Media Analysis Assignment

        The movie, "Rip! A Remix Manifesto?", was mainly about file sharing, the sharing of ideas and copyright. It had both sides of peoples opinions; whether individuals agree with sharing files and ideas (aka the author's opinion) or not. (aka the government) There is bias because the author thinks "The future builds on the past." and that you should be able to use your imagination to create new things, to remix things. The author made this film to help convince viewers that his opinion of sharing ideas is a good thing, and that copyright laws are too strict and should be relaxed a bit. For example, 10 year old children are being sued for something they know rarely nothing about. Plus, nobody should be sued for remixing songs, its a way of being creative. 

        

         The film maker uses an anecdote by saying "People are being sued $9000 for each song illegally downloaded." It also uses appeal to authority because the filmmaker talked to an educated lawyer named Larry Lessig. These are two things shown as proof that there is in fact bias.

          Overall I agree completely with what the author has said throughout the whole film. I do think the future builds very much on the past, and you should most definitely be able to use your imagination, use others ideas to create new and unique things, even if you do use the old ideas/footage etc. with reason and responsibly. The consequences of copyright laws are just ridiculous and over the top.