Week 10

This week I found the reading When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide really quite interesting as it told the history/ evolution of file sharing, downloading of music and the impact this had on the industry.

Main points included were:

• Downloading this is a form of stealing
• Artists no longer have control of release dates, secrets (eg. artwork on cd covers being released before set dates)
• Fans becoming enemies of the artists
• Panic in the industry
• The idea that everyone is entitled to use music download sites and aquire the music free of charge simply because the technology exists

We watched Cocaine Jesus, an example of post-copyright film-making: it is so cheap and easy to do that you can give it away free.

We also watched the short documentary film: Steal This Film 2

There were no tutorial tasks for this week