As Assange and Pirate Bay would tell you, the Internet's noble purpose is to give everyone FREE information and entertainment. Just make a check and write it out to Assange. Make sure to patronize Pirate Bay's banner ads and DON'T use AD BLOCK.
I've noticed on social media, good souls posting links to "OPEN CULTURE."
Like so. Names REDACTED to protect the stupid, the insensitive and the ignorant.
Huh? What? Ooooh, woo hoo! It's a NEW WEBSITE and it's run by hip people who are aggregating the trope of the zeitgeist.
Something like that.
Somebody had the bright idea, "Why don't we hipsters point people to the BEST YOUTUBE LINKS? We'll ask for PAYPAL DONATIONS for our noble work of scoping out PAYPAL and stealing only the best links to imbed.
We'll also go to the banner-ad maggots who arrange for banner ads to appear on porn sites and Pirate Bay and other scavanger havens, and BY GOD HOW THE MONEY ROLLS IN.
Copyright? Hey, if something IS copyrighted, and not really "public domain" or "fair use" or "allowed by the GNU" or whatever else the excuse is, that's not OUR problem. We are JUST an AGGREGATE. YOUTUBE posted it, not US. We're just imbedding, sharing, profiting from their LINK.
Someone happily pointed to how fans of Poe can hear Christopher Lee reading some short stories. FREEEEEE.
FREEEEEE at der New Order, der OPEN CULTURE.
Like so:
That's ok, man. Right, man? Stick it to the Man, man.
You know all the excuses. Christopher Lee is dead, man. If he were alive, so what, as a millionaire he wouldn't need a couple of hundred bucks in royalties, man. So what if his record label can't get a digital deal because his stuff is pirated and easily available and sending takedowns takes time and money.
What else, man? Copyright is copy WRONG man. Power to the people! The PEOPLE should get stuff FREE. Let the government subsidize a designated writer, man. They do that in Russia, right? Or, keep yer day job, man, and write on the side. If yer a singer-songwriter, go pay to gig someplace, and sell t-shirts."
Inhuman nature.
People shrug, as they did when piracy first began. I've read comments from supposedly sane, mature adults, saying, "This copyright business is a kerfuffle. Why do they want to ruin our fun. Libraries "share" things. All we're doing is "sharing." These silly people crying about copyright should get a new paradigm. My word, I don't see why people should get "royalties." Get paid once, and stop fussing if your song is played on the radio. Stop this kerfuffle, you snowflakes, crying about wanting a few dollars for every book you publish. Why not be happy other people know who you are?"
This is from mature adults SO mature they're on Social Security. THEY expect a pension for doing nothing, but sigh at creative people wanting "royalties."
The sympathy is with whoever gives stuff away. The Bad Santa.
Logic be damned. Kim Dotcom became the richest man in New Zealand for the novel notion that Megaupload should be a locker where everyone uploads copyrighted material, and HE gets paid to host it all. With banner ads. He keeps the money for his "hard work." PS, if you want faster downloads, PAY him for a "Premium Account." Oh, $10 a month or so. That's REASONABLE for the hundreds of dollars of "shared" material you get in return.
He's still a hero to many. He has a half-million Twitter followers who think he's a star.
And here's "Open Culture," with people saying, "Damn, surfing YouTube is hard work. I'm gonna scope out this OPEN CULTURE site instead. They'll find all the good stuff for me. Maybe I'll tip them a little. They deserve it."
Yes, we ALL do the free downloading. We know forums. Even torrents. And we LOVE US some YOUTUBE where they are notorious for looking the other way at posts of complete albums, TV shows, movies, even PPV events posted a few hours later so people can NOT pay to view it and simply hold their pee till the event is on YOUTUBE.
Got it. Used KeepVid to keep it, too.
But shouldn't there be a lid on this spilling shell of cornucopia? Isn't there a tipping point for gluttony where it becomes unhealthy? Do I really have to explain why piracy is not good?
There was an old public service commercial about littering. "One grasshopper isn't much. Put enough of them together and you have a plague!" Throw one piece of paper on the ground and it's nothing. Enough of them, and you've got filth and a fire hazard. And the more piracy there is, the more KARDASHIAN cheap reality shows, the less interesting movies and more retreads of SUPERHEROES and PIXAR FILMS FOR KIDS. Joni Mitchell? She hasn't been on a major label in years, because piracy got so bad Warners and Geffen couldn't keep the break-even artist she'd become. There are hardly any record labels now. Or record stores. That's why piracy is not good. Among other reasons.
But let's get back to the "OPEN CULTURE" site, as pompous, privileged, self-entitled and hipped as the rapist Julian Assange's fabulous "Wikileaks." "OPEN CULTURE" is a noble idea. Just pay us. WE will determine when to break the law or ignore copyright. Remember the mantra: COPYRIGHT is COPY WRONG!!!
You.
YOU should do it to. Why not?
You're on Facebook? Twitter? In a forum or two? Next time YOU post a YouTube link because you like something, be like "Open Culture" and ASK FOR A PAYPAL DONATION. You're......ENTITLED. Also, you'll want "nice comments" for your hard work in taking a minute to post what an artist may have taken years to accomplish...and have copyrighted. Copyrighting something costs money which comes out of royalties, by the way. Applying for a Trademark is even more expensive.
"OPEN CULTURE," like "YouTube" itself, has no real interest in what is actually "public domain." The Internet is heavily stacked AGAINST artists thanks to the "DMCA." Senator Leahy and others tried to revise the "DMCA" law and create SOPA or some other law to protect copyright owners. It was lobbied away by Google, hooted down by Assange's black-shirted Net bullies, and even Wikipedia threatened to "go dark" for a day in protest. God Forbid (and THE GREAT GOD GOOGLE made sure of it) that Internet sites have to pay royalties or observe copyright or curb their plagiarism.
Right, "Open Culture," the new hip site for those who can't find YouTube videos on their own. In nature we have lampreys, parasites and maggots. We have destructive pests, locusts and mindless insects that eat through everything and leave nothing but shit. On the Internet, we call them "Open Culture" and Assange and Kim Dotcom and Pirate Bay, and it's seig heil to this noble NEW ORDER.
No comments:
Post a Comment