After watching the movie “Rip: A Remix Manifesto” it really changed my whole perspective on how we as people use the Internet. Once watching this it showed me how people don’t usually tend to think or care what they are doing because if it benefits us then what’s the harm? A person can have two different views on this topic being good or bad. Taking things for free without actually buying it or even asking for consent is a question one must ask themselves if they are willing to take the risks with copyrights and what not and could be caught. Most of the time when I want a new song I instantly think to go on the internet and download it for free without even usually thinking about to go to sources like iTunes or any other audio places to buy a song, especially not even thinking of the consequences that might come with it. When watching the movie and seeing the DH Girltalk taking many artist song clips and cramming it into one song even though he is stealing this song in a way I believe it in itself is interesting because he is creating things that people could never even imagine. Yeah this must be wrong, but most times when people create a new song they have to get their melodies from somewhere such as what we are told past and future intertwining. For example it can be like stating every musician uses the same chords and whoever uses these chords needs to pay the person who invented this technique. In a way I believe whoever puts a work out must realize that their work in someway is going to be used without their consent one way or another. If people did not do this we wouldn’t be able to hear these great mashups. If artist who create these did it the proper way they would need to pay thousands of dollars in order to produce a three-minute songs buy paying all the artist and record labels to use it. People like myself and goes to club or bar to hear a dj sets see their favorite music being mashed up most of the times. Sometimes when I do listen to these I wonder how they even are eligible to do this. My question has obviously been answered from watching this movie but i now have a better understanding. Some artist when hearing these things believe it is great while sometimes others see this as money loss. Some times in order to famous one might have to sacrifice some loss. Overall in my opinion in order to make anything in life one must go back to the past no matter what they are doing to make something of the future being a picture or song.