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there are too many places in these here United States were you are no longer safe to walk after dark
Such places existed in the United States 100 years ago, as well. My point is that it's not a probably only endemic to the current generation, as you're stating.
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Go walk down your street and check out the graffiti,
Graffiti has been common in any urban area since at least Roman times.
the garbage missing the can
Of course, there was no litter prior to the current generation.
the cars driving by with too loud exhaust systems and even louder MP3 players.
Low-restriction exhausts were introdueced in the 1940s, and car radios are even older than that. Hardly the current generation.
Go to the mall and see people pushing and shoving, fighting over parking spaces (and I mean actual fist fights), the amounts of shoplifting, and so on that goes on.
Which would have just as easily happened in any open-air market in London in the 1600s.
Pay a visit to the washroom to check out the teens smoking a blunt and pissing on the toilet seats.
Marijuana is new, apparently. As is poor bathroom etiquette.
On your way home, don't cut anyone off, road rage could get you killed.
"Road rage" has existed as long as the automobile, which itself is not an invention of the current generation.
Don't walk down the wrong street wearing the wrong disrespectful color
Sounds a bit like the Edo period in Japan, no? Again, not the current generation.
Here it is, as bluntly as possible: You just sound like another short-sighted, under-informed elderly individual who pines for a rose-colored past that never existed anywhere but in his own mind. Just as people griped about declining moral standards when women starting showing their ankles 100 years ago. Time marches on, but people fundamentally don't change.
Why should we fight fair against those with considerably more power to entirely shut us out?
Because they *don't* have the power to shut us entirely out. Remember who has strength in numbers.
I understand your frustration, and won't respond nearly as rudely as Mike did, but as it stands now, this is a cultural war, but not a physical one. Patience will pay off.
I don't understand why you pirate types can't understand that the party is over.
Then what are you worried about? If you think the public will forgive you for stealing their public domain and throwing them in jail for creating YouTube mashups, then start paying you money because you seem to think that you produce some content they simply can't live without, then what is it that brings you here?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Wait a sec, Mike: did the band get $1M? If so, that's plenty.
I know enough about it to stay away from it, or the so-called "art" it produces.
How is your career going? Not seeing your big mythical piles of cash, and assuming those darned PIRATES must be responsible? Your kind is so pathetic. You stand for nothing, and accomplish even less than that.
Paying an "artist" for their work is a "handout?" Did you actually just say that?
And you douches keep trotting out some variation of, "if it's a bad contract, they shouldn't have signed it." Newsflash: If virtually every contract out there follows this same model (and they do, indubitably), AND you're naive enough to believe in the "golden ticket" the recording contract is supposed to represent, then you sign whatever contract is offered to you, or you go without one.
That's because the market dictates the cost, you selfish, entitled whiner. Supply the people what they want, or stay out of the way and let others do it.
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This scenario is your worst nightmare...and one I'm personally looking forward to.
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Such places existed in the United States 100 years ago, as well. My point is that it's not a probably only endemic to the current generation, as you're stating.
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Carry on.
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Graffiti has been common in any urban area since at least Roman times.
the garbage missing the can
Of course, there was no litter prior to the current generation.
the cars driving by with too loud exhaust systems and even louder MP3 players.
Low-restriction exhausts were introdueced in the 1940s, and car radios are even older than that. Hardly the current generation.
Go to the mall and see people pushing and shoving, fighting over parking spaces (and I mean actual fist fights), the amounts of shoplifting, and so on that goes on.
Which would have just as easily happened in any open-air market in London in the 1600s.
Pay a visit to the washroom to check out the teens smoking a blunt and pissing on the toilet seats.
Marijuana is new, apparently. As is poor bathroom etiquette.
On your way home, don't cut anyone off, road rage could get you killed.
"Road rage" has existed as long as the automobile, which itself is not an invention of the current generation.
Don't walk down the wrong street wearing the wrong disrespectful color
Sounds a bit like the Edo period in Japan, no? Again, not the current generation.
Here it is, as bluntly as possible: You just sound like another short-sighted, under-informed elderly individual who pines for a rose-colored past that never existed anywhere but in his own mind. Just as people griped about declining moral standards when women starting showing their ankles 100 years ago. Time marches on, but people fundamentally don't change.
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Online discussions never look sillier than when one of the posters attempts to utilize internet slang in the middle of an otherwise serious post.
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Because they *don't* have the power to shut us entirely out. Remember who has strength in numbers.
I understand your frustration, and won't respond nearly as rudely as Mike did, but as it stands now, this is a cultural war, but not a physical one. Patience will pay off.
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It is indeed called freedom of choice. Problem?
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Then what are you worried about? If you think the public will forgive you for stealing their public domain and throwing them in jail for creating YouTube mashups, then start paying you money because you seem to think that you produce some content they simply can't live without, then what is it that brings you here?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Wait a sec, Mike: did the band get $1M? If so, that's plenty.
How is your career going? Not seeing your big mythical piles of cash, and assuming those darned PIRATES must be responsible? Your kind is so pathetic. You stand for nothing, and accomplish even less than that.
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The rest of your post is typical copywhiner ad-hominem, which is not worthy of in-depth response from me.
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And you douches keep trotting out some variation of, "if it's a bad contract, they shouldn't have signed it." Newsflash: If virtually every contract out there follows this same model (and they do, indubitably), AND you're naive enough to believe in the "golden ticket" the recording contract is supposed to represent, then you sign whatever contract is offered to you, or you go without one.
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[Citation needed]
Protip: No, they didn't.
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That's because the market dictates the cost, you selfish, entitled whiner. Supply the people what they want, or stay out of the way and let others do it.
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