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Cyber-Space Pirates
Well, isn’t it interesting? For several decades now, an industry has emerged making major bank off musicians. They start by offering the “artist” a nice little loan to record their record and go on the road and promote it. If a single or “hit” should appear somewhere in those recordings, then the monster label might even have it played on the radio and MTV. Pretty soon, the song is stuck in the heads of everyone for over playing and has sold like hot cakes. The artists get to pay back their loan with a hand full of points, and the record label takes the majority of profit for their hard work. Maybe on the second deal or when the contracts up, the band can take a little more. Look at Led Zeppelin, if it wasn’t for the strong arms of peter grant demanding 90% of the door, it might look a lot worse for the artist than it does.
But let’s face it, major labels, the RIAA, and all their money and clowt, hell, 5 companies own all of the airs waves now anyways, are finding finding trouble in the new frontier; Share-ware. Peer-to-peer, music fans are giving Corporate America the finger and “stealing” recorded music from one another. It makes you want to ask the question, “Wouldn’t it be great if some day not only could I download the recorded track, but also the musicians themselves? Maybe I could have a free concert right in my bedroom?” The reality of the internet and share ware is simple, Technology is surpassing the economic structure. Musicians are being forced to go back out on the road and make their money the way they always have, selling tickets, T-shirts, and stickers. So, they’ll have to ask for a few more bucks, hey, if you want to see them in the flesh, it’s gonna cost you. But the records? The digitally taped versions of a song, 18 bucks a pop? Forget it. I say, never buy a record again! Yes, it’s true, I’ll advocate stealing or sharing or whatever you want to call it, because we’ve always had the right to record it off the radio any ways. A song has never been owned, hoarded, and keep in a locked box in someone’s basement or safewty deposit box for well keeping. It is suppose to be heard, shared and loved if it’s any good.
Which brings me to my next point. If the major labels hadn’t sucked up all the wonderful independent music happening in the early 90’s and put it to bed, maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess. After all, shouldn’t a record label be putting out lots of music, not just Britney Spears & N*SYNC? Do are children really love this shit or is it just being spoon fed to a television nation? After all, anyone in their early 30’s or younger have grown up on market frenzy from Stars Wars toys to Backstreet boys – does any of us or our children really find a true need for a “tickle me elmo?” WE all have the power to tell our children, “No!” You’ll just have to live without it, go paint a picture, go build a cave from the leaves you’ll be racking in the front yard. Be creative, don’t let corporate America be creative for you. And that’s the direction we’re heading, letting executives brainstorm over what they think we need. What new toy our kids or husbands need, what new color of lipstick has not been invited yet…
The future looks frightening from this angle and we all have to live in it. So, what do we do? We start by telling the RIAA, that yes, music recordings should be free, we should share, because that’s what nice children do. They share. We tell the RIAA and the major labels, we won’t buy your records for 18 a pop, hell, we won’t buy them period and if they’re going to sue us and the courts are going to put us in jail, then we just won’t have anything to do with their music. We can always say, NO! I won’t listen to your crab, I’ll turn that KROQ garbage off, I won’t make some lousey singer a multi-million when the job market has crumbled, we are too busy fueling our military and politicians with cash and watching an economy be over run by half wits blowing through our first surplus in less than 3 years. Did someone say 500 billion dollar deficit? That came quick, and to think, I wanted to someday buy a house. Shit, I might just be hoping to have a job shoveling used toys to the dumb someday? Maybe if I stack all that plastic high enough, I’ll reach the money without NASA?
So, what does all this come to? It’s really about Corporate America and disappearance of Mom & Pop. Well, I love my parents and don’t want them to disappear, I really don’t care if the rich can make money with money in the stock market and do absolutely nothing for it. Shouldn’t you have to produce more than just money? Thank god for the internet, it may be our last chance to fight back against this hell we’ve been born into, but how do we do it?
That is simple, we start at the beginning. We educate the people, the children of the people, and the children of the children of the people. Do not support what is not good for you -
Well, isn’t it interesting? For several decades now, an industry has emerged making major bank off musicians. They start by offering the “artist” a nice little loan to record their record and go on the road and promote it. If a single or “hit” should appear somewhere in those recordings, then the monster label might even have it played on the radio and MTV. Pretty soon, the song is stuck in the heads of everyone for over playing and has sold like hot cakes. The artists get to pay back their loan with a hand full of points, and the record label takes the majority of profit for their hard work. Maybe on the second deal or when the contracts up, the band can take a little more. Look at Led Zeppelin, if it wasn’t for the strong arms of peter grant demanding 90% of the door, it might look a lot worse for the artist than it does.
