Who cares about teenage girls? Sue the fuck out of the little sluts....

It's really short sighted to say copyrights/patents are bad...

If everybody can use what you make...then what motivation does any firm/person/whatever have to make anything new or advanced? And waste all the research time and money?

Having maybe 10 year copyrights on music/programs would probably be a good solution. If you can't regain your investment cost and make a profit in 10 years...then you fail at business and should lose money.

He mentions that copyrights are really meant for things like big budget movies and pharmacuticals. Copyrights in the music business are bullshit, not because musicians shouldn't have a say in their music, but because the record industry exploits said artists and next to no money gets the them anyway, it goes to a guy in a suit who says "hmm, yes, put their music on an album, great, another $400,000 for me today, a good days work, time to head home". There are many better alternatives to the record industry, especially now with the internet. For example, pirate a CD and mail the artist $5, it might not seem like much but on average an artist recieves 10 cents per album sold so it's quite a bonus. Another good idea is a website, like myspace but not gay, where artists could upload their music, depending on how many downloads their music gets it starts charging a few cents to a doller for the songs, a direct implementation of supply and demand, cut out the overly paid record execs.

I'm tired of artists being exploited, of actually owing the record company money after releasing an album. Why should the artist have to pay back recording studio fees? It seems like the point of the record lable would be to get them access to a studio, if they have to pay the lable back for everything they do then what's the point of the lable? To get air time on the radio, mostly because a company called Clear Channel Worldwide now controlls the majority of all radio.

I hate the record industry and all this bullshit they pull about piracy and how much it hurts them....

sorry, this is a touchy subject for me and I kind of got off track, bottom line, pirate music.

http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/winphuk/
^some good reading