Oh come on, we can argue about what a massive dinosaur RIAA and guys like Gene Simmons are all day long and I'd agree with you. But saying I don't like the price so I'm going to download it for free really is a lot like saying you don't like the price of a Cadillac so you're going to steal it instead of buying the used Geo you can afford. Just go to FYE (or Rasputins. Woot!) and stop excusing theft.
Gene Simmons does have the right to distribute his "music" as he sees fit. We have the right to say "You suck, your music sucks. Piss off", not buy it, then pay Radiohead to support the model we like. That's it.
That's beside the point of the RIAA acting like a police force (should be illegal), the DMCA's ridiculous regulations (should be repealed) and the whole business of the gross amount of access that businesses and PACs have to government (should be a seperation of business and state in the same manner and for the same reasons that there should be a seperation of church and state). This asinine way of doing business does not justify theft. Although it may eventually justify revolution if it doesn't cease.
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68newyorker @ Nov 15th 2007 12:29PM
@Dave
Oh come on, we can argue about what a massive dinosaur RIAA and guys like Gene Simmons are all day long and I'd agree with you. But saying I don't like the price so I'm going to download it for free really is a lot like saying you don't like the price of a Cadillac so you're going to steal it instead of buying the used Geo you can afford. Just go to FYE (or Rasputins. Woot!) and stop excusing theft.
Gene Simmons does have the right to distribute his "music" as he sees fit. We have the right to say "You suck, your music sucks. Piss off", not buy it, then pay Radiohead to support the model we like. That's it.
That's beside the point of the RIAA acting like a police force (should be illegal), the DMCA's ridiculous regulations (should be repealed) and the whole business of the gross amount of access that businesses and PACs have to government (should be a seperation of business and state in the same manner and for the same reasons that there should be a seperation of church and state). This asinine way of doing business does not justify theft. Although it may eventually justify revolution if it doesn't cease.