I really love it when an article supplies its own humor, it certainly lessens the daunting task of photoshopping machine guns onto robots and coming up with clever alt tags (I never come up with clever alt tags).
For example, look at this. As for the unfunny part of the article, it seems like the college MoFos from across the pond better take note and start watching what they download at school. Yea, that’s right, just go ahead and open Kazaa and unqueue WOW!!!-watch-this-bukkake-donkey-horse-sister-and-then punches her in the face.mpg. Anyway I’ve seen it, it’s not that good.
But, enough about that, look at this:
One student at a California college tripped an “electronic alarm” at Warner Bros when he downloaded a Clint Eastwood film. The company threatened to prosecute the college and the student had to write a letter of apology to Warner Bros as punishment.
hahaha, OMFG i cant breathe, busted for downloading a Clint Eastwood movie. HAHAHAHA, holy shit, if that were me, I wouldn’t apologize for shit, I’d make them take me to court.
Judge: “So it says here that you illegally obtained a Clint Eastwood movie.”
Me: “Look your honor, have you seen the shit that old man is putting out lately? Trust me, if that horrid waste of film ever came within a mile of my queue, my Internet persona would die of shame. There is no possible way this wasn’t an accident.”
Judge: “I see your point, did you see that horrible piece of shit Blood Work, man it was awful…”
Me: “Uh, no.”
Judge: “Uh, me neither. You are free to go.”
Of course I would then proceed to kill myself for being mentioned in the same context as the movie ‘Blood Work’ and mister I-direct-and-produce-so-I-can-cast-myself-with-hot-hot-young-sexxors. Here is the breakdown:
You steal a Clint Eastwood movie – You send Warner Bros a letter of apology
You buy a Clint Eastwood movie – Warner Bros sends you a letter of apology
Either way, and rightfully so, all I see are a lot of apologies.
And, in the “completely un-fucking related to anything to a point it almost counteracts anything intelligent previously mentioned” department, I present this:
By targeting universities, the music industry is bearing down on the source of some of its greatest talent. Coldplay, Britains top-selling rock group, met at University College London, an undergraduate route to fame followed by many artists.
Hmm, I missed the part where the band met through Kazaa chat. I hate to be the one to point out that illegal file sharing won’t solve world hunger, but it seems like blocking downloads would only lead to people *gasp* leaving their dorms more often and possibly meeting other real people.
And one more thing:
The industry believes that universities, which offer students unlimited access to computers, are producing a generation of fans who believe that music is a commodity available free of charge.
We all know its wrong, we just don’t care.
They have it backwards…Technically, music IS a commodity available free of charge. It has only been in the last about 75 years or so that people suddenly decided to capitalize on recorded music… The producers and publishers need to get fucking real and figure out that they will NEVER stop people from getting music over the web — not anymore. The points that they should be getting from this whole thing are:1) Lower album prices. They do not NEED to make that extra two billion UK pounds a year, obviously, because even without it they are able to front the money for this shitstorm of lawsuits.2) Start their own fucking music download system, and make it cheap. The bandwidth is out there, again obviously, and I don’t know about anyone else, but I might be convinced to pay $0.50 a song for high-quality rips.3) As far as movies go, it’s about fucking time these pricks got a little shot in the teeth. 25 goddamn dollars for a DVD?!? Get fucking real.
RadioSomehow it never bothered the record companies when I was recording songs off the radio and making mix tapes. The artists and record execs are all millionares already… how much more money do they need?
actually twogunsThe record industry had a coronary over the whole mixedtape-radio thing also. They saw it as the end of music. Same bullshit different year/fomrat. So thats why they invented cds, to prevent copying. The industry also promised to lower the cd prices from about $15 a pop to around $10 after cds became the standard format for music. That was 15 years ago… greedy fucks.
comonwho saw that coming i mean lower prices….?? yea right..besides why the fuck should some asshole in a suit get rich off of another mans blood, sweat and tears.good music comes from the soul…and that shit is personal and to me ( having a lot of freinds who are in bands) having some rich dipshit who doesn’t know shit about not only the era but the meaning behind the music is just insulting.Frankly i say they can’t sue the whole world and the more wide spread \”music theft\” is the better.KILL WHITEY