Is there a real world beyond this computer screen…

Help me, my retinas are burned in! Okay, I feel better just writing that! I just feel alot less human and a whole lot like a software interface lately. Yeeepp!

Ya its Dave Gahan Depeche Mode, but probally THE coolest fan video ever, trust me you will probally like.
(If not too bad for you, you can never get those few minutes back)

You know I get this odd conflicted feeling about the creative commons idea, I mean, I don’t know. It seems great sharing etc. I just get weirded out by the idea, that copyright protects us somewhat, and somehow the utopian share share thingy seems like it makes us sign our rights away.

You know I want to upload something I like into creative commons, not just some piece Im not happy with, and don’t mind losing control over. But there is fear, I mean really stuff that sits in our portfolios, and in our digital files not used is actually a waste of materials and time so why not toss it like seeds into the wind, and see what grows out of them.

Well I kinda have goth seeds so they will make some odd and twisted plants for sure, blackberry thorn bushes sans-fruit if you will. As I write, the emails come in from that PB wikibot, CityFarming and Urban Agriculture is on my mind! Its funny getting emails, about a wiki, about a website… Ya like a big circular file error.

Dave Gahan actually had something to say about copyright infringment, he said something to the effect that it was like someone going into your pocket and stealing your wallet, that he didnt mind personal use, but that making a channel of someones work was not to his liking. The work that someone had uploaded was not even distributed by Gahan yet, so you could imagine the pain, and financial impact of that.