I am trying to figure out how I feel about copyright, some of u know that I am a bit of a capitalist, I feel you should be paid by your worth so I kinda understand the plight of the RIAA and the MPAA .. even though they so blanetly over price thier product as well as favoring big companies instead of equal representation. I still feel like at times they have a legitimate complaint. Anyway the article that got me thinking about it all was this about youtube. The article basically says that youtube and tivo have been killed buy these idiots.
Here is my thing, I belive a certain amount of copy protection should be enforced. I belive there is nothing wrong with sharing as long as no one is profiting from it, like bittorrent. The odus is on the respective users, there is no central server or service so no one is making money off the sharing. I think that was the main gripe I had with napster is that someone was making money off other people with out giving them any of it.
I think if u make a song it is yors to make money from... if some one buys it from you and wants to give it to someone else for free, that is fine. If he sells it as is and doesn't give u significant chunk of the profit that is wrong. If he takes it changes it but it is still recongnisable as yours, then he should give u a sizeable piece of the profit made. Anything that is free to everyone is not an infingment of copyright, it is freedom of information.
I should prehaps make it clear that when I say profit, I mean gross, so materials and transport are all you can account for, labour and equipment degradation you cann't.
I know this was a boring post .. I was on my mind and I wanted to sort it out.

Things that have happened recently: spoke to sarah recently, it was good. I know I really like her and hope we will stay mates. Fruity on friday was amazing, the set up in the main room looked the balls. I think if there is a cheesy night worth going to it is gonna be fruity. Went to york on the weekend ..I only just realised how white the place is. Now I have returned to my office after a week of work/fun to see the desk fort of lo ban

the pox line still holds

I might have become Emo....

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

about working on your own is you have a lot of time to think ... it is kinda part parcel with the whole phd thing I guess, and yes, I should be thinking about my phd. Normally the things on my mind I can chat with my mates about .. just to gernerally bitch and complain, but now looking around my office there is nobody to complain to. So unfortunately my wery internet audience you will have to suffer my rather joyless rants till I can find a substitue or my mood changes.

My recent thoughts have been dwelling on the shambles of my one time "relationship". I have devised a few theories.. none I am sure which has any validation then in my own mind. I don't think my trip to NY did me any favours in the relationship department but I am pretty sure my own insanity and over active imagination didn't help much. Turns out I am uber needy.. I don't know when that happened. The trick to remaining aloof is to only date girls you don't actually like.. otherwise it is too much like hard work.

these rants are seeming to me to be more a sting of thoughts place together in incoherant babbel now .. I fear soon I will start talking to myself .. creat an alternative personality named bucky .. buy a mask and fight crime.

some guy hs moved on to andy's desk. It is wierd cos it happened so quickly. With david his desk stayed open for a few months after he left but some guy has come in with his loads of books and his neatness insiting the kinda anger in me that is most reserved for bigots, nazis and small children. Now I have not seen the guy yet .. all of his presence is in his desk.. carefully arranged .. with stuffed animals, calenders and other inane posters, but worst of all is the slippers he has under his desk as if to say "this is my house bitch!". His desk is an affront to my very soul stradelling my view of the office stating in bold letters "we have come to work anil .. you have no friends here!!"

A pox on yee Lo Mein .. wait that might be a takeaway dish .. and a pox on your houshold aswell.

I woke this morning missing sarah more then I thought possible. It isn't the sarah I have been seeing for the last couple of weeks I am missing. It was the girl who I met b4 I went to NY, the one who I was into as much as she was into me.
More then anything I hate waking up and (even though I love it) only having to look forward to work.

A lot has happened all of a sudden here and it is kinda wierd .. I know I have always been a creature of change but normally I am the one instigating the change .. this time I seem to have no control over it... well to some extent anyway.
Two of the guys in the office that have been here for my entire phd are leaving/have left, both of whome I get on with so well. It certainly has changed the way I view coming to school now .. I certainly don't look forward to it as much as I used to. It is a little wierd though .. I haven't really know these guys for that long but they are both fucking cool and of everyone in the office I guess they were the ones I actually used to hang out with after work. Andy is especially missed because now I have the messiest desk in the office .. there used to something oddly comferting about looking over at his messy fungus laden desk ..though on the other hand I have been feeling alot heathlier since he left...

Amber is also leaving soon .. which is gonna be kinda wierd .. she has become a bit of a fixture in our house adding a certain girly though slightly unkempt charm to the house. Now we run the risk of being invaded by role players and other freaks..

The other thing bothering me right now is I think I have broken up with my girlfriend ... I suppose there is no right time to do these things and in some ways I kinda feel like I did it for bad reasons.
U may ask why it is only that I think we have broken up well there has been no finality about it, the way it was left was She said she was only able to offer x in the relationship .. I said I wanted y .. she said she couldn't offer me y .. I said well let's go out and see what happens .. if it doesn't go well we call it quits and be mates .. she said okay .. then on the day feigns illness. Now I have reliably informed that this means " I don't need you or want you" .. which is fair enough .. I guess I would have at lest like to end it with a little bit of fun ( and am not talking about a good bye shag here). The wierdest part I think for me is on the day we talked about above we talked fro another hour or so about nothing .. prob one of our best conversations. I think I was more myself then then I had been in a while.

anyway cest la vie as they say.. or something like that .. god I cann't wait for firefox to have an embedded spell checker.

till next time true believers. ( I think I am regressing to my comic book geek days as a defence mechanism)

Most of u know I spell for shit and my grammer isn't the best in the world. I read lot and I love to watch discourse and social commentery but alas this has not effected my ability to write much, but I cann't help feel that if I had an editor I would actually be able to write well. I was looking at some of the emails and entries I have sent/put here ..and sometimes .. not that often .. but sometimes I amaze myself. They are witty, interesting, well thought out but mostly illegible due to spelling and grammer.

I guess I am never gonna be a best seller author but it is nice to know there are people out there who read my inane rants.

So I have now got Film four .. so I get a number of free films everyday which is nice .. most of em are actually relativly good. Right now though I am sitting through the congo .. a michel criton book.. it is is the worst film I have ever seen ..mared more by the terrible russian accent that Tim Curry puts on.

I think I have a little sado masachistic in me to continue irrespective to watch it.