In 2005 I bought my last copyright industry linked music. Since then I haven't acquired, in any way shape or form, such music. I bought all CDs by Brad Sucks and Jade Leary plus a number of CDs from Magnatune. Still, I keep paying these copyright companies directly through taxes on CDs which I use for music from musicians that have expressly choosen not to participate in classic copyright structures. Is there no way I can escape from this? No way I can exist outside this? Not acquiring the music of RIAA (and their counterparts from other countries, like BUMA/STEMRA in mine) musicians should do that. But it doesn't. I keep paying them. I pay taxes. Part of these taxes go to crime fighting and prevention. Copyright theft is part of that. I can live with that, there are many forms of crime pertaining to matters I don't partake in and I can understand the need for doing something about it just the same. That should be the beginning and end of it. Getting money from other sources and putting a specific tab on it. It also prevents the music industry from having to innovate. It stems from their warped way of seeing things: everyone consumes their product, so everyone must pay, especially because everyone steals. That these people can wield so much disproportionate influence and power defies logic.

The police said it. The police says a lot of things. The judge decides, be it a British or an American judge. Granted, customs can stop him despite that and he would have to fight it in court, which is a practical way to stop him from doing something he should be able to by law (i.e. entering the USA). The Sun said it. Call me when it's in an actual newspaper. One that has journalists.

It's sensible people in general that seem extinct. But here's my theory: there are a lot of closeted smart people from all walks of life. Yet, it is so unpopular to be smart, informed, let alone be an intellectual, most people refrain from coming out and act dumb. We need equal rights for people who use their brains.