 MchartFirst There.
join:2004-01-21
Gurnee, IL | reply to Rob
Re: Hollow Victory America was founded on people stealing goods from the British empire. America truly was founded on piracy. Debate all you want - But thats just the way it is. So for a person with an American flag as their avatar to support the RIAA goes against logic. The RIAA is literally stealing money from the people who diserve it because said people created said product. Yet since the RIAA controls all venue's said people get 'taxed'. Sound familiar? It should. |
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Dallas, TX | It isn't just the RIAA. The members of the MPAA do this as well, and Disney (one of the Big Six movie studios) is perhaps the most egregious violator of others' intellectual property rights.
Case in point: The original creator of the Lion Sleeps Tonight, which in its native tongue was called Mbube (Lion), was a South African Zulu named Solomon Linda. Disney used that song in the Lion King without giving Linda's heirs any royalties for it. So they sued the studio for $1.5 million: »www.time.com/time/magazine/artic···,00.html
If that isn't copyright infringement by one of the **AA members, I don't know what is. Or how about Edgar Bronfman,
the CEO of Sony/BMG telling his own children it really isn't all that big a deal if they download songs from the Internet over filesharing networks.
When it comes to copyright infringement, there is clearly a double standard which makes the **AAs look like hypocrites.
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)
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 RobIn Deo speramus, God Bless the USAPremium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
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said by Mchart:America was founded on people stealing goods from the British empire. America truly was founded on piracy. Debate all you want - But thats just the way it is. So for a person with an American flag as their avatar to support the RIAA goes against logic. The RIAA is literally stealing money from the people who diserve it because said people created said product. Yet since the RIAA controls all venue's said people get 'taxed'. Sound familiar? It should. Whoa. There's a big difference between our founding fathers fighting against Britain for their independence, and the RIAA. The mere fact that you even attempt to compare them just shows that you have no case and no basis and are just grasping for straws.
I never said that I agree with the RIAA. But this logic that the RIAA = evil, therefore stealing = right just baffles me. |
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MchartFirst There.
join:2004-01-21
Gurnee, IL | You should re-read what I posted, and attempt to use logic. The RIAA is very much so just like British empire was back in the day. Instead of stealing natural resources and labor by taxation, they are stealing an artists creation and labor by use of almost literal taxation. |
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RobIn Deo speramus, God Bless the USAPremium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
kudos:2 | said by Mchart:You should re-read what I posted, and attempt to use logic. The RIAA is very much so just like British empire was back in the day. Instead of stealing natural resources and labor by taxation, they are stealing an artists creation and labor by use of almost literal taxation. So that makes stealing right? The more you steal, the more you prove the **AA's point that more laws need to be created.
Justification that stealing is okay because you disagree with the **AA is just a cop out. But you keep believing that.
I'm sure our founding fathers would agree with you. |
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MchartFirst There.
join:2004-01-21
Gurnee, IL | They would agree with me. Not only did they not pay their taxes to the American colonies government, but they stole and desecrated product from Britain to.
Just because I support pirating music doesn't mean I support pirating other material. But pirating music is a means to the greater end in terms of bringing down the RIAA. Certain bands and artists allready realize this. Thats why I bought the latest nine inch nail's album. |
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