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Jan18

Forget SOPA: Give away your artistic product and that will stop piracy!

by Andy Crash Connell on January 18, 2012 at 2:44 am
ravenhearst74 wrote:

Who cares about Wikipedia boycotting and blacking out. How about a campaign called “do not donate to Wikipedia.” With all their plea for donations, they should not be the ones to bite the hand that feeds them. The best way to combat piracy is to give good prices and not like overprice their goods. Sometimes when I look at the homes of celebrities, moguls and other big shots, it makes me not feel bad about piracy because their money come from those little people who patronized their stuff.

I just had to copy/paste this from a recent, really biased Reuter’s online article: “Internet blackout against U.S. law fails to enlist big sites”

Personally, I think ravenhearst74’s comment is over-the-top, but it does bring up a point that many artistic venues have been challenged by since the first cave drawings, “art vs. commerce”.   As an actor, comic, writer, and career radio broadcaster, I love my crafts, NEED my outlet, but at what cost to my financial well-being?   Piracy is wrong because it’s stealing, period.  Unfortunately, the internet has numbed us to believe it’s ‘borrowing’ for this one-shot fulfillment only.

SOPA, the bill itself, can not possibly prevent piracy any more than shutting down sex trafficking  or drug rings by putting them behind bars.    However,  it will definitely quite down some very powerful, artistic distributorships for a little while if it passes.

Be real, here: A majority of us believe we are all entitled to what we ‘think we want’ at the click of a button, and at no cost except our “should cover everything” monthly cell phone, or home ISP fees.

I hope you appreciate my tongue and cheek POV here.  The need will always be greater than technology can keep up with.  This is what makes the internet great and frankly unstoppable by a stupid bill that never should have seen the light of day.

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Nov23

The Twitter Movie – An Alle Segretti Film

by Andy Crash Connell on November 23, 2011 at 7:59 am

I discovered the fun film in my timeline when I met @allesegretti on Twitter.  I’m a fan and wanted to share her Filmmaka link with my friends here.

QT version for iPhone/iPad

From her Filmaka page:

#TwitterMovie

INSPIRATION / MORE INFO: I tweet a REAL lot with Celebrities, Fans, & Sweet People. From Bus stops, buses, trains, Clubs, Shoots. I realized how SMALL the world really is.

SUBMITTED BY: Ms Alle Segretti

OCCUPATION: Producer/Director/Publicist

NATIONALITY: , RESIDES IN: London

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Nov19

51 Candles Today – November 19

by Andy Crash Connell on November 19, 2011 at 1:34 pm

Old jokes from an old jock!  Painful but quick! (Rated G)

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Nov16

Internet Freedom in Jeopardy?

by Andy Crash Connell on November 16, 2011 at 9:17 pm

 Congress is considering two controversial bills, the PROTECT-IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

Many believe these bills would ruin years of US policy and advocacy of Internet freedom by establishing a censorship system using the domain blacklisting technologies.

It’s time to get involved, rather you ‘for or agin’ as we say back home in Texas.

Does this affect you?  Do you feel that your single voice will have an impact?  If these bills are passed, what do you believe will happen to internet usage in our near future?

I would love your comments below (moderated for spam) but encourage you to at least read the bills (links above) and come up with your conclusions of what this means to you, your financial future, and technology’s ‘open source’ future.

Podcast version MP3 – Ep 2

 

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Nov16

I’ve got your ‘fit’ right here!

by Andy Crash Connell on November 16, 2011 at 12:05 am

What?  Halloween night was my last post?  What kind of timely blogger am I?

With my new iPhone, I’ve become obsessed with doing everything on a smaller screen.  My DroidX2 was a little more intuitive and had more bells for blogging than I’ve discovered so far on the new device.

I’m sure it’s faster, cooler, and blogger-friendly, but the learning curve is a tad greater than I anticipated.

Plus… I’ve been keeping a lower profile than usual.  I’ve been sending out audition materials to local radio stations… so far, just courtesy replies, “when we have a postition THAT FITS YOU, we’ll be in contact.”

Fit.  I’m beginning to hate that word lately.  Same thing they told me at Woodward Communications.  It’s that “fit” thing they’re falling back into in these hard times I suppose.

Anyway.  I’m gathering materials and guests for future podcasting from the home studio (an ironing board with lots of equipment on it).   We all have to start somewhere when we’re ‘between gigs’.

Keep your fingers crossed.  One particular radio station nearby seems to be interested in just more than a ‘decent jock that will show up for his airshift and keep his great ideas to himself’…

It’s the only thing that will save traditional radio… “old blood with new ideas”.

That’s me… my “fit”… HA!!!!!!!!

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