But let’s face it, major labels, the RIAA, and all their money and clowt, hell, 5 companies own all of the airs waves now anyways, are finding finding trouble in the new frontier; Share-ware. Peer-to-peer, music fans are giving Corporate America the finger and “stealing” recorded music from one another. It makes you want to ask the question, “Wouldn’t it be great if some day not only could I download the recorded track, but also the musicians themselves? Maybe I could have a free concert right in my bedroom?” The reality of the internet and share ware is simple, Technology is surpassing the economic structure. Musicians are being forced to go back out on the road and make their money the way they always have, selling tickets, T-shirts, and stickers. So, they’ll have to ask for a few more bucks, hey, if you want to see them in the flesh, it’s gonna cost you. But the records? The digitally taped versions of a song, 18 bucks a pop? Forget it. I say, never buy a record again! Yes, it’s true, I’ll advocate stealing or sharing or whatever you want to call it, because we’ve always had the right to record it off the radio any ways. A song has never been owned, hoarded, and keep in a locked box in someone’s basement or safewty deposit box for well keeping. It is suppose to be heard, shared and loved if it’s any good.
Which brings me to my next point. If the major labels hadn’t sucked up all the wonderful independent music happening in the early 90’s and put it to bed, maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess. After all, shouldn’t a record label be putting out lots of music, not just Britney Spears & N*SYNC? Do are children really love this shit or is it just being spoon fed to a television nation? After all, anyone in their early 30’s or younger have grown up on market frenzy from Stars Wars toys to Backstreet boys – does any of us or our children really find a true need for a “tickle me elmo?” WE all have the power to tell our children, “No!” You’ll just have to live without it, go paint a picture, go build a cave from the leaves you’ll be racking in the front yard. Be creative, don’t let corporate America be creative for you. And that’s the direction we’re heading, letting executives brainstorm over what they think we need. What new toy our kids or husbands need, what new color of lipstick has not been invited yet…
The future looks frightening from this angle and we all have to live in it. So, what do we do? We start by telling the RIAA, that yes, music recordings should be free, we should share, because that’s what nice children do. They share. We tell the RIAA and the major labels, we won’t buy your records for 18 a pop, hell, we won’t buy them period and if they’re going to sue us and the courts are going to put us in jail, then we just won’t have anything to do with their music. We can always say, NO! I won’t listen to your crab, I’ll turn that KROQ garbage off, I won’t make some lousey singer a multi-million when the job market has crumbled, we are too busy fueling our military and politicians with cash and watching an economy be over run by half wits blowing through our first surplus in less than 3 years. Did someone say 500 billion dollar deficit? That came quick, and to think, I wanted to someday buy a house. Shit, I might just be hoping to have a job shoveling used toys to the dumb someday? Maybe if I stack all that plastic high enough, I’ll reach the money without NASA?
So, what does all this come to? It’s really about Corporate America and disappearance of Mom & Pop. Well, I love my parents and don’t want them to disappear, I really don’t care if the rich can make money with money in the stock market and do absolutely nothing for it. Shouldn’t you have to produce more than just money? Thank god for the internet, it may be our last chance to fight back against this hell we’ve been born into, but how do we do it?
That is simple, we start at the beginning. We educate the people, the children of the people, and the children of the children of the people. Do not support what is not good for you -
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Re: cyber space pirates?
Mon, September 22, 2003 - 9:19 PMbut what? just what ... if we like being told what to do? For the sake of argument... What if I had real fun playing computer games all day and night until I had no friends anymore. What if the only way to live is with a gun protecting the lot of land you bought by deadly force because you think that freedom is to just build a house where ever it is you think you can and not pay taxes on it. What if I had a movie theatre and you built one just across the street to steal my business, what would I do? Burn your theater down or move to another town? What if it was the last town on earth to build a movie theatre in and it was overrun by ingrates who vandalized all of the time. What would you have me do then? Would I shoot all the vandals? Would I move and forget about the movie theatre? Or would I simply learn to adapt because resistance to the system is FUTILE and will only lead to a deeper understanding of the truth which is darker than any evil in society today. NO I would paint my building like Peter Maxx and ask people to vandalize it.
We are slaves for the person making more money than us. If you make 30k and another guy makes 40k you are working for him. You are a slave to his debt and he to another. When does this debt end? When both or either of you is killed in war. The natural selection for mankind is to kill one another and war is a legal killing field as it were. To not understand this is to take for granted that the life you live is not your own to begin with. The life you live is for the posessions you create and manifest into your life. If you believe that you need to be righteous than you will seem righeous, but if you are blinded to the real truth from the righteous than your self righteousness will poison your view of the reality surrounding you. You think if they suddenly cured cancer they would tell us. NOT, what creates a need creates an industry. Out of industry people are made wealthy. Wealth propagates greed and misunderstanding. Misunderstandings about society beneath them and misunderstanding about how it got that way. If you want to raise a flag and shake a stick at the greed in the world look at the wealthy and ask yourself... how the fuck did that person become so wealthy? Was it honest money, or did they sell out the masses for a buck apiece. Ask the question and seek the answer... to kill the rich.
Kill the wealthy and kill the powerful. I have one thing that would be important but will never be learned and one thing that is learned but will never be important... true compassion. It doesn't exist in the world of wealth. The wealthy are the reason we suffer so. They hoard all the money by the names on their letter head.
