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p2pnet news view Music | P2P:- p2pnet has quoted Tyler Durden, the anti-hero in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club (the book and the movie), quite a few times.
“Remember this,” he said, going on»»»
The people you’re trying to step on, we’re everyone you depend on.
We’re the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner.
We make your bed. We guard you while you’re asleep.
We drive the ambulances.
We direct your call.
We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you.
We process your insurance claims and credit card charges.
We control every part of your life.
Words to live by, if you’re working for the entertainment and software industries, and we suggested the executives who run the cartels, and the other corporate control clubs, should have them in neon lights, hanging on the walls in their offices.
Now a p2pnet reader is quoting Tyler again in our post on the BuckCherry debacle in which the band ‘leaked’ a track in a tacky promo stunt, then tried to blame it on ‘pirates’ to wring out more coverage.
“A song doesn’t leak by itself and pirates don’t have some sort of superhuman ability to get their hands on pre-release material,” says the Reader’s Write, quoting TorrentFreak’s Ernesto, who broke the story.
“No, most leaked movies, TV-shows and albums come from the inside so blaming pirates is useless.”
The comment post goes on »»»
LMAO! Once again I am reminded of that scene from Fight Club where Tyler Durden says to the police chief:
“Hi. You’re going to call off your rigorous investigation. You’re going to publicly state that there is no underground group. Or… these guys are going to take your balls. They’re going to send one to the New York Times, one to the LA Times press-release style. Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not… fuck with us.”
This is a simple and inescapable fact for big business, one they seem to have trouble comprehending.
It really isn’t hard to see why stuff gets leaked as often as it does.
The vast majority of the file sharing public either work within the various entertainment industries as employees or are consumers of the products they produce, often times both. Because everything and everyone is so tightly intertwined socially and familiarly, it’s no surprise at all that the rich big business fat cats end up stuck forever chasing their own tail. Anyone with half a brain can clearly see how useless of an endeavor that is, but still they try and in the process continue to make more and more enemies.
In the end it is the general public that will decide what is immoral and what is not, weighing both sides of the equation and choosing accordingly, and like always it is that same public who truly wields all the real power. Instead of adapting to a new technological era the entertainment industry chose instead to lobby the government for new laws, but as history has shown many times over you can’t outlaw human behavior and expect to succeed.
While the future may look somewhat muddy right now, I guarantee that in the end it will be the industry that is going to sincerely regret all the choices they’ve made in the early 21st century and not the general public, especially now that we’re slowly seeing those in the field of law begin to take a genuine interest in understanding all the computer and network technologies which are oft at the heart of most copyright debates, as well as an interest in how much of copyright law is quickly becoming outdated and needs to be rewritten.
Remember also that the children of today are the people who will be running the country tomorrow, and that muddy future becomes a whole lot clearer.
Stay tuned.
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