In Class Post #12

       As we were watching the videos, I was thinking to myself and I didn't realize that the artists and producers had copied that much material for their movies or songs. I always wondered how they could come up with those ideas for their works, but I guess it makes sense that they took the ideas from past movies and songs. It was funny, because a lot of the movies and songs that they talked about, I didnt know, because they were too old, but some of them I could recall what they were talking about. It was funny to see how the computer came about, because nowadays, we are so spoiled with the technology that we have. Everything works so fast, for example, the internet. There are so many people, especially from this generation who have no idea what it was like to live in the 19th century with slow internet and not a whole lot of technology. 

      Just listening to the tone of the dial up internet brings back a lot of memories full of frustration when having to wait for the internet to load. This is completely irrelevant, but I noticed that a lot of the songs that they used as examples were made by African Americans. I don't really know if that has anything to do with what they were trying to say, but I just noticed it. I am not a huge Star Wars fan, and to be completely honest, I haven't even watched a whole movie all the way through, but I didn't realize that they used a lot of different movies to get the plot of Star Wars. There are probably a lot of people out the who don't realize that there is so much information out there that is stolen. I don't really know what they meant when they said it was free information to be stolen. I am sure there are a lot of fans and big moviegoers out there who would be really disappointed if they knew these producers, directors, and artists didn't really come up with all these ideas on their own.