This
was the penultimate week of the Peano Advertising project. We studied compression and its algorithms,
but most of the time was spent on getting together our “portfolios”. The
three pieces involved are the digital “interview”, the audio file, and the
visual portion; this week, our group began work on the audio file. Due to the whims of work distribution, this
was done by my partners; I finished up my images and worked some on the digital
interview.
We also
discussed the morality of digital “piracy”.
I definitely got the impression, from our debate with assigned sides,
that most people agreed it was wrong- at least, in the general case. Yes, sometimes one can’t get music or a movie
legally, and then draconian laws are pointless; but the amount of people that
really thought art as we know it could have evolved entirely in the public
domain was encouragingly small. All of
this is not to say I don’t think copyright is broken, but maybe the fact that
most of the class disagreed with digital piracy meant most don’t practice it.
But I
still doubt it.
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