This article is in reference to the post made here
Well Folks, Fans and Freaks…
It is truely a sad time for the wild wild internet as the reigns are drawn in ever so tight. It would appear that the end is nigh.
But honestly, how long could this have lasted? We should give thanks to having been part of the bubble of piracy in all its glory right before it pops, leaving a soapy residue of irritation on everyone involved.
I have been watching movies and listening to music for free as long as I can remember. Because of this, the artists and the actors and everyone else involved are not seeing the returns they used to. Movie ticket prices have been inflated to reflect ‘higher sales’ when in reality, there are LESS people going to movies. The music industry lowered its prices in an effort to save its customers, which in turn let everyone know that they could have lowered them from $20/album to $10/album a LONG time ago. This only angered the people and they downloaded more, only now it was out of spite and contempt. We, the people, are the ones killing the art forms, it’s not the major labels and it’s not the industry changing, it’s because of our own personal greed.
I used to pay for everything and had no problem paying, but once I learned I could ’save’ some of my hard earned money of course I did it! Some artists do create for free, and earn what they can, where they can, and it’s true that some artists do it as a hobby on the side, yet they are not the ones making what we see and hear on the larger scale.
Art, much like marijuanna, is one of those items that is hard for a government to tax, track, and barcode and it makes sense that they would like to see it gone completely someday and left to be made by the few who have some extra hobby time.
For an entertainer like myself living in Canada, where we have ZERO population, there is not enough “entertainment revenue” to go around in order to feed/house/cloth all of the artists involved in the community.
That said, perhaps we need fewer artists? Yet what would all the current artists do? And there are many, the artists lifestyle attracts many lazy folks who think it’s all ‘easy work with little financial involvement’. What can someone do when all they know is art? How can you change a career halfway through life? Artists don’t have money or credit for things like university or college, most don’t even have a savings account and live week to week, or day to day in some of my friends cases. What can you do different when all you’ve done your entire life is entertain other people? Most of these folks are not good with money or with day to day life issues and have managers and life coaches to help them along, Lord knows I need a manager/life coach to light the fire under my ass for many reasons!
All in all, it was bound to happen. We can’t continue watching and listening for free, and expect those same actors and musicians to continue. And again, what is there for them to do otherwise? How will they pay THEIR bills, the same ones that we accrue each month?
I can hear the opposition now saying “Well they should have learned a ‘real’ life skill! and it’s their own fault”. While it’s easy to point a finger into the past and all the finger pointers and the woulda-shoulda-coulda-ers are always so eager to listen and pay attention to the issues when they are able to loose their digits in a flailing rage, they never listen otherwise. And so through life they go, their heads down-trodden as they gloomily waddle about, eating, and fucking and shitting.
I for one will be getting used to purchasing music and movies once more, and keeping my ass out of prison. Which it would appear is the only reason these laws are coming into play in the first place is to help fill up our new jails in Canada. Can you imagine going to jail because you listened to a song? What if someone around the corner taped into your internet and downloaded through you? Should you lose your internet connection or goto jail yourself? What if a friend comes over and says “Hey, can I get on your network to check my email?” while they unknowingly download something copyrighted. Well this sort of ‘friendly’ sharing of the internet connection will soon end in many households. Nobody wants to goto jail because their ‘FRIEND’ came over and downloaded something do they?
Or maybe this is the ‘fear thy neighbor’ and ‘everyone is out to get each other’ scare tactics we are not supposed to know about. Crime rates have steadily been declining, and yet we are told the opposite every night on the news and by our overseers.
I feel it may be a good time to flee, and I know these laws will be in place anywhere I run to, but what is the point of sticking around in these bullshit laws and bullshit people who enact and support them?
And it snows here. Fuck the cold.
I fear that Canada will soon be one of the worst places to live on earth and so I am currently saving up money to leave this God-Forsaken country and all of the idiots who continuously vote even bigger retards into power.
Fuck you! Fuck you! fuck you!… You’re cool! Fuck you! I’M OUT!
