It's not about Copyright, it's about control...
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So you want to hear music, what would you like to listen? Good music that isn't owned by RIAA? Goodnes gracious, no! Listen to the latest boxed artificially flavored crap from Britney Mandy Simpson. Or whatever. Or listen to the rebellious millionaires who sing about being depressed.
What! There's a way for people to access music we can't sell them and don't want to re-release? NUKE IT FROM ORBIT!
It was never about copyright, it was always about control. If the album you want to listen is not on the record stores, it's on purpose because it has ceased to make revenue to the "publishers" ( forget about the 1% they give to the artist). If you happen to have it in your HDD, and you share it with people, it's not costing them sales money, it's costing them brain space in you. If you make your musical taste on your own, without the bombardment of the coporations, radios, TV, movies, etc, YOU ARE DEPRIVING THEM OF THEIR FUTURE REVENUE.
Old music is what people will always listen and remember, and are willing to pay for. It's better if they can only get it for free. How many albums have The Beatles sold between 1960-1970, and how many after that? I'm betting more after and will keep rising, quality never rots. But how many albums will B.M.S. sell in 5 to 10 years? Obviously, not counting the OD or DUI death or whatever.
The Corporations want to control what you can consume. So they are limiting your access to it.
Sure, charge it into my credit/debit card. What? No Posnet?. Ok, then i'll write a check. Can't call the bank to verify it? Ok, i'll go to the ATM. What? No ATM?. Ok, i'll go into the bank and ask the human teller to give me the cash. What? No system?. How am I supposed to pay for it?
Unless of course I get some bottlecaps... (Cue in The Ink Spots's 'Maybe').
I think the point we're all tryng to make is that the higher the bribe, the higher the official, the greater damage it causes. If I bribe a $25 DMV clerk, I might kill a few people in an accident. If I bribe a $1 billion dollar president, I get to kill Iraqis and Afghanis by the truckload (though indirectly), not to mention the return money from my "oil revenues".
It's the same here, instead of buying a Judge for $10.000 and getting over twenty times that amount in return, I bribe the DOJ for about a hundred times that, then I get (20x100) two thousand times that in return.
Thus:
1. Bribe a Judge
2. Bribe the DOJ
3. PROFIT!
Drugs as in drug cartels and designer drugs, not the weed you grow on your backyard for smoking every once in a while. Drugs as a mean of escaping reality CONSTANTLY, as an alternative of life. Drug cartels are an excellent example of capitalism. Coke & heroin are dirt cheap to make, and are sold at about a thousand times the cost.
Crime as in punks who stick you up with guns (as for knifes are for sissies~) and kill you because they dont care about a society and it's rules that entices them with things denied to them.
Pollution as in "We will not make more fuel efficient cars or alternatives because the profit margin drops 2%", "We will not install air/water filters in the factories because the profit margin drops 2%".
Capitalism does not encourage progress. Progress is costly. Capitalism is about hoarding, not about moving.
Banks are failing because they played with made-up money, and realized part of it didn't exist at all and couldn't exist at all.
Companies invest in R&D only when it benefits them. Technology is advancing quite fast, but it's kept at a slower pace because they have to recover ALL R&D costs and make a lot of money over a product before they release the next generation.
If there where no regulation at all, everyone would play only for their own interest and damn everyone else.
Socialism is the distribution of ALL wealth to EVERYBODY.
Not just "from the working middle to to the lazy bums", but from "the lazy rich & greedy speculators" to the destitute, indigent, single mothers, handicapped, orfans.
That is, people that make a gazillion dollars a year give some of it to the betterment of the living standards of the general population.
Think of this, centuries of capitalism have gotten us where:
Crime, drugs, ignorance, pollution, you name it. if the soup stinks, why don't we change the recipe?
This is not about charity or communism, is about equality.
They knew they had WMDs because THEY gave the WMDs to them.
Quote from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-iraq_war#The_Tanker_War_and_U.S._support_for_Iraq
"In 1982 with Iranian success on the battlefield, the U.S. made its backing of Iraq more pronounced, supplying it with intelligence, economic aid, normalizing relations with the government (broken during the 1967 Six-Day War), and also supplying weapons.[31] President Ronald Reagan decided that the United States "could not afford to allow Iraq to lose the war to Iran", and that the United States "would do whatever was necessary to prevent Iraq from losing the war with Iran."[32][33] President Reagan formalized this policy by issuing a National Security Decision Directive ("NSDD") to this effect in June, 1982."
They gave them the WMDs, but they couldn't be sure they got all of them in the First Iraq War.
