RIAA and unintended consequences
good job, dumbbells. i used to be a stalwart defender of copy-courtesy (hardly conclusive that it’s a right) — even refusing to listen to the original of an album if i’d loaned a personal copy to someone. now, i couldn’t give a fuck less generally, and specifically, where RIAA clients are concerned, will happily do whatever i can get away with to chwag the copynazis.
that working out like you wanted, RIAA, alienating one of your bigger supporters? keeping thugging your way through life, and i predict you’ll thug your way out of a salary. i hope you get your worthless asses kicked swiftly and soundly by the jury today. fuck RIAA.
“intellectual property” is morally nowhere near the pristine, clear subject portrayed by constitution swillers. in my 20s, though explicitly not basing my view on unnatural “law”, i swore that it was. i was wrong. while i do think it’s bad form to only suck from the creation spigot, the standard proposition that non-scarce creations are identical to scarce property cannot withstand simple reductio ad absurdum. however, neither this failure nor the non-scarcity attribute fully validate blanket assumptions that non-scarce creations cannot be tied to property rights or, at least, moral pressure.
in short, i’m confused as fuck by “IP rights”, and do not take the blithe route offered up by, IMO, overly confident anti copy-courtesy voluntarists. in any case, fuck RIAA and all RIAA supporters. may they die a long overdue death, preferably at the hands of jammie thomas. when unclear claims conflict with signal flow, go with the signal.
October 4th, 2007 at 15:31
I’m with you on this. I make my living selling computer games online, so copyright law benefits me, but I prefer to call it a courtesy to me, I wouldn’t want anyone to go to jail or be fined for pirating the games I make. And I don’t copy things for the same reason, not because I think I don’t have the right to do it, but simply because the people who create those works don’t want me to, and have asked me not to, and I don’t see why I should go against their wishes if I like them.
October 4th, 2007 at 16:20
you said it, paul. BTW, i used to make a living from computer games too (legend entertainment).