Just because something uses old stuff doesn't mean it has the same message. I highly doubt that all those "Hitler gets angry" videos convey anything remotely similar to the original. This in particular is relevant.
I just finished watching a series of gag-subbed videos that I found myself more emotionally invested in than any new movie I've seen in the last three years except War Horse.
Dragonball Z Abridged is a hell of a lot funnier than most of the shit being made today.
I've got more remixes on my iPod than I do copyrighted songs.
If you think the only things wort protecting are purely original work then you likely haven't looked much into the alternative.
Not necessarily. Even if somehow the RIAA does manage to get its 1.5 million dollar ruling back, I don't think there's a system in place to keep the rest of the Internet from chipping in.
Actually I did get that point. It was my first sentence. The rest was addressing your apparent belief that the artists are somehow taking some great risk by using them instead of a record label.
Okay, yes, now that I've looked at it, a flat rate per month wouldn't be affected by piracy. That much is true. Now for the rest of your post:
"TuneCore artists have sold over 500,000,000 units of music in the last few years and generated over a quarter billion dollars."
This was in the article that this one is based around. What was that about "when they don't sell"?
As far as taking losses, I've seen people write and record good-sounding music and post it to YouTube just for the hell of it, so it would seem that music production isn't all that expensive. Tunecore's service costs ten bucks a month, which can be earned back if a band manages to sell one album or ten individual songs. Anything short of a three-minute rendition of a banshee's wail can get more than that just by asking nicely on the right website. Overall this doesn't appear to me to be a very risky venture. Certainly less so than a system in which a merely moderately successful musician can end up owing the label nearly $400,000.
And if the legitimate competition of the RIAA isn't in support of SOPA, that should lead one to wonder how the competition handles piracy. After all, if restrictive laws are the only way to combat piracy, and piracy is a threat that needs combating, then the competition would presumably also be in favor of SOPA, right?
Half of my iPod is filled with songs and music by artists who post their work freely on YouTube and Mediafire, with the occasional Bandcamp album if I find one particularly appealing. The other half was filled before I discovered that amateur no longer means pathetic, and I only rarely listen to stuff from that half anymore. Good, original music is not as scarce or as fragile as you seem to think it is.
To be fair to the "Hollywood as filter" idea, most of the stuff Hollywood's made has elicited an emotional reaction from me. For example, I cried at The Last Airbender.
"The point is that when cars came along, the basic rules for walking or riding a horse were not enough, and as such, new laws were enacted."
Oh, I'm so glad you chose that example. You see, those new laws included the Red Flag Acts, which required that a person on foot carry a red flag 60 yards ahead of the car to warn people that a car was coming, and limited the cars to 2 miles per hour in towns and 4 in the country because it was claimed that having cars travelling at the high speeds of ten miles per hour would be disastrous for road quality. As someone who probably grew up with cars as a fact of life you should be able to see how ridiculous those laws sound. Just because new laws might be needed does not mean the laws chosen are reasonable.
No matter what the cop's response was, shutting down one shop on the say-so of the shop next door is not something I think most people would be willing to accept.
Those forums were really only necessary to find obscure things like specific examples of the aforementioned pr0n. For things the movie industry has made and is trying to sell, Vuze has a search function, as does The Pirate Bay and any other self-respecting torrent-related website. I doubt this'll impact things much.
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And when you look at a painting, what you're really seeing is just a bunch of chemicals that reflect distinct wavelengths of light arranged in a way that they imitate what the artist wanted to portray. It's only when those arrangements are parsed by your brain that it becomes expression; before then it's just gunk on paper.
I'm against current copyright laws, but this argument bugs me.
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Dragonball Z Abridged is a hell of a lot funnier than most of the shit being made today.
I've got more remixes on my iPod than I do copyrighted songs.
If you think the only things wort protecting are purely original work then you likely haven't looked much into the alternative.
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"TuneCore artists have sold over 500,000,000 units of music in the last few years and generated over a quarter billion dollars."
This was in the article that this one is based around. What was that about "when they don't sell"?
As far as taking losses, I've seen people write and record good-sounding music and post it to YouTube just for the hell of it, so it would seem that music production isn't all that expensive. Tunecore's service costs ten bucks a month, which can be earned back if a band manages to sell one album or ten individual songs. Anything short of a three-minute rendition of a banshee's wail can get more than that just by asking nicely on the right website. Overall this doesn't appear to me to be a very risky venture. Certainly less so than a system in which a merely moderately successful musician can end up owing the label nearly $400,000.
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Oh, I'm so glad you chose that example. You see, those new laws included the Red Flag Acts, which required that a person on foot carry a red flag 60 yards ahead of the car to warn people that a car was coming, and limited the cars to 2 miles per hour in towns and 4 in the country because it was claimed that having cars travelling at the high speeds of ten miles per hour would be disastrous for road quality. As someone who probably grew up with cars as a fact of life you should be able to see how ridiculous those laws sound. Just because new laws might be needed does not mean the laws chosen are reasonable.
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I'm against current copyright laws, but this argument bugs me.
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