More thoughts on the remix rev. [read part 1 below first?]

Another thought, and it's just a thought, just throwing this whole lot out there, trying to think in a different way from the way I think on other occasions-- who can truly say that anyone who says something is their idea is really the first to express the idea and is then entitled to complete ownership over that idea? How many times have you seen a new product and thought, "I totally thought of that a few years ago, I just didn't know how to make it happen! Damnit, I could have been a millionaire!" I mean, I love getting credit for thinking of something and collecting the praise for things I work hard to produce and develop but really who am I to say one day I won't find it fully executed with fancy packaging promoted on the Internet by someone in Russia? For example, how many of you at some point in your life have said there was a need for something that matched the design of the Snuggie?

So, yeah this is what gets spit out: The remix revolution. People that have easy to use tools to create mixtures of things that others are already interested in. A revolution filled with people that aren't looking for the gratification that they could get from creating something brand new, but a gratification they can get when x certain amount of people respond to anything they have been able to "create," because it has become easy to target the people that will respond.

It sucks, but I don't see the masses coming together to sit and really think enough to figure out something completely new to the entire world... or figure out a system to make certain, absolutely certain, that it is the first time that idea was muttered. If there is no way to fully signify a unique and new idea, a true, true, copyright, (not just a blog with a little c-in-circle sign, why would everyone try and be the first to come up with something?

I apologize if that whole rant may have seemed fairly imbecile. Oh & I'm not going to lie, I'm most certainly a remixer.


Like I said, it was just a rant of topcoat thoughts.