Well it's been apparently far too long since my last post. It looks like I need to get back into the swing of things. What's new, just doing stuff with Amelia. She'll be 7 months in a few days. That basically sums up all of my free time. I do have our basement half finished. Sub floor is in, walls are up and electrical is half done and when I get it cleaned up I'll post some pictures of it. Shouldn't be too long now.
In non personal news, SOPA & PIPA.
Dear lord what are things coming to? When a dying collapsing business model is failing and people can't let go of the old ideas and welcome a new platform of content delivery they use their billions of dollars to lobby politicians to enact policy's that will stifle a global public platform for learning and discussion and cat pictures so that it will let them grip on for a few more years. Bad form!
This entire situation is liken to a badly balding man hanging onto those last strands of hair and slicking them down to let himself retain the memories of his youth. You aren't fooling anyone and you look ridiculous! Shave it and embrace a new look and a new life.
This is what the large media conglomerates need to do. Look at the successful start ups that are raking in the cash with a new model of media content delivery and either buy them out, hire their employees/developers or copy what they are doing and chances are they will have the best year of financial success that they've had since the 80's. People will pay a reasonable price for what they want, provided a simple means of attaining it is there.
I'd have no problem paying $5-20 to download a DRM free season of The Simpsons or Dr.Who or whatnot, provided there was an easy way of doing it. I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd agree with this.
It's all about price and means of delivery and that it be DRM free.
As a Canadian and well as anyone in any country using the Internet this will greatly affect everyone. It's a shame that one country's policy could have such an affect on the whole world but if it does pass then maybe it will generate more innovation on the Internet and spur on some positive change. In either situation it's only a matter of time until the media giants realize that this sort of clamp down won't stop piracy, if anything it will cause more of it to happen.
Well hopefully the web site blackouts today in protest have got enough people to notice and the whole stupidity will get canned.
Next step after this, airport security.... yeah, that shit show of bad policy. That whole mess needs to chance and chance fast.
Enough ranting about it.
To learn more about SOPA and PIPA check out the wikipedia link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopa
Cheers,
-Colin.
In non personal news, SOPA & PIPA.
Dear lord what are things coming to? When a dying collapsing business model is failing and people can't let go of the old ideas and welcome a new platform of content delivery they use their billions of dollars to lobby politicians to enact policy's that will stifle a global public platform for learning and discussion and cat pictures so that it will let them grip on for a few more years. Bad form!
This entire situation is liken to a badly balding man hanging onto those last strands of hair and slicking them down to let himself retain the memories of his youth. You aren't fooling anyone and you look ridiculous! Shave it and embrace a new look and a new life.
This is what the large media conglomerates need to do. Look at the successful start ups that are raking in the cash with a new model of media content delivery and either buy them out, hire their employees/developers or copy what they are doing and chances are they will have the best year of financial success that they've had since the 80's. People will pay a reasonable price for what they want, provided a simple means of attaining it is there.
I'd have no problem paying $5-20 to download a DRM free season of The Simpsons or Dr.Who or whatnot, provided there was an easy way of doing it. I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd agree with this.
It's all about price and means of delivery and that it be DRM free.
As a Canadian and well as anyone in any country using the Internet this will greatly affect everyone. It's a shame that one country's policy could have such an affect on the whole world but if it does pass then maybe it will generate more innovation on the Internet and spur on some positive change. In either situation it's only a matter of time until the media giants realize that this sort of clamp down won't stop piracy, if anything it will cause more of it to happen.
Well hopefully the web site blackouts today in protest have got enough people to notice and the whole stupidity will get canned.
Next step after this, airport security.... yeah, that shit show of bad policy. That whole mess needs to chance and chance fast.
Enough ranting about it.
To learn more about SOPA and PIPA check out the wikipedia link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopa
Cheers,
-Colin.
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