Free No More
So, I just pressed “Send” on my last freelance journalist article in the foreseeable future. Oh, I’ll keep writing a game review now and then, since that’s mostly fun, but for now I’m going to devote my free time to writing fiction, coding interactive fiction, learning how to draw, and other artistic stuff I’ve been putting off or trying to squeeze into my schedule during the last decade and a change.
The Problem With Piracy Is Ignorance – Or Artists: Stop Whining And Tell The People How You Make Money
What has pissed me off royally lately is the amount of ignorance and “knowledge” in every damn discussion about piracy lately – and on both sides of the fence. I have made my living mostly from copyright fees and in TV and media for about a decade. In spite of that I’ve been very very critical about the current copyright systems, the mostly inefficient fight against piracy with block lists and ruining school kids’ lives with multimillion euro fines, and generally how outfits like MPAA, RIAA and their local counterparts function. Internet has been a game changer and the media industry dropped the ball in a pretty epic way.
Leap Into The Unknown – Farewell to Moon Nazis
As I start writing this, I’ve been unemployed for about eight hours. Yesterday was my last proper work day in Iron Sky. That job was quite an awesome adventure and worth a short retrospective.