damn, and she didn’t even have a hit album!

it’s worse: bidding wars are now happening for rentals (at least hearin Toronto). this has been happening for awhile for home purchases, often w/prices going for hundreds of thousands over asking —with homes unaffordable to the middle class, they have to rent, and with the masses having to rent, prices go up and up…

damn. didn’t know she had a memoir coming out. now it seems that this whole ‘reveal’ is a PR stunt, either to whip up the media, or to hamstring someone in the future finding out her real identity, and having her ‘memoirs’ jamesfreyed.

when i first read of this, it was basically seen as rape. the title of the post the (female) writer wrote was basically “when her no is his yes.” the comments that followed were all women extremely mad at the guy who revealed the identity, and it was a gender politics pile on.

“Mrs Major Tom” (tells the story from the view of the wife left at home.) Two versions of it, the cover by Sheryl Crow, and the original by K.I.A. (which is found on “DXLR8", an album of sad songs):

amazing to read all the agreements in the comments from managers. what kinds of companies, specifically? manufacturing? tech? health?

Suicide Squad is the worst movie ever. Do not see it. There is no pacing. No order. They do big backstories but suddenly there are two other people in the squad they never mention. A guy who can climb things! Cheap sets — renting a little room in a city hall instead of making a huge tech room, kinda thing. Acting…

no. i’m speaking for the artists. the ones most hurt in the “i’ll happily pay 7 dollars for a craft beer but angrily argue that 1 dollar is too much for a song” economy.

sadly, you have been conned by big industry & greedy pirate sites.

if you pay to stream it — netflix, apple, amazon, whatever, then no. royalties go back to the people who made the content.

amber’s comment makes no sense. it says this: “I didn’t want it, so that’s why I stole it.”

in your first paragraph, you are blaming the victim, basically saying “because i can steal it, it’s your fault”. that’s like saying “because you dressed that way, i can rape you.”

if a song (or book, or film or game or whatever) could be sold to one person for a year’s salary (or in the case of a film, 200 people’s salaries), then what you say has a point. but clearly there is no market to sell one song (never copied) for 60,000 K... so duplicates of the work have to be sold at a low price/high…

“They don’t want it, really, that’s why they downloaded it”. Oh, I see, that makes sense.

exactly. except that you have to pay $50 to Uber for Bob to come over (which you’re totally fine with) and $500 for the garden patch (which you’re totally fine with) where Bob will put his strawberries.

oh, the “library” arguement, related to the “70's mixtape” justification . first of all, libraries purchase. second of all, libraries don’t distribute perfect copies to the entire world for free with the click of a button. third, a library is a perfect example of why you don’t need to illegally download because you…

i call bs. content is available very easily now everywhere thru online services (ie. Apple). if it’s not available in your country immediately, it will be eventually (months).

totally agree. follow sites like The Trichordist to see how musicians, the film industry, writers, and many other creatives. have all been hurt by piracy. (tons of information on the site, from stats to interviews with musiciancs from indies and up.)

Fantastic idea! Another one, which you can’t steal either: they should open up record stores, so people could flip through albums and buy some vinyl! For their hi fi stereo systems!

see also: Michael Jackson. Amazing to read in comments “those are just art books” with the recent police report revelations about the books w/pics of naked kids found in his place. as w/sandusky, there’s report after report... at what point is enough information enough? (Cosby, Sandusky, Saville, Jackson...)