And anyone who defend the big corporations is a dumb fuck

The dotcom fatcats, with their ‘intellectual property’ are getting fatter, but putting nothing into artist development. Megaupload made hundreds of millions out of artists rich and poor alike, without giving anything back to those artists. Yeah, evil corporations ARE taking over the world. The hypocritical Google is one. A corporate behemoth is falling to make way for a bigger, less flexible corporate behemoth. Then, in time, you’ll complain about that one. Liberal idiots, sheesh…

‘Evil corporations’, you repeatedly crow. But most record labels are not divisions of corporate groups. Most record labels are small, struggling businesses who are closing down because of lack of patronage. Because artists are making more from product endorsement now than they are from their actual music, the Rihannas and Justin Biebers of the world are consolidating their positions whilst decidedly un-pretty, hardworking musicians are finding it harder than ever to break even. And as for the major labels ‘not caring for genuine artists’, they at least pour some money, however little, into artist development. How much money has Kim Dotcom poured back into the creation of the arts? Shit all.

Neither yourselves nor Kim Dotcom care to DEFEND internet freedom, instead you care to EXPLOIT it. And if record labels get their way and other, more fundamental freedoms of speech and expression go down with the pirate ship, I think it’s less realistic to blame governments and suits than it is to blame YOU. That the ‘bad guys’ want an end to internet freedom is a surprise to no one. But you’ll end that freedom if you give them legitimate excuse – the loss of revenue – to wall up the web. If you care about the freedom of the internet, don’t give freedom a bad name by equating it with theft.