Kodak bye-bye?

I remember my parents using Kodak to print out their photos. We had a Kodak shop in our town and I remember it's yellow and red colour scheme well. I also remember it being quite up to date on the printing side of things.

Apparently I was wrong.

Kodak has filed for bankruptcy or whatever because their company went down the toilet.

I also remember the Kodak adverts, as far as companies go, I was quite fond of Kodak. But the name had slowly been disappearing lately and it was only when the bankruptcy was mentioned in a lecture that I actually noticed I hadn't heard the name Kodak for a while.

I did some research... I know what you're thinking. "Ryan you're a lazy *******, you don't do research!"
Well, person in my head, you are wrong, I googled it and everything.

Kodak start failing because it specialised in developing film, the business took somewhat of a nose drive when Mr. Digital came along.

Anyone else remember the phrase: Kodak Moment?
Well this is going to be their last one!
No idea why I'm getting all sentimental over a business I never used, I really have no idea what their problem was, if Jessops can make it why couldn't Kodak?

I read that Kodak was one of the companies that pioneered the creation of the digital camera and to be taken down by it is a bad case of irony.

Well that's all I have to report and further proof that I did my homework on this is that Mr. Kodak himself (a self proclaimed 'not special' high school drop-out) killed himself in 1932.
I wonder if he tried to frame somebody...

How's that for a snappy ending.
-Ryan

SOPA, PIPA and the devilish ACTA

Companies should not control the internet.
The government are doing a far better job than they think they are. It is a hard balance keeping piracy to a low and keep freedom of speech on the internet.
Corporations want this power to stop new industries and businesses from taking money from them and that is not fair, especially from my point of view. In doing this, SOPA, PIPA and ACTA will take away the majority online freedoms including sites like Wikipedia, Youtube and  even Google to a certain extent.

Sure, people put their content online and watch/listen to it for free but studies has shown that if they download content illegally and like it they are more likely to discover and buy new genres and movies that they never would have previously heard of.

Bare in mind this post is a rant so not particularly structured.
I understand if I owned if I owned Warner Bros (and about forty mansions) I would want all the money I can get but as someone who uses the internet as a form of expression I don't want to lose my freedom.

It is a simple fact that piracy will always exist. It's an unstoppable force of human nature. Freedom of expression however is not.

Sony is obviously against piracy yet they sell the CD-R burners that pirates use.

I don't want to get too much into the actual documents as it's becoming and old topic now but I know what they say, what they are supposedly meant to do and I know what they will really do. They are silly.

Pirates is such a cool word.
-Ryan