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A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars
bonch writes "As an experiment, composer Jason Robert Brown logged onto a site illegally offering his sheet music for download and contacted hundreds of users, politely asking them to stop listing the material. Most complied, some were confused, and a few fought back. Brown chronicles a lengthy exchange he had with a teenage girl named Brenna, which provides an interesting insight into the artists' perspective of the copyright debate. He also responds to several points raised in comments to the article and says, 'I don't wish to be the enemy; I'm just a guy trying to make a living.'"
It's share. And we have that right, should we decide to enforce it. Or we can placidly give it up, like so many of our other rights.
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
No, I will not content myself with legal options when it's about something so nebulous as information and IP. I simply will not - the benefits to me are huge, compared to your losses from my activity. This does not mean I don't feel sad if a hundred thousand creativity leeches like me lead to your ruin, or that I somehow think that you should feel flattered and content with me "snacking on your soul" - but the responsibility for your aggregate ruin isn't mine, and I can't really manage to feel guilty about it.
Emotions! In your brain!
Then get a fucking job. If you're trying to make a living by selling information and you wind up going broke, then you have nobody to blame but yourself.
If you get the work for free from someone else, how does the person who created the work get what he needs? Or, is it fuck the guy that actually did the work because you have a copy and your friend has his copy?
This guy makes his money selling copies of his work. He makes a copy and sells it to your friend. Your friend makes a copy and sells it to you. The person that actually did the work now makes no money off of the copy you have. The money he has made from the existent copies of his work is now half of what it was before your friend made you a copy. Then, you make a copy and give it to someone. Now, his profit is cut to a third.
Get it now?
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
But I NEVER EVER see an illegal down-loader address that. They ALWAYS say they are not taking anything from the owner because its electronic.
Um, buckwheet. It took work to produce the electronic file.
Truthfully, I think we should adopt ancient ways to punish people like you. http://www.milism.net/romanarmy.htm
Common criminals, such as thieves, were stoned. The wronged population exacted revenge.
http://www.historicallocks.com/en/site/hl/Articles/Theft-and-punishment/
In the Middle Ages, fines were the most common punishment for theft, and one that was not considered dishonorable. More severe cases could be punishable by flogging, the cutting off of one or both ears or a hand, or death by hanging. Even the loss of an ear made the perpetrator’s shame permanently visible.
Flogging is a good punishment for thieves.
I have been robbed, so people like you do not think my opinion counts.
I have had scum bags take my work to further their own carrier, or at least tried to. No difference then what you are doing.
You download without paying, your a thief. Harsher punishment should be applied. I was looking for an example of disfigurement. Ie, cut your fucking balls off you mother fucker for taking something that wasn't yours.
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
So, according to your "logic", free copies should be given to everyone. Then you can have tons of "fans" while making no money whatsoever. You've obviously never created anything original.
Your argument is wrong and empty.
I was saying that copyright isn't natural, and you basically answered "Yes, that's why we had to create it, beautiful, isn't it?".
Everything that you said is so wrong, stupid and selfish at so many levels that I don't even know where to start. I will attribute this to the fact that you are a filthy jew, and therefore can't get into your thick skull the idea that there is something in this world that can't be exchanged for gold.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
You are actually right John. But I just can't help it. My friend, this things are related. Christianity is the depraved child of the most corrupt and perverted end of the Roman empire. That very concept shaped the modern occidental society. This concepts are truly christian concepts. Modern capitalism in itself is a christian idea. That's why those that understood everything that was wrong with Capitalism, like Marx and Engels did, understood that god was nothing but tool of oppression.
Anyway, I understand your point, and I certainly try to avoid anti-religious references when dealing with other subjects, but the sole mention of the catholic church causes me to rage and go into a blasphemous rant.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
Take the 'love-wave' down to your local mega mart and try and buy next weeks groceries. Then get back to us.
Not only anecdotal - but hypocritical. You want the right to make the choice between giving your work away for free or to charge for it - but you want to force him into giving his work away for free.
Thank you.
The rest of the dipshits here have their head too far up their asses to use any form of logic, which, if they had, they would have come to the same conclusion that you just did.
Fuck this idiotic slashdot 2.0 shit.
I, for one, am looking forward to the inevitable
its this sad fucking bullshit that spews from the mouth of every thieving cunt here on slashdot that makes people like me who are content creators hate pirates and want to see them shot, let alone fucking imprisoned.
This guy IS trying to amke a living, and selfish cunts like you are trying to force him out of a job to make yourselves feel superior.
Fucking a get a life you pathetic low life trash.