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    In recent years, the term ‘piracy’ has come to be applied to the unauthorized copying of music, movies and computer software. Oodles of sales are lost, we’re told, because of this kind of piracy. That’s the third kind of piracy. Traditionally, there are two other kinds. The first, of course, is the ocean-going sort, but it’s the second kind of piracy that makes all the others pale into insignificance. As you’re probably aware, Australia doesn’t have an 18+ rating for video games (though it does for other types of media such as films and publications). It’s not a stretch to see why. At the time the legislation was applied to video games, such games were the province of the young, and it is only recently that they’ve grown up, right? Wrong. From their inception, video games (particularly computer games) were played by all ages. As distribution of music (and movies and television shows including music) go increasingly digital and becoming more and more widespread, composers and songwriters are getting less money, not more. Is this because of wholesale piracy? No. It’s actually far more interesting than that. Destructoid makes a few observations on the death-toll of video-games (murders, suicides and so forth) [thanks for the link, Tigro]. I’m going to add a couple extra data points here.
Only now they’re advertising on my sidebar, quite unexpectedly (at least at the time I’m writing this), which makes me feel a bit awkward about actually posting about them. But darn it all, I was planning on writing about them anyway!
Loud. Very loud. Music. Effects. Explosions. By contrast the voices are soft. Much, much softer. You have to crank the volume up to get a good listening volume for the voices, and the – and I use the term advisedly – background music is loud enough to make the neighbours look up. Where’d the balance go? SpoilersBy: Tateru Nino(Contains no actual spoilers) For the record, I’m against spoilers. A lot of us are. We generally don’t want to know how a book or movie ends before we start reading or watching. That’s a pretty hard line to hold, these days. Within five minutes of casting, it’s hard to avoid knowing who the new Doctor Who will be, his CV, and favorite foods. It’s all over your social networks, news readers, blogs and the newspapers. It’s a little easier to hold the line on story though, but by golly, the people producing the stories make it really hard to do these days. ABC (that’s the American ABC, not the Australian one) has picked up V: The Series for its mid-season 2009-2010 schedule. Congratulations go out to Jace Hall and the cast and crew. Novel H1N1 (otherwise known as swine flu) caused quite the stir and a fair bit of fear. I’d hardly call it a panic, though there are plenty of others who are referring to what happened as one. More like apprehension and trepidation. While twitter and blogs are getting the primary blame for spreading ‘panic’, the reach of it and the demographics that appear to have been the most affected seem to lay the blame on television, and to a lesser degree newspapers and related services. Whatever social media might or might not have had to say about novel H1N1, television was saying it louder, more sensationally, more frequently and in prime-time. By contrast, the CDC was feeding far more subdued and less sensational reports into twitter, which were being spread around in turn. 
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