aircrafts will keep an eye on you.

Disguised as a Sardarji wearing a turban and beard, Gates lands in Chennai Meenambakkam Airport on a FBI Flight. He reaches Parrys Corner in an old fiat taxi driven by an FBI agent. He steps in to Amma  & Anna Video and Audio store and finds two guys watching TV.

Gates:

Do you have windows 7?

Anthony Chandrasekharan (Shop Owner):

No sir we only sell Original film audio and video CDs and DVDs.

Gates:

 Oh! Can you tell me a place where they sell software?

Anthony:

Sorry, I don’t know.

Gates walks out Disappointed and looks around for another store. Anthony comes out running and takes Gates back in to the store.

Anthony:

We might have an older version of windows.

Gates:

 I only need windows 7.

Anthony:

 Ok let me check.

He looks at the other guy in the store who is watching TV. The guy hits a button on the TV remote .One of the CD racks turns around. It is filled with hundreds of software DVDS starting from Windows 95 to Windows 7 and Snow Leopard.

Gates:

(Shocked) I want all of them and throws a thousand rupee bundle on the table.

Anthony:

(Takes the cash)  Are you planning to start a software company or a store of your own?

Gates Laughs and as he was about to hit the FBI button on his watch a shiny DVD in between those windows DVDs grabs his attention.

Gates:

What is that?

Anthony:

 Oh, that got in there accidentally. That’s a Harry Porter DVD.

Gates:

Which part?

Anthony:

All of them.

Gates:

Checks the Google stock price on his phone to make sure it’s not a dream. The stock grows further. How much?

Anthony:

 Since you are buying so many DVDs I will give it to you for 30 bucks. (He usually sells it for 15 to 20 rupees)

As Gates does the conversion in to dollars it ends up in 70 cents and his brain hangs like windows OS for a few seconds. He forgets about the mission and recovering he asks what else they have.

Anthony:

What we don’t have is an easy question to answer. We have all the major super hero movies in one DVD. All the Bond movies, name it we have it. Do you like games? We have a PS3.

Gates:

 I can buy that anywhere.

 Anthony:

(With a smile) This PS3 comes with its 360 GB hard drive full of games. While it costs 23K outside you only pays 18K.

Gates:

(Goes blank without a word for a minute) Dude your rock. You don’t know how much this means to me. I always wanted to have something like this my entire life. In between you and me that’s what kept me going all these years and that is what I do in my free time with my kids. It was an excruciating pain to search and buy those Sony games. Is this original?

Anthony:

The case is.

Gates:

That will do. Pack it for me please.

As he walks out filled with eternal happiness he plucks out the wires and throws them in the trash can. He hands off the windows DVDs to the FBI Driver and walks on the footpath to the Kasimedu beach. He Draws a 'F1' symbol on the sand and sits smiling for himself for an hour looking at the waves. As the ocean swallows the sun an FBI chopper comes down like the rain hiding behind the clouds and takes him back.