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Pete Episcopo -
We really had some of the same "take-aways" from this week's Copyright Issues "Readings." There was so much content that it's hard to have just a few. With that being said, the "take-aways" did have a huge range. I definitely enjoyed the "Good Copy/Bad Copy" documentary. It opened my eyes to a lot of things. I really liked the part where you talked about the payouts being like hidden phone bill fees. Even though there was zero compensation to anyone, do you remember the part about the DJ Danger Mouse (The Grey Album - a mix of Jay-Z's The Black Album and The Beatles' The White Album)? I absolutely love that album, but at the time I had NO IDEA that it was so illegal. It's funny how you can be a part of a "movement" like that and you don't even really know it.
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I also thought it was interesting that you brought up the Russian piracy segment because I thought the segment on the Swedish piracy was really interesting. The part when the guy from Pirate Bay was speaking out for his rights and reiterating that United States jurisdiction doesn't pertain to Swedish jurisdiction was very informative. I mean, I know that copyright violations are around, but if it's not in your everyday life, you don't necessarily think outside of your life bubble. It might sound a bit ignorant of me because I don't deal with copyrighted material on a regular basis, but it never really occurred to me that copyright violations were different world-wide.