How to do your part and support the revolution (Score 1, Interesting)

Too often, users on sites like these believe that they are doing all they can to "stick it to the man," by leeching files from Gnutella and AudioGalaxy instead of buying CDs. These users believe that their actions cause damage to the music industry and will eventually help one day to overthrow their viselike grip on the production of music in this country. Although this assumption is partially correct, there are other things that will help expedite the death of the music giants and create a freer market in which quality music will prosper and no-talent hacks will not. Here I will outline some of the steps you can take:

• Never buy music. Ever. Every dollar that you pump into the RIAA is 50 cents spent suppressing free speech on the net, and 50 cents spent promoting the latest boy band. If you want to support an artist, send them money directly.
• Share all of your music. Most users on today's peer-to-peer networks take a lot, but don't want to give back to the community. This is a selfish and rude attitude to take toward the people who save you from having to pay for music. I even go as far as to download music I don't even listen to, just so that I can share it with everyone else. At work, I have access to an OC-192, and am proud to say that at any given time there are at least 75+ clients downloading from my song library. Share, and you will be rewarded tenfold.
• Encourage others to join the networks. Not only does this assist the PTP networks in achieving financial solvency, but it increases the selection of music on the networks and makes it easier on large servers like mine. ^_^ When I worked as a PC tech a few years back, I made a point of installing Napster on every single Windows client machine I serviced and making it load on startup. The clients loved me for it, and I felt great for helping the cause.
• Support the EFF. The EFF diligently defends the rights of the average citizen to make full use of the materials in his possession. Without the EFF on our side, large companies would have no problem installing DRM on all of our new PCs and making it almost impossible to share music that we have the fundamental right to listen to.

This is a good start; if anyone has any other ideas on helping the Revolution, please post them here.

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