[the_old_crowd] Marauders/End/Fandoms/TWT&Kirk

[silmariel]

ewe2:
> Myth, as I understand it, is a story passed on from author to author,
> each with their own touches or angles. In this sense, the audience
> cannot "edit" the story, it's being "edited" for them, the good edits
> (according to cultural taste) survive, the bad do not. Do myths
> "change" their audiences? There are better authorities than I on this
> list to argue this point. 

Is media market changing survivors from "good" to "well-marketed"? Guess DVC 
is a good example, but it may be a default. Arturo Perez Reverte says a 
writer that doesn't sell is like a bad w****. (textual)

> Not all myths are on the page or screen.

No... but movies and books are my main source of consume material. Comics are 
just too expensive, as games, so secondary. Theatre, opera, 'happenings' and 
the like, too an ocasional experience. Though I'd love to write a game 
script.

ewe2:
> No, that is precisely what I meant. Apart from myth, there are very
> few original stories. Once their intellectual property is owned, where
> do you go from there?

To micropayment on everything under the sun and macro payment on the really 
interesting stuff, as seen per the license managers. Why not? Extending the 
intellectual property has only needed that Mickey Mouse growed older, and if 
they think it's fair to register XOR, the same mentality can tax even the 
lesser mental gaps.

I read 'A Right to Read' a couple of years ago, and it scared me to actually 
know that the system depicted there was in use in a real career. Guess 
they've been put to court since, but I'm not sure.

My goverment has all the chances to let the spurious General Society of 
Authors (it functions like the BSA, in theory they are a private group, in 
fact, they do what they want and the government usually agrees and passes 
laws for them) tax everything that can be connected to a computer just in 
case you are using it to copy protected material. Hard disks, printers, 
digital cameras. As I'm on the side of the fence that never copies anything 
from the net and follows the photocopy legislation, I feel insulted and I do 
understand perfectly why it's easier to copy than to buy. I'd feel less 
stupid, to start. As with the passing of time, the number of things that are 
authomatically made to connect to a computer extends, they are forcing me to 
enter in the game and extending the game field. I liked to take photos. Now 
it's a bittersweet question. Can I join the Rebel Alliance? Anytime... 'more 
and more systems will get out of your hands'...

Resident Evil chose a perfect name for his Evil Company of Doom, Umbrella. I 
see the DRM technologies as the tool Umbrella would crave to have. Of course, 
we can pretend it is not happening, awareness is low... but as far as I'm 
concerned, it's in my agenda.

ewe2:
> Some claim that "reality" requires bad endings or no endings at all.
> Culturally, we're predisposed to good endings or at least endings that
> are definitive.

This would need another post. Reality is very bad edited. But chapter 5 is 
telling me to go and finish it...

Silmariel