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So you want to hear music, what would you like to listen? Good music that isn't owned by RIAA? Goodnes gracious, no! Listen to the latest boxed artificially flavored crap from Britney Mandy Simpson. Or whatever. Or listen to the rebellious millionaires who sing about being depressed.
What! There's a way for people to access music we can't sell them and don't want to re-release? NUKE IT FROM ORBIT!
It was never about copyright, it was always about control. If the album you want to listen is not on the record stores, it's on purpose because it has ceased to make revenue to the "publishers" ( forget about the 1% they give to the artist). If you happen to have it in your HDD, and you share it with people, it's not costing them sales money, it's costing them brain space in you. If you make your musical taste on your own, without the bombardment of the coporations, radios, TV, movies, etc, YOU ARE DEPRIVING THEM OF THEIR FUTURE REVENUE.
Old music is what people will always listen and remember, and are willing to pay for. It's better if they can only get it for free. How many albums have The Beatles sold between 1960-1970, and how many after that? I'm betting more after and will keep rising, quality never rots. But how many albums will B.M.S. sell in 5 to 10 years? Obviously, not counting the OD or DUI death or whatever.
The Corporations want to control what you can consume. So they are limiting your access to it.
Sure, charge it into my credit/debit card. What? No Posnet?. Ok, then i'll write a check. Can't call the bank to verify it? Ok, i'll go to the ATM. What? No ATM?. Ok, i'll go into the bank and ask the human teller to give me the cash. What? No system?. How am I supposed to pay for it? Unless of course I get some bottlecaps... (Cue in The Ink Spots's 'Maybe').
I think the point we're all tryng to make is that the higher the bribe, the higher the official, the greater damage it causes. If I bribe a $25 DMV clerk, I might kill a few people in an accident. If I bribe a $1 billion dollar president, I get to kill Iraqis and Afghanis by the truckload (though indirectly), not to mention the return money from my "oil revenues". It's the same here, instead of buying a Judge for $10.000 and getting over twenty times that amount in return, I bribe the DOJ for about a hundred times that, then I get (20x100) two thousand times that in return. Thus: 1. Bribe a Judge 2. Bribe the DOJ 3. PROFIT!
Drugs as in drug cartels and designer drugs, not the weed you grow on your backyard for smoking every once in a while. Drugs as a mean of escaping reality CONSTANTLY, as an alternative of life. Drug cartels are an excellent example of capitalism. Coke & heroin are dirt cheap to make, and are sold at about a thousand times the cost. Crime as in punks who stick you up with guns (as for knifes are for sissies~) and kill you because they dont care about a society and it's rules that entices them with things denied to them. Pollution as in "We will not make more fuel efficient cars or alternatives because the profit margin drops 2%", "We will not install air/water filters in the factories because the profit margin drops 2%". Capitalism does not encourage progress. Progress is costly. Capitalism is about hoarding, not about moving. Banks are failing because they played with made-up money, and realized part of it didn't exist at all and couldn't exist at all. Companies invest in R&D only when it benefits them. Technology is advancing quite fast, but it's kept at a slower pace because they have to recover ALL R&D costs and make a lot of money over a product before they release the next generation. If there where no regulation at all, everyone would play only for their own interest and damn everyone else.
Socialism is the distribution of ALL wealth to EVERYBODY. Not just "from the working middle to to the lazy bums", but from "the lazy rich & greedy speculators" to the destitute, indigent, single mothers, handicapped, orfans. That is, people that make a gazillion dollars a year give some of it to the betterment of the living standards of the general population. Think of this, centuries of capitalism have gotten us where: Crime, drugs, ignorance, pollution, you name it. if the soup stinks, why don't we change the recipe? This is not about charity or communism, is about equality.
They knew they had WMDs because THEY gave the WMDs to them. Quote from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-iraq_war#The_Tanker_War_and_U.S._support_for_Iraq "In 1982 with Iranian success on the battlefield, the U.S. made its backing of Iraq more pronounced, supplying it with intelligence, economic aid, normalizing relations with the government (broken during the 1967 Six-Day War), and also supplying weapons.[31] President Ronald Reagan decided that the United States "could not afford to allow Iraq to lose the war to Iran", and that the United States "would do whatever was necessary to prevent Iraq from losing the war with Iran."[32][33] President Reagan formalized this policy by issuing a National Security Decision Directive ("NSDD") to this effect in June, 1982." They gave them the WMDs, but they couldn't be sure they got all of them in the First Iraq War.
Maybe you would like something like Le Parc http://www.julioleparc.org/. In my opinion, its Escher-esque and fractal-esque. Very geeky and artsy.