Week 6: Framing

-In Remix, Lessig describes analog technologies as fitting into the Read-Only culture and business model of production/consumption, but what about recordable VCRs? VCRs are analog technology, but one could record their favorite TV show if they weren’t able to watch it at its airtime and then watch it at any other time. The consumer is ‘consuming’ the content (consuming and consuming only is a characteristic of a Read-Only culture), but they are controlling their consumption.

–Brite Revolution is a music website where you pay a small amount per month ($4.99 or so) and can download a bunch of pre-release songs from different artists. Would consumers in a Read-Only culture have patronized this type of business model?

-Lessig compares the Remix of digital media to quoting other writings in a critical essay, but it is really the same thing? How do you properly cite an artist’s song in your song, like you can cite a writer’s work in your paper? How do you attach a footnote to something aural?

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