Today's lecture was about video games and file sharing. Video game studies include games, gaming consoles and computers. Games are usually separated into different genres like first person shooter, racing, adventure, sports and strategy games. Gaming consoles have been there for a long time now. Military have also used games to train their personel. Video games have always had effects in the real world. for example after playing a racing game on a console people like to go fast in their vehicles. This might lead to a disaster. Do games generate voilence? I would say yes, particularly after seeing the release of heaps of first person shooter and strategy games. Then we had a bit of a discussion about the types of softwares and hardwares used in games and their consoles. We had a group discussion in the class about how a particular game becomes popular. The majority of the answers pointed towards individual intererst and marketing techniques. Then Adam played a documentry "Steal the film 2". The video dealt with file sharing on the internet. File sharing online has been promoting privacy. Downloading platforms such as mininova and limewire are being used by everyone to download stuff which they are not to. This includes making duplicate copies of movies, softwares, songs..etc. Because of this the original makers of the products are not making the money they want to. Even the copyright policy protects only the economic interest of the maker. That's pretty much it and was one of the best lectures of the course so far.
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