Comment Re:im certain (Score 1) 269
WOW. I am fucking stunned. How is the systematic distribution of copyrighted data not the "carrying away" the "personal goods" of artists?! If you break into an artist's home and steal the master CD he sent away to be legally marketed, that's theft, but to distribute the EXACT SAME DATA you ripped off without license is what, a fundamental human right? Yeah sure, we still have our copy, but IT'S FUCKING WORTHLESS BECAUSE ANY IDIOT CAN NOW DOWNLOAD IT. Ice to eskimos? Hello?
And since I am an artist and you're too dense to figure that out, let's pretend I'm smart enough to figure out that you're not an artist. Let's run down a list of possibilities of what maybe you might be:
Plumber: suppose any idiot could take a magic X-ray picture of a house you worked on, and magically project it onto another house, so that they got paid for your work, and didn't pay you a damn thing. Since it's magic, you can't sue them. How long would you continue to be an unpaid plumber?
Cook: suppose any idiot could take a magic X-ray picture of a meal you cooked, and magically project it onto another plate, so that they got paid for your work, and didn't pay you a damn thing. Since it's magic, you can't sue them. How long would you continue to be an unpaid cook?
Taxi Driver: suppose any idiot could teleport via Google Street View? How long would you continue to be an unpaid taxi driver?
Politician: ok, bad example...
My point is that you don't seem to understand the DIGESTIVE TRACT of an artist. We need to EAT. Live gigs pay the exact same as they did in the 70's. We can't sell recordings to save our lives without coughing up HUGE percentages to labels (iTunes takes 85%). I'm doing fine because I'm diversified and established in many facets of the music industry, but it was a BITCH to get here, and I'm very lucky to have SURVIVED to this point, because I seriously would have killed myself trying if things didn't work out the way they did.
But go ahead and keep being the pirating armchair quarterback for artists. It won't make a dent in my need to create, it just causes suffering among the people you claim to respect. Might wanna ease back on the generalizing from the specific though, because it may take both hands to count all the artists you know that are happy to starve for the sake of their art, but it takes Facebook's $60B IPO to tally up all the depraved whores like yourself who have the crust to steal from artists and then tell them how they lack commitment.
Whatever he replies, please mod this fuckhead insightful again. It's part of my training to become a "true artist".