01-19-2006, 03:07 AM
Sorry about that Pete.
What was that that Ghandi said about the moral obligation to disobey unjust laws and orders... Civil disobedience as a form of protest.
Sorry... Really. But when the entertainment industry treats everybody as nothing more than a common criminal, assuming everybody is devious scum, and then goes out of their way to ream people, I figure it's time to give them exactly what they want. They assume that every one is a pirate, a file sharer. That every one is guilty. That ALL consumers are scum that can not be trusted with their own media files that they bought and paid for. They are even jumping on to the fear mongering bandwagon saying that people that pirate music and sell pirated DVDs are supporting terrorists (Which makes no sense to me) and creating a big stink over the whole issue. When they are lobbying the law makers to introduce tattler software that will inform the powers that be when you do so much as email an mpeg to a friend, when they start finding ways to force entry in to our own personal private paid for computers and see what it is we do, I draw the line. With the new digital copyright laws coming down the pipeline, you can go to prison longer for sharing a single song than you will for raping a child or murdering somebody. The proposed sentences for these digital copyright violations are life sentences. Which is absurd. There is not one iota of difference between me sharing an mp3 with a friend and me making a tape copy to share. (Which, by the way, is perfectly legal.) So I can make a tape or burn a cd, but file sharing one bloody mp3 file and the whole damn world ends. Is this right? I can burn my entire collection of music to tape or CD and give it away to friends and family, and it is perfectly legal to do so under the fair use act, and I can record my entire video collection to copy videos and share them with my friends and family, and so long as I do not make a profit on it, it is perfectly legal to do so, but if I transfer those same files electronically, I am a terrible criminal that supports terrorism and am an enemy to Amerika and its hard working entertainment industry.
So kids... Who can tell me the difference on why it is perfectly legal to make a tape or burn a cd for a friend, but it's somehow wrong to share those files online? It's the same dang thing.
How and why does a song cost 99 cents or so from a downloadable music service... And why does the artist only get about 1/100th of a penny from each one of those sales? Who is the real rip off artists here?
A long time ago, England made a global tax on every vessel, on every ship, on every boat that sailed the seas. Any ship that did not pass through London to be taxed was considered piracy, and any boat lacking the seal of the Crown of England could be captured and have it's goods impounded. Any vessel of any nationality that failed to first sail to London and then on to its destination was considered a pirate vessel. Many good and innocent men fell victim to this tax. Many men were labeled as pirates because of this. Many merchants who could not afford the positively absurd cost of the tax who left their home port and tried to sail to their destination and were caught faced hanging or being sent to slave plantations in Cuba and all those little islands down there. American colony ships sailing from one colony harbour to another had to sail all the way to London first and then back to America.
If we do nothing stuff like this will happen again today.
Arrgh.
What was that that Ghandi said about the moral obligation to disobey unjust laws and orders... Civil disobedience as a form of protest.
Sorry... Really. But when the entertainment industry treats everybody as nothing more than a common criminal, assuming everybody is devious scum, and then goes out of their way to ream people, I figure it's time to give them exactly what they want. They assume that every one is a pirate, a file sharer. That every one is guilty. That ALL consumers are scum that can not be trusted with their own media files that they bought and paid for. They are even jumping on to the fear mongering bandwagon saying that people that pirate music and sell pirated DVDs are supporting terrorists (Which makes no sense to me) and creating a big stink over the whole issue. When they are lobbying the law makers to introduce tattler software that will inform the powers that be when you do so much as email an mpeg to a friend, when they start finding ways to force entry in to our own personal private paid for computers and see what it is we do, I draw the line. With the new digital copyright laws coming down the pipeline, you can go to prison longer for sharing a single song than you will for raping a child or murdering somebody. The proposed sentences for these digital copyright violations are life sentences. Which is absurd. There is not one iota of difference between me sharing an mp3 with a friend and me making a tape copy to share. (Which, by the way, is perfectly legal.) So I can make a tape or burn a cd, but file sharing one bloody mp3 file and the whole damn world ends. Is this right? I can burn my entire collection of music to tape or CD and give it away to friends and family, and it is perfectly legal to do so under the fair use act, and I can record my entire video collection to copy videos and share them with my friends and family, and so long as I do not make a profit on it, it is perfectly legal to do so, but if I transfer those same files electronically, I am a terrible criminal that supports terrorism and am an enemy to Amerika and its hard working entertainment industry.
So kids... Who can tell me the difference on why it is perfectly legal to make a tape or burn a cd for a friend, but it's somehow wrong to share those files online? It's the same dang thing.
How and why does a song cost 99 cents or so from a downloadable music service... And why does the artist only get about 1/100th of a penny from each one of those sales? Who is the real rip off artists here?
A long time ago, England made a global tax on every vessel, on every ship, on every boat that sailed the seas. Any ship that did not pass through London to be taxed was considered piracy, and any boat lacking the seal of the Crown of England could be captured and have it's goods impounded. Any vessel of any nationality that failed to first sail to London and then on to its destination was considered a pirate vessel. Many good and innocent men fell victim to this tax. Many men were labeled as pirates because of this. Many merchants who could not afford the positively absurd cost of the tax who left their home port and tried to sail to their destination and were caught faced hanging or being sent to slave plantations in Cuba and all those little islands down there. American colony ships sailing from one colony harbour to another had to sail all the way to London first and then back to America.
If we do nothing stuff like this will happen again today.
Arrgh.
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."