Spy? Sapping MY project?

Team Fortress 2 title reference today, in case you happen to be a girl or DOTA player.

We're about 90% completed, the remaining 10 integers comprised mostly of slapping pretty sparkly stickers onto our work and generally wondering exactly how badly we did. It's not that I dislike my work; I feel that our work reflects exactly how much effort we put into it. What I am concerned about is the wisdom of letting anyone else see it until the deadline.

There's been a bit of buzzing about copied ideas lately, which I think everyone should have seen coming, especially after the whole course tried jumping on the storyline/greenscreen/stopmotion bandwagon together. It's a fact that our seniors specifically refrained from such technology, with the exception of one or two videos, and even those videos either failed or kept such techniques to a minimum. Whether they did so out of laziness or wisdom is relevant, the fact remains that they mostly kept to a straightfoward video doing exactly what the brief asked them to.

Anyway, my point is, you're all pretty much bumming ideas of each other, fools. Even my group bums ideas off the best of last year's work. I suppose that since we're all designers, I should call it inspiration, although the term has to be stetched a bit.

Perhaps you lecturers, the ones marking my post and eagerly dropping marks for having the sheer audacity (by the way, please, please, PLEASE put that program into the labs again) to address you directly without first kissing your lovely bottoms should think of making us all patent and completely copyright every single bit of work we intend to do. It might even help us in the industry, if you think about it. Our seniors are constantly getting their lawsuits handed to them by the lovely people at thepiratebay.org.

But it is ironic when people using a cracked application on a laptop accuses the person next to them of stealing intellectual property. We bitch (pardon my slang) about stealing, then start listening to music that most certainly hasn't been cleared to go on Youtube. I'm sure you lecturers could afford to appreciate the situation.

Peace out,
Bryan

you always find the words to say to keep me right here waiting