Brown Vs Black Friday

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As technology continues to advance at its breakneck pace pieces of the past are inevitably lost. Yesterday’s newest smartphone turns into today’s nostalgia. Cyber Monday grows more popular than Black Friday. Newspapers and magazine are printing less on paper and instead post articles to their website. Bills are paid by an app rather than a check. With every advancement in technology made people are pressured to adapt to this advancement and leave behind things of the past under the fear of being left behind themselves. Yet despite this constant necessity to move forward toward future horizons narrative storytelling remains popular. Books, while not always in print, still publish and given credit where credit’s due, and plays are still be shown …show more content…
Yet these mistakes don’t appear in every video game that implements storytelling. Every media form is capable of creating bad content, and for every bad video game that feature visual, auditory and mechanical flaws there is an irritating book featuring misspellings, graphic mistakes and impossible to read text.
Garrett Mathew-Jarnes Mott (2012) wrote a review of the Brown V. Entertainment
Merchants Ass’n decision to give video games the same protected rights as written works and movies in June 27, 2011 (634). He also briefly compares the case to the one that gave movies
Just a Video Game 5 protected rights as well, stating “The Burstyn Court protected movies only after the medium was widely accepted in popular culture. Similarly, the Court in Brown protected video game only after their nearly forty-year history in the public’s eye.” (654) Like movies video games started off as a media very few people believed would catch on. Yet as the technology improved and the media that took advantage of that technology gained more attention it also gained a lot more

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