Music labels fighting Digital Generation

So I was searching the web and came across this video which I think relates to our class. The music companies are suing this guy named Joel Tenenbaum. He apparently downloaded and distributed 30 tracks over the internet, and they want him to pay $675,000 in fines. I beleive that it is wrong to illegaly download music, because you are ripping off the artists who make this awesome music that you love so much that you want to download it. If you really do love it download it legally on itunes for $.99! But there is a problem with this lawsuit. First of all $675,00 is a hell of a lot of money for anyone to pay much less a 25 year old college student like Joel. But even if the fines were lowered, there is still a second issue with the lawsuit. The music companies are taking all of these fines because the think you should buy the music to support the artists, but the money they collect in fines is never seen by the artists. The companies kepp the money for themselves, now tell me THAT"S the right thing to do! I don't think so!

Please watch the video it is really interesting!

Tyler J. Immethun

Only Indians win Spelling Bees

According to the book The Digital Generation by Bauerlein, Americans between the age of 17-24 are stupid. I found a video about an Indian girl who has just won the spelling bee. This video made me think about how Bauerlein can bring any test or survey into his book and somehow make it sound like the 17-24 year age group is dumb. So in this video they say that this Indian girl has been in this spelling bee four other times and all of those times she has been in the top twelve. Well they also say that Indians have made the spelling bee into a cultural thing, so they have to at least enter enough Indians so they are bound to win the spelling bee. The announcer tells you that kids who make it to the top 212 out of 215 are Indians.
Even when the spelling bee is just suppose to be a fun and challenging thing for kids and teens to do, Bauerlein would make it a main point to show that non-Indians are too stupid to win or even try. Now if Bauerlein used the information from this news clip in his book he would have left out a lot of information. Some examples are the fact that it was a cultural thing for Indians and that they enter so many bees so that they are bound to have an Indian person win. Also, this one girl had to enter the spelling bee three times in order to win once. So really Bauerlein can use any information and take out some information here and there and make any age group sound dumb.

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