It’s probably more accurate to say that once any media, such as a photograph, audio recording or movie, captures a moment and it leaves your private sphere into the public sphere, it will probably hit the internet sometime soon and you will not be able to take it off.

We need to emphasise a culture that recognises the importance of private and public spheres. Every time we upload something to the internet, we must assume that it is going to stay there as long as the internet exists. And every time we take a photograph of something WITHOUT uploading, we must guard it within the realms of our own privacy on the assumption that once it leaves our hands, it will be on the internet as long as the internet exists.

I go through this mentality every time I even type a comment, now. You have to bear in mind that future employers can look up anything you’ve ever said on public internet forums with the right search techniques, as well as future spouses. If you’ve got yourself in a way-too-embarrassing situation on the street (you’ve tripped up hilariously), your first instinct will probably be to look around and make sure noone was filming, in case your moment of failure becomes a viral meme. Even anything you click may be picked up by a site for some kind of metric advertising purpose.

The disturbing thing is that a lot of people will protest heavily against secret malware that’s made it onto their computers and watches everything they do on those computers. Especially if it is a corporation with advertising intents. But if it’s subtle DRM that you aren’t even aware of – not EA’s DRM but the much more dangerous kind of DRM that doesn’t make itself obvious – people are quite ready to throw up their arms and say that being spied on by this stuff is all justified in the name of copyright law, even although there is hardly any evidence that DRM works in the face of a determined pirate (and it just takes one – one pirate – to crack it, and wouldn’t you know, once that cracked version goes on the internet it stays on the internet as long as it exists).

Steam fans don’t seem to mind that Valve has a kill switch to all games they’ve bought from the store. If JManga decides to remove all user’s content as a result of going bust (as some contemptible way of making people pay again to get their stolen stuff back), what is to stop Valve from going down this route too if they go bust?

People can very nastily fall into psychological traps that blur the lines between private and public when on the internet.

But of course, if you are in Hyundai’s position, you’re either being very silly or very clever.

Yeah, lets make some rather weak rationalizations for their blatant abuse of Trademark.

What’s next. ya gonna tell me it’s ok for Warner to use Nyan Cat without asking? – Welllll .. they just sorta forgot about asking permission and simply used it. It’s not like they get all upset about that happening to them, amirite?

The ad may or may not be offensive that will depend on whom you ask, personally I find it amusing, and I also find suicide tragic.

Is not like that ad was condoning suicide or was target to create the need for it, just like the Family Guy cartoon with the censored episode of the character exploding a bridge by mistake after activating a cellphone he found.

And probably the best weapon against suicides may be humor, not for all cases of course.

I’m evidently a terrible person… but I think the Hyundai ad did a very good job demonstrating its point, low emmissions car. I liked it. It was interesting , it demonstrated a positive of the product , and actually FEATURED THE PRODUCT . I kinda liked it..

Looks like the guy was just steaming up the car/garage like a sauna to me – i think he just wanted to relax and get some steamy pore treatment.