"Pirates exist online. So do pedophiles, terrorists, and racist pricks. It's just like the real world. In the real work, I don't support shoplifters, so why the heck would I support the virtual version? My moral compass doesn't get blocked at my modem."
You are conflating morality and legality. For the billionth time.
Breaking the law is not inherently immoral. Most will agree it's immoral to randomly shoot people, abuse little children and to shoplift... but unauthorised file copying?
Cool story bro. In your little world, where do social media and viral trends fit in?
Accelerated word of mouth is how the good stuff usually spreads on the internet. And you are no longer constrained to a small circle of friends, you can follow complete strangers whose tastes you like. You can even check places like digg to find things you wouldn't normally look for...
In the olden days, you only got as much signal as 'they' were willing to transmit, and there was still a lot of noise. Today you get all the signal and all the noise, but the tools to discover what you want have improved a thousand-fold. In other words, your ability to find an approximation of the signal that suits your tastes has vastly improved.
Or does the good stuff float to the top, while the crap sinks to the bottom?
If there are enough people crawling the nets for the good stuff, we basically have crowdsourced filtering that can cater to many different tastes -- and each of us can contribute.
You say you don't want "to be a sheep that follows the crowd", yet it's evident you can't deal with real choice -- you want to be fed whatever the entertainment industry execs decided to feed you, because they thought it's not "a crapfest". It doesn't need to be good -- just good enough, meaning it's not I-took-a-dump-tweet bad.
You say that "Most of the talented people were already being talented before all this happened," to which I say [citation fucking needed].
Then you throw in this bombshell "Yes, some more of them have gotten exposed"...
HUH??? You clearly admit that at least some new and worthwhile talent is being exposed through the internet!
The only "downside" is that talent is not making any money for the entertainment industry execs whose artistic tastes the sheep so revere -- hey, perhaps they are even eroding the mind-share of the stuff being pumped out by the execs! Who won the best album Grammy this year? Not a major label band, for the first time in history.
If you can't deal with the power to discover your own artists, there's always MTV. Just turn off your PC, sit in front of your TV and wait for the execs to tell you what you like; just don't read any user reviews, that would make you a sheep! And god forbid, don't download any cam copies of films before you fork over cash to watch them at the cinema; that's stealing!
Sorry, no. Sony is totally within its rights to ban cheaters/hackers/whatever from the PSN, but it's NOT alright to use the courts to ruin peoples' lives.
That copyright law allows it to pull off things like this simply shows how much copyright is at odds with the speech, privacy and property rights of the public. #DMCASNAFU
Yeah, they'll subpoena you and about 30,000 other hoodlums who wandered there after following the links on Slashdot.
Except it's probably too late for that now. I bet they were planning on using the logs as an intimidation tactic to stop the info from spreading -- so whatever they do now, there's no chance of containment and intimidation is pointless.
Will they really try to sue half the internet as a show of revenge? I'd like to see them try!
Star power still exists, but the stars are the director and scriptwriters, not so much the actors. Inception wasn't itself a brand, but Christopher Nolan most definitely is.
Do you guys realise this guy has been CEO of Warner Music (1994-95), Universal Records (1995-2011) and now Sony Music Ent't? He may be a technophobe, but he does have the right connections to keep the cartel going.
Moreover, I find the timing somewhat odd, considering Universal has so far been saying they are not interested in buying up EMI. Could it be that this is a sign they may be changing their minds?
Also, I heard he's a member of the Illuminati, lol..
Btw, have you guys been checking under your cars/the backs of your necks lately? Given the sort of discussions we usually have on TechDirt (including this one, in fact), a few of us are bound to have tracking devices/missiles pointed at our mom's houses! :P
If they sue enough people this way, should even one lawsuit stick, they'll have enough precedent to do more. That's how you rewrite the law without rewriting the laws...
Will the assets of the thousands of small labels that constitute them be broken up and sold off? Will their back catalogs be broken up and auctioned off to independent labels and artist estates/copyright trolls?
Tbh, their death throes are disastrous to everything around them, but I really don't know what'll happen when they finally implode and fall apart.
The creation of music is a service, which can then be packaged as a product thanks to copyright.
In a connected world where copyright is virtually unenforceable, clever creators will find ways to sell music as a service, not as a product. That's the "adapting" part.
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You are conflating morality and legality. For the billionth time.
Breaking the law is not inherently immoral. Most will agree it's immoral to randomly shoot people, abuse little children and to shoplift... but unauthorised file copying?
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As for Google, I think it's doing a pretty good job, sorry.
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Accelerated word of mouth is how the good stuff usually spreads on the internet. And you are no longer constrained to a small circle of friends, you can follow complete strangers whose tastes you like. You can even check places like digg to find things you wouldn't normally look for...
In the olden days, you only got as much signal as 'they' were willing to transmit, and there was still a lot of noise. Today you get all the signal and all the noise, but the tools to discover what you want have improved a thousand-fold. In other words, your ability to find an approximation of the signal that suits your tastes has vastly improved.
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If there are enough people crawling the nets for the good stuff, we basically have crowdsourced filtering that can cater to many different tastes -- and each of us can contribute.
(implicitly, this is how search engines work)
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You say that "Most of the talented people were already being talented before all this happened," to which I say [citation fucking needed].
Then you throw in this bombshell "Yes, some more of them have gotten exposed"...
HUH??? You clearly admit that at least some new and worthwhile talent is being exposed through the internet!
The only "downside" is that talent is not making any money for the entertainment industry execs whose artistic tastes the sheep so revere -- hey, perhaps they are even eroding the mind-share of the stuff being pumped out by the execs! Who won the best album Grammy this year? Not a major label band, for the first time in history.
If you can't deal with the power to discover your own artists, there's always MTV. Just turn off your PC, sit in front of your TV and wait for the execs to tell you what you like; just don't read any user reviews, that would make you a sheep! And god forbid, don't download any cam copies of films before you fork over cash to watch them at the cinema; that's stealing!
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That copyright law allows it to pull off things like this simply shows how much copyright is at odds with the speech, privacy and property rights of the public. #DMCASNAFU
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Except it's probably too late for that now. I bet they were planning on using the logs as an intimidation tactic to stop the info from spreading -- so whatever they do now, there's no chance of containment and intimidation is pointless.
Will they really try to sue half the internet as a show of revenge? I'd like to see them try!
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Moreover, I find the timing somewhat odd, considering Universal has so far been saying they are not interested in buying up EMI. Could it be that this is a sign they may be changing their minds?
Also, I heard he's a member of the Illuminati, lol..
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Btw, have you guys been checking under your cars/the backs of your necks lately? Given the sort of discussions we usually have on TechDirt (including this one, in fact), a few of us are bound to have tracking devices/missiles pointed at our mom's houses! :P
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Since you are so much in the know, you must know their biggest problem is their artists leaving them. No artists, no label.
And thus, in the most likely scenario, the four will become three; in turn, the prospects of the three becoming zero become even greater.
Ohmigod, my masters are dying! whaaaaaaa.
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Will the assets of the thousands of small labels that constitute them be broken up and sold off? Will their back catalogs be broken up and auctioned off to independent labels and artist estates/copyright trolls?
Tbh, their death throes are disastrous to everything around them, but I really don't know what'll happen when they finally implode and fall apart.
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In a connected world where copyright is virtually unenforceable, clever creators will find ways to sell music as a service, not as a product. That's the "adapting" part.
That is all there is to this. Adapt or perish.
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