Teen Central

I have been preparing myself to write this entry for sometime as this is bound to be one of the most ambitious entries I have written so far.  When I was a kid, I had considered animation to be something as entertainment shows purely for children based on the animated shows I have seen from Disney and Nickelodeon.  I had outgrown this sort of thing in my teenage years.  Then one day (or rather one evening) in the middle of my high school years, I have discovered and watched a Japanese animated movie called Ghost in the Shell.  I had only one word on my mind as I watched it: "whoa."  At the time, I had never seen anything like this before.  Specifically speaking, I never realized that any animated program, whether it be a movie or a TV series, can be capable of being highly sophisticated in design and mature in storytelling.  And this type of animation, I immediately realized as I watched the first minutes of Ghost in the Shell, is not geared

I meant to update this blog in the light of a few recent news items regarding the copyright problem.  Since I had found this new information this week (or last week, depending on the time you read this entry), I thought that it would be best if I share it while it is still fresh in my mind.  I had come across an online news article from Wired.com that reports of a fledgling firm that is currently buying out copyrights of newspaper articles and sueing blogs and websites that have reposted those articles without permission.  According to the CEO, money is being made from those lawsuits.  He intends on expansion, which seems to be by buying out more newspaper copyrights, which could lead to more lawsuits.  I don't know if this business of newspaper lawsuits is a good thing.  I would have to reread this article if I