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Kanye West Is Reportedly Considering Legal Action Against the Pirate Bay
An anonymous reader writes: Kanye West apparently has a new mission: to sue The Pirate Bay. Last weekend, West announced that his new album, The Life of Pablo, would be sold exclusively as a download from his website and the artist-driven streaming music service Tidal. The news sent Tidal to No. 1 on the U.S. Apple App Store, so West pulled the album from his site and announced it wouldn't be released on other streaming services. The Internet responded by pirating his album in droves.
Tell us if he actually does sue. Otherwise, do we really care what he is considering? He might be considering a run for President, He might be considering competing in NASCAR, he might be considering any number of things, but until he actually does one of them, it's even more uninteresting.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
This totally depends. Just because you can't understand all parts of the linux kernel source code, it isn't crap code per se.
Yes, there is beauty in simplicity, but there can also be beauty in complex things. Complex poems with double and triple meaning that might not be obvious at first glance. Or things that you can't understand with background knowledge, simply because you don't share the same background as the author. What if someone writes a beautiful poem about solving a complex programming issue and the joy in that. Can everyone understand that? Is it wrong, because not everyone gets that?
Though lots of people feel like you feel. That is why almost every pop song is about love. Because that is something almost everyone, or at least everyone who buys music, can relate to. Simple and easy to understand is popular. Because it is accessible. Complex and complicated things are not popular. Thus pop songs sell better than operas. Which often is complex music that needs explaining.
Many of the "higher" arts or "fine" arts need some education or can be better enjoyed once you acquire a little background. Or to put it different: An episode of Family Guy is better enjoyed, once you get all the pop culture references. Since they use pop culture, many people get the references and thus Family Guy itself is popular.
He was only explaining it to someone who lacked either the insight, the brainpower, or the imagination to understand it himself. "If I don't get your art, then you suck" really isn't the way to go through life.
Fortunately, we don't measure literature by the ability of the least of us to understand it. If we did, James Joyce, William Burroughs, Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Coover, Baudelaire, Thomas Pynchon and many others would be unknown.
Explaining literature was my profession for 25 years. You explain it until the light goes on. Sometimes it never goes on, you know? For people like that, they make reality TV.
You are welcome on my lawn.