Sharing vs Piracy

First lets looks at common sense:

Children and toys

Put few children in a room with shitload of toys, say look toys, play and have fun! And they soon will start to play. Then, with a little bit of bad luck there is one kid from a greedy corporate background who is not allowing other kids to play with the same toys. The other kids will not be able to compute why there is a mountain of toys, a promise of play and one kid that takes ownership of stuff that is essentially from nobody. Toy is toy play is play. So the other kids will use common sense and just take a toy anyway, since they where told that they could play with the toys.
At this point the greedy kid will experience what some people call 'theft'. The little bastard will start crying like there is no tomorrow, and it will be VERY HARD to explain to the little shit that he (or she) was the very 'thief' IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Why is there a virtual inequality in the room?
Greedy DNA? Don't think so.

How do most parents solve this?

Locigal answer:

SHARE MOTHERFUCKER you don't own shit you little snot-nose! Pick one toy and shut the fuck up. All other toys are shared again. And the greedy kid is not allowed to have 2 toys at the same time, to get the message across. And it actually works, lesson learned, don't make war, share, there is enough for all of us. And the other kids are happy to share the toys that they are not playing with. And if you ask nice, and you have not behaved like a dipshit then they may even give the toy they where playing with. This is also known as a form of compassion. (Psychology 101)

For the next 18 years this works perfect.

Then the children have grown up. They get a job, buy stuff, CD's, etc., and as good children they share their stuff.

All of a sudden the copyright police that resulted from growing up without the concept of sharing, sues the crap out of them.
WTF!?

For some reason, the stuff they bought and payed for with money they worked for like slaves, is not theirs. And they are now 'PIRATES'?

Just because some greedy person decided you may not copy a CD that is a copy of a master in the first place. Nothing is stolen, the record company still owns the master. The teens buy t-shirts, go to concerts, listen to radio.
The radio station, who received a gratis copy from the record company, may play it at will. Even when you DON"T EVEN WANT TO HEAR IT, but you may not share a CD that you PAYED FOR and OWN? But since that did not really fly, they invented a vague term like: fair use. And now you can see what kind of BULLSHIT it is. To come up with vague terms to justify THEIR theft. Since they SOLD a COPY to you. And from that moment on you OWN that copy. They still have the master.
But why do you need to pay, when a radio station gets the music for free. The radio station is funded with TAX money, and they pay that tax money to the record company. AND ALL OF THIS WITHOUT GIVING YOU THE CHOICE TO WHAT MUSIC THEY SHOULD PLAY!

And this is why 'PIRATE' / 'ALTERNATIVE' radio came into existence.
This is where people go to who don't want to listen to pre-chewed bullshit, and empty music without any message.

The mainstream radio takes away the choice of people to play the music they like best. The owner of the radio station together with the record company decide what THEY WANT for you to hear. And you chew whatever shit they serve. You are just lucky if they play one song per hour that you actually like.

Kids are way more adventurous and will search for music wherever they can. And they will find new music, and different music, and horrible streams of trash. Yet it's their choice their taste and what makes them tick. FREEDOM!

Yet kids are being criminalized as 'pirates' simply for sharing the very music they enjoy best. And thus do free marketing FOR that music.

As i said before the 'pirate' radio stations, these exist for the very reason of mainstream radio stations that REFUSE to play the music that a certain group of people want to listen to. Those people tune in to be able to hear that AWESOME tune that mainstream radio simply does not have.

These 'Pirate' radio stations also BUY music! Yet THEY too get criminalised for playing the music that people REALLY want to listen to.

So only a hand full of BIG name artists are allowed to make SOME money, while the real BIG money ends up in greedy hands of record company CEO's.

Now lets have a look at sharing again.

When you share music, then word of mouth makes the BEST marketing tool in the world.
When you share music, then you do gratis distribution.
When you share music, then you reach the people who really like your music.

When you share music, then the BIG record companies loose ground.
When you share music, then the BIG record companies have a fierce competitor.
When you share music, then the BIG record companies are no longer in control of manipulating you.

So if you care,
SHARE MOTHERFUCKER SHARE!

I hope you liked my quirky poetry.

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