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I have read sometime ago that RIAA has made a series of litigation against all the ISPs in Eire so that no internet user could switch ISP .

This article goes to contradiction to the previously known news. what happened so far?

> “Someone who uses a service to perform illegal activities is not worthy of the word ‘customer.’”

Then you may have no business, since no customers = no business.

Forcing people to be paying customers with a wealth of a market of free options seems not a business make. Trying to, which seems to be the case, appears like trying to get people to buy bottled air. The only way to have that happen is to seriously pollute their environment– and I mean it in the legal sense too. People already buy bottled water, so it is possible, but ultimately bad for nature and culture in the long run.
What is ostensibly happening often looks to me like short-term and get-rich-quick thinking with little thought to the socio-cultural environment and its future. Creativity will likely explode when/(if) money and record companies go away. As it is now, all I hear on the radio and everywhere else still are the same tunes over and over and over again. I suspect that we are at a crossroads between cultural stagnation (“Christmas art every day”) and revolution (new, exciting forms every day!).

My corrections in brackets… ;)

> “This whole thing would cease to be a problem if the [industry] just realized that they aren’t the only ones that matter.”

> ” In the end, I guess, it doesn’t get anymore ironic. Artists are working as hard as they can to deliver good music to the consumers, and the consumers aren’t doing squat.”

I prefer to consider myself a citizen, as opposed to a consumer, perhaps because the moment we get a consumer, we get a wage-slave, or a bigger one. The moment we get wage lock-in is the moment nothing in life is free, and of course, just about everything in life IS free. The sun, the water, the air, the birds; the pear trees and the land they’re on.

Wikipedia or Google “Property is theft.”; “Wage slave”; or “debt slavery” and then ask yourself if paying for ANYTHING makes as much sense as you thought it did. To me, it is starting to make less and less sense than it ever did.

Industries, at least as we know them, may be seeing their last years.

The future may be beautiful, with less work hours, guaranteed wages, green products and processes, etc., but we will have to fight and fight hard for it over those who may not and never get it.

Google (or better yet, or ultimately, consider an open source search engine and/or supporting one.) Steady State Economics (Herman Daly)

> “They’re just sitting there and pirating anything they can get their hands on. They have no concept of hard work”

That’s the Protestant Work Ethic, n’est pas? A 40-plus-hour work week?
Harder and longer for less and less?
Good propaganda for slave-trading perhaps but…
Nature seems to strongly suggest that one doesn’t have to work nowhere near as long and as hard as they do… to be happy, fulfilled, content.
The systemic lense of ‘capital’ through which capitalism peers will never work for ‘people’ no matter how hard it tries, probably because, if Thomas Kuhn is corrent; it is the lense that determines what we can see.
Changing our lense to People will change what and who we see and prioritize.