Software Bullet Is Sought to Kill Musical Piracy
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
"Some of the world's biggest record companies, facing rampant online piracy, are quietly financing the development and testing of software programs that would sabotage the computers and Internet connections of people who download pirated music, according to industry executives."
Labels reportedly back antipiracy software
"Some of the world's largest record labels are quietly financing the creation of programs by small software firms that, if deployed, would sabotage the computers and Internet connections of people who download pirated music, according to a published report."
I have a great solution to music piracy. MAKE MUSIC THAT DOESN'T SUCK (i.e worth shelling out $15 bucks for)!!! The stuff on the market today is overpriced and/or lacking talent. How many frickin' boy bands does the world need anyway?
Funky Dung
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RIAA: "What?! Funky, you want us to actually find and aid real talent? It is SO much easier to find a gangster and a whore! Then plaster and build a superficial cult around them! Using sex and guns as leverage, we made an easy market! You don't even KNOW what music is anymore! WE TELL YOU WHAT IT IS! All we have to do is find the next slut with something unique and superficial… PLASTER, MEDIA, CONSTANT RADIO PLAY!!! WEEE!!!"
I'd like to inform the righteous RIAA about the success Apple has just had with its online music service. Over a million sales in one week. People will buy it if they like it. Yes, they have TO KNOW THEY LIKE IT! See, you can't just brainwash the listener with a song and then expect them to buy the whole album (the song + 15 pieces of crap) without questioning the value of the the rest. They have to KNOW what is in that album. Oh no, we can't have them finding out that your second-tier, artificial star is mostly bubble gum nonsense! You have to make them buy the album BLIND and convince themselves they liked spending $15 - $20 on it!!! The only reason you even bother with the 15 other tracks is because you fear states might sue over 15 bucks a hit…
WHAT VALUE YOU GUYS OFFER! I just loved learning you'd make so much pure profit off of this garbage that you can afford to make 5 million dollar crappy music videos!
Music is an essential window to our human essence. You took it and turned it into a souless mirror of your own cold, greedy, steel hearts. I hope you find your innards in a foundry when the people take the music back. To you artists you defend the system after having removed yourselves from underneath RIAA contract hell: YOU AND LARS CAN JUMP IN THE COMING BONFIRE FEEDING ON THE TWISTED REMAINS OF YOUR WORTHLESS CD DREN!!!
I think I came off too optimistic…
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Posted 08 May 2003 at 4:46 pm ¶Post a Comment