[Gllug] Piracy.

[Ashley Evans]

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 6:30 pm, John Hearns wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 18:15, Ashley Evans wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 March 2003 2:36 pm, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> > > Finally we may see the demise of this endless plastic digitally
> > > processed hyper-pop shite, since you can't fake good singers live (say
> > > hello, Sugarbabes).
> >
> > It's a shame but it won't be long before "live" performance will be
> > "enhanced" by computers. A crying (or is that hanging :) shame!
>
> Well, think of Damian Albarn's Gorillaz. A completely artificial band.
> If I'm not wrong, Jim Henson's Creature Shop are working on software
> which will allow Gorillaz to play live. At a guess, this is motion
> capture and real-time rendering, which is pretty interesting. And
> Hensons uses Linux too.
> This Linux stuff.. it gets everywhere.

I don't have a problem with technology, Linux or otherwise, being used 
creativily. Programming is, by many, considered an art form.

What I hate is using technolgy to promote artificial crap.

>>> (say hello, Sugarbabes).

Not that they don't look nice :)


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