Author: rachelfisher-white

Differences

by rachelfisher-white

Defamation- Damage done to ones reputation caused by lying or inaccurate written or spoken statements

Libel- Information that is inaccurate or misleading presented in a written format that causes quantifiable damage

Copyright Infringement- any action (file sharing, posting videos on you tube, etc) or creation (movie, novel, comic, short story, etc) that violates another persons intellectual property rights

Parodying- any work or action meant to mock/ impersonate something else for artistic or satirical reasons. This is a type of free Speech protected by “satire” laws.

Roadshow Films vs iiNet

by rachelfisher-white

The 4th of February saw the victory of iiNet against Roadshow Films and others, for a trial in the Federal and High Courts of Australia. A body of 34 companies unsuccessfully claimed that iiNet authorised primary copyright infringement by failing to take reasonable steps to stop its customers from downloading and sharing infringing copies of films and television programs using BitTorrent.

AFACT (who spoke on behalf of the 34 companies) claimed that iiNet “had ignored requests from the companies to discipline its customers for breaking copyright laws.“[7] The managing director of iiNet, Michael Malone, claimed that “iiNet cannot disconnect a customer’s phone line based on an allegation. The alleged offence needs to be pursued by the police and proven in the courts. iiNet would then be able to disconnect the service as it had been proven that the customer had breached our Customer Relations Agreement.”

The trial judge, Justice Cowdroy of the Federal Court, found in favour of iiNet he stated that while iiNet users did infringe, this was not the responsibility of iiNet to deal with. “iiNet is not responsible if an iiNet user uses that system to bring about copyright infringement … the law recognises no positive obligation on any person to protect the copyright of another.”

While i’m all for easy access to television shows, and films and music downloads and what not.. if companies like iinet don’t stand to protect the copyright of another- who will? It seems highly unlikely that the creator of such works could spend all their time searching to see if someone has made illegal copies of their work for free use, just saying.

Facts Found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadshow_Films_v_iiNet
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/iinet-slays-hollywood-in-landmark-piracy-case-20100204-ndwr.html

Satisfaction?

by rachelfisher-white

In week 2’s Symposium Adrain discussed how satisfaction from an ending was naive.

In a sense he argued that if you were truly satisfied then you wouldn’t need to do other things, because you no longer needed satisfaction.. you wouldn’t read another book, or watch a full season of another tv show.. you’d be content because the ending of this book was fully satisfying.
As we all know, this isn’t the case. I don’t know about you but i’ve definitely read more than one book, and i sure as hell have watch more than one television series.

I don’t agree that it is naive to gain satisfaction from the ending of a book. I think that people read more books because they need to fill in time, they like books and they want to find more satisfaction, why wouldn’t readers look for more satisfaction? Just because people continue to read and indulge in things doesn’t mean they weren’t satisfied before hand, a temporal satisfaction is still satisfaction worth having and worth aiming for.

Week 2 Symposium.

by rachelfisher-white

Your life is not a story.

Adrian talked about how our lives are not stories, this set me back. I’d always considered my life as a story, never giving it much thought…

“Change your story, change your life.”… “In the end our lives are just stories, make sure yours is worth reading.”… “The tale of someone’s life begins before they are born.”

but as Adrian pointed out, nothing in a story is accidental, everything is cause and effect.. unlike life. Things happen accidentally, and sometimes for no reason. As a dreamer i’ve always wanted my life to be like a book, or movie, perhaps i’d rather if someone else was in control of my life, less responsibility that way. The truth is though, i’m in control and unfortunately I can’t write down what i want to happen and watch as it unfolds.
Reason controls nothing.

Heart Warming Video.

by rachelfisher-white

“A German student was walking in the street and noticed a homeless man trying to get some money from the pedestrians.
Unfortunately his technique was not very successful so the student asked him to borrow his bucket.
At first, the homeless man was hesitant but he agreed to… it was the choice to make because what happens next will burst you into tears!”
-the mind awakened

Deliver us From Evil 2014

by rachelfisher-white

So, I wasn’t sure how to begin.. and talking about the latest film i’d seen seems like a good way to go.

“Deliver Us From Evil” 

, ,  star in what seemed a rather thrilling film.

To my disappointment, though, this film failed to do what it promised it would… scare me.

*SPOILERS*

Coming from ‘Sinister’ director Scott Derrickson I had some pretty high expectations. Deliver us From Evil took the bone chilling music and the un-easy tone from ‘Sinister’ but unfortunately that was all. Whilst i’ll admit there was a single scene where I did cover my eyes, when Sarchie and Mendoza are playing back the Lion enclosure footage, and the possessed man jumps into an extreme close up and it turns out only Sarchie can see it. But that single scene was it. It was an extreme let down.

Whilst the acting was good, great even coming from the possessed man Santino played by , his facial expression whilst tied to the chair and his portrayal of the exorcism was the most exciting part.

What ruined the film for me was when Sarchie was searching the basement of a family who had sworn they were haunted. Whilst down there he discovers the body of a man, a painter, and maggots begin flying out of his eye and his stomach explodes with a bluey-gray liquid spilling out. The graphics were embarrassing for a movie made in 2014. It was so bad. My suspension of disbelief was shattered and I couldn’t stand the rest of the film. If they couldn’t get them to look real, they shouldn’t have used them.

All I can say was that it was a good attempt at a horror/thrilling film, but not good enough.