Klosterman Vs Villainy

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Klosterman’s essay revolves around three villains: Dotcom, Hilton, and Assange. These people mostly dug their hands into copy righted information and used it to, according to Klosterman, cause villainy. After digging through photos and researching sites I realized that these issues where a lot deeper than that. A lot of the villainy taking place with these three people are tampering with the holes in our rights and it’s stirring into the issues that have already been going on around us.

D. Reading Four Essay Klosterman describes villainy as a selfish act using technology to help themselves no matter how much harm it does to the people around them. An example of a villain like this is Bernard …show more content…

Was money really worth all this tragedy? Celona writes, “Mark and his brother, Andrew, were sued this week by Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee recovering assets for the Bernard Madoff’s victims. The two brothers were brokers in their father’s firm, and have said repeatedly they didn’t know of their father’s crimes. Neither has been charged criminally, nor are charges imminent, a source familiar with the matter told The Post.” Two of his innocent sons who turned their farther in where suffering the consequences. Unlike the villians Klosterman lists in his article, Madoff does not win this one. Even though he made countless investors suffer, he suffered as well. The man is still alive in prison with stage four kidney disease and both sons dead, one to suicide and the other to cancer the following year. Not only was he busted for the crime he committed but he also suffered and made his family suffer as well. Does the misfortune he caused his family and the humans he impacted bother a selfish villain like him? With the reports of how deceiving he can be, I wouldn’t believe him even with a straight

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