Friday Fives

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fridayfiver
5. Did you follow NASA's latest space mission?
4. If you could launch a politician into space, and perhaps they wouldn't make it back, who would it be?
3. Do you believe in an after-life?
2. If there really are aliens, what do you think they look like?
1. Have you ever been to Europe?

altfriday5
1. Have you ever, theoretically speaking, contemplated downloading copyrighted material (songs, tv shows, movies, etc.) from someone that did not have the rights to distribute it? Why or why not?
2. Have you ever, theoretically speaking, contemplated uploading or distributing copyrighted material (songs, tv shows, movies, etc.) that you did not have the rights to distribute? Why or why not?
3. Have you ever, theoretically speaking, contemplated buying a hard-copy of bootlegged material? Why or why not?
4. What do you think about the issue of copyright? Is it obsolete? Who does it benefit?
5. How do you feel artists would best be financially supported or rewarded for their work? (e.g. through the government, through sales of the work, through merchandise sales, through concerts or exhibitions, through royalties, etc.)




fridayfiver

5. Did you follow NASA's latest space mission?
--I followed it some --- not as much as I used to
4. If you could launch a politician into space, and perhaps they wouldn't make it back, who would it be?
-- can we just do it to all of them?
3. Do you believe in an after-life?
--YES
2. If there really are aliens, what do you think they look like?
--I don't know
1. Have you ever been to Europe?
--nope.

altfriday5

1. Have you ever, theoretically speaking, contemplated downloading copyrighted material (songs, tv shows, movies, etc.) from someone that did not have the rights to distribute it? Why or why not?
--No. I try not to intentionally break the law.

2. Have you ever, theoretically speaking, contemplated uploading or distributing copyrighted material (songs, tv shows, movies, etc.) that you did not have the rights to distribute? Why or why not?
--No. I try not to intentionally break the law.

3. Have you ever, theoretically speaking, contemplated buying a hard-copy of bootlegged material? Why or why not?
--No. I try not to intentionally break the law.

4. What do you think about the issue of copyright? Is it obsolete? Who does it benefit?
--this is too complicated for a fluffly friday five. No it's not obsolete, and yes it still needs to be reinforced. If you do away with copyrights what's next? patents?

5. How do you feel artists would best be financially supported or rewarded for their work? (e.g. through the government, through sales of the work, through merchandise sales, through concerts or exhibitions, through royalties, etc.)
--that is not up to me to say