Why don't you learn how to sell your material without monopoly privileges and stealing from the public by preventing works from lapsing into the public domain?
Do you hate children and their smiles? Does a park full of happy kids make you tense up and want to burn things? I don't think that's healthy dude - this can only end badly, with either a therapist or Chris Hansen I'd wager.
Actually, the ones who end up with Chris Hansen are the ones you enjoy kids a bit too much...
I don't know what position you work there in Shilltown, but here it is, short, plain, and nasty: You are not an artist. The people you work with aren't artists, either, because the painful, over-engineered, formulaic "for retail only" rumbling they produce is not "art."
And before you retort with the classic "Then why do you STEAL it?", the answer is I don't. I don't listen to retail music, and haven't for years. Not even for free.
To paraphrase Bill Hicks: "'I think the puppet on the left shares my values.' 'Well, I think the puppet on the right is more to my liking.' Hey, wait, they're both held by the same person..."
If the market is changing rapidly, as you claim, we ought to be seeing hundreds and thousands of musicians liberating themselves from the shackles of copyright to embrace the brave new world
They already are. Do you have *ANY* idea how many CC-licensed musicians and bands there are?
and rake in the millions (or at least half a million). That's not happening, is it?
No, not any more than there are hundreds of thousands of major label artists raking in the millions.
On a (un)related note, how did the US become a society where you need to blur out every product image in regular TV? Thats just insane.
Commercial television doesn't have to blur out product logos, but many times they elect to as to not provide free advertising. Apart from the obvious money-grubbing, it can potentially lead to situations such as, say, Honda being less likely to purchase advertising on a program where the protagonist drives a Chevrolet with a prominently placed emblem.
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Actually, the ones who end up with Chris Hansen are the ones you enjoy kids a bit too much...
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And before you retort with the classic "Then why do you STEAL it?", the answer is I don't. I don't listen to retail music, and haven't for years. Not even for free.
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No.
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I disagree. There are things worse than violence, and being told to stand by like a coward while your rights are ignored is one of them.
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You: "Ok, well the quote that that line is based on...doesn't support the notion that they would go after people hosting authorized graphics..."
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They already are. Do you have *ANY* idea how many CC-licensed musicians and bands there are?
and rake in the millions (or at least half a million). That's not happening, is it?
No, not any more than there are hundreds of thousands of major label artists raking in the millions.
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Listening to Ex Animo's Sentience as I type this...FREE and legal.
You mad?
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Commercial television doesn't have to blur out product logos, but many times they elect to as to not provide free advertising. Apart from the obvious money-grubbing, it can potentially lead to situations such as, say, Honda being less likely to purchase advertising on a program where the protagonist drives a Chevrolet with a prominently placed emblem.
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Sorry, can't hear you over the free, LEGAL music I'm blasting right now.
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The mantra of the copyright industries, in a nutshell.
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