Downloading ain’t stealing :D
June 30th, 2005
The BBC has an article on the effect of anti pirate campaigns:
“Two UK university researchers found that people did not see downloading copyrighted material as theft.”
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4122624.stm
I must say I think the core of the problem is that the music and movie industry (and the campaign mentioned by the BBC) all assumes that consumers would: THEY DON’T. The truth is that most people just don’t care, and thats the core of the problem.
The research apparently did not elaborate on WHY people really don’t care about “copyrighted material”.
Mobile addiction
June 23rd, 2005
The LA times has a story on kids that are always on – ALWAYS that is.
Apparently they call each other and then just stay connected – just in case they have something to say…
“…But most of the time, the 15-year-old just dialed up a friend and left the phone on. Connected only by wireless headsets, Will and his pal spent entire days — together, but apart — shopping, snacking, doing homework and even nodding off to sleep.”
Source
I got it from Howard Rhingold a person I have previously Flamed in this post.
All Your Base are belong to us!
June 22nd, 2005
I really love this story :-)
It’s about the fabric of the Internet and what happens when real nerds communicate globally in a meaningful way.
The sentence “All your base are belong to us” came from the old game Zero Wing, released on the Sega Genesis/Megadrive.
The poor translation became a cult phenomenon.
The dialog from the old video game goes like this:
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb
Operator: We get signal
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on
Captain: It’s You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us
Cats: You are on the way to destruction
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time
Cats: HA HA HA HA ….
I personally like the sentence “Somebody set up us the bomb” :-)
