Kids, I'm using my real name on purpose. I want you to know who I am. First, it's monotonously obvious that IP media wants to go digital for ease of use and portability. Great. I like it too. For those of you who think that just because someone has kept you from distributing their art at your boorish whim, you might consider that your indulging in a simple-minded supposition about what is yours and what is not. That I have to explain this to you is so completely dumb, I can't hardly keep typing. If you bought the item with distribution limitations (i.e. DRM, physical mediums (like a REAL book) or what ever) it is yours. You bought it as is. So, you can't instantly make a billion copies of a physical book? Good. It isn't yours to give away. It's yours to read. It isn't yours to forget at home and upload magically to your hands on the plane. It's a book. It has purposeful limitations built in. You bought this from someone who it does belong to who wanted it to have its limitations. It's still yours. You knew the limitations. Do with it whatever you want within the purposes it was made available to you for. That excludes giving a billion copies to your newsgroups or your delightfully utopian tyrannical idiot friends. Good. Too bad. Deal with it. You snides should understand how luck you are to have access to the thing at all. You are taking this too far and taking it for granted. The same goes with music. If it has DRM on it and you bought it, it's yours. To say, it isn't really mine is foolish whining. Grow up. Those failure, idealist, socialist dolts who gave you the impression that you should be able to do anything you want with whatever you bought can meet with you in their economically depressed, stupid, little worlds and bitch about it. Have fun - get nowhere. Get this kind of drivel out of my world. The void of logic it takes to say something like "if it has DRM it's not really mine" and the lack of respect you have for the artist to take that position for itself and not for what it really means, (ie, I can send the information wherever I want), is numbing. Go write your own song, book, or movie. Then choose to give it away however you want. If you decide to attach DRM to it, great. If not, great. If you are the buyer though. Whatever you buy is yours. You knew what you were buying when your undeserving little fingers pushed your lazy mouse over the purchase button. I'm not an artist. I, however, pay my artists for their art and don't complain on principle that I can't make a billion copies with the BS principle that just because I can do with it what I want doesn't mean I'm going to distribute it. Quit fooling yourselves. I hope they make it so you can never steal another song again. I hope it makes you mad. I hope this makes you mad too. That being said, healthy competition is another matter entirely. But you socialists living within the protective bubble of capitalism JUST WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT. Don't pretend you understand. You don't. You won't. You DON'T WANT TO UNDERSTAND. It's an outrage. Please be upset about this. Be real upset. Then in a few years you'll spin enough circles until you break new ground and you'll grow up - or you conspicuously won't.
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Kids, I'm using my real name on purpose. I want you to know who I am. First, it's monotonously obvious that IP media wants to go digital for ease of use and portability. Great. I like it too. For those of you who think that just because someone has kept you from distributing their art at your boorish whim, you might consider that your indulging in a simple-minded supposition about what is yours and what is not. That I have to explain this to you is so completely dumb, I can't hardly keep typing. If you bought the item with distribution limitations (i.e. DRM, physical mediums (like a REAL book) or what ever) it is yours. You bought it as is. So, you can't instantly make a billion copies of a physical book? Good. It isn't yours to give away. It's yours to read. It isn't yours to forget at home and upload magically to your hands on the plane. It's a book. It has purposeful limitations built in. You bought this from someone who it does belong to who wanted it to have its limitations. It's still yours. You knew the limitations. Do with it whatever you want within the purposes it was made available to you for. That excludes giving a billion copies to your newsgroups or your delightfully utopian tyrannical idiot friends. Good. Too bad. Deal with it. You snides should understand how luck you are to have access to the thing at all. You are taking this too far and taking it for granted. The same goes with music. If it has DRM on it and you bought it, it's yours. To say, it isn't really mine is foolish whining. Grow up. Those failure, idealist, socialist dolts who gave you the impression that you should be able to do anything you want with whatever you bought can meet with you in their economically depressed, stupid, little worlds and bitch about it. Have fun - get nowhere. Get this kind of drivel out of my world. The void of logic it takes to say something like "if it has DRM it's not really mine" and the lack of respect you have for the artist to take that position for itself and not for what it really means, (ie, I can send the information wherever I want), is numbing. Go write your own song, book, or movie. Then choose to give it away however you want. If you decide to attach DRM to it, great. If not, great. If you are the buyer though. Whatever you buy is yours. You knew what you were buying when your undeserving little fingers pushed your lazy mouse over the purchase button. I'm not an artist. I, however, pay my artists for their art and don't complain on principle that I can't make a billion copies with the BS principle that just because I can do with it what I want doesn't mean I'm going to distribute it. Quit fooling yourselves. I hope they make it so you can never steal another song again. I hope it makes you mad. I hope this makes you mad too. That being said, healthy competition is another matter entirely. But you socialists living within the protective bubble of capitalism JUST WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT. Don't pretend you understand. You don't. You won't. You DON'T WANT TO UNDERSTAND. It's an outrage. Please be upset about this. Be real upset. Then in a few years you'll spin enough circles until you break new ground and you'll grow up - or you conspicuously won't.