un4scene: the thing that gives me hope, is seeing people releasing their original work under creative commons license like the Elephants Dream project. It seems that there will always be a small group of indy creators and idealists who will do things like this.

I think some archeologists a thousand years in the future will be baffled when they try to recreate popular culture trends in 2030-2040’s. Will they be able to recover all the DRM locked, self-destructible data? Or will they view that time period as cultural dark age, where all digital creativity was distinguished?

Zewrestler: good job! :) I don’t think I will buy PS3 for the following resons:

1. rootkit
2. MediaMax Spyware
3. owning patent on DRM that would prevent me from buying used games
4. constantly cripling PSP to prevent people from creating homegrown software on it
5. just to fucking expensive

I survived without a PS2 so I think I might make it without a PS3.

btw, check out http://www.animemusicvideos.org i’ve made some good videos on there.

Ok. things i have done to help the cause.

1) verbally told off a BMG sales rep.
2) written a paper in classes about the evils of RIAA
3) written my congressmen
4) avoided looking at sony laptops while laptop hunting
5) giving serious thought to not getting PS3 even though the FF series is on it.
6) drank to the eventually thought that people will wise up to this shit.

omg, those videos were just to cute. My favorite had to be the neo vs robocop one, that was just seamlessly done. :)

On to the subject though, it’s so not going to get any better anytime soon, that’s for sure. The only light in that tunnel has been the development of some shows being shown for free (Lost on the ABC site & BSG on SciFi), although it is streaming and on their terms. Meh.