You're absolutely right about why copyrights were created, they were supposed to create a balance. A Balance between lassiez faire economics, and a society that would have a culture. However, the problem with capitalism, is that it promotes greed. Even the richest people in the world still work, still invest, knowing that it's a zero-sum game, to gain one dollar, someone has to lose at least one dollar/Euro/Rupple/Seashell. So Like most laws meant to protect the integrity of anything that isn't money, it got twisted over years and years of people trying to figure out how to profit off of it. We need a real debate, but unless you can find a way that having a real debate would make someone a ton of money, it won't be heard.
Furthermore, Artists are upset over this because in the state of affairs today, they only get a small percentage of the money their creation brings in. The label ends up ripping off most of their artists treating them like prised possesions rather than contributing artists. The Record labels, are only beneficial to a point, we are now seeing more and more artists surpassing that point. For instance, Dr. Dre no longer needed to be part of a label, so his label gave him a label of his own, so he can help the step below him, which ended up being Eminem, who surpassed that point aswell, and got his own sub-label, and now we have Shady Records, a sub-division of Aftermath, a Sub-Division of Atlantic, a sub-division of Viacom?....[not sure about that last part,] And thats when the labels are either forced into being responsible or just happen to have a heart of gold, and decide they should do that. Because in reality, now Viacom, and Clear-Channel are entirely obselete, what do they do other than own other companies?
[I can't spell, so shut the fuck up if your thinking of telling me that]
If you take like.8 seconds to click the link and look at the related article, you'll probably be more disturbed than amused. The pirate Bay being sued is no longer a big deal. They have shown time after time that they will not shut down, what they are doing isn't exactly illegal, and it CANNOT be stopped.
The artists involved want your ISPs to TRACK YOUR INTERNET ACTIVITY..... how is this not a bigger deal. The pirate bay is a fringe organization that is currently a juggernaut, fueled by broke college students and their will to change the world. But ISPs, not so fringe, not so independent, and definitely not fueled by broke college students or any will to make the world more livable. In America we should have seen this coming, patriot act and all, but Big American Douche corporations stretch overseas, so you dirty-assed foreign motherfuckers have to deal with this too.
Why is what 2 washed out artists do to piss off four Swedish kids more important than 1984-esque corporate espionage on your personal activity?
I just came from my facebook page, and I looked it over very carefully, and there isn't information on there that I care if the "corporate fat cats" know or not, does it help them to know that I am interested in "boring crap"... or that when asked to describe myself i say "I'm tall like things that look ugly music thats bad, hate dorks, but love dorky stuff".... my point is that b/c something is out there doesn't make it dangerous. and Personal information on facebook doesn't include bank accounts, credit cards or social security numbers. So why do people care?
And: Hasn't market research been doing this for years? look at cigarettes Salem, are seen as a city kind of new young hip brand, while Marlboro are the cowboy rebel cigarettes, why? becuase they found out those brands were being bought mostly by those people so they changed the image to support that
And voting data too? We[the US] can break down the votes for the past 10 elections by race, age, number of brothers and sisters, heritage, and damn near anything else we can think of.
At the very worst breakdown of privacy on this level will help alert you[facebook users] to products you may enjoy... if your so anti-corporate that that bothers you, then why do you have a facebook?
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You're absolutely right about why copyrights were created, they were supposed to create a balance. A Balance between lassiez faire economics, and a society that would have a culture. However, the problem with capitalism, is that it promotes greed. Even the richest people in the world still work, still invest, knowing that it's a zero-sum game, to gain one dollar, someone has to lose at least one dollar/Euro/Rupple/Seashell. So Like most laws meant to protect the integrity of anything that isn't money, it got twisted over years and years of people trying to figure out how to profit off of it. We need a real debate, but unless you can find a way that having a real debate would make someone a ton of money, it won't be heard. Furthermore, Artists are upset over this because in the state of affairs today, they only get a small percentage of the money their creation brings in. The label ends up ripping off most of their artists treating them like prised possesions rather than contributing artists. The Record labels, are only beneficial to a point, we are now seeing more and more artists surpassing that point. For instance, Dr. Dre no longer needed to be part of a label, so his label gave him a label of his own, so he can help the step below him, which ended up being Eminem, who surpassed that point aswell, and got his own sub-label, and now we have Shady Records, a sub-division of Aftermath, a Sub-Division of Atlantic, a sub-division of Viacom?....[not sure about that last part,] And thats when the labels are either forced into being responsible or just happen to have a heart of gold, and decide they should do that. Because in reality, now Viacom, and Clear-Channel are entirely obselete, what do they do other than own other companies? [I can't spell, so shut the fuck up if your thinking of telling me that]
If you take like .8 seconds to click the link and look at the related article, you'll probably be more disturbed than amused. The pirate Bay being sued is no longer a big deal. They have shown time after time that they will not shut down, what they are doing isn't exactly illegal, and it CANNOT be stopped.
The artists involved want your ISPs to TRACK YOUR INTERNET ACTIVITY..... how is this not a bigger deal. The pirate bay is a fringe organization that is currently a juggernaut, fueled by broke college students and their will to change the world. But ISPs, not so fringe, not so independent, and definitely not fueled by broke college students or any will to make the world more livable. In America we should have seen this coming, patriot act and all, but Big American Douche corporations stretch overseas, so you dirty-assed foreign motherfuckers have to deal with this too.
Why is what 2 washed out artists do to piss off four Swedish kids more important than 1984-esque corporate espionage on your personal activity?
I just came from my facebook page, and I looked it over very carefully, and there isn't information on there that I care if the "corporate fat cats" know or not, does it help them to know that I am interested in "boring crap"... or that when asked to describe myself i say "I'm tall like things that look ugly music thats bad, hate dorks, but love dorky stuff".... my point is that b/c something is out there doesn't make it dangerous. and Personal information on facebook doesn't include bank accounts, credit cards or social security numbers. So why do people care? And: Hasn't market research been doing this for years? look at cigarettes Salem, are seen as a city kind of new young hip brand, while Marlboro are the cowboy rebel cigarettes, why? becuase they found out those brands were being bought mostly by those people so they changed the image to support that And voting data too? We[the US] can break down the votes for the past 10 elections by race, age, number of brothers and sisters, heritage, and damn near anything else we can think of. At the very worst breakdown of privacy on this level will help alert you[facebook users] to products you may enjoy... if your so anti-corporate that that bothers you, then why do you have a facebook?