I never said any of that. Now you are just making shit up so you can knock it down.

Perhaps you have trouble with short-term memory but you did answer my statement regarding UMG’s stupidity with claims about their lives.
That statement alone implies you meant they lead happy lives and the justification for that was all the listing of superfluous things that followed.

This is fact, as written by you.
None of that was made up.

Whether these truths about the recording industry make the executives there happy or not was never part of this discussion.

It wasn’t indeed but you’re the one who brought the executive’s lives as an answer to my statement showing the futility and stupidity of their acts.
Why are you arguing against the pointlessness of your own arguments?

They have wives and children, families and family holidays just like the rest of us, and they work harder than the rest of us

Now not only is that a wild assumption, but that’s also pretty much irrelevant.

harder and smarter than you have the experience to imagine because that’s the only way to get to the top of any international industry, especially one as culturally influential as recorded music.

Now that’s completely ridiculous.
Not only you have zero knowledge about my education, experience and degree of intelligence, but you’re also assuming that it takes a genius to run a company.
Unfortunately, it’s usually the other way around with the deceiving ones on top and the intelligent ones doing the hard work creating and coming up with stuff.

These days the pirates main discussion here is all about how to hide online or hack into someone else’s wifi so they can illegally copy more stuff.

Perhaps you should spend more time reading and less time writing nonsense then.
Wi-Fi cracking isn’t even something that comes up often here, despite the widespread knowledge of how easy it is.
Discussing anonymity in the current days is not only something unique to pirates.
Most netizens are engaging in such discussions after Snowden’s leaks.

If hiding and breaking the law makes you happy?…., go for it and risk all the well known consequences.

You mean risking getting caught although it’s as likely as being hit by lightning?
There’s even people in here who purposely try to get 3-strikes letters and haven’t got a single one!

Also I’m fairly sure that even if I was caught in the near future, nothing would happen due to the decent laws we have in here.

But don’t pretend you are very bright.

I don’t need to.
Instead of being on the defensive you perhaps could take a harder look at yourself.
After all this all started with an answer from you completely irrelevant to what I wrote.

But either way do not for one minute think that the crap you brag about here is even within comprehension distance of the degree of intelligence and talent, education and business savvy it takes to be one of the highly paid exec’s in the modern hierarchy of the international recording industry.

Oh please what do I brag about again?

Oh and please being a highly paid executive is not related with being highly intelligent, educated or even talented.
Business savy, yes. But are you seriously comparing the degree of intelligence it takes to get a PHD with what it takes to take an MBA?
The same kind of secondary degrees that people get after they get their PHD in order to learn how to run a business?

Oh and please leave talent out of this. That’s the most unrelated of the set…

If you think they are the stupid ones, found a new label and do it better by giving it for free and truly help the artists so they flock to you.

Why should I bother with dying business’s problems when my professional interests are focused on something else more important may I ask?
The fact that they failed to adapt to the changes in the market and effectively tried to fight it back for more than 10 years and failed shows how untalented, ignorant, out of touch and terrible business people they are.

You want stupid?

Nah, you pretty much filled the monthly quote with that wall of text badly justifying why you answered my statement regarding a business’s stupid move with something else unrelated regarding an executive’s luxurious life.