February 09, 2004
Hypocritical, But Did You Really Expect Something Else?
Posted by nerdling | February 9, 2004 07:39 PM
By now we're all aware that piracy is a huge problem, at least according to the media blitz. All the sharks in dark suits are whining about the losses being suffered by the artists, and about how piracy is taking the food off the table of working stiffs just like you and me. What I'd like to know is when did those rich jackasses start giving a damn about me and family?
I spent half my teenage years with my mother living in Canada because the her employer (studio shall remain nameless) decided it would be cheaper to film in Montreal than in California. That's all fine and good for the bottom line, but when my mother had to pay Canadian plus federal and state taxes, there wasn't much left over to feed the kids with.
What cracks me up is that these guys with their $1,000-an-hour lawyers have everyone running scared. One of the brilliant things about capitalism is that those who have the dollars to buy have the power. We have the dollars and the fact that no one wants to spend them on $18 CDs with maybe one decent song, or on $10 movie tickets for a film that is probably marginal at best (but with lots of CGI!), says to me that piracy is not the fault of the people doing the pirating but the fault of the people producing the crap they try to pass off as entertainment...and we're the ones being prosecuted!
