Got this little link from Linchuan: http://members.thai.net/sinthai/room.htm. Quite scary, but not that fun, because it's just clicking here and there, doing nothing much, and suddenly, something appears or drops down, and you move on. Well…
I quite like the sound though. It's suitable. But a word of caution: Not for the light/weak-hearted people ok… I don't want to hear some news report of whoever mati after watching flash animation…
I think this will be the hottest news for this week? 33 new cases of illegal music downloading referred to Police. It looks like they have got the support to hunt down people already. Very determined to kill off piracy. But… can it be done? Really? It needs alot of effort and resources.
But I think the use of resources is little as compared to revenue loss… Perhaps…
Yes, piracy is bad, but how to stop it?
It looks like “piracy” refers to “illegal downloading and uploading of intellectual properties without their respective owner's consent”. Simply put, “illegal distribution of copyrighted music”.
And a look at an article on copyright at Wikipedia makes me go dizzy.
Since a song is copyrighted, including the background music and all, what will happen if, let's say, you have a kala version of a song, you sang and recorded your singing, and then, you send it to the whole world. Is that infringement also?
Somehow, I think so… hahaha…
And “downloading” means the retrival of files from certain user or server, on visit to this page, you are considered as “downloading the song”, right? Visiting websites of people who use these songs will lead you to download the songs unknowingly, and isn't that infringement also?
I think they will need to print out a handbook about copyright issues. The book will be the thickness of a dictionary, and I wonder if anyone will read it in the first place.
This is the more interesting part of the report:
In general, those who download music illegally here are between the ages of 13 and 25.
Most of them are males and do not believe they will get caught.
Of course they are young! This is the age range where most of them stare at computer screens everyday! And of course, most are males! Because the females will ask, “eh, you have this?” and the males will go all out, searching frantically and downloading, trying to be hero or something.
Yeah, with greater power comes greater responsibility.
Power refers to the ability to find something you desire. Power also refers to the ease and speed of finding a particular thing.
I wonder how's South Korea, the country with the most broadband usage?
I think I have to stop, in case I fall asleep on the laptop… and my laptop will probably show me “ILLEGAL OPERATION” or something like that… lol…