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The Effect of Pirated CDs
Moderation abuser writes "The real reasons music isn't selling as much as it used to, and not a lot to do with file sharing." I'm not sure that I agree that piracy is the reason for all of the music industry woes - I think creativity also has something to do with it, but those are still some huge numbers for pirated CDs.
Good fucking God, you're a fart smeller arn't you? Do you honestly believe that the mechanism is more important than the eventual outcome?
If someone is locked in your basement and you starve them to death, or wether you just shoot them, that person is dead due to your actions.
If you copy a song or walk into the store and lift the CD, you have deprived the owner of that song of revenue and you are a theif.
Stop trying to justify your dubious actions by attempting to bend symantics. You don't have the brains for it.
Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Beates, Nick Drake, Green Day, Nirvana... The list goes on and on
Go on then. Keep naming them. For every one that you name, I'll name three single-led meat puppets. Britney Spears, Dumbitch Lopez, Sugababes, Linkin Park (yeah, fuck you, college boy rawkers), NSYNC (now that they're not underground), Backpassage Boys, B*Witched, Nelly, the slutty chick that Britney is trying to rip off now, Pink, The Cheeky Girls, Beyonce, Mis-Teeq, Mariah Carey, Justin "not a fucking virgin" Timberlake, S Club Whatever-they-are-this-week, that leathery skinned Canadian wailer (pick one), and I'm having Jennifer Lopez again, because she's so bad she counts twice.
Bring them on.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
And how's it not stealing? What ever happened to joining a band, playing YOUR music until your fingers bled, eating hand sandwiches and playing s*%thole bars with chicken wire in hopes that you'll get heard, signed and stikin' filthy rich? Let me see how some of you think...someone goes to our show...records MY stuff without MY permission...even adopts it as their own...passes it around like the very social disease living within their bodies...and now it's everywhere, maybe even on one of the media megagiants radio stations. And I live my American Dream how?? By not making one red cent off the fruits of my labor and creativity? Yeah, tell you what...go to your job, work your ass off and don't get paid for what you do and tell me that's not stealing! You know...what I described is the music people buy. Those band exist today...Seattle, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Texas. They don't want your agilation You know the bands on VH-1's "Behind the Music". You've brought that music at least twice. Once on vinyl and again remastered on CD. The new bands have even MORE incentive because the media lasts much longer and is of greater quality. Its not the huge record companies that hurt...its guys like me...playing in a band...with people liking our music. Wanna hear our music? [it doesn't matter what band I'm in] Buy a blow torch...cut open that hermetically sealed vault you call a wallet, fish out some presidential flash cards that YOU'VE WORKED FOR and pay the cover charge, buy a ticket, or buy the CD! We got to eat too!
"The first thing we must do is kill all the lawyers" - Henry VI, Wm. Shakespeare