Beaten to the Punch
Comments: 0 - Date: August 28th, 2006 - Categories: Personal News
You may be wondering why today’s entry is late. One of the reasons is that I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean really late last night and so didn’t spend that time writing. But the real reason is because what I was writing got shot down.
Regular readers know that I occassionally pen speculative news articles that take some current event and extrapolate it to a ridiculous extreme, and then write the article as if it were just a normal everyday story you might see like fifty years from now. Apparently, I wasn’t ridiculous enough. I currently have three in various stages of completeness, including the one I was going to post this morning which is very nearly finished.
The premise came about after contemplating how aggressively the music industry fights to protect its “intellectual property”. Many people agree, it’s getting absurd. How could this situation be more absurd? Simple: if an industry that doesn’t technically have proprietary intellectual proprerty goes after someone for violating it. Say, the government.
Can’t get much more stupid than that. The year I had attached to the article is the relatively recent 2017. Not recent enough, it turns out because this exact scenario has already happened.
[Link: Serving the Public or Saving Face?]
Throws hands up in disgust. I’m done.
-Ted