So I had a few thoughts that I thought to share with anyone who reads this blog.

First off, I was just thinking about the direction in which media is proceeding these days. Everything seems to be media enabled. In my home I have a local network with gigs and gigs of media accesible from any terminal inside the home, which of course is also accessible from the 360 hooked up the big screen downstairs. Now most people would say that this is just progress. And a few would say that I must be well off to have all this fancy stuff, but the reality of it is that none of it cost all that much. And on top of that it was all fairly simple to set up. I can see a time in the very near future when this kind of set up becomes common in most people's homes.

Which leads me to my next point. Media which changes form and presentation style as it travels your network. Now, I totally agree that content creators should be compensated for their work. I also agree that if you want a higher quality copy of the work you should have to pay for it. But if you want to view your copy of the work in a way that the content creator did not intend, then I'm sorry but the consumer should be able to choose.

I am of course talking about moving media around and viewing it on different devices. I think that as long as you are not distributing your media, then you should be allowed to do with it what you will. Rip it off the original medium, stream it to your TV, another computer, your phone, you internet tablet, whatever you want. The business model of the media industry should change to include the fact that you are not selling a disc or a tape or whatever you sell, but rather a piece of media at equal of lower quality to the original copy you give the consumer.