Luckily, I live in a "right to resist" state, where if the police overstep their authority, I have a right to resist them, up to and including the use of deadly force.
It may sound like empty tough talk, but I'm not afraid to draw my Glock 21 if circumstances make it necessary, and I'm not afraid to die fighting injustice.
And I've said it a million times: I enjoy Creative Commons, copyleft, and Creator's Mark endorsed content. I don't give a DAMN about your retail garbage, and won't download it, not even for free.
According to the RIAA themselves, only approximately 3 out of 4 fully independent bands today "would rather" be signed to a label. I'll guarantee that number represents a lower number than 10 years ago, and dwindling every year.
Somewhere along the way, the recording industry decided that "technology companies" like Google are "pro-piracy," because they don't kowtow to frivolous industry demands, like when they refuse to censor their search results at the demands of Big Media.
McDonalds causes obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
No they don't. Overindulgence in the types of foods they sell can potentially lead to the first three of those, but it's more than possible to eat McDonald's food and not be at a higher risk for any of that.
As one who largely eschews industry media in favor of self-published (CC or otherwise) work, I'd like to think it doesn't effect me one way or another...but if you and your ilk succeed in what I suspect is your true ultimate goal (changing the internet from a communications medium to a broadcast medium), you are going to learn the hard way what the definition of "backlash" means.
Laws don't mean anything if the public decides not to follow them.
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Of course. And if they prefer to lock it up under copyright and price it above market so that nobody ever hears it, that's their right, too.
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Why don't you stop being anti-balls? Seriously, you've got a real obsession there.
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Jonathan Coulton, anyone?
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It may sound like empty tough talk, but I'm not afraid to draw my Glock 21 if circumstances make it necessary, and I'm not afraid to die fighting injustice.
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And I've said it a million times: I enjoy Creative Commons, copyleft, and Creator's Mark endorsed content. I don't give a DAMN about your retail garbage, and won't download it, not even for free.
Get it through your skull already.
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Very, very few will say "no thanks"
...the rest of them will say "hell no."
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Because people who cringe like cowards in the face of overbearing authority never accomplish anything.
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Are you suggesting that YouTube is NOT a "full-blown streaming site?"
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No they don't. Overindulgence in the types of foods they sell can potentially lead to the first three of those, but it's more than possible to eat McDonald's food and not be at a higher risk for any of that.
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Get your bad guys straight, please. It seems you've gone from "BUT, BUT PIRACY!" to "BUT, BUT MUSIC LICENSES!"
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They look after their own self-interest, yes. So does every business on the face of the planet.
It's not Google's job to make record labels money, especially not when the recording industry makes such a big production out of villainizing Google.
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Damn those savage red Indians, living off of our land, that God himself granted us!
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As one who largely eschews industry media in favor of self-published (CC or otherwise) work, I'd like to think it doesn't effect me one way or another...but if you and your ilk succeed in what I suspect is your true ultimate goal (changing the internet from a communications medium to a broadcast medium), you are going to learn the hard way what the definition of "backlash" means.
Laws don't mean anything if the public decides not to follow them.
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