Plagarism Debate

Below is the Power Point presentation my group came up with:



While our debate didn't really come to a proper conclusion I believe our group came off the better with our arguments. After a little hiccup halfway through the debate we managed to get back on top. During the research for this project I had a look at the effect illegal downloads has on the music and film industries. I found that the music industry loses about $4.2 billion each year and that major U.S. film studios lost $6.1 billion in 2005 to piracy worldwide.

The debate was pretty frustrating at times, with the pirates going into little insignificant topics in an attempt to try and trip us up, hardly ever discussing the main topic of the debate. They would also keep bringing up the fact that we illegally download things ourselves so we are hypocrites, which is ridiculous seeing as none of us denied that we committed these acts and the only reason we were fighting for the law was because that was the side assigned to us for this project.

I thought it was a pretty stupid debate. The pirates could not really come up with any arguments, the law > everything. Everyone who illegally downloads something knows that it is illegal and that it is wrong. Ignorance is not an excuse when it comes to the law, unless you are underage in which case it is the parents responsibility.

That's not to say I don't illegally download, I do it and I know its wrong. I just do it because I can get away with it. Like if it was somehow technologically possible to illegally download food (delicious food) and it was near impossible for anyone to know or for you to get caught, I'd probably do that too! And so would anyone else!
That would be awesome! (but also wrong)

River Riddle

Here is my flash animation of the river riddle we did in class.

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1271726747