here's a pirate

First of all, here's a pirate. I don't think it really has anything to do with anything but there you go. I think he's cute.

Progress..

I think my piracy project is going quite well so far.

I will post some of my development work shortly.

Piracy Myths

Okay so here is a list of the myths I intend to bust:

• Pirates only want free stuff
• Downloading music damages the artist
• No artists support piracy
• Piracy is stealing
• Piracy will kill the creative arts
• Digital piracy costs the industry billions
• Piracy is illegal, and therefore wrong
• Pirates are all young people who don't understand how society really works
• Using pay services is much easier anyway
• It isn't expensive to just pay for stuff
• You don't support the band by pirating their music

Most of these statements are claims made by anti-piracy groups, or are just common misconceptions. All that stuff about you wouldn't steal a handbag, and it's not even stealing...

Schedule

Here is a Gantt Chart showing my schedule for the Simulated Client project.

Simulated Client Project

The Brief:

Produce a short multimedia piece that informs about or illustrates Digital Piracy.

Proposal:

To answer this brief I propose to create a pro-piracy website informing about myths within anti-piracy campaigns. It will mostly focus around digital piracy within the music industry, but also touching upon the film industry.Through research of digital piracy I have discovered that there are many points argued by anti-piracy groups that can be disputed and sometimes proven wrong. Some examples are –

• Digital piracy costs the industry billions every year
• Piracy is stealing
• Pirates are all young people who don’t understand how society really works
• No artists support piracy
• You don’t support bands by pirating their music

I intend the website to be very simple but also focused on aesthetic design, with a clean, modern look conforming to current design trends. It will be created using HTML and CSS, with JavaScript being used for certain elements.

I have taken inspiration from the website' WTF Should I Make For Dinner?' with regards to how my piracy website will work.

On this website a link to a different recipe is displayed each time the page is refreshed or the user clicks the link to display a new one. I would like my piracy website to work in the same way, with a different myth displayed on each page. Using large type to state the myth, I will then give the user the option to read more information using a link. When clicked, I plan on having more text appear explaining why it is untrue. There are examples below demonstrating this.

Piracy

THIS IS A NEW YEAR

From this point everything is fresh.

I would like to make a new fancy blog on my own website, but then I know I'd get caught up in designing it when I'm actually supposed to be doing work.

So I won't.

I'll just write a big message like this saying that from this point the work will be GOOD.