356 | Week 5 | Piracy

What I understand from Lessig's chapter on Piracy is that the "theft" half of it is simply out of date.... we're at a point that so many pieces of our lives are available as media on the web, usually well represented or to some extent relative. Whatever drives us to do it, be it hair-raising anger or passionate agreement, we adopt these images to change and borrow from, then feed it back into the stream of internet media for all to see.

So I think when he mentions "piracy" piracy, I always related this to theft of music and movies online for redistribution profits, but after about a years experience discovering the mass of artists on SoundCloud, people also download this same media for the same above purposes. I found this presentation on TeddTalks of Lawrence Lessig discussing how this outdated law of "piracy" puts a standstill on how broadly new art and media art may be able to borrow from.