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I have to start with a quote by Kanye West to explain how I felt watching the movie “A million illegally downloaded my truth over the drums, I believe in the children, listen to the kids, bro”. This quote by him explain the thinking behind this documentary. I believe that the public should have access to things like music and big companies as long as they are modifying enough to have created something new and original. If they are just printing Mickey Mouse in a tee shirt and obtaining profit without having modify it that should be illegal. Yet if they are completely changing the way Mickey is prescribed that should be fair game. I remember in high school I asked my professor if I can use a photo that I took inside the brooklyn museum of me and artwork in the background to modify and submit it to my AP portfolio and she informed me that as long as its modified enough to be considered different application it can be done. I think the laws should work like that more often. I used an idea but like when writing an essay using an idea is not illegal if you state who inspired you. We also have to think about it practically, in the world we won’t be able to come up with a bunch of new song ideas and lyrics, most of them are going to become repeated after a while and what do we do after. Just because I mention “we been hanging outside, and going in” it shouldn’t mean another song cannot use those worlds in a different beat. It was easier coming up with new ideas in the past, because there was still ideas to come up with but not it’s becoming harder and harder to do this. I also liked what they said in the movie about these companies putting their images and songs out to us without asking us or paying us and we have to see and listen to them, but when we try to use them it is illegal. I can see how that is complicated but in a sense it’s true disney blast their image everywhere but we don’t tell them we want to see them. In a way the modern era kinda fixed this with apple music and netflix. If you think about it before we would use frostwire to download our music and it would take time and the quality might not be the best. We would be doing something illegal also and potential jail time. With the invention of apple music and other music apps like that we pay a monthly fee but are obtaining all the songs we want and staying within the rules. Same goes with netflix people would get movies illegally because it was expensive to rent a movie it used to cost five to ten bucks a night to rent a movie but with netflix and redbox that drove blockbuster down. The people want options at a cheaper price and if it’s digital even better. This is what these services offered it kinda broke the digital piracy game because now we looks for what’s more accessible. I remember being scared as a kid of using frostwire because of the news would sometimes report on people being fined for using this technology. I remember only getting two songs a day because I wanted to regulate my use so just incase I may have hid under the radar, which now that I look back at seems really silly. Just like literature, there are only a certain amount of stories that we can tell without repeating ourselves. In general we follow a certain plot and there are only like five plots down to the basics that are different everything else is just details. I really enjoyed the movie because it tackles a real topic, which is that of our freedom. If people are so concern about our guns and our ability to have them they should be concern with our creativity and our ability to use previous ideas and built upon them to create something better. Image a world that we were not able to use each other to create the world would not be close to what we have now. If we start to charge ideas not people would not be able to drop an apple because Sir Issac Newton discovered gravity and a huge company has patten that right.