iMedia: Internet Piracy

The Pirate Bay is wildly known as the easiest way to download, upload, and access any media based product in existence. Go ahead its free and millions use it so why should you not? Oh that's right it is illegal, but who is going to stop it? Congress tried passing two bills in 2011 in order to prevent internet piracy, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA, (Protect IP Act). Both failed, with major support from heavy user based websites like Google and Wikipedia. It is crazy how fast support on the internet can be reached.

The movie we watched during class, Exit Through The Gift Shop, gave me a brief look into how the world can change its opinion about something relatively quickly. I know how internet piracy can seem like a dangerous concept and whether thinking you might get caught by the police or getting as virus from an unfriendly, not trusted user. It is unlikely to happen if you can understand what you are doing, but the idea behind piracy is not to, just get movies, TV-shows, song, and video games for free, it is to show support for these things and to archive the lost but most famous of these.

The internet is an open database that have no end and should never be limited to protect rich production studios and actors who can afford to multiple houses in different states or even countries. Although, piracy has become much more easy than before the internet it is still a small grouping off people who understand it and use it. With so much media everywhere at every moment in time it became too difficult for the small community to keep up and expand at the same time.

Metacognition: Mash Up

It was an interesting experience which I did not completely understand until I actually finished it. It seemed to be a very odd project and I actually still am not a 100% as to what I had to do and what I accomplished in showing what I did. I get that it was to be telling a story, and the story I chose was about solitude. I felt that solitude was a major component to the book and was what he talked about the most in comparison to everything else. I also tried to put some lines about love because I feel he also always had those combined together. I chose to add a picture of my favorite character from Game of Thrones.