School is done, possibly forever this time, although being a student has always been kinda fun.. except for all the parts where they expect us to do work for marks etc.
Anyhow, now I’m waiting for an internship to land on my lap, which I’m not loving. In the meantime, I’m going to do my taxes and read the news and find ways of killing my brain.
While reading Poe-News today, this caught my attention; apparently, a movie-reviewer decided to watch a pirates bit of the new X-Men movie and got caught and terminated from his job at Fox. It’s kind of interesting to see how hard some people/groups are coming down on piracy. I’m still on the fence about it, because I don’t have anything that anyone is pirating; were I to make music or movies or what-have-you, I’m sure I’d be pissed that people are stealing my stuff. Likewise, going into the publishing business, it’s weird because book publishers still don’t seem to have a good idea as to where they want to take online/downloadable books. To that effect, I don’t think there is a good way of managing them yet.
Anyhow, to get to the point 0f the reviewer, just by him watching and thereby, I suppose, condoning the act of piracy, makes him… liable? An accessory? I’m not sure how that’ll go down legally. The movie company came down hard on him. I don’t know if the music industry has that kind of umph anymore, and I doubt book publishers do.
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Turn it up, since I mumble a little and this wasn’t professionally done. Hat’s off to Ariel @ HarperCollins!
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