Geeks in Cyberspace

I really shouldn’t be posting this since I’m supposed to be working on the outline for my paper on ownership (e.g. patents, copyrights, piracy, etc.). The problem isn’t that I can’t pick a topic because I don’t care, as is usually the case, but that I’m so damned interested in the topic that I’m having trouble finding only one aspect of it to discuss. I kind of want to talk about AllofMP3 and international copyright laws, but that would be difficult since it’s to recent to be easily found in printed resources (I really wish teachers would just embrace the Internet and assume we are smart enough not to go around citing things like eternalwanderer.com :D). I understand why they’re so anal about it, since it’s easy to get incomplete, biased, or just flat out wrong information on the interwebs, but it can be a pain if you want to talk about something that is actually relevant to the modern world, since books generally take 2-3 years to get published, and things like newspapers or even magazines don’t often cover things like this (blame big media companies). And since when are books always perfect sources. When the first edition of “High Score” came out, I could find factual inaccuracies in it off the top of my head (I haven’t seen the 2nd edition yet, though I doubt it’s much better). On the other hand if I wanted to write about piracy as it affects the music/media industry, that would be a piece of cake since I wrote a paper on it last year. I could also analyze how DRM has the potential to create “digital totalitarianism,” a phrase which I have grown rather fond of. Ugh, decisions, decisions!Edit: I decided to do the last one. Wasted quite a bit of time on it to, only for us to not get to going over it in class. Oh, well!