Tuesday, January 18, 2005

the effort against piracy

Bush is outraged with China's rampant piracy. There are officials in many countries set out to seek and destroy these cd's, dvd's, and computer programs. Bush says he will not be satisfied until the violators get stiff prison sentences.
I ask, where is this same tenacity when it comes to many other inequalities? How about American jobs or health and retirement benefits?
When I borrow a neighbor's tool, do I owe Sears? This is what happens when there is a huge rift between the Fat Cats and Starving Rats.
How about making the artist's cd's cheaper so I don't feel so bad when I put the two songs I like on a conglomerated(blank) cd and throw the artist's away.

Sonny Bono's widow defends that it is the small groups that are feeling the hurt of piracy, after being questioned about the filthy richness of the bands bitching. However, experience reveals that the small bands put themselves onto P2P for exposure while pissing the pupils looking for legit songs and only getting shitty "covers".
The pupils can't complain because they aren't paying,( for the 4th or 9th time for the same shit they had before) and the puny bands probably don't bitch, but it's the rich m'f'ers trying to be moral and lawyers trying to convince them to give them a job.
Didn't the same thing happen when telephones replaced the telegraph?

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