Okay, it isn't as good as it sounds
For English, our class was told we had to do a either a persuasive speech, a one-on-one debate, or a two-on-two debate on any topic we wanted (excluding a few 'highly controversial' subjects
). My friend and I chose to do the issue of filesharing and the RIAA/MPAA. It is his job to provide an argument FOR the RIAA/MPAA, and mine to provide an argument against it. But, knowing how school is, our grades don't have to affect one another if we work together and do good. So what we've chosen to do is cooperate and have a really good debate that no one will win, but it will give the class a good idea about our topic and blow them all away
I took a poll of a few of the people in the class and got some great results that will help. We also looked up a ton of resources, several coming from writer Cory Doctorow, who has a 'soapbox' in Popular Science, if any of you are familiar with him. As stupid as it sounds, we can only have certain types of sources. I begged the teacher for five minutes trying to explain how the internet works, but she insisted that our internet information MUST be from a .GOV, .ORG, or major .COM site, as "most dot com sites can just be made by joe schmoe" ... despite that I am the curator of the not-quite-up-yet styfiles.no-ip.org :/
But, screw all that mumbo jumbo. TFP is a .org website! Yay for Tilted Forum Project! So, i'm curious, what is your input on all of this? Do you have anything that could help us out in this debate to end all debates? If so, i'd appreciate anything that's relatively constructive
