I don't have the option to tour the world and make money off live shows of programming.
I'd pay to see that
There is a point to copyright law, and there is a point to drug prohibition laws. Neither of these do more harm than good. If you had content (a song for example) that was a method for you to put food on the table, you would be thinking differently about copyright laws.
Copyright in well... all cases is more trouble then worth it. An artist should just get off it's lazy ass and tour the world, make money of it's live shows and not give a shit about cd's... oh but wait, the record label doesn't make any money then... well NOT SO MUCH THEN. So! The artist is NOT the one being screwed over, but the record label... now I don't give a rats ass about those guys. If I hear an album that I like, I go out and buy it. If I buy an album that isn't properly been pirated online yet, I rip it and upload it. Others that like it, will probably buy it too, if they don't they weren't planning on it anyway. So the whole "10 downloads is 10 lost sales" is a complete and utter bullshit argument by some record label dickhead.
Similarly, if you had really been affected by drug abuse whether personally or by those close to you, you wouldn't be spouting such jibberish about ending it.
Define drug abuse. Cause I know a shitload of people who are all either using drugs or have been in the past, some got fucked up on it and NOBODY of them says: it should be illegal cause it fucks you up. No, people need to think for themselves, besides now drugs is illegal the only distribution chain is through 'criminals' which well leads to all kinds of other shit. Oh and yeah, I used to live in Amsterdam where well, most drugs' are considered to be OK and guess what?! Drugs are not a real fuckin issue there!
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