Or those personalities will go “underground”. Hell, with Bitcoin, they could do so and still potentially monetize.

Yes, I was making fun of that childish idealism which flies in the face of reality. Good catch. Gold star for reading comprehension.

Can someone explain to me how remixing a song and putting it on your SoundCloud page, not for sale and not for download, just for people to listen to and enjoy, violates copyright? How is the record label that owns the original being hurt in this scenario?

Because the big labels can make or break the rules of the game as they see fit, while indies either scamper out of the way when the lawyers come out or get crushed like bugs. Copyright law doesn’t “protect” anyone except the major labels and their armies of lawyers.

Web 3.0 - user content + darknet

The tiniest indie label has the same rights and ownership as the big labels & publishers

We’re kinda back at the beginning where we downloaded MP3s from the web, then the crackdown began, and we migrated to P2P services. Stuff like Soundcloud came along and we used it, but now there’s another crackdown and we’ll migrate back to P2P. Will the recording industry ever learn?

If you’re new to Star Wars, don’t bother. The only people into that garbage saw it back in the day and only like it now because nostalgia.

You have no idea how this “problem” affects me.

Your “but” clause nullified the first clause where you said that it was sarcasm.

I just saw you being all judgey up-thread and decided to try it on for size.

They had an editor, but he threw a temper tantrum and quit.

So what? King George II had a fucking “process” too. Considering that you’re just a coward and a failure, you have no standing to bitch about anyone else’s “cynicism”.

This is true. Hotmail is probably more secure than the Clinton setup, though.

After the Democratic debate, I was thinking I may be better off renouncing my US citizenship, declaring myself an illegal alien (sorry - “undocument immigrant”) and getting my free welfare, college education, healthcare, etc. Why work for a living if you don’t need to?

We got 8 years of Dubya because he stole the 2000 election and fuckers like you didn’t start a revolution.

In fact, this happens all the time in the corporate world, for much the same reasons the Clintons did it. Corporate is probably where Hillary got the idea from.

Yeah, I understood it. It was bullshit. My synopsis was generous.

I think it’s supposed to be a metaphor or something.