It's mine, all mine.

This entry is regarding the Obama Administration Announces Massive Piracy Crackdown

This will pass eventually, too much money is being lost in taxes and within certain industries. Personally, I think this bill will cost the tax payer more in several ways: Makes the government some money, make some rich people richer, and make the people who used to be rich but weren't creative enough to update their business models rich again.

I don't really see this as an obama thing, it was inevitable. People think this red and blue balloon choice is really so different. It's not. wake up. C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything around me.)

Calling people a thief to me is just having a superficial opinion/understanding. You could say it was the market correcting itself.

This is a decision that should be made case-by-case by the artists themselves, not some production-company corporate nobody with a stick permanently grafted into his ass. I'd rather my music be made freely available than punish the fans like this. Some people- I'm looking at you, Lars Ulrich- might think it's a good idea, but frankly, this isn't doing anything but hurting the industry. No one will want anything to do with the record companies who are paying off the politicians to put such a ridiculous policy into action, and furthermore, I think that the administration has been very poorly advised on this matter if they think that allowing record companies to tighten the noose like this is going to foster any kind of approval from the general public... OR is right.

Sorry. I've always been a proponent for making music freely available, and suppoting the artists who actually deserve the money by paying to see them perform or buying merchandise, etc. Record companies exploit musicians, charge exorbitant prices, and use their leverage as large corporations to crush anyone who cuts into their profit margin, however minuscule a difference these individuals may have made. Sure, I can understand that they're running a business, and that it's a simple economic principle- but that still doesn't mean I find anything redeeming in that fact.

In conclusion... We're living in an absolute police state. I'm not surprised by this proposed bill at all.