You guys might be wondering why I spent/invest my time to this saga. That said, you’re free to speculate, while I set up my links to the video, and my analysis on the whole program episode.
The segment: YouTube – The Odex Saga – Get Rea!, Channel NewsAsia, 15 October 2007
Analysis: The segment itself is part of a larger 22-minute show, highlighting the concern for an invasion of privacy. It includes a cover on video surveillance in almost every place (streets, shopping malls etc.), this saga and how the Internet is able to track you down even to the minute details – and the risks of identity theft –. The saga was hotly watched by segments of the animé community, although expectations are low, considering how CNA did not touch specifically on the Odex saga. That said, one of the interviewees mentioned something about how it’s easy to “shoot people off” and report to the police over copyright infringement because of the legality of mp3s inside most people’s players. This is interesting. For example, I am angry that my CD sales are down. I can just ask for a huge court order to haul up all the people who have mp3 players because their mp3s are “downloaded illegally” from the cyberspace. Since mp3 has become ubiquitous to our young generation’s lifestyle, imagine the idiocy (but legally right, so to say). I think the future is either bright or dark: perhaps those who longed for the permanency of Internet freedom, you are the dying breed. Sooner or later, like the frontier US states, the Internet will be regulated, unless the young generation (the real movers of the future trends) speak up and stop the witch hunt and unbridled ligitations. Related links:
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