To be fair, I had to read it five times to get it, myself. Something about the rambling structure of one big sentence, complete with numerous redundancies and no punctuation, just makes it a bit hard to follow.
"Freetard?" Did you just switch topics mid-argument? Who the flying fuck said anything about piracy? Or "free" anything, for that matter?
Enjoy some other artists music if they release it faster, if that is your need.
This is exactly the topic at hand. Other bands are releasing legal covers of songs while the original groups are sitting on their thumbs for no reason, and the cover bands are beating them to the market. So it doesn't sound you have an argument, then.
American Constitutional law applies to anyone on American soil, not just American citizens...the "rights" outlined in the document are considered to be inalienable to all people, it's only America's sovereignty as a nation (obviously) that keeps said rights from being enforced worldwide.
Apparently on Planet Shill, anyone who disagrees with them is automatically a "thief," and will be spammed with snarky commentary and pointless links to the Trichordist accordingly.
I've been responding to that argument for more than a decade, and your side never listens. If you haven't paid attention yet to why it's idiotic to call copyright infringement "stealing" and comparing it to actual physical (and even violent) thefts, then you aren't going to start getting it today.
So you'll just have to remain unenlightened. Sorry.
I'm curious why you believe artists have no right to fair compensation for the consumption of their work?
Why do you feel you're obligated to be paid for artistic output? Personally, I've only listened to freely available (non-retail) music since late 2008. Why should anyone pay you for what someone else can do for free? Why do you feel that farting around on a musical instrument is somehow worthy of being an extrasuperspecial protected class in society, where no one has the "privilege" of hearing your music unless they pay you a ransom upfront? And worse still, people like prop up these ancient media companies seeking to destroy the internet and deprive even people like me of my free, legal content (such as declaring the Internet Archive a "rogue site").
No one wants to hear you whine about how you aren't making money. Nobody cares about your personal finances, nor should they; that's only your own concern. If you can't make a living doing what you're doing, make it a hobby. If you don't want to make it a hobby, stop doing it. Those are your only choices in the end, and no amount of pissing and moaning is going to change that.
So here it is, short and plain: Shut up and play or get out of the way.
Again, he didn't write any differently from anyone else who writes identical anti-piracy blogs. The only difference I can pick up is that those high up in the industry can pass it around as the "voice of a musician" and then pat themselves on the back, saying, "See? We're for the musicians' best interest!"
And I suspect that half the people trading around the article are people who disagree with it...although since they conveniently don't allow dissenting comments on the blog, there's no real way of knowing.
it's not a moral issue when people are convicted, sentenced to jail, and then the jail sentence is upheld by the supreme court, and the guilty are sent to jail
Correct. Never make the mistake of conflating legality with morality.
Has anyone here actually called Lowery "talentless?" I don't know if he is or not, since I'm not familiar with his output, but I don't see any personal attacks being leveled at his artistic integrity. Rather, I see a few people saying he's acting like an asshole, and others criticizing his blog writings.
I don't know why suddenly all these sources are paying attention to Lowery's writings. His stuff doesn't read any differently from the crap posted on the RIAA blog, the MPAA blog, Copyright Alliance, Copyhype, or any of a number of other pro-industry sites. He certainly doesn't say anything new...in fact, much as his material reads like something Lars Ulrich might have written about Napster more than a decade ago. Those arguments weren't convincing then, and they're less so today.
and children go through rebellious streaks Anyway, if their personality is so inclined, 'whipped' or not.
I didn't. Growing up, I only ever saw it out of children who were whipped. The more frequent the whippings, the worse the attitude.
You might be right, and there might be a reasonable amount of physical punishment one can give without crossing some line. Either way, though, it should be the parents doing it, not the schools.
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Enjoy some other artists music if they release it faster, if that is your need.
This is exactly the topic at hand. Other bands are releasing legal covers of songs while the original groups are sitting on their thumbs for no reason, and the cover bands are beating them to the market. So it doesn't sound you have an argument, then.
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"there are no monsters here..."
AMIDOINITRITE?
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So you'll just have to remain unenlightened. Sorry.
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Why do you feel you're obligated to be paid for artistic output? Personally, I've only listened to freely available (non-retail) music since late 2008. Why should anyone pay you for what someone else can do for free? Why do you feel that farting around on a musical instrument is somehow worthy of being an extrasuperspecial protected class in society, where no one has the "privilege" of hearing your music unless they pay you a ransom upfront? And worse still, people like prop up these ancient media companies seeking to destroy the internet and deprive even people like me of my free, legal content (such as declaring the Internet Archive a "rogue site").
No one wants to hear you whine about how you aren't making money. Nobody cares about your personal finances, nor should they; that's only your own concern. If you can't make a living doing what you're doing, make it a hobby. If you don't want to make it a hobby, stop doing it. Those are your only choices in the end, and no amount of pissing and moaning is going to change that.
So here it is, short and plain: Shut up and play or get out of the way.
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Starting tip: It's always easier to listen if you don't say "uhmmm" in every verbal pause.
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And if you can't feed your family doing those things, do something else instead and stop crying about it.
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And I suspect that half the people trading around the article are people who disagree with it...although since they conveniently don't allow dissenting comments on the blog, there's no real way of knowing.
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Correct. Never make the mistake of conflating legality with morality.
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I didn't. Growing up, I only ever saw it out of children who were whipped. The more frequent the whippings, the worse the attitude.
You might be right, and there might be a reasonable amount of physical punishment one can give without crossing some line. Either way, though, it should be the parents doing it, not the schools.
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There's a reason why children who are "whipped" go through rebellious streaks, and frequently abuse their parents in turn.
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