I want to know what it’s like to live
in a country that makes sense. I want to deal with people who speak
the same language and behave by the same rules. I want to go to sleep
at night so far removed from feelings of utter dread that I begin to
forget I was capable of feeling that way. There are a number of
things I’m fairly concerned about as they dance around old rich
white peoples’ mouths in our government. Net neutrality and
regulations about file sharing are two of those things.
First, the fact that net neutrality
isn’t a given is just another symptom of the Fascist monopolistic
mentality that governs our country. We don’t protect the
Constitution, so why should we think to extent freedom of speech to
our content on the web? Where are the idiots chanting “Obama’s
gonna take our guns away,” because maybe we can teach them to
replace guns with “personal websites.” I’ve signed a number of
petitions online with at least 2 million people and it may as well be
a fart in the wind.
File sharing. Fucking file sharing is
not stealing! Never was it stealing, it wasn’t established to
steal, it never will be stealing, and the fucks who keep pouring
money into lobbying to sue and punish file sharers need to be shot.
When you sue someone who “steals” a copy of the movie Avatar, you
are called an extortionist. Somehow we fail to comprehend that most
people never cared nor would have ever seen 99% of all media ever
produced. It’s getting hard for me to find friends with cable let
alone ones that drop ten bucks to see a shitty movie every weekend.
When I download music it’s usually from bands that I would probably
have gone out of my way to ignore had I not an outlet to give them
even a meager chance.
And that culture, the one of
discovering new things and throwing your support behind things you
actually enjoy and don’t just take chances on, actually supports
artists. Recording companies have raked in billions from musicians
for years, and now that they aren’t the only outlet they cry
instead of catch up. Movie makers, if your movie costs 40 million to
produce, maybe you should focus on smaller budget ones with, I don’t
know, actual story lines and compelling characters, and people will
feel even a meager compulsion to support the work. You gain nothing
by me not seeing your movie; I open even the chance of looking more
into your work by “stealing” it.
