In Defense of Illegal File Sharing

by Sigma

The music industry is comprised of whores.

For every decent artist such as Sinead O'Conner or Fiona Apple you have that just couldn't give a shit or not if you are sharing there music you have 10 Alanis Morrisette fucking self-help junkies who are imposing themselves on you through the radio daily...and who expect to be allowed to sue you later once you get addicted to their untalented, unlyrical, unmelodic bullshit.

For every single artist as good and humble as Sara McLachlan you have 30 N'SYNC, Britney, fucking Limp Bizkit assholes. These people leach off of the honest hardworking dollar of the average McDonalds working teenager in order to go another day worrying if their tan line shows too much.

NEW FLASH: They aint never gonna work at Micci D's. Nu uh. No way.

So we put up with this bullshit of paying about 5x more than what a CD was worth for at least a generation and then we find a way to use our brains and strike back...within 5 years they start to beleive that a 3% percent drop in their precious revenue is a justification for filling ANYONE who uses file-sharing software on their computer's Hard Drive with viruses...even if they aren't sharing music.

And suddenly Universities and ISP are complying and the vast majority of us are signing off and cowering, hoping that we aren't caught yet.

CITIZEN'S OF EARTH: WAKE THE FUCK UP.

There is this really cool concept that worked before when the man oppressed us with his economic power: It's called boycotting.

That's right, I'm proposing that we <em>en mass</em> boycott the music Industry whose precious glamour artists are being downloaded too much and thus costing them 3% a year. Meanwhile, we keep downloading. We use services that are harder to trace than KaZaA even if they aren't what we are used to...if enough of us do this, two things will occur:

1. The alternative, harder to use services will be greatly improved and it will both become harder for us to be tracked and easier to get the music you want quickly over them.

2. The industry will cave in (probably in LESS THAN A YEAR - I dunno about you but I can listen to my old Beatles CD's for that long before needing to go out and buy something new)

The result: What SHOULD have happened to begin with - the industry drops it's prices down to a fair profit and fires a bunch of worthless freeloaders who have nothing better to do then dream up what dress Britney should wear on her next MTV interview.

Then the honest hard-working teens have more spending power, thus more say.

Consequently the end result is a larger number of artists catering to a greater variety of tastes, which is exactly the opposite of what the industry wants because it means that they will have to work harder for less cash.

So, less revolutionize music people...properly this time.